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An Overview of DERI

March 2009

Liam Ó Móráin, Business Development Consultant, DERI, NUI Galway liam.moran@deri.org, +353.91.495132

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The story so far…

DERI commenced on June 10, 2003 with initial funding from Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI)

130+ team members approx to date and growing

Acquired 20 national and international research projects with leading universities and businesses

Led by Prof Stefan Decker and Prof Manfred Hauswirth

Total research fund to date is over €40 million: SFI, Enterprise Ireland, and European Union

DERI’s core research activity is to develop and exploit semantics enabling people, organizations, and systems better collaborate and

interoperate

Critically, it is about information interconnectedness of people, organizations, and systems on a global scale

DERI Overview

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Mike Turley, CEO

Prof Dr Stefan Decker, Director

Prof Dr Manfred Hauswirth, Vice Director

Liam Ó Móráin, Business Development

Oversight Board: 3 senior university executives and several industry executives, one each from HP, CISCO, Nortel, and Storm.

Scientific Advisory Board: 6 members including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the web and Dr Chris Horn Co-founder and Vice-Chairman IONA Technologies. This board is Chaired by Prof Dr Michael Brody, Chief Scientist, Verizon Communications.

DERI Leadership

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DERI Research Focus

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Integration & Interoperability

Search & Retrieval

Communities & Collaboration

Invocate, discover, and retrieve services dynamicallyAutomatic, context-based, device, or user-created or derived tagging of data

Deliver accurate and appropriate content to any digital device

Create interlinked online communities of friends & colleagues. Create a true collaborative environment across any digital medium and type

Transforms a data dictated and data intensive environment to a data rich and user driven experience

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DERI ECOSYSTEM

First anchor company in DERI LAND is Cyntelix: expects to grow to 15 people by year-end

DERI LAB - apply DERI Core research to specific industry needs e.g.

Telecom and eLearning

Healthcare and Financial Services

System Integrators and eGovernment

DERI LAND: companies building semantically powered products and services as a natural extension to the DERI Core and DERI LAB value chain

DERI LAB: world class applied research and development centre tailoring leading-edge advances in semantic technologies in solving industry needs

DERICore

INDUSTRY-LED PROJECTS

DERI LABDERI LAND

END USERS

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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH

DERI SFI-funded partners are:

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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH

The eLite project is working with 7 indigenous Irish companies in the application of semantics to life-long learning as manifested in their future

product and service offerings

In the final year of a three year project. Once patent filed; significant technology transfer underway.

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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH

DERI works closely with SMEs leveraging company-funding and Enterprise Ireland’s funding mechanisms with big and small companies alike

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COMMERCIALIZATION

Some very interesting and cool technologies being created with spin-off and licensing potential

Patent-pending

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Patent-pending

The Semantic Web Index

Semantic Web Search Engine

Semantic enabled bookmarks and knowledge

Novel approach to security and identification

Multi-parameter and multi-variable negotiation

Semantic mail

Plug and play electronic patient record

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Sample Research Projects

While DERI’s research focus has a broad remit, the following projects highlight aspects of “search”

SERENITY - Enterprise Content Integration and Access using Ontology-based Content Analytics.

Semantic power analysis using NLP, ontology-based information extraction and information identification

Semantic search techniques such as entity search, information linkage, semantic index, SPARQL query

Social Semantic Desktop

Ontonoly, contextual information, document analysis, and distributed search

Personal and distributed information management

Social networks

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Sample Research Projects

While DERI’s research focus has a broad remit, the following projects highlight aspects of “search”

YARS2: A Federated Repository for Querying Graph Structured Data from the Web.

Structured data crawling and object consolidation

RDF storage, query processing, and RDF ranking

Indexing on quads and string literals

Semantically Enhanced Search

Onthology driven search enhancements

Faceted data browsing

Knowledge as a graph

Entity search and browsing