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Taxonomy Bootcamp
/in Netikx/by AlisonTaxonomy Bootcamp is happening again on the 16-17th October. As a partnership organisation, NetIKX is able to offer members a 25% discount, the code for which has been sent to all members. If you are a member and have not received this, please email info[at]netikx.org.uk. Key features: Essential tips you can start applying right away to […]
Blog for the September 2018 Seminar: Ontology is cool!
/in Netikx, Uncategorised/by AlisonOur first speaker, Helen Lippell, is a freelance taxonomist and is an organiser of the annual Taxonomy Boot Camp in London. She also works with organisation on constructing thesauri, ontologies and link data repositories. As far as she is concerned, the point of ontology construction is to model the world to help meet business objectives, […]
September 2018 Seminar: Ontologies and domain modelling: a fun (honest!) and friendly introduction
/in Events 2018, Knowledge and information organisation and modelling, Organisation and modelling: taxonomy, Previous Events/by Netikx EventsSummary At this lively meeting Helen Lippell and Silver Oliver introduced ontologies and explained how they could be used. Michael Smethurst and Anya Somerville ran an interactive practical session Speakers Helen Lippell has run her own consultancy since 2007, working as a specialist in taxonomy, metadata, ontologies and enterprise search. She loves getting stuck into […]
Blog for the July 2018 seminar: Machines and Morality: Can AI be Ethical?
/in Events 2007, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Netikx, Previous Events, Uncategorised/by AlisonIn discussions of AI, one issue that is often raised is that of the ‘black box’ problem, where we cannot know how a machine system comes to its decisions and recommendations. That is particularly true of the class of self-training ‘deep machine learning’ systems which have been making the headlines in recent medical research. Dr […]
July 2018 Seminar: Machines and Morality: Can AI be Ethical?
/in Events 2018, Machine learning and AI: automated decision making, Machine learning and AI: data analysis, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Previous Events/by Netikx EventsSummary At this meeting Stephanie Mathisen, Policy Manager at Sense About Science, and Tamara Ansons, Behavioural Science Consultant at Ipsos, addressed the question of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – is it possible for machines to have morality? Speakers Dr Tamara L Ansons is an expert on behavioural science. After receiving her PhD in Brain […]
The implications of blockchain for information management
/in Netikx/by Netikx EventsBlockchain is a technology which was first developed as the technical basis for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, but there has been recent speculation that it might be useful for various information management purposes too. There is quite a ‘buzz’ around the topic, yet it is too complex for many people to figure out, so it’s not surprising that the 6 July 2017 NetIKX seminar, ‘The implications of Blockchain for KM and IM’, attracted the biggest turnout of the year so far.
Blog for the June 2018 seminar in Leeds.
/in Netikx, Uncategorised/by AlisonIn June 2018, NetIKX held a seminar led by NetIKX in cooperation with ISKO UK. We were proud to have a meeting outside London to offer more to our members. Our main speaker, Ewan David, Talked about a particular aspect of the electronic medical records system. He hoped that future development in this area would […]
June 2018 Seminar: Organising Medical and Health-related Information
/in Events 2018, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Previous Events/by Netikx EventsSummary At this meeting held in Leeds, Ewan Davis, one of the first developers of a GP computerised health record system, discussed Electronic Health Records. This is a joint meeting with ISKO UK. Speakers Ewan Davis was one of the first developers of a GP computerised health record system. His background is solidly in Health […]
Trust and Integrity in Information
/in Netikx, Protecting information and knowledge/by NetikxTrust and Integrity in Information An account by Conrad Taylor of the May 2018 meeting of the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange. Speakers — Hanna Chalmers of Ipsos MORI, Dr Brennan Jacoby of Philosophy at Work, and Conrad Taylor. Fake News 1688: the ‘Popish Plot’. Titus Oates ‘revealing’ to King Charles II his totally […]
May 2018 Seminar: Trust and integrity in information
/in Events 2018, Harnessing the web for information and knowledge exchange, Previous Events/by Netikx EventsThe question of how we identify trustworthy sources of information formed the basis of this varied and thought-provoking seminar. Hanna Chalmers, Senior Director of IPSOS Mori, detailed the initial results of a recent poll on trust in the media. Events such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal have resulted in a general sense that trust in the media is in a state of crisis.