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KMi Seminars
Tools and Technology for supporting scholars in their task of academic literature sense-making
This event took place on Monday 01 December 2003 at 13:00

 
Neil Benn KMi, The Open University

ABSTRACT: Academics aim to construct knowledge claims about 'the world', position these claims within the accumulated knowledge of a particular discipline, and negotiate these claims within the expert community. Current information and communication technologies play an important part by enabling greater access to academic literature. However, there is currently not as much support for researchers in their analysis of academic literature, which is the critical underpinning of the scholarly activities listed above. Ongoing work in knowledge-based technologies provides insights into how technology might assist in scholarly analysis. My research aim is to formally represent the 'scholarly knowledge' in a particular research field and investigate the kinds of 'intelligent' services that might be provided to users in order to assist them in making sense of academic literature and mapping research domains. In this talk I will recap the progress I have made in the first year of my PhD research and outline a plan of action for achieving my aims for the remainder of my research.

 
KMi Seminars Event | SSSW 2013, The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web Journal | 25 years of knowledge acquisition
 

Future Internet is...


Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities