Aquenergy PortalElisabetta Zuanelli, University of Rome

“Tor Vergata”, Italy E-Age 2014

Muscat 10-11 december

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Aquenergy: preconditions

current situation in the water and energy sectors:

a high fragmentation of information a scattering of sources a lack of common criteria for sharing and

monitoring in a cost-effective way

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An ontology for the automatic treatment of related links

The system supports a platform for targeted external users, with easy and ready-to-use access for different users:

from public institutions to private enterprise from academics to students being itself a structured

repository the search engine is designed for advanced queries

(e.g. technological solutions, scientific outcomes, social frameworks, etc.) with pertinent answers and targeted links in a time/effective cost/effective approach

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Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture

interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment

site and relevant links acquisition

management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain

links cataloguing and correlation

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Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture

interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment

site and relevant links acquisition

management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain

links cataloguing and correlation

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Activities

a) analysis of sources, format and contents

b) checking of the quality of sources and contents

c) definition of categorial/relational schemes

d) design of the overall system

e) development of the domain ontology

f) thematic-functional modelling and structure of the platform

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A portal for thematic searches

Minimalistic interface

Three search types Categories

Engines

Sites

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Data managed

Institution / site

Related data Activities

Documents

Events

Search engine

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Data managed

Institution / site

Related data Activities

Documents

Events

Search engine

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Data managed

Institution / site

Related data Activities

Documents

Events

Search engine

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Functionalities

Search categories

Search engines Professionals

Institutions

Thematic

Seach sites

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Why it is different

Categories Subcategories

Data Institution cards

Related data

Data belong to one or more categories

Search on categories (not text)

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Institution card ...

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… Institution card Institution / site informations

Acronym

Short description

Long description

Hyperlink

Related data Activities

Documents

… Hyperlinks in related data

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Activity card ...

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Activity card ...

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… Activity card

Related data card (activity) Acronym

Short description

Long description

Hyperlink

Hyperlink to belonging institution

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Technologies used

Python Django PostgreSQL

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OpenID: authentication of users to manage the private parts of the site. Value-added services can be offered to selected users

Liferay: Content Management System (CMS) based on Java that allows for the management of multilingual content. This will allow research in different languages

Norconex-collector: a crawler to gather and filter content from Internet

Solr: a standard search platform used to store the crawled data forming the feed base for the Aquenergy engine

MapServer: Server of geographic data that enables the generation of multi-layer maps to aggregate information of interest. For example, it may show a map representinginformation on power lines, roads and cities

The additional technologies that could be integrated in later versions and their features

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Next version

New three stage architecture

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Next version technologies Liferay Solr Norconex-collector

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Next version technologies

OpenID MapServer

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Search companies

Companies showcase and marketplace

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Search by category

Water activities

Water use

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Search companies

Consultancies companies

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Search companies

Company card

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Search companies

Name – Abbreviation - URL

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Search companies

Companies by location

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Conclusions

Intelligent search category based Search on category definition not on the data text

All data are categorized

Organized data: institutions – related data Direct links: related data belong to an institution

Reverse links: institution points to related data

Every element has a hyperlink to the original data