Clase, 25. de febrero

Creación de contenido y derechos de autor (A. Fumero)
Wikis and Wikipedia, C. Barcenilla)

The web 2.0 services and applications theme continued by the
lectures about content creation. The first part mainly 
grasped the concept of social software and the importance of 
knowledge over technology. An interesting aspect on the 
social content creation is how different types of social 
middleware affect the actual knowledge that is being created 
over the application. As a general rule the application will 
have a web platform that offers the clients a specified 
environment for delivering information/content.

An other interesting theme on the first part was the briefly 
visited subject copyright, specifically in this context of 
social software. What different types of rights on content 
and different combinations was introduced.

Also the subject of Semantic web was touched. This is a 
subject that I'm very familiar with as I've done my 
candidate's thesis partly on the subject and also spent 
one summer wroking on a research on Semantic web services. 
I will however not cover this subject on this blog other 
than by agreeing with the professor in saying that the 
Semantic web will probably see the light of day in its 
originally intended content. Still the research on it has 
and will continue influencing the development of the future 
of web and web applications in its own way.

The second part of the lecture on Wikis and the Wikipedia 
did not offer much new information for me personally. It is 
true that the different wikis in the world and especifically 
the Wikipedia are a powerful and interesting pehnomena in 
today's world of web. I myself tend to turn to wikipedia in 
every possible question of my life and I've also used wikis 
as part of some courses in my studies in Finland, including 
the last summer's research on Semantic web services.