This week I started a three-month research internship with the Institute of Network Cultures, as part of the master program New Media and Digital Culture of Utrecht University. I’m looking forward to spending the next few months doing research outside the University walls, and taking advantage of the knowledge present at the institute. The internship will have both a theoretical and a practical component, and will focus on queries and semantic technology on the web. In order to come to a conference proposal by the end of October, I will be identifying key issues, technologies and theorists surrounding the idea of the semantic web, critically approaching the claims underlying the concept. Implementing several tools into this weblog, such as the Open Calais-based meta data generator Tageroo and the microformat tool Marmoset will provide me with some hand-on experience. This weblog will function as both a research log and a sketchbook for my upcoming MA thesis. Comments are much appreciated.
