The group aims to bridge gaps between peer-to-peer database architectures and scaling multimedia information retrieval. They develop a probabilistic multimedia database system with abstraction layers for applications and researchers. They also research challenges of peer-to-peer networks for distributed data management. Both lines are supported by the MonetDB platform to exploit custom hardware and adaptive query optimization. The goal is a modular solution linking theoretical optimal solutions to application demands under resource limitations.
Want to get an update on Nuxeo's involvement in semantic search and knowledge extraction? Watch this slideshow to hear all the latest news on this topic and learn how it may impact the future of Enterprise Content Management!
If you want to go further, watch the video of a webinar using this slideshow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLgJKx1y6Fk
Joining the National Digital Humanities Conversation: Communities, Conference...Rebecca Davis
This session is designed for scholars, broadly conceived, who are interested in joining the national (and international) conversation on the digital humanities. In particular, the organizers hope to provide a forum specifically targeted to those who might not have digital humanities resources on their own campuses or in their own regions, and those who might not have a sense of where to get started learning about the people and practices associated with the digital humanities. Recognizing that the digital humanities has a long history of practice, the panelists will introduce participants to a variety of online communities in which the digital humanities are discussed, conferences where one might be exposed to relevant conversations, and centers that focus on developing familiarity and fluency with digital humanities tools.
Jentery Sayers, an advanced doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, will talk about the role of digital humanities development opportunities, focusing on the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria as a case study. Dave Lester, the Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, will be talking about getting started with digital humanities conferences, focusing on THATCamps as places for DH newbies to dip their toes into the field. Jason Jones, an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, will discuss electronic DH communities, focusing specifically on ProfHacker and DHAnswers as sites that bring together communities of practice tackling specific issues.
This Digital Scholarship seminar will be facilitated by Ryan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English at St. Norbert College, and Daniel Chamberlain, Director of the Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College.
A case study of the BBC engagement with and implementation of Linked Data. Presented at a British Library Linked Data Workshop in London 27th May 2010.
Want to get an update on Nuxeo's involvement in semantic search and knowledge extraction? Watch this slideshow to hear all the latest news on this topic and learn how it may impact the future of Enterprise Content Management!
If you want to go further, watch the video of a webinar using this slideshow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLgJKx1y6Fk
Joining the National Digital Humanities Conversation: Communities, Conference...Rebecca Davis
This session is designed for scholars, broadly conceived, who are interested in joining the national (and international) conversation on the digital humanities. In particular, the organizers hope to provide a forum specifically targeted to those who might not have digital humanities resources on their own campuses or in their own regions, and those who might not have a sense of where to get started learning about the people and practices associated with the digital humanities. Recognizing that the digital humanities has a long history of practice, the panelists will introduce participants to a variety of online communities in which the digital humanities are discussed, conferences where one might be exposed to relevant conversations, and centers that focus on developing familiarity and fluency with digital humanities tools.
Jentery Sayers, an advanced doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, will talk about the role of digital humanities development opportunities, focusing on the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria as a case study. Dave Lester, the Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, will be talking about getting started with digital humanities conferences, focusing on THATCamps as places for DH newbies to dip their toes into the field. Jason Jones, an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, will discuss electronic DH communities, focusing specifically on ProfHacker and DHAnswers as sites that bring together communities of practice tackling specific issues.
This Digital Scholarship seminar will be facilitated by Ryan Cordell, Assistant Professor of English at St. Norbert College, and Daniel Chamberlain, Director of the Center for Digital Learning and Research at Occidental College.
A case study of the BBC engagement with and implementation of Linked Data. Presented at a British Library Linked Data Workshop in London 27th May 2010.
Open file formats favour real innovation and really free marketsMarco Fioretti
Slides of the 2009 edition of one of my seminars on open file formats, and digital standards in general, and their effects on (among other things...) economy, culture, privacy and free speech. More details, reviews and info about hosting newer editions at http://mfioretti.com/2009/02/file-formats-can-favor-or-hamper-innovation-active-citizenship-and-really-free-markets/
The Catholic Church in the age of Digital FormatsMarco Fioretti
The nature of our age demands that the Catholic Church produces documents, and communicates, digitally, more and more every year. So far, however, very little attention has been paid to whether the usual, mainstream tools that many others already use are, indeed, technically suitable for the Church. Or if mainstream legal formulas and licenses are the most effective ones. These slides of mine from 2013 address all these issues.
Semantic Web Methodologies, Best Practices and Ontology Engineering Applied t...Ghislain ATEMEZING
This talk presents some best practices and ontology engineering applied to internet of things. The talk was presented during the 2nd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things held in Milan, from December 14th to December 16th, 2015.
Open file formats favour real innovation and really free marketsMarco Fioretti
Slides of the 2009 edition of one of my seminars on open file formats, and digital standards in general, and their effects on (among other things...) economy, culture, privacy and free speech. More details, reviews and info about hosting newer editions at http://mfioretti.com/2009/02/file-formats-can-favor-or-hamper-innovation-active-citizenship-and-really-free-markets/
The Catholic Church in the age of Digital FormatsMarco Fioretti
The nature of our age demands that the Catholic Church produces documents, and communicates, digitally, more and more every year. So far, however, very little attention has been paid to whether the usual, mainstream tools that many others already use are, indeed, technically suitable for the Church. Or if mainstream legal formulas and licenses are the most effective ones. These slides of mine from 2013 address all these issues.
Semantic Web Methodologies, Best Practices and Ontology Engineering Applied t...Ghislain ATEMEZING
This talk presents some best practices and ontology engineering applied to internet of things. The talk was presented during the 2nd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things held in Milan, from December 14th to December 16th, 2015.
Semantic technologies for the enhancement of learning in Higher EducationKaty Jordan
Carmichael, P., Jordan, K., Patel, U., Mackinnon, R., Peart, N. and Roberts, R. (2009) Semantic technologies for the enhancement of learning in Higher Education. Symposium at the annual Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) conference, Brighton, March 2009.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
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1. INS0
Standardization and Knowledge Transfer – INS0
Mission
The mission of the group is to stimulate dissemination and take-up scientific results through concerted
actions with e.g., standardization committees. Furthermore, small-scale individual projects in the area
of digital libraries are supported pending a better embedding in or outside the institute.
Theme leader
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten
MSC or CR classification
H5, 68T30, 68T50, I.2.3, I.2.4, I.2.7, F.3.1, F.3.2, F.4.1, F.4.2, D.2.11, H.1.2, H.2.4, H.2, E.1, E.5
Staff
CWI employees
Name Fte Function(s) Period Subthemes + projects
Dr. I. Herman 1.0 researcher indefinite W3C activities
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten p.m theme leader indefinite INS0
S. Pemberton 1.0 researcher indefinite W3C activities
Lectures, conferences, courses, • XForms and the Semantic Web, The Seman-
tic Web and User Interfaces Workshop, New
project meetings, working visits York, May 18: S. Pemberton.
Lectures • Web Forms - XForms 1.0, WWW2004, New
• Overview of the Semantic Web, Workshop on York, May 19: S. Pemberton.
Ontologies and Metadata, Budapest, Hun- • Why Do XForms Now (Panel), WWW2004,
gary, February 26: I. Herman. New York, May 20: S. Pemberton.
• XForms: What and Why, XForms Industry • XForms Developers Day, WWW2004, New
Briefing, London, April 6: S. Pemberton. York, May 22: S. Pemberton.
• Introduction to the Semantic Web, Invited • XForms for Web Applications, Web applica-
Expert presentation, Visualisation Ontology tionss workshop, San Jose, June 2: S. Pember-
Workshop, Edinburgh, April 7: I. Herman. ton.
• XForms, XML Europe, Amsterdam, April 18: • Tutorial on Basic SW Technologies, Public Tu-
S. Pemberton, tutorial). torial Organized by the W3C German and
• Introduction to the Semantic Web Workshop Austrian Office, Sankt Augustin, Germany,
of the OpenGroup, Brussels, April 19: (In- June 8: I. Herman.
vited talk, ‘Boundaryless Information Flow: • Current developments at W3C, and the Se-
Managing the Flow’): I. Herman. mantic Web. Invited talk at the KRTNET 2004
• On the Design of Notations (Keynote), XML Conference, Seoul, Korea, 24 June: I. Herman.
Europe, Amsterdam, April 19: S. Pemberton. • Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic
• XForms Unplugged, Seybold eForms Summit, Web. Invited talk at the Workshop ‘Ontolo-
Amsterdam, April 20: S. Pemberton. gier i arbete’ Workshop, Kista, Sweden, Au-
• RDF/XHTML, XML Europe, April 21: S. gust 31: I. Herman.
Pemberton. • Towards the Semantic Web. Tutorial at the
• 2D Web Graphics: SVG, Presentation at the Web Intelligence Symposium at the STeP-2004
MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 27: I. Herman. Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 2: I.
• SVG Tutorial, Public Tutorial Organized by Herman.
the ACM Boston Chapter, Cambridge, USA,
May 1: I. Herman.
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2. • XHTML, XForms, and the Mobile Web (Keynote), Project meetings
Nokia Technical Conference, Helsinki, Septem- • HTML Working Group meeting, Cannes,
ber 14: S. Pemberton. France, March 1–2, March 4–5: S. Pemberton.
• XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experi- • HTML Working Group meeting, Victoria,
ence (Tutorial), User Experience 2004, Las Ve- Canada, March 7–9: S. Pemberton.
gas, October 6: S. Pemberton. • Forms Working Group meeting, Victoria,
• Styling the New Web Using CSS (Tutorial), Canada, March 9–11: S. Pemberton.
User Experience 2004, Las Vegas, October 8:
HTML Workin Group meeting, Edinburgh,
S. Pemberton.
UK, September 6–8: S. Pemberton.
• Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies, Uni-
• Forms Working Group meeting, Edinburgh,
versities of Oviedo and Bilbao, Spain, Novem-
UK, September 8–10: S. Pemberton.
ber 2–5: I. Herman.
• HTML Working Group meeting, Dulles, USA,
• XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experi-
November 8–10: S. Pemberton.
ence (Tutorial), User Experience 2004, Amster-
dam, November 4: S. Pemberton. • Forms Working Group meeting, Dulles, USA,
November 10–12: S. Pemberton.
• Styling the New Web Using CSS (Tutorial),
User Experience 2004, Amsterdam, November • W3C Interaction Domain meeting, Boston,
6: S. Pemberton. USA, November 30: S. Pemberton.
• 2D Web Graphics: SVG, invited talk at the • W3C Advisory Committee meeting, Boston,
Media Elements 2004 event, Enschede, the USA, December 2–3: S. Pemberton.
Netherlands, November 12: I. Herman. • W3C Team meeting, Boston, USA, December
• XForms, AOL, Washington DC, November 11: 4: S. Pemberton.
S. Pemberton.
• Questions (and Answers) on Semantic Web, Memberships of committees
invited talk at the W3C Day of the Evolve
2004 Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Decem- and other professional activities
ber 7: I. Herman. I. Herman
• XML to the Desktop (Keynote), XML Holland, • Member of International World Wide Web
Hilversum, December 9: S. Pemberton. Conference Committee (IW3C2).
• Member of the editorial board of the journal
Visits to conferences, workshops, sym- Computer Graphics Forum.
posia • Member of the programme committee of the
• W3C Technical Plenary, Cannes, March 3: S. Eurographics’2004 Conference.
Pemberton.
• XForms Industry Briefing, London, April 6: S. S. Pemberton
Pemberton. • Editor-in-chief, ACM/interactions.
• XML Europe, Amsterdam, April 18–21: S. • Chair, W3C HTML Working Group.
Pemberton.
• Chair, W3C Forms Working Group.
• Seybold e-forms Summit, Amsterdam, April
20: S. Pemberton. • Member of ACM SIGCHI executive commit-
• CHI 2004, Vienna, April 25–29: S. Pemberton. tee.
• WWW2004, New York, May 17–22: S. Pem- • Member of technical programme committee
berton. AVI 2004 (Advanced Visual Interfaces).
• Web Applications Workshop, San Jose, June • Member of panels programme committee
1–2: S. Pemberton. WWW 2004 (World Wide Web Conference).
• Nokia Technical Conference, Helsinki, Septem- • Member of technical programme committee
ber 14: S. Pemberton. XML Europe 2004.
• User Experience Conference, Las Vegas, Octo- • Member of W3C10 programme committee.
ber 4–8: S. Pemberton.
• User Experience Conference, Amsterdam,
November 2–6: S. Pemberton.
• S. Pemberton, W3C10, Boston, December 1.
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3. INS1
Academic publications teractions, XI(4).
3 S. Pemberton (2004). Things that stay us
Publications in other journals or pro-
from the swift completion of our appointed
ceeeding and other scientific output tasks (revisited) XI(6).
Unrefereed (electronic) journals or proceed-
ings Professional products
1 S. Pemberton (2004). Scratching someone
else’s itch: (why open source can’t do us- Publications for a broad audience
ability) Interactions, XI(1). 1 S. Pemberton (2004). XForms, the Next Gen-
2 S. Pemberton (2004). The Power of Two In- eration of Web Forms, ERCIM News 56i, 8.
Database Architectures and Information Access – INS1
Mission
The work carried out in the research team INS1 is focused on bridging the gap between database archi-
tectures developed for applications in a peer-2-peer (P2P) setting and the need to scale algorithms for
multimedia information retrieval beyond a few thousand elements. Such a multidisciplinary approach
is considered pivotal to make progress in both scientific fields.
The research line on multimedia information retrieval aims at developing a multimedia database
system, which can offer a high level of abstraction to both developers of end-user applications and re-
searchers working on content analysis techniques. At the core of such a system we envision a sound
and flexible probabilistic model to steer the retrieval process, integrated with query optimizers and ker-
nel functionality.
The advanced database architectures research thread is focused on the key challenges posed by P2P
networks as a platform for distributed and heterogeneous datamanagement. This involves research
in all architectural components of a contemporary DBMS to assess, enrich, or replace it to cope with
the ad-hoc nature of said networks. A key scientific challenge is to find the proper balance between
theoretical optimal solutions in the context of hard resource limitations and application demands.
Both research lines are supported by activities geared at bridging the technology gap itself using
our MonetDB experimentation platform. This involves research into novel ways (algorithms, datas-
tructures and software stack) to exploit the potential power of custom hardware and research in query
optimization (language specific, adaptive, cost-models) to achieve a more modular solution. The sys-
tem is widely distributed to provide others a sound and modern database platform, but also to import
user experiences on the choices made.
Theme leader
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten
MSC or CR classification
H.3.1, H.3.3, H.2.4, H.2, E.1, E.5, H.2.8, I.1.5
Subthemes
Name Leader
INS1.1 – Multimedia Databases A.P. de Vries
INS1.2 – Database Architectures P.A. Boncz
INS1.3 – Query Languages & Optimization S. Manegold
INS1.4 – MonetDB Dissemination N.J. Nes
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