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Xiphos Network: Building the scholarly
web of data
Chris Clarke, Talis Group Limited
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the web circa 1991
<a href=”http://example.org”>

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a web of documents
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a simple google
query by a novice
user
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hidden meaning of links
<a href=”http://example.org”>

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the semantics of the
link cannot be
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for the next wave of
intelligent web
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this is the promise
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lots of facts - how
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218 million facts
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what can we do with
all those facts?
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just like the web of
documents, the web
of data is
distributed
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Project Xiphos
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Project Xiphos
what could we build
with a web of
scholarly (meta) data?
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500 articles
(supplied in XML)
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19808 articles
21029 people
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how do we make
this data useful?
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Xiphos Network:
A scholarly social
network prototype
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Xiphos Network:
Built in 4 weeks
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Xiphos Network:
Built in 4 weeks
(3 of those spent arguing)
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To recap...
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A web of data
created from 500
articles
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Applying semantic
web technology
reveals meaningful
links
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We make this useful
via a social
networking context
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Why a social
network?
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This encourages
users to clean the
dataset and add
more links...
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What other
applications can we
build with this data?
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The web of scholarly
data will be
distributed
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Closing thoughts
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Your metadata’s
place in the web of
data?
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What new
opportunities does
this present?
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Find out more?
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Join the
conversation:
talis.com/xiphos
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talis.com/nodalities
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