DERI Overview - March 2011

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie

Enabling Networked Knowledge: The Digital

Enterprise Research Institute

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Digital Enterprise Research Institute


Our Mission and Vision

DERI Galway’s vision is “to be recognised as being among the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society”

The Mission of the Digital Enterprise Institute is“to exploit semantics for

• People• Organisations• Systems

to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale”


About DERI

Digital Enterprise Research Institute Located at the National University of Ireland, Galway Oversight Board, Scientific Advisory Board, Site Executive Committee

Founded June 2003 As a CSET (Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology) funded by SFI

(Science Foundation Ireland) Largest Semantic Web Research Institute in the World

Research Publications > 550. Participate in 12 standardisation groups Approx 130 members from 30 nations and growing Over 70 PhD’s /Masters in the pipeline

Core Industrial Partners: MNC’s: Cisco, Avaya, Ericsson… SME’s: Storm, Celtrak ……

Total Research Grants: >€60 million SFI, EU Framework, Enterprise Ireland, Industry


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A Network of Knowledge

Interconnected Universal All encompassing

assists humans, organisations and systems with problem solving

enabling innovation and increased productivity


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Two Key Ingredients

1. RDF – Resource Description FrameworkGraph based Data – nodes and arcs Identifies objects (URIs) Interlink information (Relationships)

2. Vocabularies (Ontologies) provide shared understanding of a domain organise knowledge in a machine-comprehensible way give an exploitable meaning to the data


Why Graphs and Ontologies?

Cities:Dublin

84421km2Geo:IslandOfIreland

EU:RepublicOfIreland

Geo:locatedOn

Geo:areaGeo:hasCapital

Geo:hasLargestCity

Wikipedia.org

Gov.ie

EU:RepublicOfIreland

Person:BrianCowen

Gov:hasTaoiseachGov:hasDepartment

IE:DepartmentOfFinance


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The Linked Open Data cloud

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Linked Open Data cloud - domains

Over 200 open data sets with more than 25 billion facts,interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month!

http://lod-cloud.net/

Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch.

Media

Government

Geo

Publications

User-generated

Life sciences

Cross-domain

US governmentUK government

BBCNew York Times

LinkedGeoData

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BestBuyOverstock.comFacebook

Powered by DERI!

http://lod-cloud.net/


Linked Data example

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Networked Knowledge – Part 1


Semantic Reality

People

Physical World

Life

Virtual World

SocialSemanticInformationSpaces

World Wide Web

Sensors


The DERI House

Semantic RealitySocial SemanticInformation Spaces

• Web 2.0 and collaborative systems• Semantic Web• Web Science• Linked Data

• Sensor Networks• RFID• Mobile computing• SOA

• eBusiness & Financial Services• Health Care & Life Sciences• eLearning• eGovernment• Green & Sustainable IT

Application-Oriented Research Domains

Commercialisation DERI Applied Innovations

Research Centres

• Mobile Applications (MARC)• Linked Data (LiDRC)


DERI – Research Approach

Research Go beyond state of the art

Industry Collaborations Joint projects (IDA, Enterprise Ireland, SFI) (e.g., Tagbuilder) Patents and Licensing (e.g. Atom)

Spin-Outs Peracton, Sindice.com (in preparation),…

Open Source Prototypes (selected) Social Semantic Information Spaces (SIOC) Social Semantic Desktop (part of Linux) Drupal 7 (PHP) ActiveRDF (Ruby on Rails)

Standards W3C, OASIS Collaborative Architectures, Sensor Data


Commercial and Community Adoption (selected)

Peracton (Spinout) DBRec (Spinout) Sindice.com (Spinout) Cisco Yahoo Storm OpenLink UK Government Linux Distributors Drupal MyKidsTime Slidepath TagBuilder …


Commercialisation Opportunities

Technologies 30+ technologies available

Opportunities Broad Spectrum

– Vertical / Horizontal Markets

– Technical Maturity– Intellectual Property– Exploitation Options


Working With DERI

Leveraging DERI technologies Collaborations

– CSET Partners– EU Project Consortium

Partners– Enterprise Ireland

– Innovation Partnership– Innovation Voucher– Feasibility study

– Direct Funded Research

Directly– Licence patents and/or

copyright directly from NUIG & develop commercial products.

Indirectly– Licence technology from a

DERI Industry Partner or DERI Spinout

DERI Applied Innovations Applied Research Project Management Consultancy Engineering


Commercialisation Examples


TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEWOn-going development

Available for licensing


eLearning

Planergize System for structured,

repeatable task oriented planning

http://planergize.deri.ie/

Pergamon Collaborative, informal

eLearning system

http://pergamon.deri.ie


eLearning

Web 23D / “Copernicus” 3d Encyclopaedia 2 Layer Interface

ATOM Compact radial layout Navigating trees &

hierarchical structures

http://www.3theweb.com http://galway.mykidstime.ie


Security

Secure Digital Credentials (SeDiCi) User authentication -

password never leaves the user’s browser

Verifier cannot impersonate the user

Patent Pending


Business Intelligence

Business Insight Platform Provides timely, actionable

intelligence and diagnosis on the health of online communities

– e.g. enterprise social media networks, discussion forums

where user behaviour and user-generated content underpin core commercial services

– e.g. customer relationship management, technical support

http://uimr.deri.ie

For Enterprise Social Media

http://uimr.deri.ie/


Data Integration Technologies

Semantic Data Enables applications to

discover, transform and consume “structured” data.

– Semantic data– Linked Open Data– Microformats– Enterprise Data

Value Proposition– Extremely low cost Vs

“classical” data integration techniques

– Rapid time to deployment– Immense Scalability on

commodity hardware

Novelty– Combines index based

applications with novel semantic methods

– Large Scale Data processing– Entity Consolidation– Information Retrieval– Data Visualisation

Integration Platform



Sindice State of the art

infrastructure to process, consolidate and query the Web of Data

Sigma Brower, Mash-up generator, API Sigma can be used by humans

and software agents alike to obtain structured data about any entity

http://sindice.com/ http://sig.ma



PPEPR Plug and play electronic

patient records– Semantic Middleware used to

integrate patient record systems.

– Significantly reduced integration costs

“Sqwelch” Create customized integrated

applications on the web using intercommunicating web widgets.

– Codeless application composition – Distributed integration platform

through widgets– Ease of integration through

semantics– Enables hot swapping of components

www.sqwelch.com

http://www.sqwelch.com/


Information Mining

Opinion Miner Seamless integration of

unstructured information from the product reviews with structured product descriptions using “opinion mining”

Analyst Work Bench Passage Retrieval “Answer Response”

crom.deri.ie


Information Mining

Saffron Automatic identification of

topic and experts from unstructured data

http://saffron.deri.ie/

CORAAL Concepts extracted / inferred

& linked from thousands of documents

Visualisation, querying, ranking, certainty

Elsevier Grand Challenge prize-winner

http://coraal.deri.ie:8080/coraal/


Information Mining

A>Tags Enables snippets of html to be

tagged in a machine readable, interlinked format

– tagging statements, not documents.

– tagging with entities, not strings– Complete simple system for

tagging converting, publishing & aggregating

http://hcls.deri.org/atag/generator/

Information Visualisation (IVEA) Enables knowledge workers to

explore large text collections based on conceptual structure

Faceted browsing, visualisation of frequency & distribution of concepts

http://smile.deri.ie/projects/ivea


Financial

MAARs / Peracton MAARS (Multi-Attribute Analysis and

Ranking System for Finance) provides fast, consistent analysis and

comparison of thousands of funds by evaluating performance and risk against multiple parameters with variable weightings.

ranked list of the “best fit” funds, never returns a zero result, audit trail.

Stock Selector

http://maars.ie http://peracton.com/

http://maars.ie/

http://peracton.com/


Social Software

dbRec Music recommendation

system LDSD (Linked data

semantic distance) algorithm

SMOB Open, distributed and

semantic micro-blogging

Posts exposed as FOAF, SIOC

Support for semantic Hashtags

http://dbrec.net http://smob.me/


Collaborative SoftwareSemantic Desktop

Visual Scripting (Konduit) create, manipulate and mash-up

RDF data generate simple applications or

workflows simplify their everyday work by

automating repetitive tasks

Semantic Email (Semanta) Automatic interpretation

handling and tracking of email messages

people, tasks, thread structure, ad-hoc workflows

http://smile.deri.ie/projects/konduit http://smile.deri.ie/projects/semanticemail


Collaborative SoftwareSemantic Desktop

Controlled Languages (CLANN) Semantic annotation platform

tailored for the domain of meeting minutes, status reports and other project related documents

http://smile.deri.ie/projects/clann

Media Annotation (Acronym) Uses context information to

suggest people, places & events for photo tagging

Algorithm combines sensor data with social network, album, calender & geonames

http://smile.deri.ie/projects/acronym


Other Units

Reasoning and Querying SWSE – search engine SAOR – inference engine Drupal extensions SPARQL & xSPARQL

eGovernment eGovernment Portal

– http://www.rural-inclusion.eu

Argument Visualisation– http://www.jointhewave.org/content/wave-

platform

Lifelong learning platform

– http://www.eatraining.eu

Green and Sustainable IT Carbon tracking

Sensor Middleware Unit GSN – Sensor

Middleware Smart Spaces Conserve

– smart spaces access to users context data according to user defined policies

Semantic SOA Business Process

Modelling Environment (eclipse plugin)

Services Market Place– Discovery

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