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Postgrad course on conceptual modelling for cultural heritage, 2012 edition

cesargon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:23:59 +0000

Last year we launched a postgrad course on conceptual modelling for cultural heritage at Incipit. It was a great success, so we decided to run it again this year with extended contents. Actually, we are offering an introductory module plus an advanced one, which can be done as separate courses or as a whole.

Like last year, we will be using ConML as a foundation and, also like last year, Charlotte Hug will be helping us a lot!

More information, here (in Spanish).

Would you like to work as a software developer in a research environment?

cesargon — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:14:40 +0000

At Incipit we are seeking the best candidates to incorporate to our scientific software development team.

The top applicants will be guided through a selection process that will conclude with an offer of a 1-year contract, hopefully to be extended depending on results. Benefits will be around 26.700 € per annum. The position will be based on Incipit’s headquarters in beautiful Santiago de Compostela.

More information here in English or Spanish.

Incipit group on LinkedIn

cesargon — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:14:28 +0000

We have created a LinkedIn group for Incipit. Feel free to join if you are interested in keeping up to date about events and ennouncements related to Incipit, or if you would like to discuss about cultural heritage research issues.

Cobase is on YouTube

cesargon — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:40:45 +0000

Cobase is on YouTube!

At Cobase we are launching a series of videos to promote Concept, our online service for construction projects. This is the first one.

London on Sep 17th

cesargon — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:00:21 +0000

I wish I were in London on September 17th. The Secular Europe Campaign is exactly what I feel like doing after so much pope fandom enthusiasm. I’m supporting them spiritually, though.

LaPa is dead, long live Incipit

cesargon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:45:25 +0000

I don’t discuss this often in here, but I used to work for The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), a medium-sized research lab in Santiago de Compostela that was part of a larger institute that, in turn, belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Yes, that is right, I used to. As of today, The Heritage Laboratory exists no more.

The good news is that The Heritage Laboratory has been transformed into a full-fledged institute with its own identity. We have outgrown ourselves out of being a lab within an institute, and we have become one. We are now the Institute of Heritage Sciences, usually abbreviated as Incipit.

This is a time of fast and exciting change with lots of opportunities. If you are interested in knowing more, visit our web site on www.incipit.csic.es or drop me an email anytime.

Enjoy!

ConML on the web

cesargon — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:46:41 +0000

At work we have just launched a web site for ConML, a simple conceptual modelling language for non-experts in information technologies.

Drop by and let us know what you think. Thanks.

Get to philosophy

cesargon — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:42:28 +0000

Try the following:

Open up Wikipedia.
Go to a random article.
Click on the first link on the article. This will take you to another article.
Keep clicking on the first link of the new article each time.

So what, you’ll ask. Well, according to this, 93% of all starting point articles will eventually lead you to the article Philosophy. And, I quote:

The question of why everything goes to philosophy is probably very deep.

My brain hurts.

Short course on conceptual modelling for cultural heritage

cesargon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:10:06 +0000

Next May we will be running the first edition of the short course Conceptual Modelling for Cultural Heritage. This is a postgraduate course organised by us at LaPa – CSIC and offered as part of the 2011 higher education programme of the CSIC.

More information here (in Spanish).

2010 in review

cesargon — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:41:38 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health.

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,900 times in 2010. That’s about 14 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 4 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 200 posts.

The busiest day of the year was June 8th with 65 views. The most popular post that day was Apple and Vodafone work together in Spain.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were en.search.wordpress.com, verdewek.com, euunited.blogspot.com, controladoresareosyotrashierbas.blogspot.com, and laetril.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for teamwork, teamwork pictures, european handwriting, teamwork images, and vodafone spain iphone.