Why AI makes it easier to connect public alerts, but does not automatically make their information comparable or useful for prevention. Imagine that you are responsible for food safety in a company buying ingredients from different countries. You want [...]
From metadata and open knowledge to AI: revisiting twenty years of assumptions about how we share and use information. In 2005, Professor Manolis Stavrakakis, teaching viticulture at the Agricultural University of Athens, asked me a question that ended up influencing [...]
About a decade ago, Paul Stacey gave me a copy of David Bollier’s Think Like a Commoner. At the time, I was already convinced of the value of making knowledge openly accessible, discoverable and reusable. Much of my academic research [...]