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, …

2!

Research Programme!


Digital
HumaniFes

and
Journalism

3!

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 
n 
n 

Interconnected

Universal

All
encompassing

n 

assists
humans,
organisaFons
and

systems
with
problem
solving

n 

enabling
innovaFon
and
increased

producFvity

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 machinecomprehensible way
–  give an exploitable meaning to the data

7
of
46

Why Graphs and Ontologies?


CiFes:Dublin

Wikipedia.org

84421km2

Geo:hasCapital

Geo:hasLargestCity

Geo:IslandOfIreland

Geo:area
Geo:locatedOn

EU:RepublicOfIreland

EU:RepublicOfIreland

Gov.ie

Gov:hasTaoiseach

Person:BrianCowen

Gov:hasDepartment

IE:DepartmentOfFinance

Linked Open Data cloud


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

Knowledge
Pipeline

Networked
Data

Management

AbstracFon,

Reasoning,

AnalyFcs

VisualisaFon,

CollaboraFon,

ExploitaFon


DERI
–
House

DERI
Applied

Research

CommercialisaFon

Natural
Language

Processing

eLearning

Social
Soaware

InformaFon

Mining

and
Retrieval

Knowledge

Discovery

Linked
Data


The
“Map
of
Science”

Based
on:

7.2
million
scholarly
documents,

16.000
journals

2001-‐2005


See
what
happens
in
the
heart
of
the
map
of
science


“ConnecFvity
changes
everything”


• 
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

Example
from
the
Netherlands


Natural

Science

• 
130
research
ae

• 
250
headcount

• 
6m€
external

funding

• 
500
publicaFons

• 
modest
budget:

€2300
per
ae

Social

Science

Economics
Humani@es

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

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