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		<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->{"id":350,"date":"2009-05-21T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slewth.wordpress.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-05-21T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T20:00:57","slug":"hyperland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/hyperland\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperland"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Hyperland\", \"350\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"350\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>Earlier today, <a title=\"Dame Wendy Halls homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/users.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/wh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Dame Wendy Hall<\/a> gave a presentation at the <a title=\"Mixed Reality Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrl.nott.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Reality Lab<\/a> here at Nottingham as part of the MRL\u2019s distinguished lecture series.\u00a0 Her lecture \u2018What is Web Science and why is it important?\u2019 scoped the <a title=\"Web Science Research Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/webscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web Science Research Initiative<\/a> as an emergent discipline, discussed the semantic web, and, by way of introduction, described her own route into Multimedia.\u00a0 If you want to hear more on this from Wendy herself, Nodalities are hosting a <a title=\"Nodalities interview with Wendy Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/nodalities\/2009\/03\/dame-wendy-hall-talks-about-web-science-and-the-semantic-web.php\" target=\"_blank\">podcast interview with Professor Hall<\/a> covering just these topics.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst other sources of inspiration, Prof. Hall cited Hyperland (1990) a BBC2 &#8216;fantasy documentary&#8217; by Douglas Adams. 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