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On the Integration of Services with the Web of Data

Research on Semantic Web Services has pursued the automation of tasks on the Web by enriching Web services technologies with semantics. Thus far, however, Semantic Web Services have failed to gain a significant uptake due to a big extent to the complexity of the solutions proposed and the limited amount of high quality data and ontologies that were available until recently. In this report we explore the relationship between Semantic Web Services and the Web of Data. We identify the potential...read more

ID: kmi-09-06

Date: 2009

Author(s): Carlos Pedrinaci,John Domingue,Reto Krummenacher

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Open Services on the Web

The goal of the here described research is to explore the possibilities of combining Semantic Web technologies and fundamental Web principles, including URIs and HTTP, and to apply these on open services on the Web, in order to contribute to a Semantic Web, which is not only an extension of the current Web with more semantic descriptions of data but is rather more dynamic and seamlessly integrates services as sources of that data, which can be automatically discovered, composed and...read more

ID: kmi-09-05

Date: 2009

Author(s): Maria Maleshkova

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Modelling Scholarly Debate: Conceptual Foundations for Knowledge Domain Analysis Technology

Knowledge Domain Analysis (KDA) research investigates computational support for users who desire to understand and/or participate in the scholarly inquiry of a given academic knowledge domain. KDA technology supports this task by allowing users to identify important features of the knowledge domain such as the predominant research topics, the experts in the domain, and the most influential researchers. This thesis develops the conceptual foundations to integrate two identifiable strands of KDA...read more

ID: kmi-09-04

Date: 2009

Author(s): Neil Benn

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Multi-Perspective Annotation of Digital Stories for Professional Knowledge Sharing within Health Care: Appendices

[We] dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative. Barbara Hardy, 1977.

This technical report contains supplementary data and findings from PhD research*, summarised in the abstract as follows:

"This thesis investigates the potential of narrative theory to inform the design of tools for sharing and annotating stories, in the context of...read more

ID: kmi-09-03

Date: 2009

Author(s): Joanna Kwiat

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Multi-Perspective Annotation of Digital Stories for Professional Knowledge Sharing within Health Care

[We] dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative. Barbara Hardy, 1977.

This thesis investigates the potential of narrative theory to inform the design of tools for sharing and annotating stories, in the context of professional knowledge sharing. We begin with a detailed review of the literature on modelling narrative, to establish the theoretical...read more

ID: kmi-09-02

Date: 2009

Author(s): Joanna Kwiat

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Concept learning - investigating the possibilities for a human-machine dialogue

Everyone around us learns. As a flower needs to adapt to the light, an animal to its environment, we people need to adjust to our complex social or personal conditions of life. Because of that we definitely learn during our entirely life. So, we could say that is better to start learning anytime. We could say that learning process is one of the most important parts of our existence. For examples teenagers are more likely to be receptive to the learning environment than older people. Then, what...read more

ID: kmi-09-01

Date: 2009

Author(s): Gabriela Pavel, Zdenek Zdrahal, Paul Mulholland

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