From Digital Enterprise to Insight(s) - Stefan Decker

www.insight-‐centre.org

From Digital Enterprise to Insight(s)

Stefan Decker Director, INSIGHT@NUI Galway

(some slides borrowed from Frank van Harmelen)


INSIGHT!

ü  Leading Research Centres!•  DERI, CLARITY, 4C, Clique, TRIL, …

•  UCD, NUIG, UCC, DCU

•  plus TCD, NUIM, RIA, TNI

ü  Industry Partnership!•  30+ engaged industry partners.

•  €30m contribution to budget.

ü  €80m Investment (2013-2019)"•  60+ PIs/FIs, 300 researchers, …

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Research Programme!

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Digital HumaniFes and Journalism


INSIGHT AT NUI Galway!

•  SemanFc Web Strand (Manfred Hauswirth) •  Scalable Knowledge extracFon, capturing and discovery (Siegfried Handschuh)

•  Rules and query processing for large scale data management (Manfred Hauswirth)

•  Crowdsourcing, social and Linked Data analyFcs (Conor Hayes, John Breslin)

•  Linked Data Stream (Stefan Decker) •  Linked Data FoundaFon and Infrastructure (Stefan Decker) •  Domain-‐adapFve, SemanFcs Driven Text Mining for Linked Data (Paul Buitelaar)

•  Linked Data for Life Sciences and eHealth (Frank Giles, Stefan Decker)


INSIGHT

ü  €70+m Basic/Applied Research Investment!•  30+ engaged industry partners

ü  Platform for Academic-Industry Collaboration!•  Platform technology & targeted projects

ü Unifying 5 Research Centres across 6+ Institutions.!•  60+ PIs/FIs, 300 researchers, …

ü  Targeting Key Growth Markets"•  Connected Health & the Discovery Economy


A Network of Knowledge

n  enabling innovaFon and increased producFvity

n  Interconnected n  Universal n  All encompassing

n  assists humans, organisaFons and systems with problem solving


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Two Key Ingredients

1. RDF – Resource Description Framework Graph 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?

CiFes:Dublin

84421km2 Geo:IslandOfIreland

EU:RepublicOfIreland

Geo:locatedOn

Geo:area Geo:hasCapital

Geo:hasLargestCity

Wikipedia.org

Gov.ie

EU:RepublicOfIreland

Person:BrianCowen

Gov:hasTaoiseach Gov:hasDepartment

IE:DepartmentOfFinance


Linked Open Data cloud

Over 200 open data sets with more than 26 billion facts, interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month!

h\p://lod-‐cloud.net/

Media

Government

Geo

Publications

User-generated

Life sciences

Cross-domain

UK government

BBC

LinkedGeoData


Networked Data Management

AbstracFon, Reasoning, AnalyFcs

VisualisaFon, CollaboraFon, ExploitaFon

Knowledge Pipeline


DERI – House

InformaFon Mining

and Retrieval

Natural Language Processing

Knowledge Discovery

Social Soaware

DERI Applied Research CommercialisaFon

eLearning

Linked Data


Based on: 7.2 million scholarly documents, 16.000 journals 2001-‐2005

The “Map of Science”

www.insight-‐centre.org See what happens in the heart of the map of science


•  the digital world •  the knowledge society •  the dynamic organisa@on •  the networked individual

•  helping with the informaFon and knowledge overload •  ensuring security, privacy and trust •  acceleraFng science through e-‐Science •  improving health & well-‐being through e-‐Health •  understanding cultural idenFty in a networked world •  improving access to our cultural heritage

“ConnecFvity changes everything”


Natural Science

Social Science

Economics Humani@es

•  130 research ae •  250 headcount •  6m€ external funding •  500 publicaFons •  modest budget: €2300 per ae

Example from the Netherlands


www.insight-‐centre.org Collaboration with the DRI and Logainm: Linked Logainm


ExhibiFon generaFon


Large Text VisualizaFon -‐ Ulysses


Take home message

Lets realise the innovaFon potenFal of Social Science and the HumaniFes

partnering with computer science

Technology

From Digital Enterprise to Insight(s) - Stefan Decker