"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
«La nostra società è più egualitaria di quella italiana. Anche qui, però, non mancano i ricchi». La voce di Verner Egerland, ordinario di lingue romanze presso
“The greatness of the idea of European integration on democratic foundations is its capacity to overcome the old Herderian idea of the nation state as the highest expression of national life.” (Havel) Why the hell the German Library is called "Herder Library" - insane! Heinrich Heine Library, Immanuel Kant Library, or at least Theodor Fontane Library, but Herder nooooooooooooo
MUCH of the rich world is fascinated by Germany. Despite being at the heart of sclerotic Europe, its GDP per head has risen by more than any other G7 country’s over the past decade.
Carissimi, è giunto il momento di salutarvi. Vi comunico che lascerò l’Italia, la mia azienda e quindi anche il Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori, per iniziare una nuova avventura in ter
The Directorate F - Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures is organizing a series of consultations for the preparation of Horizon 2020, the new Framework Program for research funding. I was invited to participate also in the Rome event about "open Infrastructures for open science". I expressed my opinion that the importance of semantic standards and linked open data technologies should not be underestimated.
The picture at the left is from a presentation, which analyzed institutional readines for open data
An interesting intiative is EUDA with the intent to create trusted data services between public and private partners.
THe same issues that we are discussin in agINFRA (structures, vocabularies, relations, persistent identifiers, protocols) are addressed in the EUDAT system.
Admittedly I would have answered convincedly "NO", if you would have asked me that last week. Most of the chicken breast I bought in the last years was for the cat. She compared with commercial cat food and told me that I was a Gourmet Chef, when I was serving her the boiled or microwaved disgust.
I am selling my seafront apartment in Borneo, Malaysia, state of Sabah. The apartment is 30 km in the North of Kota Kinabaulu. It was part of the Nexus Hotel Complex and is now administered by owners.