Open Data, by definition, provides the chance to re-shape and publish heterogeneous pieces and fragments of information which are open, namely anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it. In order for users to fully benefit this idea, Open Data Systems of tomorrow must provide high quality data, relying on real time and ubiquitous services, along with a deep integration with mobile and smart devices and infrastructures.
In this session, we present a syntheses of Whitehall proposal addressed a this vision: is addressed at building Open Data in a fully-fledged Big Data infrastructure, realized using graph based and NoSQL technologies. This idea is shaped in a cultural heritage scenario, where data in envisaged at valorizing one of the main assets of Italy: cultural heritage.
Linked Data and Semantic Technologies can support a next generation of science. This talk shows examples of discovery, access, integration, analysis, and shows directions towards prediction and vision.
This talk introduces Linked Data and Semantic Web by using two examples - population sciences grid and semantAqua - a semantically enabled environmental monitoring. It shows a few tools and the semantic methodology and opens discussion for LOD and team science
Linked Data and Semantic Technologies can support a next generation of science. This talk shows examples of discovery, access, integration, analysis, and shows directions towards prediction and vision.
This talk introduces Linked Data and Semantic Web by using two examples - population sciences grid and semantAqua - a semantically enabled environmental monitoring. It shows a few tools and the semantic methodology and opens discussion for LOD and team science
Embodied Organizations A unifying perspective in programming Agents, Organiza...Michele Piunti
Agent Systems research pushes the notion of openness related to systems combining heterogeneous computational entities. Typically, those entities answer to different purposes and functions and their integration is a crucial issue. Starting from a comprehensive approach in developing agents, organizations and environments, this paper devises an integrated approach and describes a unifying programming model. It introduces the notion of embodied organization, which is described first focusing on the main entities as separate concerns; and, second, establishing different in- teraction styles aimed to seamlessly integrate the various entities in a co- herent system. An integration framework, built on top of Jason, CArtAgO and Moise (as programming platforms for agents, environments and or- ganizations resp.) is described as a suitable technology to build embodied organizations in practice.
Il progetto Alimentaria dell’Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZS AM) costituisce parte di un sistema integrato di servizi e ha come obiettivo principale la fornitura di una serie di servizi a valore aggiunto per gli attori operanti nel settore agroalimentare. Il sistema è rivolto a mercati/imprese/organizzazioni/istituzioni operanti nel settore, ma anche e soprattutto ai cittadini, visti come utenti finali di servizi dedicati alla sicurezza alimentare e alla valorizzazione/caratterizzazione di prodotti, produttori e produzioni agroalimentari.
La caratterizzazione dei prodotti e delle produzioni prevede una dettagliata descrizione di aspetti tipici del territorio delle regioni italiane. Tale caratterizzazione include sia aspetti di processo (fasi di produzione, trattamenti subiti, aspetti, composizione nutrizionale, ingredienti) sia aspetti di sicurezza alimentare (analisi e autocontrolli, report e studi di microbiologia).
Il sistema è costituito da due applicativi distinti, perfettamente integrati nell’ecosistema dei servizi Ministeriali erogati da IZS AM. Il primo sistema consente la gestione degli archivi tramite una serie di funzionalità di aggiornamento e modifica dei dati; il secondo sistema costituisce una vetrina in sola lettura per i cittadini, in cui sono presentate le solo informazioni rese pubbliche attraverso il primo sistema.
Actual trends in software development are pushing the need to face a multiplicity of diverse activities and interaction styles characterizing complex and distributed application domains, in such a way that the resulting dynamics exhibits some grade of order, i.e. in terms of evolution of the system and desired equilibrium. Autonomous agents and Multiagent Systems are argued in literature as one of the most immediate approaches for describing such a kind of challenges. Actually, agent research seems to converge towards the definition of renewed abstraction tools aimed at better capturing the new demands of open systems. Besides agents, which are assumed as autonomous entities purposing a series of design objectives, Multiagent Systems account new notions as first-class entities, aimed, above all, at modeling institutional/organizational entities, placed for normative regulation, interaction and teamwork management, as well as environmental entities, placed as resources to further support and regulate agent work.
The starting point of this thesis is recognizing that both organizations and en- vironments can be rooted in a unifying perspective. Whereas recent research in agent systems seems to account a set of diverse approaches to specifically face with at least one aspect within the above mentioned, this work aims at proposing a unifying approach where both agents and their organizations can be straightforwardly situated in properly designed working environments. In this line, this work pursues reconciliation of environments with sociality, social interaction with environment based interaction, environmental resources with organizational func- tionalities with the aim to smoothly integrate the various aspects of complex and situated organizations in a coherent programming approach. Rooted in Agents and Artifacts (A&A) meta-model, which has been recently introduced both in the context of agent oriented software engineering and programming, the thesis pro- motes the notion of Embodied Organizations, characterized by computational infrastructures attaining a seamless integration between agents, organizations and environmental entities.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Semantic Search: We're Living in a Golden Age for Information3 Round Stones
This talk outlines semantic search and living shows how we're living in a Golden Age for Information. The focus is on how government agencies can most effectively leverage the architecture of the Web to improve publication & consumption of high value open government data sets.
Closing plenary: the future of public sector websites #BPCW11Headstar
Closing plenary: 'The future of public sector websites', at Building Perfect Council Websites 11, 14 July 2011 #BPCW11 Speakers: Paul Davidson and Ingrid Koehler
Myth Busters III: I’m Building a Data Lake, So I Don’t Need Data VirtualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2XXAzU3
So you’re building a data lake to solve your big data challenges. A data lake will allow you to keep all of your raw, detailed data in a single, consolidated repository; therefore, your problem is solved. Or is it? Is it really that easy?
Data lakes have their use and purpose, and we’re not here to argue that. However, data lakes on their own are constrained by factors such as duplication of data and therefore higher costs, governance limitations, and the risk of becoming another data silo.
With the addition of data virtualization, a physical data lake, can turn into a virtual or logical data like through an abstraction layer. Data virtualization can facilitate and expedite accessing and exploring critical data in a cost-effective manner and assist in deriving a greater return on the data lake investment.
You might still not be convinced. Give us an opportunity and join us as we try to bust this myth!
Watch this webinar as we explore the promises of a data lake as well as its downfalls to draw a final conclusion.
Sentara Linked Data Workshop - Sept 10, 20123 Round Stones
One day workshop to Sentara Healthcare on using a Linked Data approach for enterprise architecture. Topics include: Open Government Data initiatives, demo of Weather Health Web application; leveraging open data from NIH, NLM, NOAA, EPA, HHS; Callimachus Enterprise, a Linked Data Management System for the enterprise.
Linked Data for the Masses: The approach and the SoftwareIMC Technologies
Title: Linked Data for the Masses: The approach and the Software
@ EELLAK (GFOSS) Conference 2010
Athens, Greece
15/05/2010
Creator: George Anadiotis (R&D Director)
Join Cloudian, Hortonworks and 451 Research for a panel-style Q&A discussion about the latest trends and technology innovations in Big Data and Analytics. Matt Aslett, Data Platforms and Analytics Research Director at 451 Research, John Kreisa, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, and Paul Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian, will answer your toughest questions about data storage, data analytics, log data, sensor data and the Internet of Things. Bring your questions or just come and listen!
Supporting Libraries in Leading the Way in Research Data ManagementMarieke Guy
Marieke Guy, Institutional Support Officer, Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK presents on Supporting Libraries in Leading the Way in Research Data Management at Online Information, London 20th -21st November 2012
Embodied Organizations A unifying perspective in programming Agents, Organiza...Michele Piunti
Agent Systems research pushes the notion of openness related to systems combining heterogeneous computational entities. Typically, those entities answer to different purposes and functions and their integration is a crucial issue. Starting from a comprehensive approach in developing agents, organizations and environments, this paper devises an integrated approach and describes a unifying programming model. It introduces the notion of embodied organization, which is described first focusing on the main entities as separate concerns; and, second, establishing different in- teraction styles aimed to seamlessly integrate the various entities in a co- herent system. An integration framework, built on top of Jason, CArtAgO and Moise (as programming platforms for agents, environments and or- ganizations resp.) is described as a suitable technology to build embodied organizations in practice.
Il progetto Alimentaria dell’Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZS AM) costituisce parte di un sistema integrato di servizi e ha come obiettivo principale la fornitura di una serie di servizi a valore aggiunto per gli attori operanti nel settore agroalimentare. Il sistema è rivolto a mercati/imprese/organizzazioni/istituzioni operanti nel settore, ma anche e soprattutto ai cittadini, visti come utenti finali di servizi dedicati alla sicurezza alimentare e alla valorizzazione/caratterizzazione di prodotti, produttori e produzioni agroalimentari.
La caratterizzazione dei prodotti e delle produzioni prevede una dettagliata descrizione di aspetti tipici del territorio delle regioni italiane. Tale caratterizzazione include sia aspetti di processo (fasi di produzione, trattamenti subiti, aspetti, composizione nutrizionale, ingredienti) sia aspetti di sicurezza alimentare (analisi e autocontrolli, report e studi di microbiologia).
Il sistema è costituito da due applicativi distinti, perfettamente integrati nell’ecosistema dei servizi Ministeriali erogati da IZS AM. Il primo sistema consente la gestione degli archivi tramite una serie di funzionalità di aggiornamento e modifica dei dati; il secondo sistema costituisce una vetrina in sola lettura per i cittadini, in cui sono presentate le solo informazioni rese pubbliche attraverso il primo sistema.
Actual trends in software development are pushing the need to face a multiplicity of diverse activities and interaction styles characterizing complex and distributed application domains, in such a way that the resulting dynamics exhibits some grade of order, i.e. in terms of evolution of the system and desired equilibrium. Autonomous agents and Multiagent Systems are argued in literature as one of the most immediate approaches for describing such a kind of challenges. Actually, agent research seems to converge towards the definition of renewed abstraction tools aimed at better capturing the new demands of open systems. Besides agents, which are assumed as autonomous entities purposing a series of design objectives, Multiagent Systems account new notions as first-class entities, aimed, above all, at modeling institutional/organizational entities, placed for normative regulation, interaction and teamwork management, as well as environmental entities, placed as resources to further support and regulate agent work.
The starting point of this thesis is recognizing that both organizations and en- vironments can be rooted in a unifying perspective. Whereas recent research in agent systems seems to account a set of diverse approaches to specifically face with at least one aspect within the above mentioned, this work aims at proposing a unifying approach where both agents and their organizations can be straightforwardly situated in properly designed working environments. In this line, this work pursues reconciliation of environments with sociality, social interaction with environment based interaction, environmental resources with organizational func- tionalities with the aim to smoothly integrate the various aspects of complex and situated organizations in a coherent programming approach. Rooted in Agents and Artifacts (A&A) meta-model, which has been recently introduced both in the context of agent oriented software engineering and programming, the thesis pro- motes the notion of Embodied Organizations, characterized by computational infrastructures attaining a seamless integration between agents, organizations and environmental entities.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Semantic Search: We're Living in a Golden Age for Information3 Round Stones
This talk outlines semantic search and living shows how we're living in a Golden Age for Information. The focus is on how government agencies can most effectively leverage the architecture of the Web to improve publication & consumption of high value open government data sets.
Closing plenary: the future of public sector websites #BPCW11Headstar
Closing plenary: 'The future of public sector websites', at Building Perfect Council Websites 11, 14 July 2011 #BPCW11 Speakers: Paul Davidson and Ingrid Koehler
Myth Busters III: I’m Building a Data Lake, So I Don’t Need Data VirtualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2XXAzU3
So you’re building a data lake to solve your big data challenges. A data lake will allow you to keep all of your raw, detailed data in a single, consolidated repository; therefore, your problem is solved. Or is it? Is it really that easy?
Data lakes have their use and purpose, and we’re not here to argue that. However, data lakes on their own are constrained by factors such as duplication of data and therefore higher costs, governance limitations, and the risk of becoming another data silo.
With the addition of data virtualization, a physical data lake, can turn into a virtual or logical data like through an abstraction layer. Data virtualization can facilitate and expedite accessing and exploring critical data in a cost-effective manner and assist in deriving a greater return on the data lake investment.
You might still not be convinced. Give us an opportunity and join us as we try to bust this myth!
Watch this webinar as we explore the promises of a data lake as well as its downfalls to draw a final conclusion.
Sentara Linked Data Workshop - Sept 10, 20123 Round Stones
One day workshop to Sentara Healthcare on using a Linked Data approach for enterprise architecture. Topics include: Open Government Data initiatives, demo of Weather Health Web application; leveraging open data from NIH, NLM, NOAA, EPA, HHS; Callimachus Enterprise, a Linked Data Management System for the enterprise.
Linked Data for the Masses: The approach and the SoftwareIMC Technologies
Title: Linked Data for the Masses: The approach and the Software
@ EELLAK (GFOSS) Conference 2010
Athens, Greece
15/05/2010
Creator: George Anadiotis (R&D Director)
Join Cloudian, Hortonworks and 451 Research for a panel-style Q&A discussion about the latest trends and technology innovations in Big Data and Analytics. Matt Aslett, Data Platforms and Analytics Research Director at 451 Research, John Kreisa, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, and Paul Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudian, will answer your toughest questions about data storage, data analytics, log data, sensor data and the Internet of Things. Bring your questions or just come and listen!
Supporting Libraries in Leading the Way in Research Data ManagementMarieke Guy
Marieke Guy, Institutional Support Officer, Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK presents on Supporting Libraries in Leading the Way in Research Data Management at Online Information, London 20th -21st November 2012
Data Virtualization enabled Data Fabric: Operationalize the Data Lake (APAC)Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3aIofv9
The best of breed big data fabrics should deliver actionable insights to the business users with minimal effort, provide end-to-end security to the entire enterprise data platform and provide real-time data integration, while delivering self-service data platform to business users.
While big data initiatives have become necessary for any business to generate actionable insights, big data fabric has become a necessity for any successful big data initiative. The best of breed big data fabrics should deliver actionable insights to the business users with minimal effort, provide end-to-end security to the entire enterprise data platform and provide real-time data integration, while delivering self-service data platform to business users.
Attend this session to learn how big data fabric enabled by data virtualization:
- Provides lightning fast self-service data access to business users
- Centralizes data security, governance and data privacy
- Fulfills the promise of data lakes to provide actionable insights
Open Data management is still not trivial nor sustainable - COMSODE results are here to bring automation to publication and management of Open Data in public institutions and companies. Presentation includes Open Data Ready standard proposal, three use cases and invitation for Horizon 2020 projects 2016.
The Great Lakes: How to Approach a Big Data ImplementationInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and Think Big, a Teradata Company
Live Webcast April 7, 2015
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=4114b87441ab7b2b4c52f6b24776e5a1
The more things change in Big Data, the more they stay the same. Indeed, there are many similarities between a Hadoop-based Data Lake and today’s modern Data Warehouse. Regardless of platform, information workers must still be able to turn their assets into action quickly, without taking a hit on governance or downstream performance.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains the challenges facing organizations who endeavor on Big Data projects. He’ll be briefed by Rick Stellwagen of Think Big, a Teradata Company, who will outline his company’s approach to handling Big Data implementations. Rick will discuss the role of the data lake, and how timely response of queries is critical for reporting and analysis.
Visit InsideAnalysis.com for more information.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
4. Obama Vision
―In the coming year, we’ll also
work to rebuild people’s faith in
the institution of government.
Because you deserve to know
exactly how and where your tax
dollars are being spent, you’ll
be able to go to a website and
get that information for the very
first time in history. Because
President Obama you deserve to know when your
The State of the Union elected officials are meeting
Speech - 2011 with lobbyists, I ask Congress
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ to do what the White House has
state-of-the-union-2011
already done — put that
5 information online.―
5. What Open Data is
Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to
everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from
copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other
"Open" movements such as open source, open content, and open
access (Ref. Wikipedia)
Citizen centricity comes from citizen empowerment, namely
disintermediation .wrt traditional actors
6
6. Expected Payoff
• Ubiquitous access
• Re usability
• Optimization
• Social and Cultural enrichment
ROI ―A greater than 100X return on investment in direct Federal IT spending
through economies of scope is achievable by equipping agencies with an
Open Data platform that is the shared foundation for numerous programs that
are independently funded today‖
[http://www.socrata.com/blog/open-data-as-a-platform/]
OD turns to be a formidable tool for:
• Analyzing Spending Review on administrations expenses
• Enforcing Fact Checking on declarations policies and campaigns
7
7. Where Open Data is
http://census.okfn.org/
https://nycopendata.socrata.com/
https://dati.lombardia.it
..and counting
8
8. Italian Digital Agenda : Open Data + E-Gov
Italy established in 2012 a ―control room‖ of experts aimed at promoting Open
Data in the context of a digital agenda
Open Data is integrated with E-Gov
1. Enabling Infrastructures
2. PA digital switchover
3. Purposive and regulative set of norms and rules
4. Communication plan
The challenge is: optimizing services and costs:
• Digital Identities and related services, unified and web based registry
offices, e-payments, continuous census, interoperability of EU platforms
• Digital health, Cultural Heritage
• eLearning, eProcurement, eRecruitment
9
11. Roadmap to Open Data
Data assets Identify Use Cases Identify ROI Architectur Legal LOD
analysis and Final Users • Risk e Definition Issues Feasibility
• Relevant Datasets • Best Practices and assessment • Identify service • Copyright
report, Exec
• Customer internal similar datasets • Savings level • Licensing
utive Plan
processes analysis • Linked Data Cloud • Identify non • W3C • Liability of Data
and Road
quantifiable Compliance update Map
ROI
Identify Development Data Enrichment Validation and Composition
Datasets • Architecture • Metadata Publication of Services
LOD
• Data Analysis Definition description, Ontolo • W3C Compliance • Documentatio Services
• Datasets Store gy, RDF • Data Localization, n
• Data and
transformation • Internal linking • External Linking History • Build Ecosystem Platform
• SPARQL • External • Communication • Public API
•Normalization Endpoint component Plan
(GIS, Data-
Mining, BI
Analysis modules)
Service Development Knowledge Transfer
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13. 5★ Open Data
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web and Linked Data
initiator, suggested a 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data.
make PUBLIC stuff available on the Web (whatever
★
format, .jpeg .pdf) under an open license
make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel
★★
instead of image scan of a table)
use non-proprietary formats
★★★
(e.g., CSV instead of Excel)
use URIs to denote things, so that people
★★★★
can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context
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14. W3C Roadmap
Having Standard Names/URIs for All Government
Objects aids in discoverability, improves
metadata, and ensures authenticity.
• Provide permanent, patterned and/or
discoverable URI/URLs to your data
• Create a web page with a plain language
description of the dataset to help search
engines find the data, so people can use it.
• Provide links out to other data and documentation.
• Ensure that data is findable and can be referenced for as long as
people need it
• Data published in industry standards like (X)HTML, XML and RDF
can be used as an object database or RESTful API
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15. Linked Open Data
Recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting
pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web
using URIs OWL and RDF.
1. Requires Ontologies to be applied to
data
2. Allows heterogeneous Nodes to be
traversed in a semantically coherent
fashion
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16. Botticelli Case
One may specify that the author’s mention of ―La Primavera‖ at Uffizi
Museum LINKS to exactly the same person as the one described on
the Dbpedia (LOD of Wikipedia)
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Primavera_(painting)
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Sandro_Botticelli
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Adoration_of_the_Magi_of_1475_(Botticelli)
The link is not just a hyperlink because it is typed.
In the BOTTICELLI page, the information about his life and works is
structured, by means of the topology
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17. Semantic Network
Enable Reasoning: OWL-DL, based on Description Logics, represent
decidable fragments of First Order Logic
Sandro_Botticelli category: Italian_Renaissance_painters
category: Italian_Renaissance_painters category:Quattrocento_painters
Sandro_Botticelli category:Quattrocento_painters
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Category:Italian_Renaissance_painters
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Sandro_Botticelli
http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Category:Quattrocento_painters
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18. Linked Open Data Cloud (2011)
Doubled in size
every 10 months,
since 2007
Media
User-generated
Geographic
Publications
Government
Cross-Domain
Life Sciences
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19. Recipes for Serving Information as Linked Data
• Entities must be identified with referenceable HTTP URIs.
• At the MIME-type application/rdf+xml, the data source must return
an RDF/XML description.
• RDF descriptions should also contain RDF links to resources
provided by other data sources, so that clients can navigate the Web
of Data as a whole by following RDF links.
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21. Towards Government 2.0
“ Governments IT need to redefine themselves as Government as a Platform ”
Open Data is the platform for Open Government.
Actors:
• Institutions: to better serve services for citizens
• Civic-minded developers: to serve themselves and the others by extending
the platform (i.e. mash-ups, applications)
What actors need: Open Data management platforms, consistent admin tools
and a powerful Open Data Catalog to consolidate the entire Open Data
lifecycle (STEP 1-5)
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23. Open Data As-A-Service
REST API
Mobile App
REST API
Web App
REST API
Mobile App
Data-on-Demand data are not closed inside CMS applications but are
consumed on-demand As-a-Service
Data as Web Resources RESTful API make it possible to retrieve data as
a web resource (through URI)
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24. Socrata: GovStat Approach
Socrata is being realeasing fragments of the platform as Open Source
in Git Hub
https://github.com/open-data-standards
Business Model is moving to advanced data analysis tools, mining, real
time monitoring, decision making support systems
http://www.socrata.com/govstat/
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26. Open Data in a Cultural Heritage Scenario
Art Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMS) are exploring the
added value of sharing their data resources as LOD
Key facts:
• Rich and structured data sets accumulated over many years by experts
• Ability to reach out to audiences to both enrich datasets and to evaluation
services
• Long-standing expertise in meta-data management and
(co-) curation
• Authoritative knowledge on a wide range of subjects
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27. GLAMS LOD Examples
In Agora, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision collaborate
with the Computer Science and History departments at
the VU to integrate their collections and enrich with
historical information to facilitate a more comprehensive
understanding of the historical dimension of objects in
online heritage collections. [http://agora.cs.vu.nl/]
The Amsterdam Museum was the first museum in the
Netherlands to convert its complete museum collection
database to RDF. The resulting resource consists of
more than 5 Million RDF triples describing over than
70.000 cultural heritage objects. Several working
examples uses this dataset, such as a mobile city
guide.
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28. GLAMS LOD Examples
Europeana is a pan-European initiative that provides
access to millions of objects as LOD through API. The
Europeana Thought Lab[5] search interface shows how
LOD principles can aid the search process. Europeana
has been a strong supporter for the uptake of CC0, the
"no rights reserved" in Creative Commons-licenses
[http://pro.europeana.eu]
Open Images provides access to a large and growing
collection of Creative Commons licensed archive
material. The meta-data is converted to RDF, allowing
the creation of rich semantic links between other
datasets such as the Amsterdam Museum dataset
[http://www.openimages.eu/]
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29. PROS and CONS of LOD for GLAMS
PROS
• Driving users to online content held by GLAMS (e.g., by improved
search engine optimization);
• Stimulating collaboration in the library, archives and museums
domain and beyond, for instance by inviting people to clean/enrich
existing data;
• Enabling new scholarship that can only be done with open data;
• Allowing the creation of new services for discovery;
• quoting Verwayen (2011) ―increas[ing] relevance to digital society.‖
CONS
• Loss of Attribution to the ―memory institution‖, which may turn to
decrease values of the artworks
• Loss of potential Incomes: open data may not be sold
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30. Metrics of Success
Incomes: measured in money
Public Outreach: to measure the
number of (online) visitors
Reuse: to measure the use of data and content by heritage
institutions themselves and by others
Public Participation: to measure the amount of added metadata
and content
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32. Developing Open Linked Data
We may recognize few contingencies in our scenario:
• Exponential growth in data volumes
• Rise of connectedness
• Increase in degrees of semi-structure
• Structures and Schemes emerge rather than having a pre-defined
upfront
Key facts:
• Volume: the size of the stored data
• Velocity: the rate at which data changes over time
• Variety: the degree to which data is regularly or irregularly
structured, dense or sparse, and importantly connected or
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33. ER Approach
We do not know the structure of the documents in design time.
Adopting an ER approach we have to define vertical tables
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34. Relational Model Weakness
In ER model relationships are semantic free (direction, name)
• As the amount of semi-structured information increases, the
relational model becomes burdened
• Maintenance overheads: join tables and maintaining foreign key constraints
just to make the database work.
• Large join tables, sparsely populated rows and lots of null-checking logic
• Difficult to face with reciprocal queries in nowadays semi-structured,
real-world cases
• Recommendation systems, social networks
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35. Aggregate Stores Weakness
Aggregates allow to mimic relationships embedding cross-stores
identifiers, but:
• Is up to the developer to manage, infer and reify useful knowledge
from that
• Do not provide index-free adjacency
• Delete must be checked
• Traversing relationships is expensive, each link requiring index
lookup
• Brute force computing an entire data set is O(n) since all n aggregates in
the data store must be considered. That’s far too costly where we’d prefer
O(log n)
• Impractical in real time scenario
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36. Storing data in Graphs
Graph theory was pioneered by Euler in the 18th century, received
multidisciplinary contributes across centuries
• Facebook, Google and Twitter have centered their business models
around their own proprietary distributed graph technologies
Facebook TAO
Twitter FlockDB
Graph databases store information in ways that much more closely
resemble the ways the world is organized and the humans ―think
about‖ data.
Top 10 Gartner IT technologies in 2013 ―[..] are designed to support
new transaction, interaction and observation use cases involving web
scale, mobile, cloud and clustered environments‖
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37. From Relational to Graph based Modeling
Graph DB place relationships as first-class abstractions of the data
model
• It contains nodes and relationships
• Nodes contain properties (key-
value pairs)
• Relationships are named, directed
and always have a start and end
node
• Relationships can also contain
properties
A Graph –[:RECORDS_DATA_IN] Nodes –[:WHICH_HAVE]
Properties.
Nodes –[:LINKED_BY] Relationships
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38. From Relational to Graph based Modeling
Shake RDBMS while keeping all the relationships, and you’ll see a
graph
Where RDBMS are optimized for aggregated data, Graph Database
are optimized for highly connected data
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39. Traversing Map Performances
Friend of Friend (FoF) problem : for any person in a social network,
look for a route to some other person in the graph at most depth=N
hops away.
For a social network containing 1,000,000 people each with ~50 friends
the results (*) shows that graph databases are the best choice
Depth RDBMS Execution Time (s) Neo4j (s) Returned Records
2 0.016 0.01 ~2500
3 30.267 0.168 ~110,000
4 1543.505 1.359 ~600,000
5 Unfinished 2.132 ~800,000
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41. Neo4j Graph DB
intuitive, using a graph model for data
representation
reliable, with full ACID transactions
durable and fast, using a custom disk-based, native storage engine
massively scalable, up to several billion nodes/relationships/properties
highly-available, when distributed across multiple machines
expressive, with a powerful, human readable graph query language
fast, with a powerful traversal framework for high-speed graph queries
embeddable, with a few small jars
simple, accessible by a convenient REST interface or an object-
oriented Java API
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42. Spring Data and Neo4J
Promotes POJO based development for the Graph Database Neo4j.
It maps annotated entity classes to the Neo4j Graph Database with
advanced mapping functionality.
Seamless integration of the Cypher Query Language
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43. Spring Data Neo4j
It is possible to derive queries for domain entities from finder method
names like Iterable<T>
@Indexed fields will be converted into index-lookups of the start
clause, navigation along relationships will be reflected in the match
clause properties with operators will end up as expressions in the
where clause
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