Shared Workspaces are getting more and more popular in helping people collaborate. However, it’s difficult for user to search information across different Shared Workspaces since they are currently islands that are not interlinked. Based on semantic web technologies, SIOC provide ontology and tools to interlink online communities. By using SIOC to develop an explorer for Shared Workspaces, we m...

This paper describes how we extended the SIOC ontology to take into account particular aspects of wikis in order to enable integration capabilities between various wiki systems. In particular, we will overview the proposed extensions and detail a webservice providing SIOC data from any MediaWiki instance, as well as related query examples that show how different wikis, designed as independant d...

It is well established that there are differentials in health among individuals of different Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) heritage. BME communities are unevenly concentrated across England and Wales. This paper examines the effect of residential density of one’s own-ethnic group on physical health outcomes in England and Wales. In addition, it explores whether the effects of ethnic density o...

BACKGROUND The isonymic method has been amply used to assess the approximate genetic structure of human communities. The objective of the study was to evaluate the magnitude of genetic isolation and inbreeding customs in 57 communities from three rural municipalities of Honduras using isonymy techniques. METHODS The list of 408 different surnames from 20712 voters registered in the national e...

Abstract:The main purpose of this research is to explain the role of globalization on the relation-ship between the sovereignty of the country and the identity of the Turkmens. This re-search is a developmental and applied goal and is qualitatively based on the nature of the research. The statistical community in the qualitative section is a social sciences and political scientist. Expert...

Argumentation, having its roots back to ancient years, is used in many aspects of everyday life, such as law, politics, education and decision making. Argument Visualisation Tools serve the need of visualizing natural language’s argumentations, targeting in the elimination of the traditional community sites’ disadvantages such as the lack of expressiveness. This paper presents ArgVis, an argume...

Using the SIOC explorer The entry page shows a list of SIOC forums in the database. In terms of SIOC each collection of posts is called a “forum”. After selecting a forum, a list of post excerpts is shown in the main column. The user can expand a specific post in order to see the full content and comments. The user can then browse posts by author or by topic or by period of time across all foru...

This thesis seeks to make visible the presence and voices of minority ethnic households in rural communities by addressing the ‘place blindness’ in research on ethnicity / ‘race’, and the ethnicity / ‘race’ blindness in rural literature. The overall aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of the lived experiences and perspectives of minority ethnic households and individuals in parts ...

Infocus has compiled a selection of editorials from the ethnic press published in the wake of the public debate over race and Pauline Hanson’s comments. Almost without exception, the editorials express serious concern with the resurgence of racism and call for more leadership from the Prime Minister on the issue. Community newspapers are a vital information service for ethnic communities and pr...