News Story

The Shakespeare Review

John Domingue, Monday 27 May 2013 | Annotate
KMi News Image

KMi's John Domingue joined a team of experts in February 2013 to contribute to an independent review of  public sector information, The Shakespeare Review, which has now been published, was led by Stephan Shakespeare, Chair of the Data Strategy Board – a body set up by BIS.  The Review makes nine recommendations to government around the growth opportunities of, and how to widen access to, the wealth of information held by the public sector. Professor Domingue is the Chair of the European Semantic Web Conference series, and an OU team led by KMi's Dr Mathieu D'Aquin, created the Open Data University service: http://data.open.ac.uk as the world's first comprehensive LInked Data portal for a higher education institution.

"The need for high quality training in the Linked Data area is particularly relevant for the Open University", said Professor Domingue. "I'm very happy to see that this is now taken up as Recommendation 6 of the review".  The review recommendation 6 is: "Building on existing activities around capability, there should be a focused programme of investment to build skill-sets in basic data science through our academic institutions, covering both genuinely unfettered 'basic research' and research of 'practical immediate value' to the national data strategy. We cannot rely only on markets and government departments and wider public sector bodies to maximise the potential of this relatively new and fast-developing field in which we are positioned to be a world leader."

"Indeed, it is a major topic of research here, such as in my own EUCLID project under the EU FP7 Research Programme", he added. "But also critical for the future integration of scholarly knowledge exchange and future teaching syndication. As the review says, of 'practical immediate value' indeed!"

Related Links:

Additional Media

KMi News Image

Connected

John Domingue Photograph

John Domingue

Professor of Computer Science

Telephone Icon Email Icon Website Icon RDF Icon

Twitter Icon LinkedIn Icon Facebook Icon SlideShare Icon

Mathieu d'Aquin Photograph

Mathieu d'Aquin

Senior Research Fellow

Twitter Icon SlideShare Icon

EUCLID

EdUcational Curriculum for the usage of LInked Data

Website Icon

Latest News

 

View by

Latest Seminar
Alessia Pisu
University of Cagliari

AI-Driven Ontology extraction of Research Areas

Watch the live webcast

CONTACT US

Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1908 653800

Fax: +44 (0)1908 653169

Email: KMi Support

COMMENT

If you have any comments, suggestions or general feedback regarding our website, please email us at the address below.

Email: KMi Development Team