The Semantic Interoperability Conference 2012 offered a unique opportunity to explore how semantic interoperability solutions are being embraced by e-Government initiatives. The conference featured presentations on semantic standards like NIEM and ADMS, as well as case studies of semantic technologies being used by organizations like Europeana, Data.gov, and Estonian public sector agencies to improve data sharing and interoperability. Speakers emphasized that semantic standards must address real problems, have an active community behind them, and promote reuse to be successful.
Semantic interoperability courses training module 2 - core vocabularies v0.11Semic.eu
Goals:
- Understand what Core Vocabularies are.
- Understand how to extend the Core Vocabularies depending on your patterns of information exchange
- Understand how to use and extend the Core Vocabularies in your own data models.
Semantic interoperability courses training module 2 - core vocabularies v0.11Semic.eu
Goals:
- Understand what Core Vocabularies are.
- Understand how to extend the Core Vocabularies depending on your patterns of information exchange
- Understand how to use and extend the Core Vocabularies in your own data models.
Presentation of SEMIC on StatDCAT-AP at SemStats 2016 conference.
Demonstration on StatDCAT-AP which aims at enhancing interoperability between descriptions of statistical data sets within the statistical domain and between statistical data (e.g. Eurostat) and open data portals (e.g. European Data Portal).
Semantische Standards in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung in EuropaSemic.eu
A presentation by Nikos Loutas of the SEMIC team on the work on semantic standards for information exchange carried out in the context of the semantic interoperability action of the ISA Programme. ISA helps local and national governments to publish and seamlessly exchange information. The presentation was centred on the e-Government Core Vocabularies, ADMS and the DCAT-AP, explaining their potential uses and demonstrating their extensibility, so that different information exchange contexts can be supported.
For a country like Finland, which is full of innovations and startups, Gaia-X is a gateway for reaching the next step of the data economy ladder. The potential of this groundbreaking initiative is enormous and far-reaching.
Gaia-X is the answer to a massive demand for safe, secure and sovereign data across Europe. By merging hundreds of different organisations in different domain and from across the globe in a single endeavour, Gaia-X combines challenging use cases with innovative solutions to bring the most value out of the European data economy.
Gaia-X project is accelerating rapidly with the launch of Gaia-X regional hubs. We are pleased to invite you to our Gaia-X for Finland – Hub launch event.
During the event, you will learn about the role of a Gaia-X as a game-changer for data-driven businesses, hear about the strategy and operational model of the Finnish Gaia-X Hub and get insights from companies already involved in Gaia-X.
The event page: https://www.sitra.fi/en/events/gaia-x_for_finland_hub_launch/
Presentations:
Jaana Sinipuro, Project Director, Sitra
Hubert Tardieu, Independent Board Member in charge of relationship with governments
Lars Albäck, CEO, Vastuu Group
Open Source & Open Data Session report from imaGIne 2014 ConferenceGSDI Association
Session report from the imaGIne 2014 Conference held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2014. Session was chaired by Dr. Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, of HUNAGI, who were co-organisers for Session 8C1.
Introduction to EOSCpilot project and topical activities in the area of EOSCEOSCpilot .eu
This presentation was given by Juan Bicarregui, STFC and EOSCpilot project coordinator, during 2nd EOSCpilot Governance Development Forum workshop, 3 October 2017, Tallin.
https://eoscpilot.eu/events/2nd-egdf-eoscpilot-governance-development-forum
Follow EOSCpilot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eoscpilot
and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoscpiloteu
The Momentum of Open Standards - a Pragmatic Approach to Software Interoperab...ePractice.eu
Authors: Trond Arne Undheim, Jochen Friedrich.
Software is increasingly embedded in society. Fewer and fewer solutions are stand-alone, hence interoperability amongst software from different vendors is crucial to governments, industry and the third sector.
Knowledge sharing in a distributed community of practice: a case study of ePr...ePractice.eu
Author: Juliane Jarke
This article aims to explore and describe the attempt of the European Commission to establish a Community of Practice amongst European eGovernment practitioners through the ePractice.eu project. The focus of the European Commission's attempt lies hereby in the facilitation of eGovernment good practice exchange throughout Europe.
Presentation about the E-clic project. ISEI 2012 conference was located in Venice, Italy, and it is published in a book : Titolo: Entrepreneurial strategies and policies for economic growth
Autori: Moreno Muffatto, Paolo Giacon
Editore: libreriauniversitaria.it
Data di Pubblicazione: 2012
ISBN: 8862922663
ISBN-13: 9788862922661
In the third part of the workshop series Smart Policies for Data, we will focus on two central building blocks – interoperability and balanced data sharing.
The presentations of the event:
- Szymon Lewandowski, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- Marko Turpeinen, CEO, 1001 Lakes
- Lars Nagel, CEO, International Data Spaces Association
Presentation of SEMIC on StatDCAT-AP at SemStats 2016 conference.
Demonstration on StatDCAT-AP which aims at enhancing interoperability between descriptions of statistical data sets within the statistical domain and between statistical data (e.g. Eurostat) and open data portals (e.g. European Data Portal).
Semantische Standards in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung in EuropaSemic.eu
A presentation by Nikos Loutas of the SEMIC team on the work on semantic standards for information exchange carried out in the context of the semantic interoperability action of the ISA Programme. ISA helps local and national governments to publish and seamlessly exchange information. The presentation was centred on the e-Government Core Vocabularies, ADMS and the DCAT-AP, explaining their potential uses and demonstrating their extensibility, so that different information exchange contexts can be supported.
For a country like Finland, which is full of innovations and startups, Gaia-X is a gateway for reaching the next step of the data economy ladder. The potential of this groundbreaking initiative is enormous and far-reaching.
Gaia-X is the answer to a massive demand for safe, secure and sovereign data across Europe. By merging hundreds of different organisations in different domain and from across the globe in a single endeavour, Gaia-X combines challenging use cases with innovative solutions to bring the most value out of the European data economy.
Gaia-X project is accelerating rapidly with the launch of Gaia-X regional hubs. We are pleased to invite you to our Gaia-X for Finland – Hub launch event.
During the event, you will learn about the role of a Gaia-X as a game-changer for data-driven businesses, hear about the strategy and operational model of the Finnish Gaia-X Hub and get insights from companies already involved in Gaia-X.
The event page: https://www.sitra.fi/en/events/gaia-x_for_finland_hub_launch/
Presentations:
Jaana Sinipuro, Project Director, Sitra
Hubert Tardieu, Independent Board Member in charge of relationship with governments
Lars Albäck, CEO, Vastuu Group
Open Source & Open Data Session report from imaGIne 2014 ConferenceGSDI Association
Session report from the imaGIne 2014 Conference held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2014. Session was chaired by Dr. Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, of HUNAGI, who were co-organisers for Session 8C1.
Introduction to EOSCpilot project and topical activities in the area of EOSCEOSCpilot .eu
This presentation was given by Juan Bicarregui, STFC and EOSCpilot project coordinator, during 2nd EOSCpilot Governance Development Forum workshop, 3 October 2017, Tallin.
https://eoscpilot.eu/events/2nd-egdf-eoscpilot-governance-development-forum
Follow EOSCpilot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eoscpilot
and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoscpiloteu
The Momentum of Open Standards - a Pragmatic Approach to Software Interoperab...ePractice.eu
Authors: Trond Arne Undheim, Jochen Friedrich.
Software is increasingly embedded in society. Fewer and fewer solutions are stand-alone, hence interoperability amongst software from different vendors is crucial to governments, industry and the third sector.
Knowledge sharing in a distributed community of practice: a case study of ePr...ePractice.eu
Author: Juliane Jarke
This article aims to explore and describe the attempt of the European Commission to establish a Community of Practice amongst European eGovernment practitioners through the ePractice.eu project. The focus of the European Commission's attempt lies hereby in the facilitation of eGovernment good practice exchange throughout Europe.
Presentation about the E-clic project. ISEI 2012 conference was located in Venice, Italy, and it is published in a book : Titolo: Entrepreneurial strategies and policies for economic growth
Autori: Moreno Muffatto, Paolo Giacon
Editore: libreriauniversitaria.it
Data di Pubblicazione: 2012
ISBN: 8862922663
ISBN-13: 9788862922661
In the third part of the workshop series Smart Policies for Data, we will focus on two central building blocks – interoperability and balanced data sharing.
The presentations of the event:
- Szymon Lewandowski, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- Marko Turpeinen, CEO, 1001 Lakes
- Lars Nagel, CEO, International Data Spaces Association
PATHS state of the art monitoring reportpathsproject
This document provides an update to an Initial State of the Art Monitoring report delivered by the project. The report covers the areas of Educational Informatics, Information Retrieval and Semantic Similarity relatedness.
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
Introducing the need for a Domain Model in Public Service Provision (PSP) eGo...Efthimios Tambouris
This is the presentation of a paper accepted in the ICDIM conference in London. The presentation took place on the 13th of November 2008. A relevant journal publication also exists (see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4746837&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4746837)
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Table of Contents
Introduction3
Need for technology-based solutions3
Infrastructure Automation Tools4
Implementation4
The Central Theory: Organizational Management and Memory4
Organizational Management4
Organizational Memory4
Need of Data Archival And Storage5
Data Storage.5
Types of Storage.6
Data Archival9
Data Archival Process9
Archiving principles12
Data Management Systems12
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP systems) for data integration.13
Microservices.15
Properties of Monolithic.17
Conclusion22
References24
Introduction
Technology is considered vital in today's globalized world. Especially in terms of business, information technology has both quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits. It is essential to communicate with customers and stakeholders regularly and necessary for communicating quickly and clearly. It helps in implementing business operations efficiently and effectively, also. A business with robust technological capacity creates new opportunities for a company to stay ahead of the competition and grow eventually (Rangus & Slavec, 2017). Consequently, it also makes dynamic teams that can interact from anywhere in the world—furthermore, technology aids in understanding the business needs and managing and securing confidential and critical data.Need for technology-based solutions
The need for data recovery, active and continuous data processing by its life cycle of significance and utility for research, scientific and educational purposes (Bukari Zakaria & Mamman, 2014). The acknowledgment that information is an organization's key asset since late, decisively affecting its profitability, has contributed to some comprehensive corporate memory approaches. The key causes of competitive advantage are corporate memory and organizational learning ability (C. Priya, 2011). Hence the main obstacle is the effectiveness of information management while ensuring the consistency of training facilities.
Organizations need robust technology-based solutions. Thus, software developers have developed and deployed various forms of overtime architectures that enable software products to become resource-effective and usable. Some architectures implement their frameworks in either one layer or various layers or levels (Suresh, 2012). It is understood that ERP implementation efficiency of ERP implementations is influenced by the rise or excess of a certain degree of capability in the volume of data to process (Johansson, 2012). In the last couple of decades, new architectures have been created with creativity that offers optimum solutions. Thus, the microservices architecture is gaining room and becoming part of the technological, financial, and advertising decision-making process. Microservices replace monolithic, tightly dispersed system-focused applications with an independent operation (Vrîncianu, Anica-Popa, & Anica-Popa, 2009).Infrastructure Automation Tools
One issue as microservices are applied is that any s ...
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Table of Contents
Introduction3
Need for technology-based solutions3
Infrastructure Automation Tools4
Implementation4
The Central Theory: Organizational Management and Memory4
Organizational Management4
Organizational Memory4
Need of Data Archival And Storage5
Data Storage.5
Types of Storage.6
Data Archival9
Data Archival Process9
Archiving principles12
Data Management Systems12
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP systems) for data integration.13
Microservices.15
Properties of Monolithic.17
Conclusion22
References24
Introduction
Technology is considered vital in today's globalized world. Especially in terms of business, information technology has both quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits. It is essential to communicate with customers and stakeholders regularly and necessary for communicating quickly and clearly. It helps in implementing business operations efficiently and effectively, also. A business with robust technological capacity creates new opportunities for a company to stay ahead of the competition and grow eventually (Rangus & Slavec, 2017). Consequently, it also makes dynamic teams that can interact from anywhere in the world—furthermore, technology aids in understanding the business needs and managing and securing confidential and critical data.Need for technology-based solutions
The need for data recovery, active and continuous data processing by its life cycle of significance and utility for research, scientific and educational purposes (Bukari Zakaria & Mamman, 2014). The acknowledgment that information is an organization's key asset since late, decisively affecting its profitability, has contributed to some comprehensive corporate memory approaches. The key causes of competitive advantage are corporate memory and organizational learning ability (C. Priya, 2011). Hence the main obstacle is the effectiveness of information management while ensuring the consistency of training facilities.
Organizations need robust technology-based solutions. Thus, software developers have developed and deployed various forms of overtime architectures that enable software products to become resource-effective and usable. Some architectures implement their frameworks in either one layer or various layers or levels (Suresh, 2012). It is understood that ERP implementation efficiency of ERP implementations is influenced by the rise or excess of a certain degree of capability in the volume of data to process (Johansson, 2012). In the last couple of decades, new architectures have been created with creativity that offers optimum solutions. Thus, the microservices architecture is gaining room and becoming part of the technological, financial, and advertising decision-making process. Microservices replace monolithic, tightly dispersed system-focused applications with an independent operation (Vrîncianu, Anica-Popa, & Anica-Popa, 2009).Infrastructure Automation Tools
One issue as microservices are applied is that any s ...
Industry-Academia Communication In Empirical Software EngineeringPer Runeson
Researchers in software engineering must communicate with industry practitioners, both engineers and managers. Communication may be about collaboration buy-in, problem identification, empirical data collection, solution design, evaluation, and reporting. In order to gain mutual benefit of the collaboration, ensuring relevant research and improved industry practice, researchers and practitioners must be good at communicating. The basis for a researcher to be good at industry-academia communication is firstly to be “bi-lingual”. Understanding and being able to translate between these “languages” is essential. Secondly, it is also about being “bi-cultural”.Understanding the incentives in industry and academia respectively, is a basis for being able to find balances between e.g. rigor and relevance in the research. Time frames is another aspect that is different in the two cultures. Thirdly, the choice of communication channels is key to reach the intended audience.A wide range of channels exist, from face to face meetings, via tweets and blogs, to academic journal papers and theses; each having its own audience and purposes. The keynote speech will explore the challenges of industry-academia communication, based on two decades of collaboration experiences, both successes and failures. It aims to support primarily the academic side of the communication to help achieving industry impact through rigorous and relevant empirical software engineering research.
Promoting semantic interoperability between public administrations in EuropeSemic.eu
The presentations highlightes the economic impact of semantics, interoperability and how ISA promotes sharing of semantics-related practices among different stakeholders in Europe.
Survey on metadata management and governance in EuropeSemic.eu
In his presentation, Mr. Dekkers underlined the importance of structural metadata. According to him it is essential to find out what are the requirements, what are the costs from a resource point of view and what are the foreseen benefits. As a result of the survey, several good practices and recommendations have been identified which can support the efforts to improve metadata management and governance in Europe.
Semantic interoperability courses training module 3 - reference data v0.10Semic.eu
By the end of this training you should have an understanding of:
What reference data is, its context and purpose and how it creates value for organisations.
Why it is important to manage and govern the reference data lifecycle.
How to work with reference data using open-source tools.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
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.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
3. Explore semantic technologies for improved
interoperability and e-Government services
We are witnessing a plethora of initiatives to make the
interactions between public administrations, business and
citizens more efficient and effective. To name a few: the
Actions of the Digital Agenda for Europe, the Actions of the
Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations
Programme, the Large Scale Pilots, etc.
The Semantic Interoperability Conference 2012 – SEMIC 2012
– offered a unique opportunity to explore and discuss how
semantic interoperability solutions are being embraced by e-
Government initiatives. The conference combined plenary
sessions and interactive panels in an inspiring networking
atmosphere.
e-Government and semantics experts presented their case
studies and real-life examples and experiences with semantic
technologies.
Introduction
Conference in figures
Highlights
Conclusion
2012
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The Semantic Interoperability Conference 2012 offered a
unique opportunity to explore and discuss how semantic
interoperability solutions are being embraced by
e-Government initiatives
8. Keynote Talk - NIEM – National Information
Exchange Model
Anthony Hoang explained how NIEM is structured and
what the benefits are.
What is NIEM?
NIEM connects communities of people who share a common need to exchange
information in order to advance their mission, and provides a foundation for seamless
information exchange between federal, state, local and tribal agencies. Much more than
a data model, NIEM consists of an active user community as well as a technical and
support framework.
How does NIEM work?
The NIEM governance structure contains three committees: the Communications and
Outreach Committee, the Technical Architecture Committee and the Business
Architecture Committee . These committees are supported by the NIEM Programme
Management Office and only offer the methodologies and the tools. The Information
Exchange Package Descriptions (IEPD) are developed and maintained by the
communities of domain experts. Every domain is stewarded by a domain leader.
Use Case
As abuse and diversion of prescription drugs escalate, law enforcement and
health practitioners need a standardized, scalable solution to share patient drug
history. The Standard NIEM Prescription Monitoring Program Information
Exchange (PMIX)assists prescribers, health agencies and law enforcement in
identifying potential abuse and diversion.
ISA Core Vocabulary to NIEM mapping
The NIEM PMO has provided a mapping of the NIEM Core data model with the ISA
Core Vocabularies (Core Business, Core Location and Core Person). Out of 56
elements there were:
• 45 concepts having a direct match;
• 4 concepts having no match;
• 2 concepts having partial matches;
• 3 concepts that were uncertain.
Link
https://www.niem.gov/Pages/default.aspx
Introduction
Conference in figures
Highlights
Conclusion
Anthony Hoang
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security - DHS, National
Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
2012
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“Information Exchange Package Descriptions are developed and
maintained by communities of domain experts.”
9. ADMS, Federation and Core
VocabulariesIntroduction
Conference in figures
Highlights
Conclusion
Vassilios Peristeras
EC Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations
(ISA) Unit, Programme Manager
Vassilios Persiteras outlined the development of the Asset Description
Metadata Schema (ADMS) and three Core Vocabularies (Core Person,
Core Location, Core Business).
ADMS Business value
The main business value of ADMS is increasing the visibility of semantic
standards that already exist, promoting reuse of existing solutions and
identifying areas where alignment and agreements to use compatible
specifications are possible and/or necessary.
Core Vocabularies
A Core Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable, and extensible data model that
captures the fundamental characteristics of an entity in a context-neutral
fashion. From November 2011 till May 2012, ISA has developed three core
vocabularies: Core Location, Core Person and Core Business.
Next steps
ADMS and the three Core Vocabularies were endorsed by the EU Member
State Representatives in the ISA Programme and this means that the
Commission will further promote, disseminate and exploit them.
Furthermore, ADMS and the three Core Vocabularies specifications
entered the W3C standardization process to evolve to global standards.
Links
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/video/towards-open-metadata-
management-promo-video-adms-enabled-federation-repositories - video
about the ADMS enabled federation
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/document/towards-open-government-
metadata - White paper: “Towards Open Government Metadata”
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“In the ISA Programme, we try to reach and then promote common
agreements on how we describe and model fundamental entities like a
person, business and location for the first time at a European and cross-
domain level.”
10. Putting ADMS into practice, the case of
the German XRepositoryIntroduction
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Highlights
Conclusion Andreas Gehlert
Federal Ministry of the Interior, Enterprise Architect
Andreas Gehlert introduced the German XRepository
platform, the German repository for semantic
standards.
What is XRepository?
The XRepository is the database for Germany’s semantic standards. The platform
aims to improve semantic interoperability and semantic harmonisation.
Standardization projects use it as a distribution platform for their work. The
platform and content is open to everyone. The XRepository now has an ADMS
Export Component which enables the export of ADMS-compliant asset
descriptions.
What are the principles?
Sharing of semantic standards is voluntary. However, some semantic standards
are referenced or required by law.
Added value of ADMS for XRepository
From XRepository’s viewpoint, the main benefit of using ADMS is marketing
(“XRepository goes Europe”). Other benefits are the sharing and reuse of
the content with a broader community, the discovery and reuse of
standards from other European Member States and the increase of
interoperability of German e-Government services across Europe.
Link
https://www.xrepository.deutschland-online.de/ - XRepository
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“From XRepository’s viewpoint, the main benefit of using ADMS is
visibility and marketing (“XRepository goes Europe”)”
11. Panel discussion - Towards Semantic
Standards
Introduction
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Highlights
Conclusion
Margarida Abecasis, EC DIGIT.B2,
Interoperability Solutions for Public
Administrations (ISA) Unit, Head of Unit
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Question 1: What are the key success factors of good semantic
standards?
• Milan Zoric (ETSI): A good standard addresses a real problem at the right time.
•Edmund Gray (CEN/CENELEC): A good standard has an active community
behind it that builds consensus and implements it.
•John Borras (OASIS): A good standard is an open standard. Standards must also
be as simple as possible, not too costly to implement and appropriately address
semantics to avoid interpretation conflicts.
• Tim McGrath (UN/CEFACT): A good standard is a de facto standard not
necessarily a de jure standard. All good standards become de facto standards.
• Jos Van Hillersberg (University of Twente): We do research on criteria to
assess the Quality of Semantic Standards. Some of these criteria allow to
objectively measure a standard’s quality.
• Thomas Roessler (W3C): A good standard is a standard that has is used and is
reusable.
Question 2: What will change and what are trends in the field
of semantic standards?
•John Borras (OASIS): We are very enthusiastic about the work on ADMS and the
Core Vocabularies. OASIS plans to publish its standards using the ADMS
vocabulary by the end of 2012.
•Thomas Roessler (W3C): Semantic standards are needed, not only to harmonise
the data models used to publish datasets, but more importantly to align the
concepts represented within the data. Vocabularies like SKOS can be extremely
helpful in this domain. At the same time, we see that semantic standards such as
RDF and SPARQL easily allow combining data from heterogeneous sources. For
example, it took us (W3C) little time to publish the specifications in the w3.org/TR
namespace as open data using the ADMS vocabulary.
• Edmund Gray (CEN/CENELEC): We see that the constant evolution of the Web
has an impact on standardisation processes and how communities are working
together.
From the audience: we have concerns about the quality of the
various standards, the multiplication of initiatives, and
communication with the business.
All panellists concluded that standards bodies have to address fragmentation of
effort by increased collaboration and reuse. Standardisation processes must
safeguard that all stakeholders are represented and that their concerns are
adequately addressed.
12. Keynote Talk - Semantic
technologies and open dataIntroduction
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Highlights
Conclusion
Jeanne Holm
Data.gov, U.S. General Services Administration,
Evangelist for Data.Gov
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Jeanne Holm presented Data.gov, a repository for
datasets published by US Federal and local
government agencies.
Data.gov
Data.gov contains a wide variety of data. Most of the data is not physically stored
on the platform because it is the intention to keep the data close to the data
stewards owning it
Data.gov allows everyone to easily find and retrieve data sets. Visualising
datasets is one key element of the platform.
Communities
Communities play an important role for Data.gov. These communities attract
innovators, industry, academia and government at federal, state and local levels.
Communities are brought together around things people care about like health,
education and safety. Each community has a Challenge area, which is used to
spark ideas and innovation using federal data. Also each community has an “Apps”
area. These apps help transform data in understandable and meaningful ways,
helping people make decisions.
Dat.gov in the future
Asking everyone to work together to set data free, Data.gov sets a further example
by moving to an “open government platform” of which nearly all components are,
or will be, available as open-source. Data.gov will also transition from using a
Dublin Core extension to using the Data Catalog Vocabulary and the Asset
Description Metadata Schema (ADMS).
Links
http://www.data.gov/ - Data.gov portal
“Data.gov allows you to easily find and retrieve data, but also
visualisation is one of the elements of the platform.”
13. A little semantics on the data highwayIntroduction
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Highlights
Conclusion
Bastiaan Deblieck
Tenforce, Business Unit Manager of TenForce’s
Semantic Technology unit
Bastiaan Deblieck explained the approach that TenForce is
applying in their open data projects. He stressed that every
investment in metadata is valuable, if it focuses on quality.
Initiatives TenForce is involved in.
• LOD2
• CELLAR (Publications Office)
• EC Digital Agenda Scoreboard
• EC Open Data Portal
The approach of an open data project.
A formal publication process is key when carrying out an open metadata project .
Also, it is important to understand licensing and its impact. Effort should be put in
preparing the data and also the metadata.
What are the elements you need to have for open data?
• CMS or existing publishing system
• Portal to publish on the internet
• Navigation & visualization components
• Thesaurus/taxonomy management
• A place to store your content and/or data
• A place to store your metadata
• Linking & enriching functionality
Link
http://www.tenforce.com/ - TenForce
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“What you certainly need when doing an open metadata project is a formal
publication process. You also need to understand licensing and its impact,
prepare the data so they are qualitatively and master the metadata”
14. Use of semantic technologies for
enhancing access to spatial dataIntroduction
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Highlights
Conclusion
Andrea Perego
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission -
JRC, Researcher
Andrea Perego explained the issues concerning the integration of Spatial
Data Infrastructures (SDIs). He illustrated a solution to address semantic and
multilingual heterogeneity of spatial data by using Semantic Web
technologies, developed in the framework of the EuroGEOSS project.
Spatial Data Infrastructure: problems.
SDI’s provide metadata and data services for discovery, access, view and
use of spatial data resources. The current problem is the fact that there are
different communities and terminologies, different representations and
access interfaces to data and metadata and no mechanisms to address
semantic and multilingual heterogeneity.
Semantic and multilingual heterogeneity
A possible solution to this issue is the exploitation of multilingual/language-
neutral vocabularies denoting semantic relationships among the defined
terms and with terms defined in other vocabularies. This can be achieved by
representing the vocabularies in the SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation
System) format, and by providing supporting tools for the supervised
creation of mappings between different vocabularies.
Developed tools
In the framework of the EuroGEOSS project, three tools have been
developed to support thesauri creation and exploitation across the
whole resource life cycle: the SKOS Matcher, and the INSPIRE
Metadata editor, both developed at JRC, and the thesaurus-browsing
component integrated into the EuroGEOSS discovery broker, developed
at the CNR - the Italian National Research Council.
Links
http://semanticlab.jrc.ec.europa.eu - JRC
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ - SKOS
http://semanticlab.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ - SKOS Matcher
http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/EUOSME - EuroGEOSS INSPIRE
Metadata Editor
http://www.eurogeoss-broker.eu/ - EuroGEOSS discovery broker
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““Semantic and multilingual heterogeneity of spatial data is one of the
key issues to be addressed to enforce semantic interoperability.”
15. Use of semantic technologies for
publishing and re-using cultural and
scientific heritage data
Introduction
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Highlights
Conclusion Antoine Isaac
Europeana, Scientific coordinator
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Antoine Isaac presented Europeana and the semantic technology behind the
platform’s search engine.
What is Europeana?
Europeana is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European
cultural heritage. It now contains 23,5 million objects from more than 2.200
institutions out of 33 countries.
Europeana and metadata
Europeana receives data from different resources in hundreds of formats
and in multiple languages. Search in this context becomes a challenge. To
tackle this problem, all data provided must currently comply to a
flat interoperability metadata set that is used to describe all cultural
heritage objects in Europeana. But this simple format is not satisfactory
enough, and Europeana has developed a new Europeana Data Model (EDM).
This new data model will enable ingesting semantically richer metadata, and
to connect better to other linked data initiatives in the sector—either for
publishing or re-using data.
Europeana and multilingualism
Europeana makes it possible to search for something for instance in French
and retrieve objects that have metadata in a completely other language (e.g.
Russian). This is possible by enriching object metadata with multilingual
semantic resources available as linked data, such as the concepts from the
GEMET thesaurus.
Links
http://www.europeana.eu - Europeana
http://data.europeana.eu - Europeana Linked Open Data pilot
http://vimeo.com/36752317 - Animation on Linked Open Data for
Europeana’s network
“Europeana is the single, direct and multilingual digital access
point to the European cultural heritage.”
16. Use of semantic methodologies by the
Estonian Public Sector
Introduction
Conference in figures
Highlights
Conclusion Priit Parmakson
Estonian Information System’s Authority, Co-ordinator
Priit explained the need of semantic technologies with three cases. He
also presented the structure of the Estonian interoperability framework
and the Estonian catalogue, RIHA.
Estonian Semantic Interoperability Framework
The Estonian Interoperability Framework consists of 5 elements:
• Policy
• Methodology
• Tools (RIHA)
• Training program
• Research
All these parts need attention and must support each other.
RIHA
RIHA is the catalogue of the Estonian public sector information
systems and contains systems, components, services, data models,
semantic assets, etc. The catalogue facilitates information system
planning and operational activities. Most of RIHA’s content is only
available in a human-readable format. The code lists on RIHA will
be described using ADMS and shared on Joinup through the ADMS-
enabled federation..
Link
https://www.ria.ee/administration-system-of-the-state-
information-system/ - RIHA
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“RIHA is the catalogue of Estonian public sector
information systems. It facilitates information system
planning and operational activities.”
17. Panel discussion - Is it the right time to
invest in semantic technologies?
EC Interoperability Solutions for Public
Administrations (ISA) Unit, Programme
Manager
Question 1: Launched in 1999, the Semantic Web seems not
yet to have reached sufficient critical mass. Why?
• Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company): As a Semantic Web vendor
and service provider, I can say that we already see a massive uptake of
semantic technologies.
• Philippe Loopuyt (DG SANCO): It takes time to bring about such a paradigm
shift, not necessarily from a technology point of view, but especially to change
the hearts and minds of the people implementing and using it.
• Bastiaan Deblieck (Tenforce): European projects such as the LOD2 project,
in which Tenforce is participating, help build critical mass in terms of tool
support, competence building, and proof-of-concepts.
• Antoine Isaac (Europeana): It requires a lot of hard work to build consensus
in a community on using semantic standards. At Europeana, we spend a lot of
energy in seeking alignment with our partners.
• Pieter Breyne (PwC): Another reason might be marketing. Concepts like
Linked Data and 5-stars for open data, which go back no less than 6-7 years,
have done a good job in evangelising the Semantic Web’s vision.
Question 2: Which format would you prefer for publishing
linked open data: XML or RDF?
Pieter Breyne (PwC): Because XML imposes a strict schema, we favour it in
transaction processing systems. RDF has a much more open nature, which
makes it more suitable to integrate data from disparate sources. The latter
seems to be the more suitable for publishing open data.
•Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company): Using RDF to mash-up data
from disparate sources in a single triple store can be better achieved using an
RDF data model. In the RDF data model terms and individuals can be identified
by an HTTP URI that anybody can look-up on the Web. This aspect of linked data
is extremely beneficial.
Question 3: What should the European Commission and the
ISA Programme do by June 2013?
Pieter Breyne (PwC): The Commission should Keep Things Simple and explain
the benefits of interoperability in a very easy way. Another good approach
would be to adopt semantic technologies in its own systems.
•Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company): Show proof of concept of
the things developed by the ISA, provide use cases. Start putting it in your own
systems.
• Philippe Loopuyt (DG SANCO): Provide a SPOC to be able to have someone
to contact if we want to use EC data. Keep It Simple.
• Bastiaan Deblieck (Tenforce): Besides putting a lot of effort in building
platforms, also look at vertical integration like data.gov does with their domains.
• Antoine Isaac (Europeana): Provide road shows and trainings for public
administrations in the Member States. Also provide a SPOC to be able to have
someone to contact if we want to use EC data. Keep It Simple.
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19. Mr. Declan Deasy concluded the conference
with three take-home messages:
For the ISA Programme and national administrations
There is a continued need to establish communities of practice to work
together about the basics to put in place and to develop narratives and
case studies around semantic technologies and interoperability. The ISA
Programme will continue to invest in pragmatic and tangible medium-
term solutions , giving much attention to governance and the links with
the business
For the vendors
There is a strong need for tools to exploit the semantic standards which
are already available. Vendors should seize the opportunity to build tools
which make it easy for citizens, business and administrations to benefit
from semantic technologies.
For practitioners
Start designing the next generation of mission critical systems, aimed at
long-term sustainability. The architecture of these systems should be
interoperable and open. Semantic thinking should be in their heart. This
implies an important change in the way we build systems. Open data
should be at the core of the design process. It also implies the need for
new skills and hence training.
Conclusion by Declan DeasyIntroduction
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Declan Deasy
European Commission DIGIT.B, Information Systems
and Interoperability Solutions, Director
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“There is a need to start preparing the next generation of mission critical systems,
aimed at long term sustainability. The architecture of these systems should be
interoperable and open. Semantic thinking should be in their heart.”