RouteYou and iKnow provide routing and point of interest (POI) linking solutions. RouteYou classifies geospatial data and adds community information to provide multiple routing options based on factors like transportation method and style of travel. iKnow extracts concepts and relationships from text using ontology engines to classify POIs and link them with topics, times, and related people/entities. Together their solutions allow routing between locations of interest while providing relevant information about points of interest along the way.

1. Ontological Routing & POI linking RouteYou & iKnow Pascal Brackman (RouteYou) & Michael Brands (iKnow)

3. base patenton the core technology granted in 2007, 2 more patents pending

4. references in Media (PCS, Concentra, Auxipress) Financial(VanderMolen), Medical (EMEA, Arbo Unie)

5. 2008: partnerships with industry leaders, (Oracle, Cronos, TCS)Wetenschapspark 1 bus 8/10 3590 Diepenbeek Belgium +32 (0)11 26 89 35 info@iknow.be

6. General positioning Geospatialinformation Systems Content Management Systems Business Intelligence Systems Technology Services Integration

7. Semantic middleware Search Problem lists i.Know Engine file Encoding EPR system RDF files Mash-Ups

9. immediate recognition of complex concepts as one meaningful unit

10. need to pre-define complex terms as a whole to be recognised as such

11. no need for pre-defined thesauri

12. automatic

13. time-consuming

14. precise and flexible

16. UmbertoEco Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another (Umberto Eco, 'Foucault's pendulum, p.377) 7 Link

17. 8 Melk Abbey or StiftMelk is a Benedictine abbey, and one of the world''s most famous monastic sites. Christian Slater (Adsonvon Melk)

18. What we will do the next 5,000 days of the Web is linking the web with the realworld (Kevin KELLY) : The internet of things (www.ted.com: the next 5,000 days of the web) 9 The problem/case

19. 10 “RouteYou & iKnow”

20. What we solve 11 We getyoutherefollowinggreatpaths youlike We let youshareyourexperience withothers We giveyou info of her interest We provide places of your interest

21. The problem/case

22. Routing

23. Routing 14

24. Routing

25. Routing 16

26. How we do that: data 17 Extending the roadnetworkwith extra attributes, information & geometry

27. RoutePlanner – Routeing Engine RouteYou provides a routing engine withseveralflavourshow to plan your route over Tele Atlas data and extra networks

28. The solution RouteYou classifies the Tele Atlas data basedon 38 variables and addscommunity info to provide several routing optionssuch as the fastestornicest route as a cyslistor as a pedestrianor as a motorbikeror as anin-line skater The demo willdemonstrate these severaloptions and explainone of the difficultiesrelated to hierarchical routing. RouteYou provides an API whereyoucanrequest these paths

29. Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 20 Context (forthosewholove to read) Providinginterestinginformation and selecting a goodpathwhilepeople are goingfrom A to B orgoingaround in a regio dependsonquite a few things. What kind of interest s does the user have Does he/shewalksor is teh user bybike Is the user in a hurry, goingfor a stroll, a touristicvisitor is hedoingsports? Is she/hedoingthis trip in spring, mondaymorningoron the 21st of July? The problems we try to solve are the following: How do we provide you a track fitting your mode of movement (walker, cyclist,,…) and your ‘style’ (in a hurry, relaxingstroll,…). If we know the users interest, we have to match that interest with the locations and the linkedinformation at hand. Howcan we classify these locations and match themwith the interest of the user (e.g. whichlocations to visitifI’minterested in architecture, orGalileoGalilei, or crime) Howcan we time-tag the locations to beable to show you the interestinginformation at the time of youractivity Howcan we pick/classify the most interestinglocations If we have a large set of text/informationfromseveralsources , howcan we avoidprovidingduplicateinformation to the end-user? E.g. We gettouristicinformationfrom the city, the touristicregion, a private publisher, the prosumers of the community. Someinformation is complementary of these sources, otherinformation is redudant/duplicate

30. The Solution RouteYou alsocreate a community to getcommunity input on routes and POIs. RouteYou provides alsowidgetsforRoutePlannerssootherscancreatetheirowncommunitiesbasedontheir type of activity (e.g. TourismEast-Flanders, Walking site of Twente, Cycling site of Rivierenland, Bicycle Magazine sites,...)

31. RouteViewer RouteYou provides a way to view, ‘inspect’, share and download the results. The RouteViewerwidgetallowswebbuilder to integrate the routes in their website and provide the information to theirusers/community without development and problems of running and hosting the data and the application

32. iKnowontologybuilder The pompous building near the river is a branch of the National Bank of Belgium. It was here that some bizaracitivity took place leading to the main suspect of the theft of the panel of the “Lam Gods”. ArsèneGoedertier, the main suspect, opened here an account a few weeks before the theft. Only a few transactions were made on this account. The first transaction took place before the purchasing of a typewriter in a shop in the “Vlaanderenstraat”, for almost the same amount as the price of the typewriter.A second transaction took place, just before the ransom would be paid and the exchange of the painting would take place in Antwerp. This never happened and till today, the painting is never found back.

33. The pompous building near the river is a branch of the National Bank of Belgium. It was here that some bizaracitivity took place leading to the main suspect of the theft of the panel of the “Lam Gods”. ArsèneGoedertier, the main suspect, opened here an account a few weeks before the theft. Only a few transactions were made on this account. The first transaction took place before the purchasing of a typewriter in a shop in the “Vlaanderenstraat”, for almost the same amount as the price of the typewriter.A second transaction took place, just before the ransom would be paid and the exchange of the painting would take place in Antwerp. This never happened and till today, the painting is never found back.

34. i Know and graphs in word space The Concept-Relationship-Conceptclassifier of iKnowallows the creation of a graph in word-spacewhereconceptsrepresentnodes and relationshipsrepresentedges.

35. is near Pompous building branch river of Belgium ArsèneGoedertier National Bank Belgium Belgium of in Belgium shop Belgium vlaanderenstraat

36. i Know and graphs in word space The problem is not to detectrelationships and links betweenconcepts and relationships, but to define the most important concepts and relationships to define the specificconcepts and relationships

37. What is interesting? is Pompous building near branch river Belgium of stole Rechtvaardige Rechters carried is (5) took National Bank Belgium Belgium ArsèneGoedertier painting of (10) Paintedby accused of Belgium Van Eyck Belgium Belgium shop Belgium theft in Belgium vlaanderenstraat

38. POI-concept To beable to provide specificinformation, the POI concept/datamodel of RouteYou was set up to beable to store time tags, topic-tags (ontologies), person-tags and location-links. Thisallowsthe extension and the ontologicallinking of the Tele Atlas POIs and otherPOIscreated and providedbycustomers and communityusers

39. iKnow To beable to classify the POIs and store the links, iKnow provides anontology engine in severlalanguagesallowing to extract concepts and relationships, and filtering the irrelevant words out of a text.

40. iKnow Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 31

41. iKnow Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 32

42. iKnow Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 33

43. The ontology building Trainingset Ontologies Texts Texts Time Topics Persons Texts Texts Texts Texts Literature Easter Galileo Texts History Monday Maeterlinck Engineering August 3 Da Vinci Classifier Set Concepts Concepts Concepts

44. Importance 35 # MM # texts Lengthtxt

45. The result

46. Thematic maps Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 37

47. POI model Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 38

48. POI model Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 39

49. The most connectedget most popular (the richgetricher) 40 Location links: 8 – Topic Links: 9 - Relatedpersons : 9 Location links: 6 – Topic Links: 5 - Relatedpersons : 2 Location links: 7 – Topic Links: 6 - Relatedpersons : 8 Location links: 3 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 0 Location links: 9 – Topic Links: 6 - Relatedpersons : 4 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 1 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 0 Location links: 13 – Topic Links: 3 - Relatedpersons : 2 Location links: 4 – Topic Links: 5 - Relatedpersons : 3 Location links: 1 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 0 Location links: 6 – Topic Links: 6 - Relatedpersons : 5 Location links: 7 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 3 Location links: 3 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 4 Location links: 4 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 1 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 2 Location links: 1 – Topic Links: 1 - Relatedpersons : 0 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 2 - Relatedpersons : 1

50. POI datamodel and location interface The POI datamodel stores these ontologies and links and the RouteYou webservices allow to request the locaitonswiththeirtexts and theirrelationshipswith topics, persons, time The community website www.routeyou.comallows the user to go fromrealworldspace to ontologyspace and back and provides the answerwhylocations are linked to specific topics and persons.

51. Whatcan we do now 42 ExtendingPOIswithinformation, classifying and linking these POIs

52. Specificthematic-networks & routing 43

53. How we do that: make the data available (routes, POIs and networks) 44

54. How we do that: SW & services 45

55. How we do that: SW & Services 46 Routing Engine withplenty of flavours – trythem out onwww.routeyou.comoronseveral of our partners websites orappllications A few of ourpartner’s websites & applications http://www.tov.be http://www.rvv.be http://www.nieuwsblad.be http://www.hbvl.be http://www.gva.be http://www.citytripplanner.be http://www.twente.nl http://www.fietsactief.nl http://www.fiets.nl http://www.twentejezelf.nl/ http://www.vvvzwolle.nl/ http://www.rivierenland.nl/ http://www.sallandnatuurlijkgastvrij.nl/ http://www.fietsenwandelweb.nl/ http://www.lekkerfietsen.nl http://www.ulugh.com/

56. How do we do that: building and using a community 47 Onwww.routeyou.com Passedour4 000 000thvisitor >10 000 visits /day >1 300 000 pageviews / month 350 000 routes / monthviewed 18 000 routes / monthdownloaded Community >15 000 websites plugged in RouteViewer 30 000 routes planned via partners / month 45 000 routes viewed via partners / month

57. Architecture

58. Architecture of community testbed Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 49 END USER APPLICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDER Service Provider 3 Service Provider 2 Service Provider 1 access to 3rd party services and content TELE ATLAS ORACLE LBS INNOVATION CENTER TESTBED PORTAL Registry Documentation, Pilot info, Forum, Q&A , , Registry input SERVICE BROKER AccessControl and Quotas Registry Logging WWW.ROUTEYOU.COM OSB/ WSM/ BPEL access 3rd party Service and content WEBSERVICES Oracle SERVICES OGC Third party VIEWER ROUTING OpenLS Routing WMS WFS Geo coding Routing Map Viewer Directory GeoC. Mapviewer CSW DATA DATA NTW, POIs 3D City Map Geocoding Tables MultiNet Routing Tables Repositry Direct. poi Directory Service Geospatial & LBS Innovation Community – Sophia Antipolis, July 2, 2009 49

59. The next 5,000 days of the WEB We alwaysgoing to beonit… (Kevin KELLY) 50