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Semantic Technology. supporting science. Peter Mika / Dept. of Computer Science / Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Overview. Two systems One technology Many possibilities. flink. networks in science. Flink. Social network data collection, aggregation, storage and visualization - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Semantic Technology
supporting science
Peter Mika / Dept. of Computer Science / Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Overview
Two systems
One technology
Many possibilities
flink
networks in science
Flink
Social network data collection, aggregation, storage and visualizationTarget: the Semantic Web community
Semantic Web technologyOntology-based representation and reasoning
Try ithttp://flink.semanticweb.org
Open source (in part)Elmo API for Sesamehttp://www.openrdf.org
1st prize @ Semantic Web Challenge, 2004
FOAF profiles Web Emails Publications
Representation,storage and reasoning
Presentation and Analysis
Data acquisition
Sesame Sesame Sesame Sesame
Browsing
Subcommunities
Associations between research topics
Geographic visualization
Network analysis
Network measures vs. status vs. performance
SWWS, ISWC chair (4) W3C co-chairs (2)Journal of Web Semantics (4)IEEE Intelligent Systems (3)
openacademia
metadata for the masses
Metadata micro-management
Repository for small research groupsSoftware you can download and installDistributed system (unlike CiteSeer, DBLP…)Open source
As easy as…Maintaining a BibTex/Endnote file for yourselfOptionally: filling out a form to create a personal/group profile
Instant gratificationFor the researcher: publication list and RSS feed for homepage by
adding a <LINK> tag and one line of JavaScriptFor the group: reporting, dissemination on group homepage etc.
http://openacademia.org
Pimp your homepage
Query interface
Applying the BibTex stylesheet
We got tagclouds!
And social networks.
RSS feeds, live bookmarks
Publication list for homepage
Architecture
Can be another openacademia
server!
Can be remote server!
XSLT transformation to produce to
produce HTML, BibTex etc.
Semantic technologies
The benefits: modelling & aggregation
ExplicitRDF/OWL allows to express and reason with what it means
for two things to be the same (smushing)
ExtendibleDesigned to be distributed both in terms of schema and
dataMappings between different schemas can also be
expressed in the language
FlexibleMappings can be partial, robustness*
StandardStandard languages (RDFS, OWL, SPARQL)Standard vocabularies (DC, PRISM, SWRC)Standard protocols (SPARQL)
The drawbacks
Limited expressivitye.g. complex inverse functional propertiese.g. swrc:page, prism:startingPage and prism:endingPage
Ontology-based interchange is still partly social engineering
Scalability
What about Web 2.0?What about Web 2.0?
Folksonomies are ontologiesLarge number of individual tagging actions result in the emergence of the semantics of tags
Lightweight, dynamic* ontologies
P. Mika. Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Yolanda Gil, Enrico Motta, Richard V. Benjamins and M. A. Musen (eds.) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 3729, page 122-136, Galway, Ireland, November, 2005
TaggingTagging interests in flink, topics of publications in
openacademia (also Connotea, CiteULike, bibsonomy etc.)
Tag interchange is problematic in generalflickr:ajax = del.icio.us:ajax ?flick:ball:Peter = flick:ball:John ?flick:ball:Peter:1990 = flick:ball:Peter:2006 ?
More flexible than controlled vocabulariesTracks the evolution of the language better
Should work for scientific objects (publications, presentations etc.)Users have the same object in mind when tagging, limited
community (scientific jargon)
Blogging, semantic wikis
openacademia imports comments about publicationsRequired: blog search (auto-discovery?)
Semantic wikis are promisingMetadata directly in RDF Syntactic metadata for now (who
commented on what, what time)
P2P?
Example: Bibster
P2P bibliography sharing systemEach peer has an RDF triple store with
publication metadataAdvanced query routing based on semantic
models of the content and user interestsOutcome of the EU IST project SWAP and
winner of a number of awards, featured on Slashdot
No one uses it.Software you install – and keep running
openacademia p2p
Servers of research groups are networked
Web-based infrastructure
VUA Stanford
openacademia.org/servers.rdf
p2p spirit
flink and openacademia can be ‘edited’ by anyone
1. Create descriptions of publications, personal metadata, group and event definitions
2. Let our crawler find it
future
bright
TrendsChanging form of publishing
Demise of the journal as distribution channelCommunity reviewing
Demise of the journal as quality sealThe semantic conference
e.g. ESWC 2006
In general: More and more data
Increased connectedness of data sources
Productivity
Do you still go to the library?
Do you still read journals?
Online repositories
Researchers
Who is involved?
Publishers
Libraries