Navigation for the Digital Universe Digital Navigation: Leveraging Semantic Metadata for Discovery and Analysis 4 th Annual Semantic Interoperability Conference

Navigation for the Digital Universe

Digital Navigation: Leveraging Semantic

Metadata for Discovery and Analysis

4th Annual Semantic Interoperability Conference for

eGovernmentFebruary 10, 2006

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Agenda Intro to Digital Navigation Digital Navigation - building blocks Why bother? …Navigation application case-studies

Dynamic Market Intelligence

Research discovery and re-use

Intelligence analysis

Life Sciences integration and discovery

Multi-media navigation and play-list composition

Demonstrations and discussion



At The Confluence of several Federal IT Trends:

Drive to integrate silos XML adoption is underway Taxonomy & ontology development initiatives Great pressure to understand unstructured information Net-centricity, SOA, Web Services, GIG Lower TCO from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software

….semantic technology entering the picture



Search Obscures Scope and Availability Enterprises have been unable to

use search to reveal the full scope of available digital assets

Focused on unstructured content,

not the full range of digital assets

Users are forced to know how to

ask for what they want

Human insights – which provide

context for what information is

useful and why - are lost



Navigation provides “A Bird’s Eye View”

vs.



Solution: Navigation for the Digital Universe Navigation provides context,

revealing the scope of what’s available

Once a user is able to see the scope of what’s available:

Everything digital becomes equally

accessible

Users get the big picture and drill

down more quickly to what they

want

Human insight can be leveraged to

provide context



Navigation has broad application

Multi-Media Navigation

Analytics & Reporting

PublishingMarket Intelligence

Intelligence AnalysisResearch Discovery and Re-use



Semantic Navigation ArchitectureUser Navigation

and Tagging

Web Browsers

Feed Aggregators

User Alerts

MetadataAggregator

MetadataStore

NavigationWeb Services

CMS

DBMS

Web & Unstructured Content

Web Services

Structured Content

Data Sources RDF, RDFS/OWL XML, RSS UIMA JDBC

Interfaces SOAP services Procedural language APIs Web Browsers RSS Aggregators



Crawler

SharePoint

RSS

Web

File System

FRED

Sentiment

Bus Logic

Alignment

...

Collection Readers Annotators Consumers

UIMA management framework for creation and alignment of metadata

UIMA compliance offers “plug and play” with 3rd party extraction tools

Extraction leveraging existing navigation taxonomies and ontologies

Ideal for metadata extraction across large volumes of content

Uses valuable content from unstructured/structured enterprise silos and internet

UIMA Plug-in Tools

...

Leveraging UIMA - metadata extraction pipeline



Turning Semantics into Navigation

Organized into a unified information architecture…

Analyzed to generate contextual views…

Presented toshow the scope

of what’s available

Metadata about data and content is aggregated…

Term

Event

Person

PlaceText

View View



Case study: Dynamic Market Intelligence

Navigational views of content pulled from unstructured & structured, internal & external information sources

Alerts & personal syndications on priority market developments

Auto metadata generation

Benefits: Improved awareness about market & competitive developments, threats & opportunities in a dynamic business environment.



Case study: Research Discovery and Re-use

Project information aggregated from numerous NASA and JPL content and data repositories

Using and extending existing NASA and JPL taxonomies

Benefits: Integration of multiple data silos and taxonomies for precision access across more content

*As presented at the Semantic Technology Conference, March 2005San Francisco, CA by by Jayne Dutra, JPL, NASA



Case Study: Intelligence Analysis



Seamark application start page shows integration of OMIM, GO, KEGG, UniProt and NCBI

Use Case: Integration/Analysis for Drug Discovery

Simple yet powerful navigation interface

Information integration using standards-based metadata (RDF)

Speed time to integrate large numbers of private and public databases.

Benefits: Greater through-put in experiments con-ducted at reduced costs. Easier info-integration.



GO2Keyword.rdf

UniProt.rdf

GO.rdf

Keywords.rdf

Taxonomy.rdfPubMed.xml

Citation

IntAct.rdf

Organism

Enzymes.rdf

OMIM.rdf

GO2OMIM.rdf

GO2Enzyme.rdf

MIM Id

KEGG.rdf

KeywordGO2UniProt.rdf

Protein

Enzyme

ProbeSet.rdf

Gene

Probe

Pathway

Compound

Seamark Use Case Demonstration: Identification of new drug candidates



Case study: Multi-Media Navigation & Composition Simple yet powerful

navigation interface Supports discovery over

metadata-tagged video and imagery content

Leverages texture, color, content, source, and other textual and visual tags to aid discovery

“Playlist” composition

Benefits: Easy to use navigation and discovery over multi-media content from diverse sources.



Digital Navigation demonstrations / Q&A

Multi-Media Navigation

Analytics & Reporting

PublishingMarket Intelligence

Intelligence AnalysisResearch Discovery and Re-use



Who we are: Siderean Software, Inc. Founded to deliver semantic-

powered digital navigation solutions to enterprise and e-commerce markets - July 2001

First to deliver a turn-key, standards-based solution for navigation of the digital universe

Raised initial venture capital financing - June 2004

Seamark Navigator is a robust 3rd generation product with Federal reference customers

“Siderean Software's Seamark lets a company organize information the way people think—in flexible categories—for easier navigation.” – “What’s the Big Deal: Search engines heat up”, May 2005

“Siderean has pioneered a variety of techniques, including the ability to readily build applications based on RDF and faceted navigation.” – “Siderean aims to make a business out of faceted navigation”, July 2005

“Seamark Navigation Server integrates with current enterprise search, content repositories, document management and Web systems to provide a unified view of information” – “Trend-setting products of 2005”, October 2005


Thank You!

For more information please contact:

Mike DiLascioSiderean Software, Inc.Office: +1 781 652 0339Mobile: +1 781 354 [email protected]://www.siderean.com

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