From Digital Enterprise to Insight(s) - Stefan Decker
1. www.insight-‐centre.org
From
Digital
Enterprise
to
Insight(s)
Stefan
Decker
Director,
INSIGHT@NUI
Galway
(some
slides
borrowed
from
Frank
van
Harmelen)
2. INSIGHT!
www.insight-‐centre.org
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, …
2!
4. INSIGHT AT NUI Galway!
www.insight-‐centre.org
• 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)
5. INSIGHT
www.insight-‐centre.org
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
6. A
Network
of
Knowledge
www.insight-‐centre.org
n
n
n
Interconnected
Universal
All
encompassing
n
assists
humans,
organisaFons
and
systems
with
problem
solving
n
enabling
innovaFon
and
increased
producFvity
7. Two Key Ingredients
www.insight-‐centre.org
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 machinecomprehensible way
– give an exploitable meaning to the data
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of
46
9. Linked Open Data cloud
www.insight-‐centre.org
hp://lod-‐cloud.net/
UK
government
Media
BBC
User-generated
Government
Publications
Cross-domain
Geo
Life sciences
Over 200 open data sets with more than 26 billion facts,
interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month!
LinkedGeoData
11. DERI
–
House
DERI
Applied
Research
CommercialisaFon
Natural
Language
Processing
eLearning
Social
Soaware
InformaFon
Mining
and
Retrieval
Knowledge
Discovery
Linked
Data
www.insight-‐centre.org
12. The
“Map
of
Science”
Based
on:
7.2
million
scholarly
documents,
16.000
journals
2001-‐2005
www.insight-‐centre.org
13. See
what
happens
in
the
heart
of
the
map
of
science
www.insight-‐centre.org
14. “ConnecFvity
changes
everything”
www.insight-‐centre.org
•
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
15. Example
from
the
Netherlands
www.insight-‐centre.org
Natural
Science
•
130
research
ae
•
250
headcount
•
6m€
external
funding
•
500
publicaFons
•
modest
budget:
€2300
per
ae
Social
Science
Economics
Humani@es
20. www.insight-‐centre.org
Take
home
message
Lets
realise
the
innovaFon
potenFal
of
Social
Science
and
the
HumaniFes
partnering
with
computer
science