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Maurice Vanderfeesten – 13 March 2008
Communicating in
    the Digital Era

    - Mind boggling, creative idea’s

    - Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)

    - Social networks (Facebook)

    - Interconnectivity (Amazon)

    - Online Video’s (YouTube)

    - Semantic web

    - Intelligent Agents


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Communicating in
                                  the Digital Era
    Productivity of Search




                                                                                The Intelligent Web
                                                                                            Web 4.0
                                                                                           2020 - 2030    Reasoning
                                                                   The Semantic Web
                                                                             Web 3.0              Semantic Search
                                                                             2010 - 2020
                                                        The Social Web                   Natural language search
                              The World Wide Web               Web 2.0
                                                               2000 - 2010     Tagging
                                        Web 1.0
                                      1990 - 2000         Keyword search
    The Desktop
                                            Directories
                             PC Era
      1980 - 1990
                                      Files & Folders

                                Databases




3                                                                                                        Amount of data
Communicating in
    the Digital Era

    - Mind boggling, creative idea’s

    - Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)

    - Social networks (Facebook)

    - Interconnectivity (Amazon)

    - Online Video’s (YouTube)

    - Semantic web

    - Intelligent Agents

    - The Living Web   (www.wefeelfine.org)
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Communicating in
    the Digital Era

    - Mind boggling, creative idea’s

    - Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)

    - Social networks (Facebook)

    - Interconnectivity (Amazon)

    - Online Video’s (YouTube)

    - Semantic web

    - Intelligent Agents

    - The Living Web   (www.wefeelfine.org)
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Communicating in
    The Digital Era

    - Mind boggling, creative idea’s

    - Web 2.0 (tagging, rating, commenting)

    - Social networks (Facebook)

    - Interconnectivity (Amazon)

    - Online Video’s (Youtube)

    - Semantic web

    - Intelligent Agents

    - The Living Web   (www.wefeelfine.org)
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Research in
    the Digital Era

    - Open data – www.GapMinder.org

    - Acceleration – www.Plos.org




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Research communication
    in the Digital Era
    - Online        - Print




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Research communication
    in the Digital Era
                     Today:
                     - Commenting
                         and rating
                     - Interconnectivity


                     Tomorrow:
                     - Rich media
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Research communication
     in a paradigm shift




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DARE
     (Classic Model)




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SURFshare
     (Shifting model? – Stable Infrastructure!)




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Researcher in
     the Digital Era

     - Connecting to real people


     - Get immediate access to the right information


     - Expression in richer ways


     - New research questions




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Researcher in
     the Digital Era

     - Connecting to real people


     - Get immediate access to the right information


     - Expression in richer ways


     - New research questions




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the right information…




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the right information…




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the right information…
                Finger print


                                      has a


                       Knowledge Item

                                                is a




17   Dataset   Video    Person   Article      Concept   Ontology
… (create fingerprint) …




 Person with DAI                             Generate fingerprint




                   Lookup created material
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… in your
           personal information space
                    Finger print matching

                                            Person with DAI




                                            Dataset with DII




 Person
 has finger print



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Stable Identifiers for
     Digital Items
     - Why need stable links?




                                Repository

                       URL




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Stable Identifiers for
     Digital Items
     - Collect the DII’s by harvesting (OAI-PMH)
        - DII = Digital Item Identifier
     - Connect to resource by using a resolver.
        - Resolver = reversed phonebook




                                      OAI-PMH
          DII
                                                   Repository
                      Resolver
          URL                         DII + URL


                                                         DII


21   - DII demo  urn:nbn:nl:ui:10-1921/5993
Native DII resolution
in-browser




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Stable Identifiers for
             Scientific Authors
                            40.000 Author names + DAI


                                                                   DAI =
                                                          Digital Author Identifier
                                     NTA



                               Online Matching
   Manual               Person -
De-duplication        information      DAI


                                    Publications
                         METIS                     Repository
                                     with DAI



       Automatic
27   De-duplication
Proof of concept




     - From Mock-up to Life Demo




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Infrastructure,
what about it?