The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for The Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence Knowledge Media.
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People
I am "Project Officer - Linked Data". I am in charge of the maintenance and evolution of the Linked Open Data platform of The Open University. I guarantee the continuous operation and update of the...
Giuseppe is investigating how Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology can enhance performance and training of blue-collar workers in the manufacturing industry. Through the always-on, context-aware...
Publications
Charalampous, A. and Knoth, P. (2017) Classifying document types to enhance search and recommendations in digital libraries, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Knoth, P., Gooch, P. and Jack, K. (2017) What Others Say About This Work? Scalable Extraction of Citation Contexts from Research Papers, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Pride, D. and Knoth, P. (2017) Incidental or influential? - Challenges in automatically detecting citation importance using publication full texts, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Future Seminars
Civic Intelligence in Uncertain and Threatening Times
This event will take place on Friday 23 June 2017
Douglas Schuler
Civic intelligence is the capacity for individuals and groups to address shared problems equitably and efficiently. The still-evolving theory of civic intelligence suggests a strong hypothesis:...
Recent Seminars
Marilena Daquino
Data provenance and trustworthiness assessment in photo archives
This event took place on Wednesday 31 May 2017
Mr Taha Tobaili
Sentiment Analysis for Arabizi: A multilingual jargon in Social Media
This event took place on Thursday 25 May 2017
Paul Warren
What have psychology and philosophy ever done for us?
This event took place on Monday 15 May 2017
Masoumeh Mansouri
Hybrid Reasoning in Robotics
This event took place on Thursday 11 May 2017
