Presented at Opening Up Government Data in DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland as part of Irish Open Data Week.
For more information on Irish Open Data, check out the workspace at http://workspace.opendata.ie
Presented at the Workshop on the Potential of Social Media Tools and Data in the News Media Industry (SocMedNews) of the 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 12).
An Environmental Chargeback for Data Center and Cloud Computing ConsumersEdward Curry
Government, business, and the general public increasingly agree that the polluter should pay. Carbon dioxide and environmental damage are considered viable chargeable commodities. The net effect of this for data center and cloud computing operators is that they should look to “chargeback” the environmental impacts of their services to the consuming end-users. An environmental chargeback model can have a positive effect on environmental impacts by linking consumers to the indirect impacts of their usage, facilitating clearer understanding of the impact of their actions. In this paper we motivate the need for environmental chargeback mechanisms. The environmental chargeback model is described including requirements, methodology for definition, and environmental impact allocation strategies. The paper details a proof-of-concept within an operational data center together with discussion on experiences gained and future research directions.
Curry, E.; Hasan, S.; White, M.; and Melvin, H. 2012. An Environmental Chargeback for Data Center and Cloud Computing Consumers. In Huusko, J.; de Meer, H.; Klingert, S.; and Somov, A., eds., First International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers. Madrid, Spain: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
Enterprise Energy Management using a Linked Dataspace for Energy IntelligenceEdward Curry
Energy Intelligence platforms can help organizations manage power consumption more efficiently by providing a functional view of the entire organization so that the energy consumption of business activities can be understood, changed, and reinvented to better support sustainable practices. Significant technical challenges exist in terms of information management, cross-domain data integration, leveraging real-time data, and assisting users to interpret the information to optimize energy usage. This paper presents an architectural approach to overcome these challenges using a Dataspace, Linked Data, and Complex Event Processing. The paper describes the fundamentals of the approach and demonstrates it within an Enterprise Energy Observatory.
E. Curry, S. Hasan, and S. O’Riáin, “Enterprise Energy Management using a Linked Dataspace for Energy Intelligence,” in The Second IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2012), 2012.
System of Systems Information Interoperability using a Linked DataspaceEdward Curry
System of Systems pose significant technical challenges in terms of information interoperability that require overcoming conceptual barriers (both syntax and semantic) and technological barriers. This paper presents an approach to System of Systems information interoperability based on the Dataspace data management abstraction and the Linked Data approach to sharing information on the web. The paper describes the fundamentals of the approach and demonstrates the concept with a System of Systems for enterprise energy management.
Curry E. System of Systems Information Interoperability using a Linked Dataspace. In: IEEE 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2012)
Further Reading:
http://www.edwardcurry.org/publications/Curry_LinkedDataspaceForSOS_SOSE.pdf
Presented at the Workshop on the Potential of Social Media Tools and Data in the News Media Industry (SocMedNews) of the 6th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 12).
An Environmental Chargeback for Data Center and Cloud Computing ConsumersEdward Curry
Government, business, and the general public increasingly agree that the polluter should pay. Carbon dioxide and environmental damage are considered viable chargeable commodities. The net effect of this for data center and cloud computing operators is that they should look to “chargeback” the environmental impacts of their services to the consuming end-users. An environmental chargeback model can have a positive effect on environmental impacts by linking consumers to the indirect impacts of their usage, facilitating clearer understanding of the impact of their actions. In this paper we motivate the need for environmental chargeback mechanisms. The environmental chargeback model is described including requirements, methodology for definition, and environmental impact allocation strategies. The paper details a proof-of-concept within an operational data center together with discussion on experiences gained and future research directions.
Curry, E.; Hasan, S.; White, M.; and Melvin, H. 2012. An Environmental Chargeback for Data Center and Cloud Computing Consumers. In Huusko, J.; de Meer, H.; Klingert, S.; and Somov, A., eds., First International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers. Madrid, Spain: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
Enterprise Energy Management using a Linked Dataspace for Energy IntelligenceEdward Curry
Energy Intelligence platforms can help organizations manage power consumption more efficiently by providing a functional view of the entire organization so that the energy consumption of business activities can be understood, changed, and reinvented to better support sustainable practices. Significant technical challenges exist in terms of information management, cross-domain data integration, leveraging real-time data, and assisting users to interpret the information to optimize energy usage. This paper presents an architectural approach to overcome these challenges using a Dataspace, Linked Data, and Complex Event Processing. The paper describes the fundamentals of the approach and demonstrates it within an Enterprise Energy Observatory.
E. Curry, S. Hasan, and S. O’Riáin, “Enterprise Energy Management using a Linked Dataspace for Energy Intelligence,” in The Second IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2012), 2012.
System of Systems Information Interoperability using a Linked DataspaceEdward Curry
System of Systems pose significant technical challenges in terms of information interoperability that require overcoming conceptual barriers (both syntax and semantic) and technological barriers. This paper presents an approach to System of Systems information interoperability based on the Dataspace data management abstraction and the Linked Data approach to sharing information on the web. The paper describes the fundamentals of the approach and demonstrates the concept with a System of Systems for enterprise energy management.
Curry E. System of Systems Information Interoperability using a Linked Dataspace. In: IEEE 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SOSE 2012)
Further Reading:
http://www.edwardcurry.org/publications/Curry_LinkedDataspaceForSOS_SOSE.pdf
The number of "files," or containers that encapsulate the information in the digital universe, is growing even faster than the information itself as more and more embedded systems pump their bits into the digital cosmos. In the next five years, these files will grow by a factor of 8, while the pool of IT staff available to manage them will grow only slightly.
This is a White Paper by Dave Evans, Cisco's Chief Futurist on the IoT, what it is and why it is important. I particularly the like the simple definition of IoT.
"The Internet of Things (IoT) - a definition - is simply the time when there are more objects connected to the Internet than people. this happened sometime in 2008/9."
Turning social disputes into knowledge representations DERI reading group 201...jodischneider
A reading group presentation about Turning social disputes into knowledge representations, based primarily on two papers:
Toni and Torroni. Bottom-up Argumentation. In: First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation 2011 (TAFA), 16-22 July, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ft/PAPERS/tafaPT.pdf
Benn, Buckingham Shum, Domingue, and Mancini. Ontological Foundations for Scholarly Debate Mapping Technology. In: 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA '08), 28-30 May, 2008, Toulouse, France. http://oro.open.ac.uk/11939/
Approximate Semantic Matching of Heterogeneous EventsEdward Curry
Event-based systems have loose coupling within space, time and synchronization, providing a scalable infrastructure for information exchange and distributed workflows. However, event-based systems are tightly coupled, via event subscriptions and patterns, to the semantics of the underlying event schema and values. The high degree of semantic heterogeneity of events in large and open deployments such as smart cities and the sensor web makes it difficult to develop and maintain event-based systems. In order to address semantic coupling within event-based systems, we propose vocabulary free subscriptions together with the use of approximate semantic matching of events. This paper examines the requirement of event semantic decoupling and discusses approximate semantic event matching and the consequences it implies for event processing systems. We introduce a semantic event matcher and evaluate the suitability of an approximate hybrid matcher based on both thesauri-based and distributional semantics-based similarity and relatedness measures. The matcher is evaluated over show that the approach matches a representation of Wikipedia and Freebase events. Initial evaluations events structured with maximal combined precision-recall F1 score of 75.89% on average in all experiments with a subscription set of 7 subscriptions. The evaluation shows how a hybrid approach to semantic event matching outperforms a single similarity measure approach.
Hasan S, O'Riain S, Curry E. Approximate Semantic Matching of Heterogeneous Events. In: 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2012).
Building Optimisation using Scenario Modeling and Linked DataEdward Curry
As buildings become more complex, it becomes more difficult to manage and operate them effectively. The holistic management and maintenance of facilities is a multi-domain problem encompassing financial accounting, building maintenance, human resources, asset management and code compliance, affecting different stakeholders in different ways. One technique, called scenario modelling, customises data-driven decision support for building managers during building operation. However, current implementations of scenario modeling have been limited to data from Building Management Systems with little interaction with other relevant data sources due to interoperability issues. Linked data helps to overcome interoperability challenges to enable data from multiple domains to be merged into holistic scenario models for different stakeholders of the building. The approach is demonstrated using an owner-occupied office building.
EDF2013: Keynote Stefan Decker: Big Data In Ireland - Linked Data and beyondEuropean Data Forum
Keynote of Stefan Decker, Professor for Digital Enterprise & Director of DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Big Data In Ireland - Linked Data and beyond
Querying Heterogeneous Datasets on the Linked Data WebEdward Curry
The growing number of datasets published on the Web as linked data brings both opportunities for high data availability and challenges inherent to querying data in a semantically heterogeneous and distributed environment. Approaches used for querying siloed databases fail at Web-scale because users don't have an a priori understanding of all the available datasets. This article investigates the main challenges in constructing a query and search solution for linked data and analyzes existing approaches and trends.
Challenges Ahead for Converging Financial DataEdward Curry
Consumers of financial information come in many guises from personal investors looking for that value for money share, to government regulators investigating corporate fraud, to business executives seeking competitive advantage over their competition. While the particular analysis performed by each of these information consumers will vary, they all have to deal with the explosion of information available from multiple sources including, SEC filings, corporate press releases, market press coverage, and expert commentary. Recent economic events have begun to bring sharp focus on the activities and actions of financial markets, institutions and not least regulatory authorities. Calls for enhanced scrutiny will bring increased regulation and information transparency While extracting information from individual filings is relatively easy to perform when a machine readable format is utilized (for example, using XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language), cross comparison of extracted financial information can be problematic as descriptions and accounting terms vary across companies and jurisdictions. Across multiple sources the problem becomes the classical data integration problem where a common data abstraction is necessary before functional data use can begin. Within this paper we discuss the challenges in converging financial data from multiple sources. We concentrate on integrating data from multiple sources in terms of the abstraction, linking, and consolidation activities needed to consolidate data before more sophisticated analysis algorithms can examine the data for the objectives of particular information consumers (for e.g. competitive analysis, regulatory compliance, or investor analysis). We base our discussion on several years researching and deploying data integration systems in both the web and enterprise environments.
E. Curry, A. Harth, and S. O’Riain, “Challenges Ahead for Converging Financial Data,” in Proceedings of the XBRL/W3C Workshop on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 2009.
Towards Expertise Modelling for Routing Data Cleaning Tasks within a Communit...Umair ul Hassan
https://www.insight-centre.org/content/towards-expertise-modelling-routing-data-cleaning-tasks-within-community-knowledge-workers
Presented at the ICIQ 2012
ABSTRACT:
Applications consuming data have to deal with variety of data quality issues such as missing values, duplication, incorrect values, etc. Although automatic approaches can be utilized for data cleaning the results can remain uncertain. Therefore updates suggested by automatic data cleaning algorithms require further human verification. This paper presents an approach for generating tasks for uncertain updates and routing these tasks to appropriate workers based on their expertise. Specifically the paper tackles the problem of modelling the expertise of knowledge workers for the purpose of routing tasks within collaborative data quality management. The proposed expertise model represents the profile of a worker against a set of concepts describing the data. A simple routing algorithm is employed for leveraging the expertise profiles for matching data cleaning tasks with workers. The proposed approach is evaluated on a real world dataset using human workers. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using concepts for modelling expertise, in terms of likelihood of receiving responses to tasks routed to workers.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began publishing Linked Data in 2011 as part of an ongoing effort to inform the public and stimulate new health care applications.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is recognized as one of the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society.
In the US, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a report on Health IT that imagines new scenarios and recommends new capabilities for interacting with health data.
At DERI, innovative ontology and software implementations demonstrate how users can create and manage fine-grained privacy preferences that restrict or grant access to their Linked Data
This session will give an overview of the HHS/DERI collaboration to implement 'data element access services' towards the realization of patient controlled privacy.
• US Department of Health and Human Services
• PCAST Health Information Technology Report
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute
• Privacy Preference Ontology and Manager
• Puelia and Linked Data API
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=65&proposalid=4539
RPA - The new era of robotics and beyondRaymond Koh
To understand robotics, let us take a brief look back at the beginnings and the progress made over
the past 60 years (see diagram, “Robotics timeline”).
Presentation given by John Gibbons of Salford City Council at Open Data Manchester on the 29th July 2014 about Salford's adoption of INPSIRE regulations
The number of "files," or containers that encapsulate the information in the digital universe, is growing even faster than the information itself as more and more embedded systems pump their bits into the digital cosmos. In the next five years, these files will grow by a factor of 8, while the pool of IT staff available to manage them will grow only slightly.
This is a White Paper by Dave Evans, Cisco's Chief Futurist on the IoT, what it is and why it is important. I particularly the like the simple definition of IoT.
"The Internet of Things (IoT) - a definition - is simply the time when there are more objects connected to the Internet than people. this happened sometime in 2008/9."
Turning social disputes into knowledge representations DERI reading group 201...jodischneider
A reading group presentation about Turning social disputes into knowledge representations, based primarily on two papers:
Toni and Torroni. Bottom-up Argumentation. In: First International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation 2011 (TAFA), 16-22 July, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ft/PAPERS/tafaPT.pdf
Benn, Buckingham Shum, Domingue, and Mancini. Ontological Foundations for Scholarly Debate Mapping Technology. In: 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA '08), 28-30 May, 2008, Toulouse, France. http://oro.open.ac.uk/11939/
Approximate Semantic Matching of Heterogeneous EventsEdward Curry
Event-based systems have loose coupling within space, time and synchronization, providing a scalable infrastructure for information exchange and distributed workflows. However, event-based systems are tightly coupled, via event subscriptions and patterns, to the semantics of the underlying event schema and values. The high degree of semantic heterogeneity of events in large and open deployments such as smart cities and the sensor web makes it difficult to develop and maintain event-based systems. In order to address semantic coupling within event-based systems, we propose vocabulary free subscriptions together with the use of approximate semantic matching of events. This paper examines the requirement of event semantic decoupling and discusses approximate semantic event matching and the consequences it implies for event processing systems. We introduce a semantic event matcher and evaluate the suitability of an approximate hybrid matcher based on both thesauri-based and distributional semantics-based similarity and relatedness measures. The matcher is evaluated over show that the approach matches a representation of Wikipedia and Freebase events. Initial evaluations events structured with maximal combined precision-recall F1 score of 75.89% on average in all experiments with a subscription set of 7 subscriptions. The evaluation shows how a hybrid approach to semantic event matching outperforms a single similarity measure approach.
Hasan S, O'Riain S, Curry E. Approximate Semantic Matching of Heterogeneous Events. In: 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2012).
Building Optimisation using Scenario Modeling and Linked DataEdward Curry
As buildings become more complex, it becomes more difficult to manage and operate them effectively. The holistic management and maintenance of facilities is a multi-domain problem encompassing financial accounting, building maintenance, human resources, asset management and code compliance, affecting different stakeholders in different ways. One technique, called scenario modelling, customises data-driven decision support for building managers during building operation. However, current implementations of scenario modeling have been limited to data from Building Management Systems with little interaction with other relevant data sources due to interoperability issues. Linked data helps to overcome interoperability challenges to enable data from multiple domains to be merged into holistic scenario models for different stakeholders of the building. The approach is demonstrated using an owner-occupied office building.
EDF2013: Keynote Stefan Decker: Big Data In Ireland - Linked Data and beyondEuropean Data Forum
Keynote of Stefan Decker, Professor for Digital Enterprise & Director of DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: Big Data In Ireland - Linked Data and beyond
Querying Heterogeneous Datasets on the Linked Data WebEdward Curry
The growing number of datasets published on the Web as linked data brings both opportunities for high data availability and challenges inherent to querying data in a semantically heterogeneous and distributed environment. Approaches used for querying siloed databases fail at Web-scale because users don't have an a priori understanding of all the available datasets. This article investigates the main challenges in constructing a query and search solution for linked data and analyzes existing approaches and trends.
Challenges Ahead for Converging Financial DataEdward Curry
Consumers of financial information come in many guises from personal investors looking for that value for money share, to government regulators investigating corporate fraud, to business executives seeking competitive advantage over their competition. While the particular analysis performed by each of these information consumers will vary, they all have to deal with the explosion of information available from multiple sources including, SEC filings, corporate press releases, market press coverage, and expert commentary. Recent economic events have begun to bring sharp focus on the activities and actions of financial markets, institutions and not least regulatory authorities. Calls for enhanced scrutiny will bring increased regulation and information transparency While extracting information from individual filings is relatively easy to perform when a machine readable format is utilized (for example, using XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language), cross comparison of extracted financial information can be problematic as descriptions and accounting terms vary across companies and jurisdictions. Across multiple sources the problem becomes the classical data integration problem where a common data abstraction is necessary before functional data use can begin. Within this paper we discuss the challenges in converging financial data from multiple sources. We concentrate on integrating data from multiple sources in terms of the abstraction, linking, and consolidation activities needed to consolidate data before more sophisticated analysis algorithms can examine the data for the objectives of particular information consumers (for e.g. competitive analysis, regulatory compliance, or investor analysis). We base our discussion on several years researching and deploying data integration systems in both the web and enterprise environments.
E. Curry, A. Harth, and S. O’Riain, “Challenges Ahead for Converging Financial Data,” in Proceedings of the XBRL/W3C Workshop on Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web, 2009.
Towards Expertise Modelling for Routing Data Cleaning Tasks within a Communit...Umair ul Hassan
https://www.insight-centre.org/content/towards-expertise-modelling-routing-data-cleaning-tasks-within-community-knowledge-workers
Presented at the ICIQ 2012
ABSTRACT:
Applications consuming data have to deal with variety of data quality issues such as missing values, duplication, incorrect values, etc. Although automatic approaches can be utilized for data cleaning the results can remain uncertain. Therefore updates suggested by automatic data cleaning algorithms require further human verification. This paper presents an approach for generating tasks for uncertain updates and routing these tasks to appropriate workers based on their expertise. Specifically the paper tackles the problem of modelling the expertise of knowledge workers for the purpose of routing tasks within collaborative data quality management. The proposed expertise model represents the profile of a worker against a set of concepts describing the data. A simple routing algorithm is employed for leveraging the expertise profiles for matching data cleaning tasks with workers. The proposed approach is evaluated on a real world dataset using human workers. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using concepts for modelling expertise, in terms of likelihood of receiving responses to tasks routed to workers.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began publishing Linked Data in 2011 as part of an ongoing effort to inform the public and stimulate new health care applications.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is recognized as one of the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society.
In the US, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a report on Health IT that imagines new scenarios and recommends new capabilities for interacting with health data.
At DERI, innovative ontology and software implementations demonstrate how users can create and manage fine-grained privacy preferences that restrict or grant access to their Linked Data
This session will give an overview of the HHS/DERI collaboration to implement 'data element access services' towards the realization of patient controlled privacy.
• US Department of Health and Human Services
• PCAST Health Information Technology Report
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute
• Privacy Preference Ontology and Manager
• Puelia and Linked Data API
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=65&proposalid=4539
RPA - The new era of robotics and beyondRaymond Koh
To understand robotics, let us take a brief look back at the beginnings and the progress made over
the past 60 years (see diagram, “Robotics timeline”).
Presentation given by John Gibbons of Salford City Council at Open Data Manchester on the 29th July 2014 about Salford's adoption of INPSIRE regulations
Delivering on Standards for Publishing Government Linked Data3 Round Stones
Progress report on publishing open government data using Open Web Standards. Delivered by Bernadette Hyland, co-chair W3C Government Linked Data Working Group at the European Data Forum 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
FVH Open Up The city: 13 How To Join The Open Data Ecosystem Petri Kolaforumvirium
http://events.forumvirium.fi/openupthecity/
Forum Virium Helsinki
Fourth Annual Seminar of Forum Virium Helsinki, Thursday 11th March 2010.
The seminar theme was Open up the City - Open data, design, interfaces and innovation
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Lecture on Open Data and its relationship to Civic Governance and Sustainable Place-based Spatial Planning and Development given as part of Seminar on Design and Civic Governance in School of Architecture, University of Limerick on 10th October, 2011
Presentation given at #pmod (Policy Modelling) meeting in Brussels on 20th June 2012.
Presentation outlines the potential for an Open Data Ecology in Greater Manchester
IOGDC 2012 - Paul Stone - slides not seenenotsluap
These are the slides there wasn't time for at the conference. They show New Zealand's journey to Open Data, particularly over the last 12 months, and where we are heading.
Briefing on US EPA Open Data Strategy using a Linked Data Approach3 Round Stones
An overview presented by Ms. Bernadette Hyland on 18-Nov 2014 on the US EPA Open Data strategy, focusing on the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) dataset to be published as linked data . This work is in support of Presidential Memorandum M13-13 - Open Data Policy and Managing Information as an Asset.
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innov...STIEAS
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation. "Impacts of Korean innovative procurement policies", presentation by Woosung Lee
Making sense out of disagreement, University of Limerick Interaction Design C...jodischneider
How do we make sense out of disagreement on the social web?
A talk about my dissertation work, given to the University of Limerick Interaction Design Centre on 2012-04-18.
Applied Linked Open Data: A Mobile Solution for Galway Volvo Ocean RaceDerilinx
Presented at PMOD 2012 - Using Open Data: Policy Modeling, Citizen Empowerment, Data Journalism
19 - 20 June 2012
The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, Brussels
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
Aligning stakeholders' perspectives in Open Government Data CommunityAdegboyega Ojo
Open Government Data (OGD) has gained momentum and a large number of portals have become available providing all kind of data. There are many practices available and all kind of technologies enabling the opening of data. Yet the field is fragmented and effective use of open data requires knowledge found in different communities. The goal of the proposed workshop is two-fold. First it aims to contribute to better and shared understanding of concerns across core stakeholder groups in the OGD community. Second, it intends to show and discuss how some emerging technological solutions in the social semantic web and linked data technology domain could effectively address some of these concerns when considered as a part of a socio-technical ensemble.
Envisioning a discussion dashboard for collective intelligence of web convers...jodischneider
Can we use Walton's discussion types to provide context for discussions?
Presentation for a CSCW2012 workshop on Collective Intelligence as Community Discourse and Action, focusing on the *why* of discussions, and detecting that with textmining.
See the position paper, Envisioning A Discussion Dashboard for Collective Intelligence of Web Conversations, at
http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/cscw-ci2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SchneiderPassant-cscw12-w33.pdf
Wikipedia (DBpedia): Crowdsourced Data CurationEdward Curry
Wikipedia is an open-source encyclopedia, built collaboratively by a large community of web editors. The success of Wikipedia as one of the most important sources of information available today still challenges existing models of content creation. Despite the fact that the term ‘curation’ is not commonly addressed by Wikipedia’s contributors, the task of digital curation is the central activity of Wikipedia editors, who have the responsibility for information quality standards.
Wikipedia, is already widely used as a collaborative environment inside organizations5.
The investigation of the collaboration dynamics behind Wikipedia highlights important features and good practices which can be applied to different organizations. Our analysis focuses on the curation perspective and covers two important dimensions: social organization and artifacts, tools & processes for cooperative work coordination. These are key enablers that support the creation of high quality information products in Wikipedia’s decentralized environment.
Towards Lightweight Cyber-Physical Energy Systems using Linked Data, the Web ...Edward Curry
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (CPES) exploit the potential of information technology to boost energy efficiency while minimising environmental impacts. CPES can help manage energy more efficiently by providing a functional view of the entire energy system so that energy activities can be understood, changed, and reinvented to better support sustainable practices. CPES can be applied at different scales from Smart Grids and Smart Cities to Smart Enterprises and Smart Buildings. Significant technical challenges exist in terms of information management, leveraging real-time sensor data, coordination of the various stakeholders to optimize energy usage.
In this talk I describe an approach to overcome these challenges by re-using the Web standards to quickly connect the required systems within a CPES. The resulting lightweight architecture leverages Web technologies including Linked Data, the Web of Things, and Social Media. The paper describes the fundamentals of the approach and demonstrates it within an Enterprise Energy Management scenario smart building.
The New York Times is the largest metropolitan and the third largest newspaper in the United States. The Times website, nytimes.com, is ranked as the most
popular newspaper website in the United States and is an important source of advertisement revenue for the company. The NYT has a rich history for curation of its articles and its 100 year old curated repository has ultimately defined its participation as one of the first players in the emergingWeb of Data.
Data curation is a process that can ensure the quality of data and its fitness for use. Traditional approaches to curation are struggling with increased data volumes, and near real-time demands for curated data. In response, curation teams have turned to community crowd-sourcing and semi-automatedmetadata tools for assistance.
E. Curry, A. Freitas, and S. O’Riáin, “The Role of Community-Driven Data Curation for Enterprises,” in Linking Enterprise Data, D. Wood, Ed. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2010, pp. 25-47.
Are you interested in finding out how your organisation can comply with the new European Commission Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public Sector Information (also known as the ‘Open Data Directive’)? The Open Data Directive entered into force on 16 July 2019 and will transposed into National Law in July 2021.
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-data
In this presentation, we look at how an organisation can get started with Open Data publishing, including what data do we manage, which data should we publish as Open Data, or how can we make data available as Open Data?
Presented as part of the webinar 'It’s time to Open - Preparing for new Open Data and Reuse of PSI Directive'.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-time-to-open-preparing-for-new-open-data-and-reuse-of-psi-directive-tickets-143034131939#
In this presentation, I present a Beginner Guide for Open Data publishers, including 'What to publish', 'How to publish', 'Where to publish', and 'Why publish'.
Includes practical guidelines, tips, and examples.
Presented at the Irish National Open Data Conference, 27th Nov, Dublin, Ireland
https://data.gov.ie/
Open Data overview presented at IDA Ireland's Artificial Intelligence #AI_Island meeting http://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/Publications/Artificial-Intelligence
Derilinx presentation at ITAPA 2014 International Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://www.itapa.sk/4735-en/medzinarodny-kongres-itapa-2014-future-is-today/
Utilising Linked Social Media Data for Tracking Public Policy and ServicesDerilinx
Presentation at Open Data on the Web (ODW) 2013 [1], based on research carried out in the Linked2Media FP7 project [2].
[1] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/
[2] http://www.linked2media.eu/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
Introduction to Open Data
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Introduction to Open Data
Opening Up Government Data
DERI, NUI Galway
Deirdre Lee
8th November 2011
Stefan.Decker@deri.org
http://www.StefanDecker.org/
Copyright 2010 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.
2. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
“In God we trust. Everyone else bring data”
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, New York City
“My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented
level of openness in Government. Openness will strengthen our
democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in
Government”
President Obama, US
"This revolution in government transparency will make it easier
than ever before for the public to make informed choices
between providers, and hold government to account for the
performance of key public services.”
Prime Minister David Cameron, UK
3. What is Open Government Data (OGD)?
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Open Data: data that can be freely used, reused and
redistributed by anyone.*
Government Data: data and information produced or
commissioned by government or government controlled
entities.*
Not sensitive or private information but core public data
on transport, infrastructure, education, health, crime,
environment, etc.
*Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) http://opengovernmentdata.org/what/
4. Examples of OGD
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Zoned land for commercial/green/residential use
Polling stations and election turnout
Enrolments at schools and in funded pre-school
education
Bathing water quality
Noise maps
Street lighting
Bring banks
Traffic cameras
Cycle routes
Vehicle licensing statistics
5. Benefits of Open Data
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Social
Transparency
Accountability
Participation
Economic
Cost saving and optimisation
Promote innovation
6. Transparency
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To highlight deficiencies, mistakes and inaccuracies
within government?
To rebuild trust between citizens and government,
identify room for improvement,
encourage new solutions, and
remove inefficiencies.
7. Accountability
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To hold one person or organisation responsible for
errors?
To add objectivity to government,
validate resource allocation,
improve public-sector decision making, and
promote a fair public system.
8. Participation
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Opening up data naturally encourages
comments, feedback, critique, insights, recommendation
s, queries....
Starts a two-way discussion
Enables government to respond to real-time needs of
citizens
9. Data as a Resource...
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Resources: oil, gas, skilled
workforce, infrastructure, etc.
Data is also a valuable resource!
By-product of day-to-day
governance
11. Cost Saving and Optimisation
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Internal Open Data sharing
Avoid task duplication
Pool resources
Share results
12. Gov2Biz / Gov2Citizen
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Citizens
Government Businesses
Data
Media NGOs
Academia
13. Capitalise on Data as a Resource
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Consume
Process
Knowledge
Analyse
Enrich
Merge Products
Overlay
Services
14. Businesses using Open Data
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placr.co.uk
See real-time tube performance and departure info
TubeTap.co.uk
Request refunds from Transport for London (TFL) after service
disruptions
RoundaboutBrewery.com
Uses real-time feedback (mobile apps) to tweak the next round
of ale
15. Lessons Learned from London Datastore
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1. Two-way conversation
Engage with developers from start
Look at where and why individuals, private sector and NGOs
can fill the gap government can’t
2. Agility
Developments are not linear; they are emergent and
unpredictable
3. Go ugly, go early
http://data.london.gov.uk
16. Open Data Cycle
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discover
publish enrich
consume consume
enrich publish
discover
18. 190 Registered Data Catalogues to date
(datacatalogs.org)
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19. Neelie Kroes,
Vice President of the European Commission
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Open Data Strategy Nov 2011
Legislative: Changes to PSI Directive, which has governed the use of
public sector information since 2003
Investment: Make everything
accessible by default, build Open Data
into our public administrative
systems, get rid of case-specific
licenses, everything reusable by default.
Practice what we preach: Launch of
EU portal
Pan-European Open Data Portal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUpUD4l1Wo
20. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010
Open Data
Google Group
Nov 2010
Fingal Open
Data launched
22. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010 Nov 2010
Open Data ie.ckan.net
Google Group launched
Nov 2010
Fingal Open
Data launched
24. Irish Open Data Timeline
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Oct 2010 Nov 2010
Open Data ie.ckan.net
Google Group launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010
Fingal Open opendata.ie
Data launched launched
26. Irish Open Data Timeline
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie
Google Group launched launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010
Fingal Open opendata.ie
Data launched launched
28. Irish Open Data Timeline
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Aug 2011
First workshop
of National
Cross Industry
Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011
Working Group
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie
on Open Data
Google Group launched launched
Nov 2010 Dec 2010 Jul 2011 Oct 2011
Fingal Open opendata.ie 18-hour Open Dublinked
Data launched launched Data Challenge launched
30. Irish Open Data Timeline
Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie
Aug 2011
First workshop
of National
Cross Industry
Oct 2010 Nov 2010 Jan 2011 Nov 2011
Working Group
Open Data ie.ckan.net data-gov.ie First Irish Open
on Open Data
Google Group launched launched Data Week
Nov 2010 Dec 2010 Jul 2011 Oct 2011
Fingal Open opendata.ie 18-hour Open Dublinked
Data launched launched Data Challenge launched
32. Join the Community!
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Open Data Ireland Group
http://groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland
Open Data Ireland Workspace
http://workspace.opendata.ie/