Adaptive governance requires institutional capacity to coordinate responses environmental problems at appropriate scales and utilizes networks for information sharing. This implies a capability translate successful experiments from one social-ecological setting another. Yet, translating lessons learned case studies in adaptive water other settings is all but straightforward. Watershed condition...

This paper discusses the use of semantic technologies to increase quality, machine-processability, format translatability and crossquerying of complex tabular datasets. Our interest is to enable longitudinal studies of social processes in the past, and we use the historical Dutch censuses as case-study. Census data is notoriously difficult to compare, aggregate and query in a uniform fashion. W...

If intelligent design (ID) is to compete with evolutionary theory (ET), it must meet the modified falsifiability challenge, that is, make some deductive or probabilistic observational assertions. It must also meet the modified translatability challenge, which it fails if ET makes all the observational assertions of ID, while ID does not make all the observational assertions of ET. I discuss fou...