Semantic Web for E-Science and Education

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Semantic Web for E-Science and Education

• Enrico Motta
• Knowledge Media InstituteThe Open University, UK

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DG Research Councils
E-Science Steering Committee
Director
Directors Management Role
Directors Awareness and Co-ordination Role
Generic Challenges EPSRC (15m), DTI (15m)
Academic Application Support Programme Research
Councils (74m), DTI (5m) PPARC (26m) BBSRC
(8m) MRC (8m) NERC (7m) ESRC (3m) EPSRC
(17m) CLRC (5m)
120m for collaborative projects
Industrial Collaboration (40m)
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Main Aspects

• Intg. of knowledge, web, agent and language
  technologies
• Grounded Research
• Ubiquitous use of ontologies
• Support for various types of knowledge-intensive
  activities
• Publishing
• Semantic search/Retrieval
• Acquisition Modelling
• Reuse (application development by reuse)
• Personalization

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What do scientists, educators and students do?
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What do scientists, educators and students do?
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What do scientists, educators and students do?
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What do scientists, educators and students do?
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SemWeb as Infrastructure for Knowledge Work
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Theres nothing new about global warming
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Palaeo-leaves
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Required Components

• Static Semantic Resources
• PaleoBotany Ontologies
• Task Ontologies for Classification Image
  Analysis
• Image DBs with semantic markup
• Mapping Ontologies
• Problem Solving Services
• Brokers
• Image Analysis Services
• Heuristic Classification Services
• Mapping Services
• Next Generation Digital Library
• ontology aware
• handles logical queries
• supports scholarly interpretation task

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Ubiquitous Smart Technology

• Smart publishing, knowledge sharing
• Smart access to digital libraries
• Intelligent Services available online
• Ontology-driven Personalization Services
• Automated Enrichment
• Incidental Knowledge Acquisition
• Smart Buttons intg. with authoring tools
• Smart Indexing
• Email management
• Email annotated in terms of events, people,
  orgs...
• Agents monitor and record actions, such as
  building a record of email discussion...

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Semantic Web Perspective on Digital Libraries
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Ontology for scholarly claims and relations
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The Claimaker tool
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From documents to concepts
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Some Interesting Implications.....

• Conceptual Network itself becomes the focus of
  discourse
• we go beyond markup.....
• Either (or both)
• New forms of literacy emerge (???)
• Knowledge Capture Technologies become crucial
• Hybrid Communities emerge
• Software agents contribute to the dialectic of a
  scientific or scholarly community
• New models of web interfaces are needed
• What meaning the Back button will take?
• What is a bookmark in a conceptual network?

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