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Book SynopsisThe short story is popular in Wales with both readers and writers, attracting the talents of the country''s foremost authors. Here, twenty-five English-language writers provide a story each to produce an entertaining and varied anthology.Horror, satire, humour, war, tales of the aristocracy, of navvies, love and madness, industry, the countryside, politics and sport: the stories in The Green Bridge provide an insight into the changing values of Wales and the world. This is enjoyable reading for those who know Wales and its authors, and for newcomers to both. John Davies has previously edited The Valleys with Mike Jenkins and The Streets and the Stars with Melvyn Jones. He is himself an acclaimed poet, his most recent book being North by South.Born in 1944, John Davies was brought up in Port Talbot, south Wales, and in Prestatyn where he taught English. He has also taught in Michigan and Washington. In 1986 The Visitor''s Book, his third collection, was joint winner of the Poetry Society''s major award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. John Davies is also a talented wood carver.

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Book SynopsisStrarting from the Ice Ages, this account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. It spans prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, offering a history of an enduring people.

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Book SynopsisY mae John Davies yn frodor o'r Rhondda. Fe'i addysgwyd mewn ysgolion yn Nhreorci, Bwlchllan a Thregaron ac yng Ngholeg y Brifysgol, Caerdydd, a Choleg y Drindod, Caergrawnt. Bu'n ddarlithydd yng Ngholegau Abertawe ac Aberystwyth ac am ddeunaw mlynedd ef oedd Warden Neuadd Pantycelyn, Aberystwyth. Ymhlith ei gyhoeddiadau y mae Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales, The Making of Wales, Y Celtiaid a Cardiff: a Pocket Guide. Ef yw golygydd ymgynghorol a chyd-olygydd Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig/The Encyclopaedia of Wales. Yn 1997, ef oedd y prif siaradwr yng nghyfarfod sefydlu y North American Association for the Study of Welsh History and Culture. Mae ei wraig yn frodor o Flaenau Gwent ac mae ganddynt ddwy ferch a dau fab.

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Book SynopsisJohn Davies takes you on his journeys of 60 years travelling through most of Europe and North America, and invites you to share his wonderful train journeys, the great outdoors, inspiring countries and cities, together with a look at the contemporary scene as he sees it. We've all probably been on the train from Hell at some time, but what about going to hell on a one-way ticket! Or arriving at Paradise twenty years on and finding it's not much different? That is probably why I felt I should do penance in Purgatory yet another twenty-two years later. How about a lightning 20-minute visit to Las Vegas at 8 in the morning, staying in Chattanooga and Kalamazoo, both featuring in Glen Miller's big band repertoire; and following in the footsteps fo fictional Monsignor Quixote in Spain or Inspector Montalbano in Sicily? And the really scary one; Josiane and I outside the twin towers in New York the day before 9/11! None of this would have been in my mind on my first school trip to France in 1958, which was a start a lifelong love of travel that would take me through Europe and North America.

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Book SynopsisJohn Davies is a poet and carver of wooden birds, whose prior career as an academic has taken him from his Port Talbot birthplace to teach English Literature in North Wales (where he now lives) and North America. Birds and the river Clwyd are the threads that ties the whole together.

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Book SynopsisBy far the largest single source of new information about the ancient Greek and Roman world is provided by the flow of newly discovered inscriptions, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity. In order to interpret any inscription we need to be able to apply the knowledge that we already have. On the other hand, inscriptions present the opportunity to gain new knowledge about virtually every aspect of the mix of cultures and societies which we call Graeco-Roman antiquity. This book therefore emphasises the importance of the two-way connections and contributions which link epigraphic studies with the historical sciences as a whole. Epigraphic information is helping to reshape and extend our knowledge of the religious life, the languages, the populations, the governmental systems, and the economies of the Graeco-Roman world. New techniques and technologies are helping to make epigraphically based information more accessible, whether in terms of public display or in terms of the Trade ReviewThis splendid and accessible volume is strongly recommended to all historians of the ancient world * Peter Thonemann, sehepunkte *Table of ContentsPART 1. EPIGRAPHY AND RELIGION ; PART 2. EPIGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE ; PART 3. EPIGRAPHY AND THE ANCIENT POPULATION ; PART 4. EPIGRAPHY AND GOVERNMENT ; PART 5. DISPLAY AND PEDAGOGY ; PART 6 EPIGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS ; PART 7 EPIGRAPHY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ; PART 8 SCHLUSSREDE

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Book SynopsisChampioned by the 3W Consortium, the Semantic Web is a highly significant initiative affecting the future of the World Wide Web. SEKT is a ?12 million EU project with the aim to develop and exploit the knowledge technologies that underlie Next Generation Knowledge Management.Trade Review"The authors have created an easy-to-read, exampled-based book on the semantic Web that will be useful to students, practitioners, researchers, and novices alike. I highly recommend it to all professionals with an interest in this field." (Computing Reviews, March 13, 2008) "…readers interested in developing ontologies for reasoning will get a strong foundation and direction to begin their journeys on the Semantic Web." (CHOICE, March 2007) "…an interesting, well-written computer science textbook that is well worth reading by anyone interested in the semantic Web." (Computing Reviews.com, March 2, 2007) "…a good exposition on the state of the art in semantic Web research." (Computing Reviews.com, January 17, 2007) "…a useful addition to a Semantic Web library." (www.freepint.com, 5th October 2006)Table of ContentsForeword. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Semantic Web Technologies. 1.2. The Goal of the Semantic Web. 1.3. Ontologies and Ontology Languages. 1.4. Creating and Managing Ontologies. 1.5. Using Ontologies. 1.6. Applications. 1.7. Developing the Semantic Web. References. 2. Knowledge Discovery for Ontology Construction. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Knowledge Discovery. 2.3. Ontology Definition. 2.4. Methodology for Semi-automatic Ontology Construction. 2.5. Ontology Learning Scenarios. 2.6. Using Knowledge Discovery for Ontology Learning. 2.7. Related Work on Ontology Construction. 2.8. Discussion and Conclusion. Acknowledgments. References. 3. Semantic Annotation and Human Language Technology. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Information Extraction: A Brief Introduction. 3.3. Semantic Annotation. 3.4. Applying ‘Traditional’ IE in Semantic Web Applications. 3.5. Ontology-based IE. 3.6. Deterministic Ontology Authoring using Controlled Language IE. 3.7. Conclusion. References. 4. Ontology Evolution. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Ontology Evolution: State-of-the-art. 4.3. Logical Architecture. 4.4. Data-driven Ontology Changes. 4.5. Usage-driven Ontology Changes. 4.6. Conclusion. References. 5. Reasoning With Inconsistent Ontologies: Framework, Prototype, and Experiment. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Brief Survey of Approaches to Reasoning with Inconsistency. 5.3. Brief Survey of Causes for Inconsistency in the Semantic WEB. 5.4. Reasoning with Inconsistent Ontologies. 5.5. Selection Functions. 5.6. Strategies for Selection Functions. 5.7. Syntactic Relevance-Based Selection Functions. 5.8. Prototype of Pion. 5.9. Discussion and Conclusions. Acknowledgment. References. 6. Ontology Mediation, Merging, and Aligning. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Approaches in Ontology Mediation. 6.3. Mapping and Querying Disparate Knowledge Bases. 6.4. Summary. References. 7. Ontologies for Knowledge Management. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Ontology usage Scenario. 7.3. Terminology. 7.4. Ontologies as RDBMS Schema. 7.5. Topic-ontologies versus Schema-ontologies. 7.6. Proton Ontology. 7.7. Conclusion. References. 8. Semantic Information Access. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Knowledge Access and the Semantic WEB. 8.3. Natural Language Generation from Ontologies. 8.4. Device Independence: Information Anywhere. 8.5. SEKTAgent. 8.6. Concluding Remarks. References. 9. Ontology Engineering Methodologies. 9.1. Introduction. 9.2. The Methodology Focus. 9.3. Past and Current Research. 9.4. Diligent Methodology. 9.5. First Lessons Learned. 9.6. Conclusion and Next Steps. References. 10. Semantic Web Services—Approaches and Perspectives. 10.1. Semantic Web Services—A Short Overview. 10.2. The WSMO Approach. 10.3. The OWL-S Approach. 10.4. The SWSF Approach. 10.5. The IRS-III Approach. 10.6. The WSDL-S Approach. 10.7. Semantic Web Services Grounding: The Link Between The SWS and Existing Web Services Standards. 10.8. Conclusions and Outlook. References. 11. Applying Semantic Technology to a Digital Library. 11.1. Introduction. 11.2. Digital Libraries: The State-of-the-art. 11.3. A Case Study: the BT Digital Library. 11.4. The Users’ View. 11.5. Implementing Semantic Technology in a Digital Library. 11.6. Future Directions. References. 12. Semantic Web: A Legal Case Study. 12.1. Introduction. 12.2. Profile of The Users. 12.3. Ontologies for Legal Knowledge. 12.4. Architecture. 12.5. Conclusions. References. 13. A Semantic Service Oriented Architecture for the Telecommunications Industry. 13.1. Introduction. 13.2. Introduction to Service Oriented Architectures. 13.3. A Semantic Service Orientated Architecture. 13.4. Semantic Mediation. 13.5. Standards and Ontologies in Telecommunications. 13.6. Case Study. 13.7. Conclusion. References. 14. Conclusion and Outlook. 14.1. Management of Networked Ontologies. 14.2. Engineering of Networked Ontologies. 14.3. Contextualizing Ontologies. 14.4. Cross Media Resources. 14.5. Social Semantic Desktop. 14.6. Applications. Index.

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Book SynopsisWith the current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, this book uses a different approach from other books on the market: it applies ontologies to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations.Table of ContentsForeword. Biographies. List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction (J. Davies, et al.). OIL and DAML+OIL: Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web (D. Fensel, et al.). A Methodology for Ontology-based Knowledge Management (Y. Sure and R. Studer). Ontology Management: Storing, Aligning and Maintaining Ontologies (M. Klein, et al.). Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema (J. Broekstra, et al.). Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web: OntoBuilder (R. Engels and T. Lech). OntoEdit: Collaborative Engineering of Ontologies (Y. Sure, et al.). QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web (J. Davies, et al.). Spectacle (C. Fluit, et al.). OntoShare: Evolving Ontologies in a Knowledge Sharing System (J. Davies, et al.). Ontology Middleware and Reasoning (A. Kiryakov, et al.). Ontology-based Knowledge Management at Work: The Swiss Life Case Studies (U. Reimer, et al.). Field Experimenting with Semantic Web Tools in a Virtual Organization (V. Iosif, et al.). A Future Perspective: Exploiting Peer-to-Peer and the Semantic Web for Knowledge Management (D. Fensel, et al.). Conclusions: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management - Towards the Semantic Web? (J. Davies, et al.). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Red Atlas is an amazing book, especially if you've ever pondered the power of satellite imagery as a surveillance tool. Military mapping has two modes: mapping one's own territory so you can better defend it, and mapping an opponent's territory so you can attack or take control. Focusing on the latter, The Red Atlas shows the impressive and frightening detail of maps of Western Europe and North American prepared by Soviet cartographers during the Cold War. Overhead imaging with satellites and high-resolution cameras provided the basic geographic canvass and ground intelligence--spies, tourists, and maps sold freely by commercial firms and government surveys--filled in local details such as street names, the height and width of railway overpasses, and the load capacity of bridges. Map collector John Davies collaborated with academic cartographer Alex Kent to tell the story of how the USSR systematically mapped the West's cities, ports, highways, railways, and military targets, and how these maps fell into the hands of map dealers following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their examination of selected examples from Britain and the United States also highlights errors that are revealing in some cases and puzzling in others. The Red Atlas belongs in the collection of every map enthusiast and military historian--carefully researched, well-written, and exquisitely designed and printed, it's perhaps the only recent map history that can be called a real eye-opener." --Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps

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