Tetherless World Constellation

Starting with the Fall 2011 term, there's always something happening on Wednesday Nights at the Tetherless World Constellation!

Logistics (Spring 2012):

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• 7p-9p, 1st floor Winslow (1140)"
• We try to alternate TWed Talks with TWed Hackspaces. The alternating pattern of TWed Talks and TWed Hackspaces may "off" due to leader availability and Institute scheduling.
• Pizza or snacks will be provided for TWed Talks
• Live video streams of TWed Talks will available via ustream
• Videos of past TWed Talks are also available on ustream. Direct links can be found in the schedule (below)
• TWed Talks from previous terms are archived; topical archive coming soon!:
  • TWed Fall 2011

About TWed:

• TWed Talks are informal overview talks and tutorials on topics of interest to the Tetherless World community. TWed gives members of the lab the chance to share tools and expertise. TWed talks are not lectures; they are expected to be highly interactive and fun. TWed leaders are encouraged to include live "hack" activities in their session plans.

• TWed Hackspaces during the TWed time are informal group work sessions inspired by the Hackerspace movement. This is a time when TWC people will "be around" and you can rely on the "right" people being available to answer your questions and help with your hacks. This is also a great opportunity for project teams to "hack" together on problems, with the knowledge and resources of TWC surrounding you.

Schedule of TWed Topics and Leaders (Spring 2012):

Potential Spring 2012 TWed Topics (still to be scheduled):

• Hackspace: TWC Elixir: A Web Interface for csv2rdf4lod-based Conversion Automation (John, Tim, Dominic, et.al.)
• Talk: Publishing Linked Data with the Open Government Platform (OGPL) (Alvaro Graves)
• Talk: A Crash Course in Computational Biology, Biomedical Semantics and Why They Matter (Jim McCusker)
• Talk: Hacking with jQuery, Triple stores and SPARQL (Amar Viswanathan )
• Talk/Hackspace: Cleaning Your Data with Google Refine (John Erickson)
• Talk: Topics of interest by Professors Jim Hendler, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox and Joanne Luciano

Note: Videos of past TWed Talks are available on ustream

Date	Video	Leader	Hour 1 (7p-8p)	Hour 2 (8p-9p)	Supplementary Resources (optional)
25 Jan		Eric Rozell	High Performance Faceted Interfaces Using S2S	TWed Hackspace	slides
01 Feb			TWed Hackspace
08 Feb		Jim McCusker	Insanely Cool Data Visualization Using D3.js (Jim McCusker)	TWed Hackspace
15 Feb		TWC group discussion	Community Science (Deborah McGuinness)		New TWC Community Science Resources page
22 Feb		Alvaro Graves	Publishing Linked Data with LODSpeakr	TWed Hackspace
29 Feb			TWed Hackspace
07 Mar		Tim Lebo	Using DataFAQs, an Automated, Asynchronous Linked Data Quality Evaluation Framework	TWed Hackspace
14 Mar	Spring Break		Optional TWed Hackspace
21 Mar		Xian Li	Linking Open Corporate Data with ORGPedia.org	TWed Hackspace
28 Mar		Jesse Weaver	Facebook Linked Data	TWed Hackspace
04 Apr		Josh Shinavier	Semantic Markup using Schema.org et.al.	TWed Hackspace
11 Apr			TWed Hackspace
18 Apr			TWed Hackspace
25 Apr		TWC Grad Students	Grad Student Lightning Talks	TWed Hackspace	See: Giving Lightning Talks
02 MAy			TWed Hackspace
09 May	EXAMS		Exam week study and hack time

Notes:

• Dates in bold have been "reserved" by the leader...
• The alternating hack:talk pattern is interrupted to accommodate the schedule of leaders.
• Topic suggestions and requests are welcome!