Pablo Sanchez Nunez's profile document
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Pablo Sanchez Nunez
Visiting Fellow
The Open University account for Pablo Sanchez Nunez
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's membership at KMi
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in bkd
bkd
Bayesan Knowledge Discoverer tool
BKD is a knowledge discovery tool which can extract reusable knowledge from databases, using sound accountable statistical methods, even when data is missing or incomplete.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ENRICH
ENRICH
Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning
The Enrich Project aims to develop tools and methodologies for integrating working and learning within knowledge intensive organisations. It builds upon our existing technologies supporting web based collaboration, agents and knowledge modelling. The ENRICH project will foster the use of knowledge-enriched intranets to provide the means for sharing expertise.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in RichODL
RichODL
Dynamic system modellers and simulators to assist in the training of students and employees
This project is intended to assist in the training of students and employees as dynamic system modellers and simulators. It makes use of KMi technologies such as WebOnto (see A5), to provide a means of indexing and searching tutorial material, and D3E (see A5) to provide a space for discussing results.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MGT
MGT
Medical Guideline Technology
This project aims at designing and implementing techniques for computer representation of medical guidelines, which integrate generic recommendations for specific medical circumstances (generic medical guidelines) with site-specific conditions (site ontology) and an applicable cost model.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Topic Accessed Video
Topic Accessed Video
Judge the educational effectiveness of linear and non-linear video elements
Topic accessed video is a prototyping system intended to allow authors to judge the educational effectiveness of various mixes of linear and non-linear video elements. A structured index of topics, based on printed study units, can be used by the student to control the video.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in The Virtual Microscope
The Virtual Microscope
Directly manipulate photorealistic rock sample slides
The Virtual Microscope allows students to directly manipulate photorealistic rock sample slides. In the simulation they can rotate the slides and use a polarising filter.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Clockwork
Clockwork
Creating Learning Organizations by means of Contextualized Knowledge-Rich Work Artefacts
This project aims to support knowledge sharing within distributed teams, knowledge reuse within an organization and collaboration and trade between engineering companies. The Clockwork approach will combine knowledge-rich dynamical simulation tools, formal documentation and informal design rationale to closely integrate working, learning, collaboration and negotiation, within and between organizations.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in PatMan
PatMan
PATient Workflow MANagement System
The PATMAN project aims at promoting an effective and efficient health-care delivery by providing integrated support for tackling medical and organizational issues during patient management. In the context of this project we are developing knowledge management technology to support the formalization and access to documents describing medical guidelines; thus providing a means of teaching healthcare professionals.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in D3E
D3E
Digital Document Discourse Environment
D3E uses the Publisher's Toolkit to process HTML files. The toolkit generates a frames-based environment with automatic hyperlinking for navigating around sections, checking citations and footnotes, and tight integration with a discussion space for critiquing documents
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Ibrow
Ibrow
An Intelligent Brokering Service forKnowledge-Component Reuse onthe World-Wide Web
The IBROW-3 project is developing an intelligent broker, which will make it possible to configure a knowledge-based system from software components distributed over the World-Wide-Web. This project builds on our previous work on reusable ontologies and problem solving methods.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Heronsgate Middle School Site
Heronsgate Middle School Site
Developing rich multimedia with schools and the local community
Our work with schools and the local community has shown that engagement with all forms of learning increases when learners create their own rich multimedia content. A wide range of the children's science, technology and arts projects can be found on the Heronsgate web site.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ScholOnto
ScholOnto
Build and deploy a prototype infrastructure for making scholarly claims
The Scholarly Ontologies project is investigating new ways for distributed research communities to track and interpret their literatures. The ClaiMaker system enables researchers to make and contest 'Claims' by semantically connecting concepts. The resulting network of claims and arguments then supports novel forms of literature search and browsing.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Synchronous and asynchronous communication medium
The Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) allows demonstrations to be staged over the web, providing a rich synchronous and asynchronous communication medium through which student/tutor groups can share and clarify hitherto opaque programming scenarios, even over low bandwidth connections.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Alternative Media for Print Disabled Students
Alternative Media for Print Disabled Students
Accessibility through CD-ROM technology
This work brings together CD-ROM technology as a delivery medium, navigation software that is accessed through enabling technologies (screen-reading, magnification), and digital media (text, images, audio) that give a rich choice of study media to print disabled students.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Virtual Tours
Virtual Tours
QTVR virtual tours
A demonstrator project to show how QTVR virtual tours of museums and other significant buildings might be linked to virtual representations of documents- that may themselves be embellished with annotation and hyper links to course materials
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Tactile Multimedia
Tactile Multimedia
Point, click and watch might become drag, feel and think
The 'interactivity' of multimedia turns out in many cases to be a fairly passive experience for the user. This demonstrator project was intended to show how point, click and watch might become drag, feel and think, and the ways that this can change the learning experience. A range of tactile effects have been added to a 'how it works' topic with the intention of encouraging a more analytic manipulation of the simulation models, and a deeper reflection on their working.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Blues Engine
Blues Engine
Web based instrument emulator
Conceptualised as a layered virtual instrument, the Blues Engine is a web based instrument emulator designed to allow children to explore different patterns of blues rhythms, and then take the lead with their own guitar 'licks'. The Blues Engine can be pre configured by exercises in the web pages, and makes use of either the computer's MIDI sounds or an external sampler. In the latter case more complex chord patterns can be developed from the sampled notes of three different saxophones.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FirstFlight
FirstFlight
Development of virtual science environments
Debunking the myth that the Wright Brothers were lucky mechanics - the project shows how they used rigorous scientific methods to make their first flight. On the web site you can try out a simulation of the Kittyhawk flyer.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Games
Games
Development of educational games
A number of our projects have required us to develop computer games. Either as a stimulating and entertaining way for the student to learn about a chosen subject, or as an interactive 'jewel' to keep a user interested in a website.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Hexagon
Hexagon
The power of 'presence' brought to your browser
Keep in touch with your colleagues wherever you are in the world. Not only can you see their present 'state-of-being', or use the inbuilt text chat, as with many other types of software, but you can actually see them working at their desk with regularly updating thumbnail images. And when you need a quick 'word' you can 'voice' chat with them!
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ROSTRA Live
ROSTRA Live
Rostra Live provides new forms of access to news and dynamic information
ROSTRA news services now support a range of new engines to allow novel forms of access to their own changing information world. The ROSTRA LIVE engines use Macromedia Flash interfaces to read XML feeds from the ROSTRA servers. These news and event feeds can be dynamically mixed with other sources to support a range of animated views of significant changing data.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Safety Centre
Safety Centre
Website design for the Milton Keynes Safety Centre
The Safety Centre is a prominent community inititative based in Milton Keynes. Their website has to appeal to a wide range of users - teachers, students, potential visitors, safety professionals and the general public. We used simple games, built with Macromedia Flash to support the childrens use of the site; and downloadable worksheets, in Adobe Acrobat, to support the teachers and parents use of the site.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SportsCoach
SportsCoach
New Media in Sport
This prototype shows how to bring the very best of sports coaching, help, and tips to the internet. The site is divided into a number of sections. The coaching section has animated tips and techniques for many different sports. The forum provides for sport discussion, and an events diary allows local teams to advertise their events. Teachers should find the site very useful for planning classes.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Station X
Station X
The CNM input to Bletchley Park
This is part of a CNM outreach initiative which highlights the local heritage site of Bletchley Park which was the WWII location of the codebreaking section called Station X. This project has focused on a reworking on their website in conjunction with the release of the film ENIGMA, and the development of some interesting code related games We are also exploring the creation of accessible resources for schools that use Codes and Hacking in National Curriculum Exemplars.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MIAKT
MIAKT
Medical Images & Advanced Knowledge Technologies
MIAKT is a joint initiative between the AKT Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) and the Medical Imaging and Signals(MIAS)IRC. The aim of the project is to apply the capabilities of AKT and MIAS to collaborative medical problem solving using knowledge services provided via the e-Science Grid infrastructure.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Seen and Heard
Seen and Heard
On line video conferencing for deaf kids
This project on the appropriate use of peer to peer video for hearing impared children is now running. Staff and pupils will be able to access, add to and share resources as well as communicate via a variety of means: Flash video (via the Internet), video conferencing and webcasting. Partners include: the Northern Grid for Learning (working with Tyne Tees Television Deaf Sign Unit, Marden CLC Deaf Unit, The Discovery Museum), The Open University, The Deaf Association, and E2BN schools. interaction.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Making the News
Making the News
Syndicating School News
This is a project based on the KMi Rostra technologies. The Making the News website is a 'one stop shop' for Primary and Secondary Broadband schools in the UK, where students and teachers can access news, activities and resources. They can create their own news, register, become a roving reporter and produce informative, groundbreaking news stories. Stories judged to be of a high standard are shared automaticlly with other schools in the region and, via RSS, published on the national Making the News website.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in KnowledgeWeb
KnowledgeWeb
Ontology technology from Academia to Industry
Knowledge Web is a FP6 Network of Excellence that aims to support the transition of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry. The current consortium is integrated by 18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human Language Technology, Workflow and Agents.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Claimaker
Claimaker
Publish and contest ideas and arguments
ClaiMaker is a web-based system for individuals or distributed communities to publish and contest ideas and arguments, as is required in contested domains such as research literatures, or public debate. It provides tools for constructing argument maps, and a server on which they can then be published, navigated, filtered and visualized.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MnM
MnM
Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Web
MnM is an annotation tool which provides both automated and semi-automated support for annotating web pages with semantic contents. MnM integrates a web browser with an ontology editor and provides open APIs to link to ontology servers and for integrating information extraction tools.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in RFID
RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
An RFID 'tag' is a small object of varying size and shape capable of storing data, that is usually either attached to something, or 'positioned' at a location. The data can be read when the antenna a tag contains, receives radio-frequencies from a nearby transceiver. CNM is looking into ways RFID technologies can be deployed in a learning environment. The project page contains an example of a simple but highly customizable educational based 'mobile' game.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FlashVlog
FlashVlog
The quick and easy way to create instant video blogs
With a web cam and computer you can be creating video blogs almost instantly! You can record and edit streaming video that is available to a web audience within seconds. FlashVlogs are recorded and edited in the FlashVlog Editor and the results are watched using a separate FlashVlog Viewer. Both applets simply run in a standard web page using the popular Flash plug-in.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MEMETIC
MEMETIC
Meeting Memory Technology Informing Collaboration
MEMETIC is building on the advanced meeting support and information management tools developed in the CoAKTinG e-science project, integrating them into the Access Grid (AG), an open collaboration and resource management architecture.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SemSearch
SemSearch
A Search Engine for the Semantic Web
SemSearch is a semantic search engine, which is designed for naïve users, i.e., ordinary end users who are not necessarily familiar with domain specific semantic data, ontologies, or SQL-like query Languages. It hides the complexity of semantic search from end users by supporting a Google-like query interface and by providing comprehensive means to translate user queries into formal queries.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ReFLEx
ReFLEx
Resources For Learning by Exploration
The ReFLEx project is exploring how semantic web technologies could be applied to support students' use of OU course materials and related online resources within an integrated learning enviornment.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in AETOS
AETOS
Interation technique to support content-based image search in large image collections
This system demonstrates a novel interation technique to support content-based image search in large image collections. Each image is represented by a vertex in a directed graph. An arc is established between two images if there are one or more features for which the images are nearest neighbours. The arcs are weigted by the proportion of the features for which the nearest neighbour relationship holds. The resultant network exposes the sematic richness of the image collection and allows the user to browse through this.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LUPMIR
LUPMIR
Integrating logical inference in language models for context-sensitive information retrieval
This project "Operationalizing the Logical Uncertainty Principle in a Language Modelling Framework for Context-based Information Retrieval (LUPMIR)" is funded by EPSRC (EP/E002145/1, £163K). We aim to investigate a solution to context-based information retrieval, through integrating context-dependent logical inference in a statistical language modelling framework.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Entity Relation Discovery and Semantic Search
Entity Relation Discovery and Semantic Search
Entity based semantic search and knowledge management
This project is funded in part by IBM through an IBM 2006 UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Framework) Innovation Award. It aims to develop novel and effective mechanisms to discover associations between automatically extracted named entities from text documents. The discovered associations can be used to support user's entity based semantic search and knowledge management.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Revyu.com
Revyu.com
A web site where you can review and rate anything you want, which exploits semantic web technology
Revyu.com is a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name. Revyu.com exploits semantic web technology, both as the underlying representation mechanism and also to dynamically retrieve semantic information available on the web, which is relevant to a particular review.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in e-Dance
e-Dance
performing > recording > tagging > replaying > net.choreography
As part of a national programme to exploit e-science technologies in the Arts & Humanities, we are extending our Memetic toolkit for recording, replaying and annotating dance sessions in the Access Grid, to create tools for choreographers to rehearse and perform distributed compositions. The KMi component is extending and integrating Hypermedia Discourse tools such as Compendium and Cohere.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Scarlet
Scarlet
Relation Discovery on The Semantic Web
Semantic relations between concepts play an important role in several Semantic Web tasks, such as search, ontology matching, ontology enrichment. Scarlet discovers such relations by exploring the entire Semantic Web as a source of background knowledge. Relying on the functionality of Semantic Web gateways such as Watson or Swoogle, Scarlet automatically finds and combines knowledge provided by multiple online ontologies.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in L204 Summer School Blog
L204 Summer School Blog
A photo and audio blog for Spanish language students
Students on the L204 second level course "Viento en popa" sent images and voice recordings from their mobile phones as they walked around the historic town of Santiago de Compostela in North Western Spain during their week-long summer school in August 2007. The website was built around the same software and systems previously employed in KMi's Xtreme Webcasts, with the addition of Google Maps via their API.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FLOR
FLOR
FoLksonomy Ontology enRichment
While the increasing popularity of Web2.0 and in particular folksonomies has lead to a vast quantity of tagged data, the resource retrieval is limited by them being agnostic to the meaning (i.e., semantics) of the tags. Our hypothesis is that by enriching folksonomies with formal semantics extracted from online ontologies the content retrieval of folksonomies can be significantly enhanced. FLOR is a technique that performs automatic enrichment of folksonomy tags with semantics extracted from online ontologies and other background resources.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications
Applications to explore the use of mobile devices in a learning environment
The Knowledge Media Institute are currently developing demonstration / prototype mobile applications to explore the use of mobile devices in the learning environment. In the first instance these applications will be developed for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch but the aim is to port them to other mobile platforms such as Microsoft Windows Mobile and Android based devices. It is also possible that Symbian devices may also be included.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in mEducator
mEducator
Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education
mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) aims to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in KICS
KICS
KMi Integrated Calendar System
KICS offers the flexibility of bi-directional calendars on multiple operating systems and clients ï¿½ something that up-until-now had not been supported. The new system also offers an embedded version of calendars created via KICS on the KMi Intranet, which means you can view your calendars from any browser, on any system, located anywhere in the world.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in iServe
iServe
Where Linked Data Meets Services
iServe is a platform for publishing Semantic Web Services as linked data, no matter their original format. iServe addresses the publication of services from a novel perspective based upon lessons learnt from the evolution of the Web of Data. It transforms service annotations expressed in a variety of formats including SAWSDL, OWL-S and MicroWSMO into what we refer to as Linked Services – linked data describing services – that can directly be interpreted by state of the art Semantic Web technologies for their discovery and further processing.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CEFcult
CEFcult
Online assessment of intercultural competence
CEFcult provides an online environment that brings together the worlds of higher education and enterprise for the assessment of oral proficiency for intercultural professional purposes. The target groups are employees, those about to (re)enter the workplace, language teachers and in-company trainers.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in KC-Viz
KC-Viz
A Novel Approach to Visualizing and Navigating Ontologies
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Blockchain
Blockchain
The reach of blockchain technology will expand into the education sector.
Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology underpinning the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. But in recent years the open source code of the Bitcoin blockchain has been taken and extended by many groups to expand its capabilities. KMi will look at how blockchain technology can enhance the leaner experience, storing all learning outcomes in an expanding eportfolio for all students.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in INTENT
INTENT
Managing inter-cultural collaboration for language learners
Starting in October 2011, INTENT is 30-month EU-funded ERASMUS project to manage foreign language telecollaborations between classes of foreign language learners in higher education in geographically distant locations. Of the eight partner organisations, KMi are the technical partner, developing the project and host websites using the Drupal open source content management system.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TELMAP
TELMAP
Future gazing TEL: the roadmap for the unknown Learning landscape
TEL-Map is a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under the Technology-Enhanced Learning programme. It focuses on exploratory / roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning to support the adoption of those new forms, via awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL and socio-economic evaluations in education.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MK:Smart
An innovation programme developing sustainable smart solutions for Milton Keynes
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TCBL
TCBL
Textile & Clothing Business Labs
Textile & Clothing Business Labs (TCBL) aims to create a transformational ecosystem capable of constantly innovating with the business and process models of the European Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry. The latter sector shows the greatest dependence on price based competition (a race to the bottom, globally) and at the same time the greatest promise of potential impact of new trends such as mass customisation, home production, etc. on business and process models.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CrowdSense
CrowdSense
Cheap, networked sensors to understand the way people use space.
Crowdsense relies on cheap, off-the-shelf technologies to create a network of sensors that can detect the location of people, through their wifi-enabled devices, within enclosed spaces. We use this information to create analytics that can be used and correlated with other data stream as a way to predict and improve the use of space for commercial or other purposes.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Pred-Cident
Pred-Cident
Visualise where accident happen
Pred-Cident shows and predict where accidents are most likely to happen based on previous history of accidents. Relying on data from police reports of accidents, Pred-Cident calculates the areas that have a higher probability that an accident might happen at a certain time of the week. This makes it possible to find interesting phenomena, such as the impact of certain recurring events or of particular types of places (schools, stadiums) on accidents, as well as to see how behaviours of drivers vary with time.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in COMRADES
COMRADES
Collective Platform for Community Resilience & Social Innovation During Crises
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TRIVALENT
TRIVALENT
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media.
TRIVALENT is a H2020 funded project which aims to a better understanding of root causes of the phenomenon of violent radicalisation in Europe in order to develop appropriate countermeasures, ranging from early detection methodologies to techniques of counter-narrative.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FindLEr
FindLEr
Detects traces of listening experiences in texts
FindLEr detects traces of listening experiences in texts. Users can provide a source book to scan and obtain as result a annotated version of the text where paragraphs mentioning potential listening experiences are highlighted. The user can browse the result as a list or inline with the original text. The system allows for additional tuning by offering a "skepticism" handle. See it in action: https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/discovery
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Augur
Augur
EARLY FORECASTING OF RESEARCH TRENDS
Augur is a novel approach to the early detection of research topics. Augur analyses the diachronic relationships between research areas and is able to detect clusters of topics that exhibit dynamics correlated with the emergence of new research topics.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Contento
Contento
Contento is a tool for bottom-up ontology drafting
Contento is a data driven ontology construction kit, based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). Contento supports exploration and analysis of formal contexts, as well as a method to generate, annotate and prune concept hierarchies.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OER
OER
Open Educations Resources and Social Networks
The networked world creates a sense of "always being in touch or reachable" for "sharing, remixing and reusing information". Learners, educators, researchers and other professionals can now create their own communities; enable formal or informal learning together and reconstruct open content collaboratively.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in VocTeach
VocTeach
Making it quick and easy to locate quality vocational teaching resources.
The VocTeach platform enables vocational educators to share information about curriculum resources for their blended teaching. Initially, VocTeach supports educators by curating and recommending the resources they need to teach English and Maths Functional Skills. More skillsets will be added in due course. The project is funded by UFI and Open University.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in NoBias
NoBias
Artificial Intelligence without Bias
NoBIAS aims to develop novel methods for AI-based decision making without bias by taking into account ethical and legal considerations in the design of technical solutions. The core objectives of NoBIAS are to understand legal, social and technical challenges of bias in AI-decision making, to counter them by developing fairness-aware algorithms, to automatically explain AI results, and to document the overall process for data provenance and transparency.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SPARQL Anything
SPARQL Anything
Query non-RDF resources with SPARQL.
SPARQL Anything uses a unique data schema called Facade-X. Facade-X is a simplistic meta-model that allows transformers to produce RDF from diverse data sources without the need of a domain vocabulary.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in BASIL
BASIL
Building Apis SImpLy from sparql endpoints
BASIL is designed as middleware system that mediates between SPARQL endpoints and applications. With BASIL you can build Web APIs on top of SPARQL endpoints. BASIL stores SPARQL queries and builds APIs with standard and customizable formats.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in READ-IT chatbot
READ-IT chatbot
The READ-IT chatbot is a response to the halt of engagement activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Telegram chatbot developed using Flow.ai platform for supporting crowdsourcing reading experiences. The chatbot is available in six languages and used in events in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Croatia. This solution is an unplanned output of the EU JPI READ-IT project, designed and developed in the last months of the project to support the replanning of engagement activities as remote.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in AI Digital Assistant (AIDA)
AI Digital Assistant (AIDA)
A 24/7 personal AI Assistant for every student.
Funded by the Innovation Foundry and in collaboration with colleagues across the OU including IET, OpenLearn and IT this project aims to use Generative AI to build a 24/7 personal digital assistant for students. AIDA will be able to explain and re-explain tricky concepts and instantaneously generate and give feedback on quizzes on student demand.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in JIME
JIME
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
Initiated in the relatively early days of the Web (1996), JIME set out to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education, through exploiting the interactive properties of the Web for peer review and non-textual material. Through its innovative use of interactive Internet-based media, JIME served as an action research project which explored the changing face of journals, and more broadly, scholarly practice in the age of digital publishing and communication. JIME is widely cited as a pioneering example of an 'internet-native' e-journal. The Co-Founders/General Editors were Diana Laurillard, Simon Buckingham Shum and Tamara Sumner. In 2004 editorship passed to OU colleagues Josie Taylor and Patrick McAndrew in the Institute of Educational Technology. KMi's research into the future of scholarly communication continued with the Scholarly Ontologies project, and then with Cohere. See this 2011 news story to show how this work was one strand in a convergence of work which anticipated the major shifts in scholarly communication now taking place: http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/11/1267 The associated document-discourse publishing platform called D3E (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/name/d3e) was released open source, and integrated as part of the influential ePrints.org archiving platform, which helped to catalyse the open archiving of scholarly publications by academic institutions. The Open University's Open Research Online (ORO) uses ePrints. Key research publications on JIME: Sumner, T. and Buckingham Shum, S. (1998). From Documents to Discourse: Shifting Conceptions of Scholarly Publishing (1998). In Proc. CHI 98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press: NY. http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/techreport/kmi-97-19 Sumner, T., Buckingham Shum, S., Wright, M., Bonnardel, N., & Chevalier, A. (2000). Redesigning the Peer Review Process: A Developmental Theory-in-Action. Proc. COOP 2000, Fourth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Sophia Antipolis. http://kmi.open.ac.uk/publications/techreport/kmi-00-12 Buckingham Shum, S. and Sumner, T. (2001). JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive Media. First Monday, 6, (2), Feb. 2001: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/836 Reprinted in Learned Publishing, Volume 14, Number 4, 1 October 2001 , pp. 273-285(13): http://bit.ly/rhIcL3 Sumner, Tamara; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Yates, Simeon (2003). Interactive peer review in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education: processes, tools, and techniques for managing persistent discourse. In: Jones, Wayne ed. E-serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users, and Standards (2nd ed.). Haworth Series in Serials and Continuing Resources. Binghamton, NY: The Hawthorn Information Press, pp. 197–216. http://oro.open.ac.uk/28682
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Virtual Spring Collaborative Microworld
Virtual Spring Collaborative Microworld
Networked virtual science
A demonstrator project to show how a real teaching problem could be tackled with networked Virtual Science. The aim was to create an environment in which the procedural aspects of the transformation of observation to data, and data to symbolic representation, could be brought out clearly. The shared microworld allows children to collaboratively collect data, make predictions and plot graphs. For older children, the graphs developed may then become a virtual spring balance for 'unknown' masses.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Stadium
Stadium
Webcasting large-scale live events and on-demand-replays
KMi Stadium is the generic label for a suite of webcasting activities and software tools whose goal is to stage large-scale live events and on-demand-replays, while giving remote participants anywhere on the Internet a sense of 'being there'. It can be used for anything from a management seminar to a public lecture and has been successfully used for the Open University's On the Record Web-Casts. Its use in education is shown by its deployment for IET's Open and Distance Learning courses and Open University Business School seminars.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Web Lab
Web Lab
Calibrate, and provide a context for networked simulation environments
Web Lab is an attempt to calibrate, and provide a context for, networked simulation environments. Shared, web based activities are used to complement and extend classroom science, allowing resources that could not be made available in the classroom or lab to be directly controlled and monitored through a basic browser interface. This means that shared planning, execution and documenting of the experiments can involve students and teachers in several schools. The control problems of distant sensors systems soon become apparent with Heronsgate School's Mars Buggy environment. As does the important idea of program generalizabilty- the same program that works in the classroom maze also works on Mars (temporarily located in the KMi). Other lab environments currently being developed include the ultra low speed wind tunnel and the web leaf
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FlashMeeting Technology
FlashMeeting Technology
The lightest possible video-conferencing software application
Hook-up your web cam, plug in your microphone, go to a web page ... and the Centre for New Media's FM Technology you to make an instant meeting - any time, any place, any platform! FM technology comes from the prize-winning FlashMeeing Project. It provides a host of features packed into a small applet direct in a web page. As the applet is implemented in using Adobe's Flash, the most widely available and most compatible of browser plugins, it is incredibly lightweight, efficient, good looking, and you probably will not have to download anything extra at all for it to work!
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in AKT
AKT
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management. AKT will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining knowledge to publishing and sharing it. We intend to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach, making use of recent developments in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, multimedia and Internet technology. The AKT consortium comprises five UK universities and is funded by a 7M GBP, 6-year EPSRC grant in the context of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations programme.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OCML
OCML
Operational Conceptual Modelling Language
The OCML language was designed and implemented by Enrico Motta in the 90s and it has since been used in dozens of projects both within KMi and in other organizations. OCML provides a very expressive knowledge representation language, which makes it possible to represent classes, individuals, relations, functions, rules and constraints. The resulting ‘knowledge models’ are typically developed as part of knowledge management solutions or intelligent decision-making support systems. OCML also includes mechanisms for defining ontologies and problem solving methods. Ontologies are specifications of reusable terminologies, while problem solving methods are specifications of reusable problem solving behaviours.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OPAL
OPAL
Online Personal Academic Librarian
This project is to help digital libraries provide some level of effective automated help desk support outside office hours. The project will put in place and evaluate the helpfulness of a model autonomous help desk support system, which will recognise frequently asked questions when they are asked out of office hours, and will provide the enquirer with help immediately it is needed. The project is being run by the Open University Library and the Knowledge Media Institute, in partnership with Birkbeck College and Leicester University.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TINY-IN
TINY-IN
True Interactivity for Young Viewers of Virtual Broadcast Content via Intelligent Interfaces
TINY-IN is a two year EPSRC DTI LINK funded project that started in August 2002. Our overall research objective is to investigate how an interactive narrative engine could create coherent and engaging experiences by intelligently recombining content developed for broadcast. As a test case, we are using characters, scenarios and contexts based on the "Tiny Planets" 3D computer animation TV series produced by Pepper's Ghost Productions and shown on Children?s ITV. Through this approach we aim to develop new exciting types of interactive 'television' material that provide a richer experience for young children at a significantly lower production cost.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CIPHER
CIPHER
Communities of Interest Promoting Heritage of European Regions
CIPHER is a two and a half year project funded by the European Commission under the theme 'Heritage for All' that started in April 2002. The aim of the project is to develop innovative technologies and methodologies to support Cultural Heritage Forums, beyond current virtual galleries or museums, that allow visitors to investigate cultural artefacts, and produce their own personal and shared spaces. Visitors will be supported by advanced storytelling and visualisation tools. The Cultural Heritage Forums to be developed during the project are "Irish Cultural and Natural and Heritage", "Nordic Heritage through Storytelling and Historical Artefacts", "Shared Heritage of Central Europe" and "Tradition of technology innovation in South Central England".
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in DOT.KOM
DOT.KOM
Designing adaptive infOrmation exTraction from text for KnOwledge Management
DotKom aims to support knowledge management within large corporation through a combination of information extraction and knowledge management technologies. A current problem with both of these technologies is that they are hard-to-use and require extensive expertise. DotKom will provide user-friendly *adaptive* information extraction tools which give instantaneous feedback on the current status of the information extraction learning process and the automatically constructed knowledge acquisition mechanisms.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CABER
CABER
CLUTCH As a Broadband Educational Resource
Supported by the East of England Broadband Consortium, the CABER project draws upon the successes of the CLUTCH Club Millennium Awards Scheme by further testing the concept of involving parents and children at school in the process of researching, editing and presenting a local history topic on the internet. The project seeks to exploit the potential of broadband connectivity by facilitating the recording, editing and sharing of rich multimedia assets which have been collected using digital video and oral history techniques. As with the CLUTCH Scheme, the CABER project is being operated in partnership with the Living Archive, an established documentary arts organisation based in Milton Keynes.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in citischool
citischool
Where young people are citizens and citizens are teachers
CitiSchool (The Citizens' School) is an exciting new initiative being pioneered in the UK by Milton Keynes, to support disaffected young people in maintaining their interest in learning, and gaining qualifications. Adapted for the UK from a proven model in the US, some of the city's largest employers (including The Open University, BT, The British Army, and Abbey National) have joined forces to design and deliver Key Skills training to young people truanting or excluded from school, but who nonetheless have demonstrated their desire to learn. Citischool starts in September 2001, in collaboration with the major educational providers and agencies in Milton Keynes. The Knowledge Media Institute is supporting Citischool by providing the technical infrastructure to manage this "school without walls". Students, mentors, work placement employers, administrators and tutors must communicate and coordinate work across the city, posing unique challenges for traditional systems. This infrastructure is absolutely critical to the project's success, and KMi is adapting and extending in-house Web-based technologies (originally developed for the Millennium funded CLUTCH Project) to help administer Citischool over the Internet.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CLUTCH - Millennium Awards
CLUTCH - Millennium Awards
Computer Literacy Understanding Through Community History
The Open University has worked in partnership with the Living Archive, an independent documentary arts organisation based in Wolverton (Milton Keynes), to run a highly-successful and ground-breaking Millennium Award Scheme called CLUTCH - Computer Literacy Understanding Through Community History. Supported by the Millennium Commission from National Lottery funding, the scheme provided free web-based ICT training and support for over 300 parents of local school-aged children to complete a local history project of their choosing. The work of the resulting 60 school-based CLUTCH Clubs can be seen by visiting the main CLUTCH Club Millennium Award Scheme homepage.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in webCEF
webCEF
Language learning assessment to the Common European Framework
KMi joined the webCEF project on language learning assessments, based on the Common European Framework of Reference. We developed an online tool which helps: WebCEF allows: - language learners to let their samples be assessed by teachers all over Europe - language teachers the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Europe and to improve their skills in the use of the CEF scales - language researchers the access to a vast database of samples and assessments The WebCEF project runs until September 2009 and is funded under the Socrates - Minerva programme of the European Commission.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Phone the Web
Phone the Web
The window through which users will access information from networks is widening
Advances in speech recognition, natural language interfaces and software assistants will mean that the way we interact with information and each other over the network will soon be very different too. The range of services available on the Internet could soon be available wherever you are, whenever you need it. The popularity of text messaging, mobiles and email shows that people-to-people services are the ones that really catch the popular imagination. With this opening window, not just individuals, but groups, clubs, organisations and communities can keep in touch easily. The range of applications for these technologies will link more people and communities than was previously possible using only computer terminals.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ROSTRA
ROSTRA
Technologies for Intelligent News Agency
ROSTRA is a web-based news and content management tool written in PHP. Through the use of templates, it can be customised to fit into existing website designs, or act as a stand-alone website. Article submission is via a simple web form and can be accompanied by a wide variety of media including still images, movies (QuickTime, Windows Media, or FlashBlog), Word and Excel documents and PDF files. Images are resized automatically on the server to save bandwidth. Templates have been created so that ROSTRA can present material in blog formats and/for webcasting. All content is categorised and is fully searcheable. Posting can be done by authorised users or by guests, in which case the system supports message moderation by email. email digests of postings can be created automatically and stories can have permalinks. Certain templates allow authorised users to comment on postings. ROSTRA supports a heirarchical structure allowing sub-ROSTRA to feed into a master ROSTRA. In 2004, ROSTRA was adopted (as 'Making The News') for hundreds of schools across England by the East of England Broadband Consortium.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Xtreme Webcasting
Xtreme Webcasting
Taking webcasting to the xtreme
A combination of technologies can allow people all over the world to witness extrordinary events. The Matterhorn, August 2002. A mountaineer takes a leading-edge mobile phone on his ascent of the famous Swiss landmark and sends images and voice messages to the KMi lab in Milton Keynes, UK. Using Macromedia's FlashCom technologies provided "out of the box" in the latest version of Flash MX we have assembled a dynamic, multimedia website for this event. Viewers from around the globe can tune in to the event and even interact via a text chat facility. Everest, May 2006. The same mountaineer makes a transmission via satellite phone from the summit of Everest - made available in seconds to his many friends, relatives and followers around the world - as part of his challenge to conquor the highest mountain on each of the seven continents of the world. Spain, August 2007. Students on the OU second level course L204 used our technology for less extreme podcasting, posting images and recordings as they explored the historic town of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The website was built using the same technology we had developed for the 7 Summits website.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in DIP
DIP
Data, Information and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services
DIP is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme.The mission of DIP is to further develop Semantic Web and Web Service technologies for Semantic Web Services. DIP will define and implement additional layers of functionality on top of the current Web Service technology stack. Additionally, DIP will apply Semantic Web Services infrastructure to real world scenarios within e-work, e-commerce and e-government. http://dip.semanticweb.org
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Prolearn
Prolearn
Network of Excellence in Professional E Learning
This work aims to expand professional learners engagement with the best of European Interactive Media research. Corporate training still needs effective competence mapping and performance evaluation tools to support business learners. Indeed, corporate clients actually need the same access as all learners to an ideal portal learning system: ie. that will offer them a tracked experience with a set of 10 Euro learning modules, complete with credits and real interaction with peers, tutors and content; anywhere, anytime. This workpackage doesnt promise to solve that persistent problem on it own - but we do aim to show how interactive media research in Europe can help us in that direction.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CORDER
CORDER
COmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition
CORDER (COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition) is an un-supervised machine learning algorithm that exploits named entity recognition and co-occurrence data to associate individuals in a community with their expertise and associates. CORDER discovers relations from the Web pages of the community. Its approach is based on co-occurrences of NEs and the distances between them. For a given NE, there are a number of co-occurring NEs. We assume that NEs that are closely related to each other tend to appear together more often and closer to each other in Web pages. We calculate a relation strength for each co-occurring NE based on its co-occurrences and distances from the given NE. The co-occurring NEs are ranked by their relation strengths.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CoAKTinG
CoAKTinG
Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
Scientists located in different geographical regions are increasingly working closer with each other and relying on each other to accomplish their tasks and achieve common goals. Technologies such as the Access Grid and VRVS provide a suitable communication platform for these collaborations. However, as the tasks become more ambitious and complex, the need grows for additional structured support. The Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (AKT IRC) project has developed useful knowledge management technologies that provide a good foundation for distributed knowledge sharing that is to be used to assist scientists' day to day work alongside current Grid collaboration tools such as the Access Grid and VRVS. CoAKTinG draws on and integrates AKT technologies to provide a set of complementary tools to provide this structured support.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ELeGI
ELeGI
European Learning Grid Infrastructure
The European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) project has the ambitious goal to develop software technologies for effective human learning. With the ELeGI project we will promote and support a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information. We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called human centred design, to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful developments of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully significant scenarios of human learning.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in The KMi semantic web
The KMi semantic web
The automated semantic data integration service
The KMi semantic web generates and maintains semantic markup extracted from a variety of sources, including both departmental databases and HTML pages. In contrast with most other semantic web sites, the maintenance of the KMi semantic web is fully automated, relying on the integration of a number of technologies, including data integration and information extraction. A semantic portal provides integrated access tothe KMi semantic web and provides a number of mechanisms to browse, search and query the semantic web, including the AquaLog question answering system and a variety of semantic search engine
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ESpotter
ESpotter
Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing
Named entity recognition (NER) systems are commonly designed with a "one-size-fits-all" philosophy. Lexicons and patterns manually crafted or learned from a training set of documents are applied to any other document without taking into account its background and user needs. However, when applying NER to Web pages, due to the diversity of these Web pages and user needs, one size frequently does not fit all. We present a system called ESpotter, which improves NER on the Web by adapting lexicons and patterns to domains on the Web and user preferences. Our results show that ESpotter provides more accurate and efficient NER on Web pages from various domains than current NER systems.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in NeOn
NeOn
Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies
NeOn is a 4-year long flagship project funded by the European Commision's 6th Framework Programme. The Open University is its co-ordinator, and the project includes leading institutions from Europe in the area of knowledge modelling and ontologies. NeOn aims to dramatically improve the support for ontology engineering, by developing both a reference architecture and a concrete toolkit supporting the ontology engineering lifecycle. Specifically, NeOn aims to be the foundational platform for the construction of very large semantic applications by facilitating the creation, management and evolution of networks of ontologies. It is envisaged that this approach will dramatically improve the cost-effectiveness of large-scale ontology engineering, by removing the need for a complete integration of pre-existing ontologies in an application, which is always expensive and often unfeasible. The envisaged networks of ontologies will rely on localized integration mechanisms, which will be able to support local, 'good enough' notions of consistency, context and collaboration in the open networked environment.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in X-Media
X-Media
Knowledge Sharing and Reuse across Media
X-Media is a 4 year long ISP project financed under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. The project addresses the issue of knowledge management in complex distributed environments. It will study, develop and implement large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed in different media (images, documents and data) and repositories (data bases, knowledge bases, document repositories, etc.) or that is inaccessible for current systems, which cannot capture the knowledge implicit across media. X-Media will study, design and develop: Effective and efficient new paradigms for knowledge retrieval, sharing and reuse which enable users to define and parameterize views on the available knowledge according to their needs. Novel and cutting-edge knowledge fusion methods to support knowledge workers in making decisions when confronted with, possibly contradicting, knowledge derived from different resources. Techniques able to represent and manage (i) uncertainty, (ii) trust and provenance as well as (iii) dynamic aspects of knowledge. Robust and scalable knowledge acquisition and data analysis tools operating across media boundaries (text, images and data) to automatically cross-relate and annotate text and images with metadata. A methodology and a technical infrastructure able to deliver knowledge from across media to knowledge workers. A generic and flexible architecture allowing end users to easily customize it and integrate it with their KM practices. http://www.x-media-project.org/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Living Human Digital Library
Living Human Digital Library
Technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project
LHDL is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. It starts in February 2006 and runs for 3 years. The major mission of LHDL is to further develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus. LHDL aims to create the technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project (LHP). LHP will create a silico model of the human musculo-skeletal apparatus wich can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally, from the whole body down to the protein level. This model should be designed as an infrastructure that can be updated and extended whenever new data and algorithms become available. LHDL aims to develop this infrastructure.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LUISA
LUISA
Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture
LUISA is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. LUISA will apply the semantic web service framework, architecture and tools developed with the DIP project, including IRS-III, to eLearning. More specifically, LUISA will create a rich flexible infrastructure supporting the development and reuse of learning materials for both learners and educators. The enhanced architecture will open new possibilities in the automation of learning object discovery, selection, composition and negotiation, within a distributed service architectures seamlessly integrated through ontologies. The longterm goal for LUISA is to shift the paradigm in eLearning from one based on learning objects to one based on semantic web services.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SUPER
SUPER
Semantics Utilised for Process management within and between EnteRprises
Business Process Management focuses on managing the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's process view rather than from a technical perspective. The underlying motivation for BPM is that organizations need to continuously align their running business processes, as executed within multiple heterogeneous systems, with the required processes as derived from business needs. BPM has gained significant attention in both research and industry, and a range of BPM tools are available. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is currently very limited. The major obstacle preventing a coherent view on business processes is that the business processes are not accessible to machine reasoning. Additionally, businesses cannot query their process space by logical expressions, e.g. in order to identify activities relevant to comply with regulations. Founded on ontologies Semantic Web technology provides scalable methods and tools for the machine-readable representation of knowledge. Semantic Web Services (SWS) make use of Semantic Web technology to support the automated discovery, substitution, composition, and execution of software components (Web Services). BPM is a natural application for Semantic Web and SWS technology, because the latter provide large-scale, standardized knowledge representation techniques for executable artefacts. The goal of the project is to combine Semantic Web services and Business Process Management, and develop one consolidated technology. http://www.ip-super.org
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ECOSENSUS
ECOSENSUS
Electronic/Ecological Collaborative Sensemaking Support System
ECOSENSUS is investigating the sociotechnical issues around developing collaboration tools for participatory environmental decision making amongst (a) marginalised natural resource users in Guyana, (b) professional 'experts' from different countries, and (c) key decision makers associated with managing ecosystems. A secondary activity is to produce open content learning resources to train students to facilitate such forms of distributed environmental decision making.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in GlobalArgument.net
GlobalArgument.net
Computer-Supported Argumentation
A pilot to explore the potential of argument analysis experiments on the net. Our objectives are to: (i) investigate how complex debates of topical interest can be more effectively communicated, navigated and analysed when mapped in software tools; (ii) advance the state of the art in practical argumentation support tools; (iii) evaluate the software tools analytically and empirically Players participate in Argumentation Experiments, working to an agreed schedule and from common sources. Through systematic comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of approaches, we aim to clarify how approaches can be improved.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Shifting Power
Shifting Power
How can we create a more just society with AI?
A.I. and "Justice" are brought together under a number of headings, including A.I. for Social Good (AI4SG) [Shi et al., 2020; Tomavsev et al., 2020], Ethical A.I. [Yu, 2018], Responsible A.I. [Arrieta 2020], Fair [Zou, 2018], Accountable and Transparent A.I. [Mohseni et al., 2018; Arrieta et al., 2020] (FAT A.I. or FAT M.L.), Cyberjustice [Senecal et al., 2009; Mykytyn et al., 2019], and A.I. for democracy [Puaschunder et al., 2019]. However, each of these research communities has their own conceptualisation of what justice means and how to achieve it, which is not always informed by marginalised voices [Hagerty et al., 2019; Bones et al., 2020]. In addition, these domains are located within a wider context of A.I. research that has existing problems of representation and visibility [Stanford, 2019]. Pratyusha Kalluri of the Radical AI Network has proposed that asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question if we want to look at potential benefits and harms. We have to look at how AI "shifts power". In this project, therefore, we are seeking a new paradigm for thinking about what can and should be done with AI Technology, which cannot be reduced to cultural complexity and which takes into account the reality of world forces (such as power and wealth) that help to predict what is likely to happen This research is funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (round 6).
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in The Bookshelf Project
The Bookshelf Project
Find out who has which books using ISBN and web service lookup
Lending and borrowing books is common amongst groups of people who share similar interests. In such a community there is a fairly high chance that if you need to borrow a particular book, then another member will have a copy. The difficulty is finding out which member of the community has it, without having to bother all of them with the question. The Bookshelf Project was originally conceived to solve this problem for staff working at the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University in the UK.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SimLink
SimLink
Shared control of virtual experiments via Instant Messaging
SimLink is a system for deployment and use of Java based downloadable plugins within the BuddySpace instant messaging system. It also supports a mechanism to 'share state' in the group chat environment of BuddySpace. This means that we can design a plugin whose current state is synchronized in all participants of a group chat session. For example, one of sample plugins provided, allows participants to play a networked game of Chess, and additionally progress of the game can be viewed by participants not involved in the game. In practice, SimLink allows multiple users to share control of simulations and other software at much lower bandwidth penalty than 'raw' screen-sharing would entail.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Community guide to Milton Keynes that anyone can edit
The Open Guide to Milton Keynes is part of the OpenGuides network of free, community-maintained wiki guidebooks to places around the world. Anyone is free to contribute, whether it's by writing new articles or editing existing articles. The OpenGuides are developed with the Semantic Web in mind; metadata is organised to allow easy machine-readable output, in order to enable re-usage by other web services. The guide has been set up to investigate the application of semantic web technologies in a locality based resource, to provide a service to the local Milton Keynes community, and to explore the possibilities of wiki based social software. The Milton Keynes Open Guide is kindly hosted and provided with technical support by Chris Schmidt from the Open Guide to Boston. Chris Shmidt homepage - http://crschmidt.net Open Guide to Boston website - http://boston.openguides.org
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in uBase
uBase
Web-based Image and Video Navigation
The overall aim of the project was to create a web-based image and video browser for content-based retrieval that integrates the current research into browsing and searching into a unified interface. uBase Demo The resulting browser provides the user with the power to browse a large image collection quickly and accurately. The project builds upon the work of Daniel Heesch into searching and browsing strategies. The project's main focus was on the important issues of integrating the searching and browsing mechanisms, and improving the user-interface. The browser seamlessly integrates the following main features: Search with relevance feedback, browsing results by rank Hierarchical browsing Lateral browsing using NNk network Temporal browsing Historical browsing Image/video viewer The browser and search engine is implemented under a client-server model. This enables us to centralise the search engine backend and the interface to the image collection. By using a Java applet-servlet model, we can provide a platform-independent client that can be loaded from a webpage.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in The UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network
The UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network
Enhance communication between the experts in both academia and industry
The UK Multimedia Knowledge Management Network consists of research teams from seven UK universities who work in this new interdisciplinary field. The aim of this network is to enhance communication between the experts in both academia and industry, and to maintain shared resources for the direct benefit of the research community. The network is hosted at and maintained by Imperial College London. Project Objectives promote communication through workshops and meetings, e-mail lists and web sites. develop a research roadmap for multimedia knowledge management and its research applications create and maintain shared resources for the direct benefit of the research community assist in training and development of new and existing researchers in the field promote the Network activity to potential members, beneficiaries, collaborators and users develop and implement a strategy for continuation of network activity after 3 years of EPSRC funding Relevant research topics within Multimedia Knowledege Management include, but are not limited to, multimedia analysis, indexing, storage and delivery, needs elicitation and analysis, retrieval, summarisation, presentation and personalisation, crafting appropriate access environments, capitalisation and evaluation.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Multimedia Digital Libraries
Multimedia Digital Libraries
New Paradigms for Browsing & Search
The overall aim of the project is to facilitate visual and text-based access approaches to digital libraries through novel browsing, search and visualisation paradigms in additional to the traditional text search approach. Project interactive approaches will focus on general users with a straightforward retrieval paradigm that requires the minumum of retrieval effort from the user. As the majority of text searches are composed of 2-3 keywords this is an important consideration. The digital content used in the project is composed of television news, newspaper archives, museum photos and personal digital photos. Material is supplied by the British library, the Victoria & Albert Museum, BBC, University of Waikato and Imperial College London. Project Objectives Develop a query-by-example mode using automated content-based analysis which ultimately extracts salient visual and textual features from the multimedia objects and creates according indices Explore new browsing paradigms which make use of above similarity indices Devise new search paradigms based on lateral browsing Present and summarise results adequately through document clustering; automated natural language summarisation of text and speech; story board generation of video material Define new interfaces which integrate and synchronise the different modi for resource discovery in digital libraries The project will showcase novel search and browsing engines allowing to search multimedia collections by alternative ways, eg, image similarity, as well as textual metadata which may or may not be present.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Revyu
Revyu
A Web site that exploits Semantic Web technology and allows you to review and rate anything you want
Revyu.com is a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name. Revyu.com exploits Semantic Web technologies, both as the underlying representation mechanism and also to dynamically retrieve semantic information available on the web, which is relevant to a particular review. Because the content of all reviews is published on the site in RDF/XML as well as HTML, you can easily reuse the reviews you write in any other web site or application.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in DRESS
DRESS
Curses and blessings of dimensionality
This project "Dimensionality Reduction for Efficient Similarity Search (DRESS)" is funded in part by EPSRC (EP/E037402/1) and Australian Research Council (DP0663272). A wide range of applications, such as multimedia retrieval, molecular biology, medical imaging, and so on, involve similarity search in high-dimensional feature spaces, which is often computational expensive if not prohibitive. Traditional index structures in relational databases and multi-dimensional index structures in spatial databases are not sufficient to index high-dimensional data. This project aims to improve the efficiency of similarity search by exploring linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques and adapting them to different similarity measures, feature spaces and query processing strategies.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in NewsRoom
NewsRoom
Recording, segmenting and indexing news for you to browse, search, find, read, listen and watch.
NewsRoom is a modular platform for television broadcast news capture, automatic segmentation, indexing and browsing. The core of NewsRoom is its automatic story segmentation software. Its modular architecture allows to integrate various segmentation algorithms, organised in modules, such as a video scene detection software, lexical analysis algorithms, temporal feature analysis and high-level object-based audio/video feature extraction, such as optical character recognition and logotype detection. NewsRoom also provides a web-based interface for news browsing and searching, and lets users modify story segmentation, giving to NewsRoom a community-based "wiki" flavour.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Hypermedia Discourse
Hypermedia Discourse
Conceptual foundations and practical tools at the nexus of Deliberation, Argumentation and Software
Our focus is on what we are finding to be a powerful and intruiging intersection: the meeting of Hypermedia and Discourse theory and technology. Our interests are both conceptual, and intensely practical: the co-evolution of digital tools and associated work practices for sensemaking.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Watson
Watson
Exploring the Semantic Web
As the Semantic Web gains momentum, large amounts of semantic information are becoming available online. The emergence of such large-scale semantics opens the way to a new generation of Semantic Systems, able to overcome the brittleness of classic domain-specific semantic systems and supporting open-ended tasks, such as web browsing and question answering. Watson is an innovative gateway for the Semantic Web, whose design has been guided by the requirements of this new generation of Semantic Web applications and by the lessons learnt from previous systems. Watson plays three main roles: 1) collects the available semantic content on the Web, 2) analyzes it to extract useful metadata and indexes, and 3) implements efficient query facilities to access these data, which are structured around thousand and thousand of separate ontologies.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in PHAROS
PHAROS
Platform for searcH of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces
The PHAROS mission is to advance audiovisual search from a point-solution search engine paradigm to an integrated search platform paradigm. This platform will be built on an innovative, open, and distributed architecture that enables consumers, businesses and organisations to unlock the values found in audiovisual content. The PHAROS search platform will create a new infrastructure for managing and enabling access to information sources of all types, supporting advanced audiovisual processing, content handling, and management that will enhance control, creation, and sharing of multimedia for all users in the value chain. The impact for the specific audiovisual industry will be to strengthen and extend product and service offerings, integrating oustanding technologies and achieving a competitive advantage by integrating solutions addressing the full content management processing chain.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ERA
ERA
Enabling Remote Activity
ERA (Enabling Remote Activity) is an Open University project that supports remote participation by students in fields studies trips. Using a wireless network, digital stills and video cameras and two way audio communications, students are enabled to gather data and otherwise interact with colleagues in remote locations. The project has supported Earth Sciences summer schools in 2006 (Kindrogan) - 2007 (Heath and Reach), providing local network access and internet connectivity to the field. Future summer school support is planned for 2008. This website will tell you about the project, the equipment we've used, and introduces the team.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Service Web 3.0
Service Web 3.0
Coordinating the research, standardization, and dissemination activites creating the internet of billions of web services.
It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address these emerging developments and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their projects, and support the preparation of future community research and technological development. The focus of Service Web 3.0 will be to: - Create, maintain, and publish roadmaps as a means to plan and coordinate framework and community activities for a future service world - Set-up of dedicated cross-project clusters focusing on Semantic Web Services within STI International - Provide information material such as white papers, feasibility studies, promotional movies for raising the awareness for the technology in industry, introducing new business models and systematically facilitating Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web technology adoption, in particular for SMEs - Support standardisation activities for semantic service descriptions - Exploit synergies through networking and cross-fertilisation with other research and network projects related to this area - Organize special focused conferences and seminars
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in FairAI4EdTech
FairAI4EdTech
A socio-technical approach, promoting Equity in Higher Education
Our project is dedicated to advancing socio-technical approaches to fairness in Higher Education (HE) within the UK, with a specific focus on addressing bias and discrimination in AI-driven learning analytics systems. Institutions worldwide are recalibrating their data strategies for positive impacts on student success. However, the integration of fairness, both technically and socially, remains an understudied aspect of these strategies. Leveraging the award-winning OUAnalyse (OUA) system at the Open University, our project seeks to establish a framework of best practices, risks, and compliance with UK regulations. This framework aims to guide HE institutions in the UK as they develop their digital strategies, emphasising the core principles of fairness and responsible AI. The project will contribute to the broader discourse on ethical AI implementation in education, aligning with the UK government's innovation-focused approach to AI regulation. Collaboration with regulatory bodies, such as The Equality & Human Rights Commission and The Information Commissioner's Office, will ensure compliance of the provided framework with equality and human rights law, data protection, and sector-specific legislation.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Personal Inquiry
Personal Inquiry
Designing for evidence-based inquiry learning across formal and informal settings
The Personal Inquiry (PI) project is a collaboration between the University of Nottingham and researchers from CREET and KMi in The Open University. The aim of PI is to develop a new approach of scripted inquiry learning in which students aged 11-14 can use personal technologies to guide scientific investigations that span the classroom, home and field locations. Activities will be based around topic themes - Myself, My Environment, My Community - that engage young learners in investigating their health, diet and fitness, their immediate environment and their wider surroundings. These topics are key elements of the new 21st century science curriculum that requires students to reason about the natural sciences as a complex system and to explore how people relate to the physical world. Other partners include Hadden Park High School in Nottingham, Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes, ScienceScope, a company that develops sensing and datalogging equipment, Nottingham Museums and Galleries, Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre and Gulliver's Eco-Park, Milton Keynes. PI is a three year project funded by the UK ESRC and EPSRC research councils.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in KCE
KCE
Key Concept Extraction
KCE defines a groundbreaking approach to identifying the concepts in an ontology, which best summarize what the ontology is about. KCE makes use of a number of criteria, drawn from cognitive science, network topology, and lexical statistics to try and produce the kind of ontology summaries which human experts would come up with. Indeed a formal evaluation of the method has shown an excellent degree of correlation with the choices of the experts. While the generation of automatic methods for ontology summarization is an interesting research area in itself, KCE also provides a basis for novel approaches to a variety of ontology engineering tasks, including ontology matching, automatic classification, ontology modularization, and ontology evaluation.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in NoTube
NoTube
Networks and Ontologies for the Transformation and Unification of Broadcasting and the intErnet
The ultimate goal of this project is to develop flexible/adaptive end-to-end architecture, based on semantic technologies, for personalised creation, distribution and consumption of TV content. The project will take a user-centric approach to investigate fundamental aspects of consumers' content-customisation needs, interaction requirements and entertainment wishes, which will shape the future of the "TV" in all its new forms. "New technology is transforming the TV industry", says Mark Thomson, BBC CEO for Observer. Watching TV more and more happens together with PC-related activities, e.g. chatting with friends, talking on the phone, searching on the Internet for related info about programs. Already in 2000, the trend was by "couch-and-mouse toys serving 27 million Americans who were able to watch TV and surf the Web at the same time - the "telewebbers". Nowadays, digital video-recording software provides the facility to "time-shift" live television programming through a PC (e.g. via TiVo and ReplayTV). Companies are attempting to bundle "an electronic program guide into its software, along with personal viewing agents that can recommend broadcasted programs based on your viewing habits" . For example, while watching "Dancing with the stars", you can vote for your favourite couple, read their biographies, find other programs this week where they appear, record your favourite dances and send them to friends; you can also join live chats during the program. However, "such interactive services stay TV-centric (in the device sense of the term TV) and use Internet and digital technology only to enhance the entertainment that you expect to see when you plop yourself down in front of the tube."
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Linking Islands of Data - A UK/USA AHRC network
Linking Islands of Data - A UK/USA AHRC network
Linking Islands of Data will create a research network based around centres of excellence that study the Classical World on both sides of the Atlantic
Linking Islands of Data will create a research network based around centres of excellence that study the Classical World on both sides of the Atlantic and build upon the legacy of the National Endowment for Humanities funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute. This network will focus on classics, archaeology, epigraphy and museology and create a variety of digital and analogue outputs - including an application programming interface (API), documentation and guidance for best practice in the use of Linked Open Data and high resolution document handling - using established and emergent technological methods and communities of practice based around 3 workshops held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Brown University and Open Context.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ROLE
ROLE
Responsive Open Learning Environments
The cross-disciplinary innovations of the ROLE project will deliver and test prototypes of high responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation. The work of ROLE will advances the state-of-the-art in human resource management; self-regulated and social learning; psycho-pedagogical theories of adaptive education and educational psychology; service composition and orchestration; and the use of ICT in lifelong learning. ROLE offers adaptivity and personalization in terms of content and navigation and the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualization of the components, tools, and functionalities of a learning environment, and their adjustment or replacement by existing web-based software tools. Learning environment elements can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities, which can be adapted by lone learners or collaborating learners to meet their own needs and to enhance the effectiveness of their learning. This empowers each user to generate new tools and functions according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LTfLL
LTfLL
Language Technology for Lifelong Learning
LTfLL aims at creating the next-generation support and advisory services that enhance individual and collaborative competence building and knowledge creation in educational and organisational settings. The project therefore combines natural language processing technologies with cognitive models in these services. Current Position of the Learner Appreciation of learner requirements leading to better advice on study plans and selection of study resources. Services will offer semi-automatic analysis and comparison of learner portfolios to the domain knowledge and continuous modelling and measurement of conceptual development. Support & Feedback Progress monitoring based on learning activities rather than on formal assessments to advice appropriate activities for further competence building. Services are developed based on analysis of the interactions of students -- using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) -- and textual output of students -- with the help of Latent Semantic Analysis and other NLP techniques. Social & Informal Learning A knowledge sharing infrastructure is construed that allows for the co-construction of knowledge in social and informal learning. It facilitates comparing and sharing private knowledge to give rise to new common knowledge. Ontologies for formal domain representation are combined with social tagging.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in iCoper
iCoper
Adopting Standards for European Educational Content
This work is part of the http://icoper.org/ project. iCoper is an eContentPlus action of the EU focused around standards for interoperability for sharing learning materials. There are many standards in the field of learning: around objects, around syndication and search, and even to help define the key features of portfolios and assessment. iCoper is building a reference model to help to bring these standards together and capture the best practice of our diverse community in the use of these standards - to make better learning! Sadly, there are few standards which help learning institutions (and now learners themselves, perhaps) to create content that is then more easily reused by others, or in different learning context. The work discussed here is focused on capturing the best practices of our community to support Content Development and Reuse (CDfR).
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OpenScout
OpenScout
Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training
OpenScout stands for "Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training" and is a project co-funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus Programme. The project started in September 2009 and has a duration of three years. OpenScout aims at providing an education service in the internet that enables users to easily find, access, use and exchange open content for management education and training. The management education market is largely diversified, training topics range from general management and leadership to very specific issues like managing risks in banking industry. Despite the resulting growing need for management education and content the potential of already existing open learning materials is hardly exploited, neither in the business sector nor in SMEs where the need for lifelong learning is even greater. To reduce the usage barriers OpenScout plans to offer easy-to-use skill-based federated search and retrieval web services, provide an openly accessible tool library for improvement and re-publishing of open contents and establish an open user community that opens up their content and adopts OpenScout web services in real contexts of use. OpenScout will be used by learners directly but also by training and education institutions that search for learning content to be integrated into their learning offerings.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in STELLARNET
STELLARNET
The open network of excellence in technology-enhanced learning.
STELLARNET represents the effort of the leading institutions and projects in European Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify our diverse community. This Network of Excellence is motivated by the need for European research on TEL to build upon, synergize and extend the valuable work we have started by significantly building capacity in TEL research within Europe, which is required to allow the European Union to achieve its goals via the Bologna Agreement and the execution of the Lisbon Agenda. The European TEL agenda has been set for the last 4 years by the Kaleidoscope network ï¿½ with a huge strength in pedagogy and scientific excellence, and the Prolearn network ï¿½ with a complimentary strength in technical and professional excellence. Integrating this excellence and moving on to the higher strategic formation of policy based in leading research is the key challenge for the next stage. STELLARNET will move beyond the earlier networks by setting a new and critical foresight agenda for Technology Enhanced Learning. The Network will be executed via a series of integration instruments designed to increase the research capacity of European TEL at all levels. STELLARNET's instruments will act upon the backbone of an interlocking set of 3 Grand Research Challenge actions, themed as Connecting People, Orchestration and Context.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SOFI
SOFI
Service Offering for the Future Internet
The goal of SOFI is to complement EU R&D projects in the area of Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation (Objective 1.2) through specific support activities. SOFI aims to ensure the position of European research as a leader in the definition and realisation of the theoretical and technological foundations of the Future Internet of Services, as well as European industry's competitive advantage in the creation of value and new opportunities from its use. SOFI will build upon and complement the current efforts around the Future Internet Assembly, and particularly the service related working groups, most specifically the Future Internet Service Offer WG (FISO).
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LUCERO
LUCERO
Linking University Content for Education and Research Online
Working with groups of learners, researchers and practitioners based at the Open University, LUCERO will scope, prototype, pilot and evaluate reusable, cost-effective solutions relying on the linked data principles and technologies for exposing and connecting educational and research content. Core sets of resources considered within LUCERO are institutional repositories of research and educational material, including collaborations with the Faculty of Arts to scope, pilot, prototype and evaluate specific content exposure and linked data requirements of researchers working within the Arts and Arts History domains, providing experience on the exposure and connection of research data outputs, and demonstrating their concrete benefits. On the basis of such concrete experience, the project will aim to document business process changes required to achieve successful integrated institutional approaches to exposing educational and research content as linked data.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in WeGov
WeGov
Where eGovernment meets the eSociety
Social networking technology provides major new opportunities for policy makers (eGovernment) to engage with the community (eSociety). WeGov will develop a toolset that allows full advantage to be taken of a wide range of existing and well established social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) to engage citizens in two-way dialogs as part of governance and policymaking processes. The tools will make it possible to detect, track and mine opinions, behaviour, and discussions on policy oriented topics. The tools will allow discussions to be seeded and stimulated through injection of policy discussion points into relevant communities in a secure and managed way. A key feature of our approach is to allow policy makers to move away from the limitations inherent in the current practice of using bespoke and dedicated platforms (e.g. specific opinion soliciting websites hosted by government) and instead make full use of the high levels of participation and rich discussions that already take place in existing social networking communities. In this way, WeGov will develop the tools and techniques for closing the loop between policy makers and the citizens. WeGov is funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme, and involves University of Southampton (IT Innovation and ILAWS), KMi, GFI, Gov2U, GESIS, University of Koblenz, and the Hansard Society.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Annomation
Annomation
Semantically annotating motion video
Video is a big part of the Web: we download billions of videos from YouTube every month, stream Hollywood movies and TV programmes, and educate ourselves with iTunes U podcasts. But finding the right video now is a bit like finding the right Web page was back in the 1990s: we are limited to searching the smattering of keywords that occured to the video's creator. Annomation makes it easy for people to add semantic annotations using Web 3.0 techniques: videos, and segments in the video, can be described by links to concepts in DBpedia, the Library of Congress and Dewey classifications, geographical data sets, and other parts of the Semantic Web Linked Data Cloud.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in DECIPHER
DECIPHER
Digital Environment for Cultural Interfaces; Promoting Heritage, Education and Research
Digital heritage and semantic web technologies hold out the promise of nearly unlimited access to cultural knowledge. The problem is that cultural meaning does not reside in individual objects but in the patterns of knowledge and events, belief and thought that link them to each other and to the observer. This is why story is so important to the communication of, and meaningful understanding of culture. DECIPHER is developing new solutions to the whole range of narrative construction, knowledge visualisation and display problems. It will change the way people access digital heritage by combining much richer, event-based metadata with causal reasoning models. This will result in a reasoning engine, virtual environment and interfaces that can help curators and visitors to present digital heritage objects as part of a coherent narrative that is directly related to the user's interests. This will allow the user to interactively assemble, visualise and explore, not just collections of objects, but the knowledge structures that connect and give them meaning.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ROBUST
ROBUST
ROBUST aims to analyze, manage and care for online communities to support their well being & to measure their created value.
Online communities have emerged in all areas of society, and their use is now widespread in social, business, scientific and public service domains. They enable the community members to collaborate through shared ideas, knowledge and opinion. Thus, online communities generate major economic value to business and can form pivotal parts of corporate expertise management, corporate marketing, product support, customer relationship management, product innovation and targeted advertising. The objective of ROBUST is to analyze, manage and care for online communities, in order support their well being, to provide access to the created values and to exploit the knowledge and information contained within. This requires the development of metrics, models and algorithms in several fields. ROBUST is a 3 year, ï¿½6.8M EU project with a consortium of 10 partners from 6 countries. ROBUST is led by the University of Koblenz-Landau, and involves the companies of IBM, SAP, Polecat, Temis, and SoftwareMind, as well as the academic institutions of OU KMi, University of Southampton, National University of Ireland, and the Technical University of Berlin.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in RETAIN
RETAIN
Retaining Students through Intelligent Interventions
The RETAIN project aims to extend the Open University’s existing Business Intelligence systems, with a particular focus on improving student retention. RETAIN will make it possible to integrate additional data sources, such as data from VLE’s, with existing statistical methods and to further extend the functionality by using predictive modelling to identify students who are at risk of non-completion of their courses. This will allow for better targeted interventions towards these students. A demonstrator will be developed, for visualising retention data that allows viewing of both aggregated and individual student data on selected dimensions. This will be usable by tutors and programme managers for determining strategy in both the short-term and long-term, on individual, course and faculty levels. The developed tools and methods will be trialled with a view to longer term uptake and further extensions to Business Intelligence functionality. The predicted benefits are improved retention and progression, leading to a financial cost savings for the OU and a better student experience.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in UCIAD
UCIAD
User-Centric Integration of Activiry Data
UCIAD (User Centric Integration of Activity Data) is a JISC-funded project addressing the integration of activity data spread across various systems in an organization, and exploring how this integration can both benefit users and improve transparency in an organization. Both research and commercial developments in the area of user activity data analysis have until now mostly focused on logging user visits to specific websites and systems, primarily in order to support recommendation, or to gather feedback data from users. However, data concerning a single user are generally fragmented across many different systems and logs, from website access logs to search data in different departments and as a result organizations typically are not able to maintain an integrated overview of the various activities of a given user, thus affecting their ability to provide optimal service to their users. Hence, a key tenet of the UCIAD project is that developing a coherent picture of the interactions between the user and the organization would be beneficial both to an organization and to its users. The project, led and managed by Mathieu d'Aquin, will contribute to the current strand of research in KMi, which focuses on the use of semantic technologies to support online personal information management. The solutions developed in the project will be tested on a number of Open University systems, in collaboration with the Open University's communication services.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LOTED
LOTED
Linked Open Tenders Electronic Daily
The world of procurements and eProcurement generates daily large amounts of data, that represent knowledge of great economical value both for individual companies and for public organisations wishing to achieve a better understanding of a given market. However, such data remains diffcult to explore and analyze as it is being kept isolated from other sources of knowledge, in dedicated systems. LOTED is an ongoing work on extracting and linking data from the European Tenders Electronic Daily system, which publishes approximately 1,500 tenders five times a week. Information is dynamically extracted and linked to external datasets, and links are created to enrich the original data, introducing new perspectives to its analysis.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in LinkedUp
LinkedUp
Linking Web Data for Education Project - Open Challenge in Web-scale Data Integration
LinkedUp aims to push forward the exploitation of the vast amounts of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational institutions and organizations. This will be achieved by identifying and supporting highly innovative large-scale Web information management applications through an open competition (the LinkedUp Challenge) and dedicated evaluation framework. The vision of the LinkedUp Challenge is to realise personalised university degree-level education of global impact based on open Web data and information. Drawing on the diversity of Web information relevant to education, ranging from Open Educational Resources metadata to the vast body of knowledge offered by the Linked Data approach, this aim requires overcoming substantial challenges related to Web-scale data and information management involving Big Data, such as performance and scalability, interoperability, multilinguality and heterogeneity problems, to offer personalised and accessible education services. Therefore, the LinkedUp Challenge provides a focused scenario to derive challenging requirements, evaluation criteria, benchmarks and thresholds which are reflected in the LinkedUp evaluation framework. Information management solutions have to apply data and learning analytics methods to provide highly personalised and context-aware views on heterogeneous Web data. Building on the strong alliance of institutions with expertise in areas such as open Web data management, data integration and Web-based education, key outcomes of LinkedUp include a general-purpose evaluation framework for Web-data driven applications, a set of quality-assured educational datasets, innovative applications of large-scale Web information management, community-building and clustering crossing public and private sectors and substantial technology transfer of highly innovative Web information management technologies.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in COMPOSE
COMPOSE
Collaborative Open Market to Place Objects at your Service
The COMPOSE project aims at enabling new services that can seamlessly integrate real and virtual worlds through the convergence of the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things. COMPOSE will achieve this through the provisioning of an open and scalable marketplace infrastructure, in which smart objects are associated to services that can be combined, managed, and integrated in a standardised way to easily and quickly build innovative applications. The COMPOSE project builds upon existing European research projects and ongoing standardisation activities to provide a comprehensive marketplace framework that will be able to cover the whole service life cycle by integrating a number of innovative technological enablers in a coherent way. The project will develop novel approaches for virtualising smart objects into services and for managing their interactions. This includes solutions for managing knowledge derivation, for secure and privacy-preserving data aggregation and distribution, and for dynamic service composition advertising and discovering objects' capabilities and service provisioning and monitoring. The COMPOSE project is expected to give birth to a new business ecosystem, building on the convergence of the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things and the Internet of Content. The COMPOSE marketplace will allow SMEs and innovators to introduce new Internet of Things-enabled services and applications to the market in a short time and with limited upfront investment. At the same time, COMPOSE will allow major European players in the information and communication industry, particularly cloud service providers and telecommunications companies, to reposition themselves within new Internet of Things-enabled value chains. The project has 12 partners, which include the World Wide Web Consortium, IBM, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and Fraunhofer FOKUS. The full list of partners: IBM http://www.ibm.com/ CREATE-NET http://www.create-net.org/ Fraunhofer FOKUS http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/ Barcelona Supercomputing Center http://www.bsc.es/ INNOVA S.p.A http://www.innova-eu.net/ University of Passau http://www.uni-passau.de/ U-Hopper http://www.u-hopper.com/ W3C http://w3.org/ Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnologic http://www.bdigital.org/ RETEVISION I S.A http://www.abertistelecom.com/ EVRYTHNG Limited http://www.evrythng.com/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MUPPLE
MUPPLE
Lecture series on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments
In the last years the discussion about electronic learning environments has changed fundamentally. Based on the advancement of personal publishing tools and social software the barriers have been lifted to participate in discussions and to build an individual professional identity on the web. As a side effect, this has also influenced the discussion about learning environments in technology-enhanced learning. While the improvement of institutional learning management systems was some years ago still the state-of-the art in recent times this discussion has been expanded towards an individual perspective on learning platforms called ‘personal learning environments’ (PLE). Technically, this shift has been accompanied by new (‘mash-up’) technologies that empower end-users to actively build, modify, and maintain their environments. The research work at the OU’s Knowledge Media institute (KMi) on MUPPLE thereby is one of the European epicenters of innovation. Just recently, KMi has been prized by the Mozilla Foundation with a special award for the work on an early prototype. In project supported from the donation funds of the Open University, key researcher Fridolin Wild teamed up with Marco Kalz from the Open University of the Netherlands and Matthias Palmer from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology to create a guest lecture series with international experts in the field on this topic.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TELL-ME
TELL-ME
Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglab for Manufacturing Environments
TELL-ME reinvents learning technology for human-centred and service-oriented manufacturing workplaces in small and medium enterprises. Innovation and technological advances in the manufacturing sector are often led by large, multinational companies ï¿½ leaving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) struggling to keep pace. At the same time, more people in manufacturing work in SMEs (about 2/3) than in large enterprises (about 1/3), thus posing a barrier to smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. Recognising the EU 2020 strategy, TELL-ME creates more effective means for up- and re-skilling of employees to Europe, targeting less technologically-advanced SMEs in the human-centred, service-oriented manufacturing sector. With the manufacturing sector accounting for more than 10% of the overall workforce, TELL-ME conducts research to the benefit of a large number of European citizens. TELL-ME will use novel knowledge media on all levels, including augmented reality glasses for experience capturing, a social business learning platform for collaborating, and business learning analytics for assessing. TELL-ME is a consortium with ten industrial and four academic partner institutions in eight EU countries.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in cRunch
cRunch
calc a little, learn a lot.
cRunch is a service and an infrastructure for computationally-intense learning analytics. It supports researchers in munching away the data points, generated by learners online in the co-construction of knowledge. cRunch supports learners, faculty, and administration with living reports, created live from data. cRunch currently has three components: the studio, the reports plus services, and the sharing facilities. The studio is a browser-based work space for exploratory data programming. It uses the simple to learn statistical programming language R ï¿½ for data manipulation ï¿½ and a wiki-like markup language called ï¿½markdownï¿½ ï¿½ for the reports. cRunch reprots, however, are more than just text. We even call them ï¿½living documentsï¿½, as in addition to static text they also access live data executing live analytical scripts. cRunch services are kind of more complex reports, some of them intended for other machines rather than humans. The sharing facilities are the interface to the world. They help the community to remix, recycle, re-purpose data and code.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in X:Polli-Nation
X:Polli-Nation (pronounced crosspollination) is a biodiversity citizen science project embedded in primary schools
The X-Polli:Nation project aims to get our communities buzzing. This National Geographic project shares (or ‘cross-pollinates’) approaches and tools between members of the public, scientists, technologists and educators in order to support pollinators, people and the practice of citizen science. Primary school children develop and maintain pollinator friendly habitats within their grounds, and learn how to identify and record pollinator species that visit these patches, thus contributing data on species level animal-plant interactions to science. This data is used to inform which flowers to plant the following season. Funder: National Geographic
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Catalyst
Catalyst
Collective Applied Intelligence and Analytics for Social Innovation: Open Tools Validated in Large-Scale Communities
Public deliberation in complex socio-technical debates is critical, but poorly supported by todayï¿½s social media platforms: it is hardly possible for citizens and community managers to quickly grasp the state of a public debate, know where they might best contribute to advance understanding, and effectively identify and pursue socially innovative ideas. Within a Collective Intelligence (CI) Spectrum ranging from Sensing to Collective Action, CATALYST focuses on Contested CI (Sensemaking and Ideation) and aims to develop and test online deliberation tools for human-assisted harvesting and structuring of vast amount of social media data, in order to facilitate collective ideation, creativity and citizen engagement in collective decision-making processes. In addition to this CATALYST will develop advanced analytics to measure the quality of the collective intelligence dynamics and feed it back to the community to make the collaborative process significantly more effective ï¿½ avoid balkanization and groupthink, help identify irrational bias, controversial or immature topics, and facilitate conversation diversity. CATALYST will deliver an ecosystem of CI tools and services that will augment existing social media platforms with Web-based Annotation tools; Recommenders to help users prioritise attention; Online creativity triggers; Interactive Visualizations, and Social Network and Deliberation Analytics. CATALYSTï¿½s consortium involves world-class researchers, such as The Open University and MIT centre for collective intelligence, and testbed partners, leaders in running international social innovation online networks, providing access to very large communities of citizens concerned with social and environmental practices (Ashoka, Imagination for People, Wikitalia), sustainable lifestyle (CSCP) and more participatory democratic processes (Purpose, Euclid Network). Project Partners: Sigma Orionis: http://sigma-orionis.com/ Imagination for People: http://imaginationforpeople.org/en/ The Open University: http://www.openuniversity.edu/ Universitat Zurich: http://www.uzh.ch/index.html Euclid Network: http://www.euclidnetwork.eu/ CSCP: http://www.scp-centre.org/ Purpose: http://www.purpose.com/ Wikitalia: http://www.wikitalia.it/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CARRE
CARRE
Personalised patient empowerment for cardiorenal comorbidities
The CARRE project investigates information and communication technologies for empowering patients with comorbidities (multiple co-occurring medical conditions), or persons with increased risk of such conditions, especially in the case of chronic cardiac and renal disease patients. KMi will provide the semantic "glue" linking biometric sensor data, medical ontologies and Linked Data together for patient-focused decision support and medical education. The CARRE project has received a 3-year EC funding from the European Community 7th Framework Programme FP7-ICT-2013 work programme under grant agreement no. 611140.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OU Analyse
OU Analyse
The OU Analyse project is piloting new machine learning based methods for early identification of students who are at risk of failing.
A list of such students is communicated weekly to the module and Student Support teams to help them consider appropriate support. The overall objective is to significantly improve the retention of OU students. This is 'research-led' as the project builds on previous experience from the Jisc funded Retain in 2010/2011 and the joint OU-Microsoft Research Cambridge project in 2012/2013. The work is innovative in that it is applying machine learning techniques to two types of data: student demographic data and dynamic data represented by their VLE activities. Records of previous presentations are used to build and validate predictive models, which are then applied to the data of the presentation currently running.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in AFEL
AFEL
Analytics for Everyday Learning
The goal of AFEL (Analytics for Everyday Learning) is to develop methods and tools to understand informal/collective learning as it surfaces implicitly in online social environments. While Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining traditionally rely on data from formal learning environments, studies have for a long time demonstrated that learning activities happen for a large part online, in a variety of other platforms. The aim of AFEL is therefore to devise the tools for exploiting learning analytics on such learning activities, in relation to cognitive models of learning and collaboration that are necessary to the understanding of loosely defined learning processes in online social environments. To achieve this, AFEL gathers a range of skills in a consortium funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme including experts in data analytics, interaction with data, cognitive models of learning and collaboration, as well as the developers of online social platforms. Concretely, the objectives of this consortium are to 1) develop the tools necessary to capture information about learning activities from online social environments; 2) create methods for the analysis of such informal learning data, based on combining visual analytics with cognitive models of learning and collaboration; and 3) demonstrate the potential of the approach in improving the understanding of informal learning, and the way it can be better supported.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ACQUA
ACQUA
Automatic Community-based Question Answering
ACQUA is looking at the discretised version of linguistic features of each candidate answer and predicts which answer is going to be marked as "accepted". Past knowledge such as user reputation or future knowledge, such as score of the answers is not taken into account. Hence, ACQUA can predict which answer is going to get accepted in real-time settings with minimum resources. ACQUA makes use of the StackExchange API, fetches all answers and analyses them. Our web service is then highlighting one answer indicating it as the "accepted". This work has been funded by the CARRE project.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Augmented / Virtual Reality
Augmented / Virtual Reality
Applications that utilise AR/VR technologies
Augmented Reality blends the physical and digital environments, enabling graphics, sounds and touch feedback to be overlaid with the user's physical world. KMI worked with colleagues in the STEM faculty, explored the potential use for Augmented Reality to support students studying human biology. As part of the work, a sample version using the human heart had been released as an app we invited users to download it and consider for themselves how Augmented Reality, and even Virtual Reality, could support innovative pedagogic practices in the future. Augmented Reality is a natural step towards creating fully immersive experiences in Virtual Reality.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OU Go
OU Go
OU Go has been developed for staff and visitors to locate the various campus buildings, car and cycle parking and outdoor artwork on the go. The app is designed in the Pokemon Go theme which adds some fun whilst seeking a building location and updates the users location in real time to make it easy to find the desired destination. Along with providing users with a selection of character (avatar) choices the app displays campus in 3D allowing the user to select the building or event they seek which is then clearly displayed by a rotating OU shield or calendar icon . By switching on outdoor art, car parking and cycle parking the map will display icons that are interactive to touch and display details about the selected area of interest. Currently the events data is entered manually but this will be automated in due course.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Planting for Pollinators
Planting for Pollinators
Generating recommendations for bumblebee-friendly gardening
Environmental concerns are often communicated to members of the public as series of complex threats that demand urgent action on multiple fronts. Here, we propose to use state-of-the-art digital technologies in online outreach aimed to encourage positive behaviour in the real world and through this engage members of the public with the key environmental issue of pollinator declines. We capitalise on people’s personal connection with their gardens and build further outreach capacity by linking up technologies piloted in a focussed online citizen science initiative (BeeWatch) with a wide hands-on UK nature outreach network (OPAL). Using photographic records of bumblebee species submitted by citizens, we offer tailored gardening advice aimed at providing flowering plants for a range of bumblebee species throughout the season (Funded by NERC).
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Blogging Birds
Blogging Birds
Blogging birds is a new concept that allows you to find out more about the lives of Red Kites, one of the UKï¿½s most stunning bird species. Unfortunately, mankind hasnï¿½t always celebrated the red kite and from the 18th century right up into the late 20th century they were hunted and killed as they were viewed as a threat to farming and game-shooting interests. This led to red kites becoming extinct in England and Scotland, with less than 10 pairs remaining in Wales in the 1940s. However, since then red kites have been successfully reintroduced to 10 sites around the UK. Using cutting edge computing technology, red kites will tell you a story about their day to day lives ï¿½ without any help from humans! Keep coming back and youï¿½ll see new stories about every day and every week of our red kites' lives as they gradually make their come back into the Highlands of Scotland. (Funded by RCUK)
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in BeeWatch
BeeWatch
BeeWatch is a citizen science project developed in collaboration with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) and the University of Aberdeen. Citizens submit photographs of bumbelbees, then have the opportunity to identify the species (and this is a hard task) using an online key. BeeWatch deploys a range of AI technologies, both for automating the provision of informative and motivating contextual feedback to recorders through Natural Language Generation, and for combining independent species identifications by different users using novel Bayesian methods for verifying records. BeeWatch builds on pedagogical research on the role of formative feedback in motivation and learning; in particular, about expectations of the learner from feedback and devices such as parallel empathy. (Funded by RCUK)
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Open Networking Lab
Open Networking Lab
Practical learning about computer networking
The Open Networking Lab makes available introductory practical computer networking skills training, in order to service the needs of vocational learners (Further Education and Apprenticeship levels), educators, and industry. The project is carried out by the Open University Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and is funded by the Ufi Charitable Trust. PT Anywhere is the underlying technology the project uses to teach networking concepts. The platform offers a network simulation environment via a web interface that can be accessed from any browser or as a widget inside an interactive eBook. PT Anywhere is based on the Packet Tracer network simulator for Windows and Linux developed by the Cisco Networking Academy. The project has produced a free online course, which is available through the Open University's OpenLearn platform. The Open Networking Lab Accessibility project allows visually impaired learners to acquire basic computer networking skills through the use of accessible network simulation software.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Institute of Coding
Institute of Coding
Unlock your talent
The Institute of Coding is a collaboration between the UK Government, more than 60 universities, big players in the tech industry, SMEs, industry groups, experts in non-traditional learning and professional bodies. Led by the University of Bath, the world-leading consortium aims to strengthen the UK's position globally in computing and IT, address the UK digital skills gap and create opportunities for more computer science graduates. Funding is comprised of £20 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and a further £20 million in matched funding from industry. Its work will cover five broad areas: University Learners (led by the OU), the Digital Workforce, Digitalising the Professions, Widening Participation, and Knowledge Sharing and Sustainability. For university students, the Institute will deliver a range of industry-accredited courses that include top quality computer science teaching alongside the business skills, interpersonal skills and real-world experience required for success in the digital economy. Learners in industry will benefit from courses designed to ensure that their skills are up-to-date. The Institute will also work with outreach and community groups, schools and FE colleges to encourage a larger number of currently under-represented groups into digital education.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Up2U
Up2U
Bridging the gap between schools and universities through informal education
The key objective of the project is to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education & research by better integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting both the technology and the methodology that students will most likely be facing in universities. We are focusing on the context of secondary schools, often referred to as high schools, which provide secondary education between the ages of 11 and 19 depending on the country, after primary school and before higher education. This initiative aims to respond to the requirements of a clear mandate from the European Commission allied with the provision of new cloud-based tools and services to enhance primary and secondary education in Europe. Up2U is a 36 month collaborative project with 5M Euro funding that kicked off in January this year. This project is coordinated by GÉANT and gathers 18 partners from 12 countries across Europe including NRENs, traditional and open universities, infrastructure providers and two commercial partners.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ARIA/GOMARCH
ARIA/GOMARCH
Augmented Reality in Activism
ARIA was a project sponsored by HEIF to develop a prototype for using Augmented Reality (AR) as a participatory tool for social protest. The ARIA project examined some of the main barriers to physical participation in social protest, including mental and physical health challenges, fear of retribution, and a lack of time and resources. The ARIA team then developed "GoMarch", an integrated web platform and AR application to allow remote protesters or supporters to create and place a digital avatar at a given geolocation. This avatar can be viewed by users that are physically present in the location, though use of the AR smartphone application. The aim of the project was to find new ways of making the efforts of remote activists individually visible to other stakeholders and to provide a new avenue of participation.
Augmented Reality In Activism
Digital activism has presented many opportunities to improve engagement and participation. ARIA is a project sponsored by the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) to investigate how location-based augmented reality technology can be used to improve participation, and bridge online and offline activism. In the ARIA project, we built the GoMarch platform, www.gomarch.org, which connects with a GoMarch application. Remote participants in a protest or demonstration, who are not able to be there in person for any number of personal, use the web platform to leave a digital avatar and a message for both other remote participants and those that will be present offline at the event. Using the GoMarch app, the avatars and messages of remote users can be viewed by those who are participating offline at the event, through the camera on their smartphone.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Co-Inform
Co-Inform
Co-Creating Misinformation-Resilient Societies
Misinformation generates misperceptions, which have affected policies in many domains, including economy, health, environment, and foreign policy. Co-Inform is about empowering citizens, journalists, and policymakers with co-created socio-technical solutions, to increase resilience to misinformation, and to generate more informed behaviours and policies. The aim of Co-Inform is to co-create these solutions, with citizens, journalists, and policymakers, for (a) detecting and combating a variety of misinforming posts and articles on social media, (b) supporting, persuading, and nourishing misinformation-resilient behaviour, (c) bridging between the public on social media, external fact checking journalists, and policymakers, (d) understanding and predicting which misinforming news and content are likely to spread across which parts of the network and demographic sectors, (e) infiltrating echo-chambers on social media, to expose confirmation-biased networks to different perceptions and corrective information, and (f) providing policymakers with advanced misinformation analysis to support their policy making process and validation. To achieve these goals, Co-Inform will bring together a multidisciplinary team of scientists and practitioners, to foster co-creational methodologies and practices for engaging stakeholders in combating misinformation posts and news articles, combined with advanced intelligent methods for misinformation detection, misinformation flow prediction, and real-time processing and measurement of crowds' acceptance or refusal of misinformation. Co-Inform tools and platform will be made freely available and open sourced to maximise benefit and reuse. Three main stakeholder groups will be directly engaged throughout this process; citizens, journalists, and policymakers.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OpenLang Network
OpenLang Network
A language learning network for Erasmus+ KA1 mobility participants
The OpenLang Network addresses the needs for linguistic skills and culture awareness of Erasmus+ KA1 mobility participants and the training needs of language teachers: a) Erasmus+ KA1 mobility participants (HE students & staff, Vocational education and training, Adult & School education staff, Youth learners, Youth Workers, Youth Entrepreneurs) that need to boost their language skills and cultural awareness. b) Volunteer language teachers who will support the Erasmus+ KA1 mobility participants offering their professional experience while receiving professional certified training on the creation, sharing and use of language Open Educational Resources (OERs). The OpenLang Network envisages to: 1) Connect these 2 groups in an interactive collaborative environment (web-based and mobile-based) that will support more efficiently their effort to raise language awareness of the target mobility EU languages and to develop European intercultural knowledge covering all EU cultures. 2) Foster the Open Education European multicultural and multilingual vision to all OpenLang Network members.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in READ-IT
READ-IT
Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool
READ-IT (Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool) is a 3-years (2018-2020) transnational, interdisciplinary R&D project funded by the Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage that will build a unique large-scale, user-friendly, open access, semantically-enriched investigation tool to identify and share groundbreaking evidence about 18th-21st century Cultural Heritage of reading in Europe. READ-IT consists in a robust consortium of 5 academic partners from 4 European countries (Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences, Prague; Open U. London, UK including the SME IN2; Utrecht University, Netherlands; CNRS-IRISA, Rennes and Le Mans U.-3LAM, France). The consortium is led by U. of Le Mans and the participants have international level of expertise in the different strands of research. Established stakeholders in education, cultural industries, cultural institutions, and disability advocacy groups will participate in evaluation and contribute to dissemination through joint events. 4 Associate partners from U. Mainz, U. Milano, Queen Mary U. London, U.Tours will contribute specific expertise and data.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Peer Miles
Peer Miles
Recognition and rewards for peer reviewers
Researchers spend considerable time in reviewing articles for workshops, conferences and journals. Such efforts of researchers need to be acknowledged, accumulated and incentivised. We are focusing on accumulating the reviewing efforts of researchers across multiple research events (e.g., workshops and conferences), and bringing decentralisation to the process of finding reviewers for research events. We would also focus on developing an ecosystem of research events where reviewers can be incentivised with spendable incentives. For more information, please visit https://peermiles-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Cos4Cloud
Cos4Cloud
Co-designed Citizen Observatories Services for the EOS-Cloud
COS4CLOUD (Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud) aims to design, prototyped and implemented services that address the Open Science challenges shared by Citizen observatories of biodiversity, based on the experience of platforms like: Artportalen, Natusfera, iSpot, as well as other environmental quality monitoring platforms like: FreshWater Watch, KdUINO, OdourCollect, iSpex and CanAir.io. The innovative services will be designed, prototyped and implemented for improving the data and information quality using deep machine learning, automatic video recognition, advanced mobile app interfaces, and other cutting-edge technologies, based on data models and data protocols validated by traditional science. The new services will provide mechanisms to ensure the visibility and recognition of data contributors and the tools to improve networking between various stakeholders. Novel innovative digital services will be developed through the integration of CS products, generated by different providers, following open standards to ensure their interoperability, and offered in agile, fit-for-purpose and sustainable site available through EOSC hub, including a discovery service, to both traditional and citizen scientists. The design of new services will be user oriented, engaging a wide range of stakeholders in society, government, industry, academia, agencies, and research to co-design service requirements. As a result, COS4CLOUD will integrate citizen science in the European Open Science Cloud, bringing Citizen Science (CS) projects as a service for the scientific community and society at large.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Human-Computer Collaborative Learning in Citizen Science
Human-Computer Collaborative Learning in Citizen Science
This project explores the potential for collaborative learning between humans and machines within the framework of environmental citizen science.
This project explores the potential for collaborative learning between humans and machines within the framework of environmental citizen science. The term `citizen science' encompasses public participation in science and scientific communication to the public. Although not new, citizen science has gained renewed attention because of the opportunities arising from citizens' access to digital technologies in terms of data collection and annotation. While the vast majority of citizen science projects are aimed at data gathering, we instead propose a transformational shift to a new citizen science in which the public and technology are regarded not just as sensors or data recorders, but as a collective and empowered human--artificial intelligence that can help each other in science learning. We will focus on the task of species identification from images. Citizen science projects such as iSpot invite the public to submit photos of wildlife. These are identified to species level and verified before being contributed to science. We will explore artificial intelligence as a means to automatically identify species in images. While this can save human effort, we are concerned about impact this might have on nature lovers. The introduction of technology is often associated with concerns of de-skilling. For naturalists, the honing of species identification skills is a key motivator of the recording activity. Hence, designing technology that provides opportunities for learning for both citizens and machines is essential, as is co-creating the technology to ensure that it is not only user friendly but responds to their motivations. Our approach will involve citizens collaborating with AI to arrive at a species identification. AI will narrow down the choices and inform the citizen about how to distinguish the options. The citizen in turn will through providing an identification help the machine in its learning. We will study this learning interplay with respect to collaborative species identification, but will also explore technologies that foster wider science learning, environmental consciousness and data literacy through better communication of complex citizen science data. For this we will develop technology for Natural Language Generation that can communicate complex data through language. Our proposed work programme seeks to bring about quantifiable benefits to (a) science, e.g., through the production of new knowledge and through monitoring key scientific processes at challenging temporal-spatial scales; (b) diverse stakeholders including the citizens themselves, e.g., through meaningful science learning for sustainability in formal and informal education contexts; and (c) wider society, e.g., through better societal understanding of current sustainability issues, leading to individual and societal action in support of the environment. Funder: EPSRC
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Organised Crime Group Mapping
Organised Crime Group Mapping
Analysing methods for assessing the risk of organised crime
The aim of this project is to compare existing methods for assessing the risk posed by an Organised Crime Group (OCG) and formulating recommendations for how OCG risk assessment could be carried out. A literature review of OCG risk assessment methods identified a number of challenges including: dealing with unknown information, what to classify as OCGs, assessing atypical OCGs, determining validity and assessing fast changing OCGs. The research has focussed on the comparison of MoRiLE (Management of Risk in Law Enforcement) and OCGM (Organised Crime Group Mapping). MoRiLE describes OCGs according to a number of thematic factors, whereas OCGM scores OCGs according to a series of attributes. A data analysis study has been carried out on OCG risk assessments conducted using both MoRiLE and OCGM. A further study will provide a controlled and detailed comparison of the use of OCGM and MoRiLE by analysts. The OCGM project is supported by the Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL).
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence
Citizen Science and Artificial Intelligence
We set ourselves an ambitious programme of fostering Science Learning through innovative Artificial Intelligence developed for Citizen Science
We set ourselves an ambitious programme of fostering Science Learning (formal and informal) through innovative Artificial Intelligence developed for Citizen Science. We bring AI research on Image Recognition, Data Analytics and Natural Language Generation and a decade's experience of Citizen Science practice to bear on research problems, primarily focused on challenging topical issues such as Biodiversity monitoring and Actionable citizen science. The group spans the Knowledge Media Institute and the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SPICE
SPICE
Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement
The aim of the SPICE project is to develop new technologies and methods that enable groups at risk of exclusion to actively participate in culture through a process we term citizen curation. Citizens will be supported in taking part in curatorially-inspired activities such as collecting, storytelling and exhibition design. The technology developed in the project will enable citizen groups to share their own collective view on life through culture and heritage, as well as understand and appreciate the alternative cultural viewpoints of other groups. The process of citizen curation will be co-designed and evaluated through case studies in five countries: Finland, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Israel. In each case study a museum serves as a hub to support citizen curation with specific target groups including older people, asylum seekers, young people living with illness, Deaf people and children from different religious and secular communities. The SPICE project is supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MK:5G
MK:5G Connecting Communities
The MK:5G project is a new initiative which focuses on the deployment of a 5G infrastructure designed exclusively to support research and development in the context of the smart city agenda in Milton Keynes. The envisaged 5G network will cover Central MK, as well as key sites such as the Stadium, Bletchley & CMK rail stations, MK Hospital, the local universities, key junctions on the M1 and a number of rural communities. Building on the work carried out in the MK:Smart project, the project will also deploy a dedicated data exchange facility, which will support trial applications across three sectors: Mobility, Health & Wellbeing, and Energy. The project is led by Milton Keynes Council and is funded by the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP). The MK:5G Consortium also includes The Open University, BT, Huawei, CityFibre, TechMahindra, the Satellite Applications Catapult and the Connected Places Catapult. The main role of The Open University is to enhance the Data Hub infrastructure developed in MK:Smart to support the novel test cases associated with this initiative.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Licence Picker
Licence Picker
A tool for selecting the right licence for your data.
Licences are a crucial aspect of the information publishing process in the web of (linked) data. Recent work on modeling of policies with semantic web languages (RDF, ODRL) gives the opportunity to formally describe licences and reason upon them. However, choosing the right licence is still challenging. Particularly, understanding the number of features - permissions, prohibitions and obligations - constitute a steep learning process for the data provider, who has to check them individually and compare the licences in order to pick the one that better fits her needs. The objective of the technology is to reduce the effort required for licence selection. We argue that an ontology of licences, organized by their relevant features, can help providing support to the user. Developing an ontology with a bottom-up approach based on Formal Concept Analysis, the process of licence selection can be simplified significantly and reduced to answering an average of three/five key questions.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in DECIDE
DECIDE
DECIDE - Delivering Enhanced Biodiversity Information with Adaptive Citizen Science and Intelligent Digital Engagements
Biodiversity is under increasing pressure, with consequent impacts on the benefits people gain from nature. This means that it is vital to include biodiversity in our decision-making and for this we need high quality, fine-resolution, spatial biodiversity information. With this information we can better value nature, and this can be done formally through a process called 'natural capital' assessment, such as by government agencies or local economic partnerships. We also need this information to develop better plans for protecting nature, undertaking ecological restoration to develop resilient ecological networks, and make good decisions about infrastructure development (to achieve net biodiversity gain, as is the ambition in Defra's 25 Year Environment Plan). Much of our existing biodiversity information comes from volunteer-collected species records (a process often called 'citizen science'). However, in many cases, people record where and when they want - leading to large spatial unevenness in recording, both at a national scale and at a local scale. The people and organisations who need to use biodiversity information don't simply require more records: they require better information. This requires us to construct good biodiversity models generated from the available data, communicate these models well, and preferentially target effort to add records from times and places that optimally improve the model outputs. This project seeks to achieve all of this by addressing three important questions. Firstly, can we enhance existing biodiversity information through near real-time, fine resolution, species distribution models? Secondly, can we make biodiversity information more accessible and useful to end users through data flows and automated data communication? Thirdly, can we encourage adaptive sampling behaviour in recorders, by using intelligent digital engagements, so that they re-deploy a portion of their effort to optimally improve biodiversity models? Our team is expertly placed to address these questions because we are a multidisciplinary team (environmental, computer, social and data scientists), and we will use a service design approach that actively engages data users (from national to local levels) and biodiversity recorders alongside the research team. In this project we will produce fine-resolution distribution models for about 1000 insect species across the UK (in this study focusing on butterflies, moths and grasshoppers) using earth observation sensor data, and a data lab (an online analysis platform) to automatically update outputs as new data are available. It is important to communicate these results and their uncertainty so, in collaboration, with data end users we will develop interactive and automatically-generated visualisations and text to do this effectively. We will also develop ways of assessing when and where new data will be most valuable in improving the model outputs. This, when combined with constraints (such as land access or people's recording preferences) will be communicated to recorders as bespoke recommendations via a web app. This will be developed for recording butterflies and grasshoppers (a sunny day activity), and recording moths (supported by our provision of portable, low cost light traps). We will engage recorders through established recording projects across the UK, including with partners in London (many people, but relatively few biodiversity data) and North and East Yorkshire (fewer people, and a wide variety of land uses). Throughout this project our work flows will be implemented in an data lab, so they will be flexible for use with any species and indeed could be adapted for any environmental data. The outcome of this project will be a process for enhancing biodiversity information that can be incorporated into existing recording projects and data streams, so that the outputs will be accessible and useful, for the benefit of nature and people. Funder: NERC
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CoLearn
CoLearn
Collaborative Open Learning
The open research community COLEARN was founded in 2000 in Brazil and became an international network in 2006 during the OpenLearn project developed by The Open University, UK. The acronym 'C' 'O' 'Learn' means Collaborative Open Learning. Currently, there are more than 3.500 members, some of them have been participating in various open learning projects such as OpenLearn (2006-2009) OpenScout (2010-2012), weSPOT (2013-2015) and ENGAGE (2014-2016). The term colearning was initially defined in 1996 by Frank Smith in the book "Joining the Literacy Club", also grounded on Paulo Freire's approach for emancipatory education. This concept was used to emphasize the importance of changing the role of, respectively, teachers and students from dispensers and receptacles of knowledge to both colearners "collaborative partners on the process of sensemaking, understanding and creating knowledge together. In addition, a decade later, Brantmeier (2005) explains that colearning acts toward student- centered learning as well as building a more genuine "community of practice" through dynamic and participatory engagement for collective construction of knowledge. Okada's research (2002, 2006, 2008) defines colearning as "learning together for co-creating open knowledge through digital technologies". Her work explains that colearning concept has recently become more popular due to the rapid advances of Web 2.0, which allows the creation and exchange of user-generated knowledge, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and social networking. Based on the philosophy of openness, the process of colearning is enriched through wide participation for creating, adapting and sharing reusable OER for co-authoring knowledge for all (Okada 2012). Due to the rapid increase of co-authoring technologies and innovative pedagogies, several features which differentiate "colearning in social networks" versus the "traditional e-learning in Virtual Learning Environments" (VLE) emerged. Some of these features are: educators as "competence and knowledge facilitators", students as "colearners coauthors", flexible curriculum integrating formal and informal learning, open multimedia content, communities of practice, co-evaluation, peer- review assessment and collaborative open learning paths. The Colearn network aims to investigate how these diverse features have been contributing to the process of emancipatory education, which means empowering colearners to become critical thinkers, creative collaborators, innovative researchers and responsible citizens.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Urban Inquiries
Urban Inquiries
Inquiry skills for responsible research and innovation for envisioning and contributing to improvements cities
Several initiatives on collaborative inquiry-based learning "co-inquiry" have been emerging in Higher Education and Secondary schools. Most of them are funded by local governments and the European Commission. The urban inquiry project is an example, which is based on various initiatives. Urban Inquiry offers open educational resources, learning technologies and pedagogical approaches for formal education curriculum and informal learning opportunities promoted by universities, schools, science centres, museums, CSO and citizens associations. Our aim focuses on supporting educators, researchers and learners to identify authentic scenarios, describe collective problems scientifically and apply open science tools for socio-scientific knowledge construction. Urban inquiry projects help participants develop inquiry skills for responsible research and innovation for envisioning and contributing to improvements in their cities.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Polifonia
Polifonia
A digital harmoniser of European musical heritage
Polifonia, a new 3Mâ‚¬ project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme will run for the next 40 months to recreate the connections between music, people, places and events from the sixteenth century to the modern-day. These findings will be available to everyone as an interconnected global database on the web and will enhance our understanding of European musical heritage. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, Polifonia will analyse sounds, texts and musical scores to recreate the history of European musical heritage through people, events, languages, and places. Polifonia will help scholars in studying how music changed and reacted to the social and political environment over the past six centuries, providing a vast resource to uncover these phenomena, systematically: a knowledge graph - a network of interconnected data from all the main musical heritage sources with one single point of access. The Polifonia consortium is an interdisciplinary team of passionate researchers and music lovers: computer scientists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, historians of music, linguists, musical heritage archivists, cataloguers and administrators, and creative professionals.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in EnquiryBlogger
EnquiryBlogger
Social Learning Journal
EnquiryBlogger extends WordPress, the world's most popular open source content management system and blogging platform, with a set of plugins that turn it into a particular flavour of social learning journal. It is an example of Dispositional Learning Analytics (also referred to by Schneider, et al. 2012 as Learning Process Analytics). EnquiryBlogger is a collaboration between the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (Simon Buckingham Shum & Rebecca Ferguson), and University of Bristol's Centre for Systems Learning & Leadership (Ruth Deakin Crick). For Learners (e.g. school and university students, workplace staff) EnquiryBlogger adds three learner plugins to a WordPress blog, giving visual feedback on how many times blog posts have been categorised by a learner using the seven dimensions of "Learning Power"[1], progress against the core activities of Authentic Enquiry[2], and a visual "mood graph" showing the peaks and troughs of how the learner feels about their work. The plugins are also used to navigate quickly to those posts, by clicking on the coloured blobs. For Teachers/Mentors there are three dashboard widgets displaying all learners' plugins in their group, and an additional EnquiryBlogBuilder plugin for batch generating blogs for a whole cohort. The cohort can quickly visit each others' blogs for commenting through auto-generated links in their blogs.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in AI4EDI
AI4EDI
AI technologies to tackle EDI related issues
AI is here. We interact with AI technology every time we search online, interact on a social media platform or use a credit card. We know that AI can be a force for good, for example, OU Analyse uses machine learning to help identify students at risk of failing. Given the ubiquity of this technology, it is important though that we understand its potential impact, good and bad, for all users. Within AI4EDI we will highlight EDI issues related to AI research and innovation. In particular, how AI can help address EDI issues, such as the awarding gap for black students, and EDI challenges that can be present in AI systems, such as data and decision-making bias.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in 3D Audio
3D Audio
3-Dimensional Audio Virtual Environments
The current state of the art in digital audio and desktop computing means that the real-time generation of rich audio virtual environments (AVEs) is now possible. Work is ongoing towards the application of such AVEs within education, with a key target group being blind students. The overall objectives for the research are: - To provide the foundation scientific and technical research needed to enable the development of a system, for an educational context, that facilitates the computer generation of 3-dimensional AVEs. - To demonstrate and evaluate the application of 3D AVEs in giving access for people with a visual impairment to current and emerging approaches in educational multi-media and computer based learning. Audio Virtual Environments Much promise has been held up, and some demonstrated, for the application of virtual worlds in education. The ability to learn through exploring worlds that would be otherwise inaccessible because of their size, location, time-scale or dangerous nature is attractive and offers potential benefit at all levels of education. This has applications in a wide range of subject areas; a few examples could include: - exploration of atomic structures, the solar system, or observation of magnetic field patterns - hypermedia stories and social or language learning scenarios - exploration within the human body, intracellular processes, bio-tech procedures - staged development of practical skills Now if this approach and its associated benefits is to be extended to visually impaired sighted students then the creation of rich audio virtual worlds that faithfully convey what is conventionally offered in the visual medium is needed. There is still much basic research towards the practical implementation of such audio worlds. This is particularly the case as the target is that these implementations will be readily achieved in the classroom or student's home with minimal specialised and only relatively low cost computing and audio facilities. This is the context of an ongoing collaborative work between the Multi-media and Enabling Technology Group at the Open University and the Sensory Disabilities Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire. Advances in Human Computer Interaction The creation of rich audio virtual environments also presents the opportunity of realising audio user interfaces with comparable complexity and utility to standard GUIs. Thus the approach holds the potential of enhanced access to the ubiquitous GUI based software for sight impaired computer users. Thus the work has implications far beyond educational applications of virtual environments. The researchers maintain that is not appropriate to just translate the metaphors common in GUIs (i.e. the desk top/office metaphor spatially arranged according to the limits of the VDU) to an audio representation of the same. Vision is a spatially dominant sense, where as hearing is predominantly temporal and the spatial acuity of the 2 modalities is very different. Recognising these issues empirical work is to be undertaken to evaluate alternative metaphors with the aim of improving the human computer interaction especially for visually impaired people.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in HERoS
HERoS
Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems
HERoS aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the response to the Covid-19 outbreak. HERoS creates and provides policies and guidelines for improved crisis governance, focusing on responders to public health emergencies, and their needs to make informed decisions. HERoS further improves the predictions of the spread by understanding and modelling the impact of local behaviour on the spread of the disease. The OU's role in HERoS is to study the spread of misinformation and corresponding fact-checks related to COVID-19 on social media.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
Leveraging Blockchain for OpenSTEM Africa
This project, led by WELS and funded by HEIF, is developing a business case and implementation model which leverages blockchain capacity to create a smart and sustainable future for OpenSTEM Africa, BlueScreenIT's education offerings and explores the wider potential for this model across the Open University. The key project objectives are to work collaboratively with BluescreenIT to: - keep track of existing patterns of OpenSTEM resource use to understand actual and potential demand better - monetise where appropriate additional delivery to ensure both sustainability and expanded project reach - validate the integrity of high value Open Educational Resources (OER) such as onscreen science applications - use blockchain to feasibly manage existing and expanded delivery in diverse and complex educational contexts by reducing the administrative cost and overheads through the use of smart contracts and other measures - use blockchain (particularly through the use of smart contracts) to monitor and manage expansions of both existing content and platform usage to allow a wider range of users to access and benefit from this content in new creative ways. In particular, use blockchain to facilitate opportunities to licence and appropriately charge for educational resources to be used on various platforms - integrate this business case and implementation model with relationships in developing countries and organisations and foundations involved in international development - use this expansion of provision to facilitate wider additional sales such as activities and CPD training - use this business case and implementation model as a template for other projects in BluescreenIT, WELS, STEM and across the Open University as a whole - be consistent with the ethics around the use of OER whilst recognising the context of OER provision - particularly around the amount of available grant funding - has changed - scope the possibility of an OpenSTEM Africa app which can be used in various ways with blockchain
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in CIMPLE
CIMPLE
Countering Creative Information Manipulation with Explainable AI
CIMPLE aims to experiment with innovative social and knowledge-driven AI explanations, and to use computational creativity techniques to generate powerful, engaging, and easily and quicky understandable explanations of rather complex AI decisions and behaviour. These explanations will be tested in the domain of detection and tracking of manipulated information, taking into account social, psychological and technical explainability needs and requirements. Covid-19, and climate change, are the main two use cases to be investigated.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in IMMA Viewpoints
IMMA Viewpoints
Find out more about IMMA artworks. How do IMMA artworks make you think? How do they make other people think?
IMMA Viewpoints is a mobile web application that encourages visitors to share their own response to artworks in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Visitors are encouraged to answer different questions related to an artwork such as how it makes them feel, what other people would think of the artwork, or how they would feel if it appeared in their house or garden. Visitors can also view how others have responded to the artworks, either through the web application or a display screen at the museum. IMMA Viewpoints is part of our research into developing methods and tools to support Citizen Curation, in which citizens use curatorially-inspired approaches to develop their own interpretations of art, share their own perspective and appreciate the perspectives of others. IMMA Viewpoints was developed in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) as part of the EU H2020 funded SPICE project.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in IMMA Deep Viewpoints
IMMA Deep Viewpoints
Supporting Citizen Curation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
Deep Viewpoints is a web application to support Citizen Curation. The app is used to author "scripts" that guide the interpretation process, whether on-site or online, through a sequence of stages comprising artworks, contextual information and questions. Visitors can use the scripts to see the museum as curated from different viewpoints. Deep Viewpoints has been used at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) to enable a broad range of communities to develop their personal responses to the IMMA collection and exhibitions, as well as author new scripts that curate the museum experience in a way that reflects their own concerns and perspectives. Participating groups have included migrant women, Black and Irish and Black Queer advocacy groups, asylum seekers, healthcare workers, young people in conflict with the law and children and young people living with illnesses. IMMA Deep Viewpoints was developed in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) as part of the EU H2020 funded SPICE project.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in MK:Communities
App for managing and scaling-up community based care
The App MK:Communities is the result of a collaboration with the Woughton Community Council, the SME Spirocco and the Knowledge Media Institute. The project was funded by the first Open Call of the H2020 GATEKEEPER project with a budget of £45k. MK:Communities enables all users to request and provide support to their neighbours. Users are organized in communities, managed and regulated by a local council. The App has being piloted in Milton Keynes, in the area of the pertinence of the Woughton Community Council https://www.woughtoncommunitycouncil.gov.uk/news/mk-communities-launch/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in SENSE
SENSE
Sensory Explorations of Nature in School Environments
Studies show that fewer than a quarter of British children regularly use their local patch of nature and many suffer from 'Nature Deficit Disorder', impacting physical and emotional health. Recently, analysis of the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on children has shown a critical link between low educational attainment and reduced access to outdoor spaces for children living in poverty. Crucially, unequal access to green space for children and communities aligns with a general pattern of nature degradation, with the 2019 State of Nature report concluding that the UK is among the world's most nature depleted countries, and unable to meet international commitments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity's Aichi Targets. We believe that jointly addressing iniquities with respect to children's access to science learning, nature and the outdoors is key for advancing the discourse around environmental sustainability. Sensory input, including those of touch, smell and sound, are known to be important to early science learning. New haptic technologies based on variable friction allow users to feel textures on a touch screen. We propose developing such technologies to create a platform for sensory explorations of nature. We will bring together our interdisciplinary expertise across Computer Science, Education, Ecology and Science Communication to research touch and haptic interfaces for bridging the known divides with respect to children's access to nature and the outdoors and science learning. We emphasise school grounds as spaces that can be developed through wildlife-friendly gardening practices as equitable spaces for encounters with nature for all pupils, and develop a citizen science project to observe nature in such spaces. Our research then aims to augment observation outdoors through developing variable-friction haptic interfaces that allow you to feel texture when touching an image on the screen. Our project will thus seek to augment observation outdoors through developing variable-friction haptic interfaces that allow you to feel texture when touching an image on the screen. The key aim is to enhance, rather than distract from or replace, experiences of and curiosity about nature. We expect the touch interfaces we develop to be useful for (a) drawing attention to nature, e.g. a child may have access to real trees but not be minded to touch them or question why they have different barks; (b) making the untouchable tactile, e.g. through touching images of a badger; (c) playing with scale, e.g. feeling images at microscopic (e.g. leaf veins) or macroscopic resolutions, or comparing textures of leaves over seasons; and (d) continuing explorations of nature even when indoors, to sustain interest. We will explore in depth in a multidisciplinary manner the scientific and philosophical issues that stem from tactile but digital human-computer interactions around nature. For example, whether the inclusion of sensory input help pupils in distinguishing species (e.g. plant species through the textures of tree bark or leaves), whether digital tactile experiences generate emotions and feelings that are qualitatively or quantitatively different from just looking at the image, and whether they can help reconnect pupils with nature and encourage tactile explorations outdoors. We seek to amplify the capacity of school pupils, from diverse backgrounds, to influence and participate in scientific inquiry and conservation action, by engaging in a "slowed down" multifaceted scientific, artistic and sensory observation of nature biodiversity within their school grounds. In the process they will learn about the circular economy and explore ideas from permaculture for redesigning their school grounds to support wildlife and also provide themselves with a richer sensory experience. We will develop a first of its kind online museum of citizen science for pupils to publish and share their biodiversity stories from school grounds. See the UKRI press release at https://www.ukri.org/news/haptic-tech-turns-phones-into-multi-sensory-nature-learning-tools/.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Alice Project
Alice Project
Personal Web Shopping Experience
Currently shopping on the internet is often not a pleasant experience. Finding the right product can take considerable time, browsing related products is often not possible and websites can feels anonymous. Imagine if the experience was more like visiting your local corner shop. Within a friendly local shop the customer is attended by an agent which understands his or her needs, the relationships between the store's product lines and the specifics of the local community. We aim to construct a personal web shopping assistant that uses a variety of knowledge sources to create a personalised shopping experience. This project is being carried out in conjunction with the Icelandic internet company INNN (www.innn.com) who will licence the resultant technologies eventually selling a software product and service.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Mark
Mark
MarK aims at developing the next generation neutral 5G infrastructure for high-density areas.
MarK (Advanced Radio in Milton Keynes) project aims at developing the next generation 5G infrastructure that is neutral, shared by mobile network providers, and fit for high-density areas. MarK will develop and demonstrate real-time network profiling capabilities to support better management of events, and resilience for critical use cases (e.g., emergency services) in high-demand scenarios or network overload. The technology will be demonstrated at the MK:DONS Stadium and Marshal Arena complex during concerts and football matches. The OU is leading Work Package 1 about the scenarios, user and service requirements and design of the infrastructure and will contribute during the project on the definition of the intelligent profiling, testing and definition of policies around the large-scale deployment of 5G. The project is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology of the government of the United Kingdom. MarK is being lead by the Satellite Application Catapults and includes six other external partners. Within the Open University, the KMi team is also joined by Dr Miguel Valdez and Prof Mathew Cook.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in ORBIS
ORBIS
Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales
ORBIS aims to transform the democratic landscape of Europe by addressing the chasm between citizens and policy-makers. Through innovative digital solutions, it champions a transparent and participatory deliberative democracy model at scale. Pioneered democratic models, methods and processes developed within ORBIS would offer pragmatic solutions resonating with the modern European citizen's voice and will be validated in 6 distinct use cases 6 use cases to experiment with scaling deliberative democracy tools, methods and processes: #1 REIMAGINING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF DEMOCRACY Collaborate globally to strengthen democracy's foundations / expert roundtables - citizen panels / resilient DCF (Democracy & Culture Foundation) https://www.democracyculturefoundation.org/ #2 TEENS FOR DEMOCRACY Teens influence policy-making / bridging intergenerational gaps / Initially European, to scale out to a global level #3 YOUNG THINKERS AND EU DECISION-MAKERS Digitally empowers youth / fostering co-creation of policies / enhancing democratic engagement / European https://www.democracyculturefoundation.org/what-we-do/our-projects/teens-for-democracy/ #4 EUROPE4CITIZENS AI-enhanced Citizen Dialogues / reshaping narratives for inclusive decision-making / Initially national, to scale out to a European level https://re-imagine.eu/future4citizens #5 TRANSITION MECHANISMS FOR A DEMOCRATIC CITY Collaboration to collaborate to amplify citizen voices / shaping a sustainable urban future / Initially local, to scale out to the national and EU level https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-ideas-lab/ #6 ALLIANCE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN GREECE Enhancing citizen participation and co-creation in entrepreneurial and social innovation policies / Initially regional, to scale out to the national level https://www.pde.gov.gr/gr/
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in Immersive Online Reading for Mental Wellbeing
Immersive Online Reading for Mental Wellbeing
This project designs a scalable online bibliotherapy intervention for mental health
The project is funded in partnership with the OU in Northern Ireland, FASS, the Verbal Arts Centre, and Belfast Metropolitan College. Led by researchers Alessio Antonini and Imelda Haran, the project will run between November 2024 and October 2025. Building on a previous collaboration, the project sims to expand the reach of Verbal’s successful in-person reading programmes, which have shown positive impacts on mental health. Due to resource limitations, these programmes can only be delivered in small, local groups. This project will address this by designing a scalable online version of the bibliotherapy intervention, allowing people to access mental health support remotely. Through an interactive digital platform, the new online intervention will offer reading sessions and structured discussions, designed to reach individuals who may face barriers to in-person participation. This innovative approach could transform bibliotherapy by making it widely accessible, helping tackle the mental health crisis across the UK and beyond.
Pablo Sanchez Nunez's participation in TOUCH
TOUCH
Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning
Professor Advaith Siddharthan's new project, "Feeling the Untouchable: Haptic touch experiences for naturalistic learning" has received a GBP 922,000 grant through round one of UKRI's highly competitive cross-council responsive mode scheme to explore how children could experience and learn about the natural world through touch. Spanning two years, this project is poised to make a significant impact on sensory learning and inclusivity within educational environments. The project is a collaboration with Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Learning for Sustainability Scotland and Sight Scotland. The TOUCH project will address today's biggest sustainability challenges by bringing researchers, teachers, and students together to co-create tactile discovery experiences of the natural world. We will develop innovative teaching methods that encourage students to explore the natural world in exciting and hands-on ways, including through digital haptic interfaces. This approach not only enhances students' observational and critical thinking skills but also integrates technology meaningfully into nature-focused lessons. Ultimately, the TOUCH project aims to inspire children to take action to protect the planet, empowering them to become informed and active citizens for a sustainable future.
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Alberto Ardito
Senior Software Engineer
I'm a senior software developer specializing in web and mobile technologies. I have been working for KMi since 2015, and over the years, I have mainly focused on web platforms using technologies like Angular, Node.js, Firebase, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
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Alessandro Adamou
Research Associate
Alessandro Adamou is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute. His main research and software development focus is on the means to make the Semantic Web state of the art available to, and usable by, a variedly specialised public. These means include integrated ontology development environments, dynamic ontology network management, semantic content management and end-user generation of quality Linked Data. Alessandro received his master degree in Computer Science at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and his Ph.D. at the University of Bologna. In between, he has also worked as a research assistant at the Italian Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC-CNR). Alessandro has been actively involved with the EU research projects NeOn, Interactive Knowledge Stack and LinkedUp, as well as the Listening Experience Database, a joint effort between the OU and Royal College of Music. He is a committer and project management board member at the Apache Software Foundation for the Stanbol software project.
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Alessandro Adamou's participation in Listening Experience Database
Listening Experience Database
A crowd-sourced linked data resource of documented experiences of listening to music
The Listening Experience Database (LED) project is a collaboration between the Open University and the Royal College of Music. It has been awarded a £0.75m grant over three years from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The main purpose of the project is to collate peopleï¿½s experiences of listening to music. It will also be used to shed light on a wide range of issues, including musical performance and reception, particularly in relation to the RCM's expertise in Western musical traditions. The project focuses on the building of a large database of personal listening experiences, relating to any culture and repertoire up to the present. It looks at sources such as diaries, memoirs, letters and oral history. LED is entirely managed and published as Linked Data, and reuses data from external sources (including DBpedia, the British National Bibliography and MusicBrainz) as part of its life-cycle.
Angelo Antonio Salatino's profile document
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Angelo Antonio Salatino
Research Fellow
Dr. Angelo Salatino is a Research Fellow at the Scholarly Knowledge (SKM) group, at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University. He obtained a Ph.D., studying methods for the early detection of research trends. In particular, his project aimed at identifying the emergence of new research topics at their embryonic stage (i.e., before being recognised by the research community). He is currently working on several projects, including: i) new technologies for classifying scientific papers according to their relevant research topics, ii) automatic development of ontologies of research areas, iii) novel tools for assessing the research landscape. Research interests His research interests are in the areas of Semantic Web, Network Science and Knowledge Discovery technologies, with focus on the structure and evolution of science: Science of Science External collaborations Angelo collaborates with a number of academic and industrial partners. In particular, he collaborates with Spinger Nature, the world's largest academic book publisher, as well as universities in Cagliari (IT), Trento (IT), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), and Dresden (DE).
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Angelo Antonio Salatino's participation in Garden Monitor
Garden Monitor
Using data and Artificial Intelligence for efficient garden monitoring
Angelo Antonio Salatino's participation in Rexplore
Rexplore
Exploring Research Data
Rexplore leverages novel solutions in large-scale data mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics, to provide an innovative environment for exploring and making sense of scholarly data. In particular, Rexplore allows users: To detect and make sense of important trends in research, such as, significant migrations of researchers from one area to another, the emergence of new topics, the evolution of communities within a particular area, and several others. To identify a variety of interesting relations between researchers, e.g., recognizing authors who share similar research trajectories. These relations go well beyond the standard co-authorship links or relationships informed by social networks, which are commonly found in other systems. To perform fine-grained expert search with respect to detailed multi-dimensional parameters. To analyse research performance at different levels of abstraction, including individual researchers, organizations, countries, and research communities identified on the basis of dynamic criteria. An important aspect of Rexplore is that it does not rely on manually-generated taxonomies of research areas, which tend to be shallow and date very rapidly, but uses instead an innovative ontology population algorithm, Klink, which automatically constructs a semantic network of fine-grained research areas, linked by semantic relations, such as sameAs and subAreaOf. The use of Klink ensures a fine-grained handling of research areas and affords Rexplore a very high level of precision and recall in associating topics to publications and researchers. Rexplore offers an advanced graphical interface, comprising a variety of innovative and fine grained visualizations, which support users in exploring authors, topics, and research communities. To support effective exploration, all graphical elements can be clicked on, thus enabling a seamless and contextualized navigation.
Angelo Antonio Salatino's participation in Supporting Editorial Activities at Springer Nature
Supporting Editorial Activities at Springer Nature
The project aims at fostering Springer Nature editorial activities by supporting them with a variety of smart solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, data mining, and semantic technologies. In particular, the KMi team will support Springer Nature editorial team in classifying proceedings and other editorial products, taking informed decisions about their marketing strategy, and improve their internal classification. The main objectives of the project are: - Producing several analytics solutions for the analysis of big scholarly data. - Automatically generating a large-scale ontology describing research topics in the field of Engineering. - Enhancing the Smart Topics Miner, a tool developed to support the Springer Nature editorial team in classifying proceedings. - Releasing the Computer Science Ontology, the largest ontology of research areas in the field of Computer Science, which currently includes about 15K topics and 70K semantic relationships.
Angelo Antonio Salatino's participation in Augur
Angelo Antonio Salatino's participation in AIDA Dashboard
AIDA Dashboard
Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature
Scientific conferences and journals play a crucial role by promoting the cross-pollination of ideas and technologies, fostering new collaborations, shaping scientific communities, and connecting research efforts from academia and industry. However, bibliometric systems and academic search engines provide a limited support for analysing scientific venues in similar fields, and to analyse the involvement of industrial sectors. This led to the creation of the AIDA Dashboard, an innovative tool for exploring and making sense of scientific venues which integrates statistical analysis, semantic technologies, and visual analytics.
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Abi Rawlins
Research and Enterprise Manager
I am Research and Enterprise Manager for KMi and I provide support for financial aspects of bidding and the management of ongoing research projects
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Audrey Ekuban's profile document
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Audrey Ekuban
Having started my KMi journey, in January 2019, as part of the Institute of Coding project, in which I explored how the Learning Analytics Dashboard of the Open University (OUAnalyse) could be deployed in different educational institutions, I am now part of the part of the KMi GenAI-OU project, in which I am exploring the benefits and risks of Generative AI in Education. I started my P/T PhD at KMi in February 2020, researching the role that emerging privacy-preserving Machine Learning techniques can play in creating privacy-by-design and ethics-by-design applications.
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Audrey Ekuban's participation in GenAI-OU
GenAI-OU
Generative AI at the Open University
Together with colleagues from IET, LDS and other OU schools and units, we are looking into the ways that Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, can enhance teaching and learning at the OU. Towards this goal, we are developing, testing and evaluating Generative AI prototypes for improving OU module production and for offering personalised learning services to our students.
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Audrey Ekuban's participation in GATEKEEPER
GATEKEEPER
Technologies for healthier independent lives for the ageing populations
KMi are part of a 43 partner EU project that has just be given the go ahead as part of the EU Horizon2020 research funding programme. The main objective of the Project is to create a GATEKEEPER that connects healthcare providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, elderly citizens and the communities they live in, in order to originate an open, trust-based arena for matching ideas, technologies, user needs and processes, aimed at ensuring healthier independent lives for the ageing populations. The KMi Team, led by Professor Enrico Motta, will investigate the role of robots in the developing landscape of healthcare support. Specifically, the team will test the feasibility and appropriateness of in-home robots and community robots that can provide citizens with healthcare support and information and well as a direct link to healthcare professionals. The team will build test scenarios in Milton Keynes that provide valuable insight into the role of robots. This project is part of the broader KMi research programme in Robots and Smart Cities, which is described at https://isds.kmi.open.ac.uk/smart-cities-and-robotics/.
Audrey Ekuban's participation in DEL4ALL
DEL4ALL
Digital Enhanced Learning for All
The main goal of DEL4ALL is to transform the current European research and innovation initiatives in the area of digital enhanced learning into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, capable of effectively stimulating collaboration among all key players in an inclusive an impactful way. While consolidating outcomes of ongoing projects by analysing best-practice and success stories at the benefit of the whole community, dedicated dissemination and stakeholders' engagement activities will ensure to inject into the broader Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. DEL4ALL will guide the community and its efforts in a forward-looking perspective, analysing challenges and opportunities offered by the increasing adoption of digital technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc., for more inclusive and personalised learning solutions. This will be done by engaging experts in a multidisciplinary perspective to understand legal, organisational and technological defies to overcome, especially to scale up such solutions. This shall be the basis for providing guidelines on future research directions, as well as policy recommendations to transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe.
Audrey Ekuban's participation in AI Digital Assistant (AIDA)
Beatriz Rocha's profile document
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Beatriz Rocha
Visiting Undergraduate
Ana Beatriz, a Bachelor of Law graduate from the Catholic University of Salvador - UCSAL / BA - Brazil, is a visitor to the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU), Milton Keynes / England, under the supervision of Dr. Alexandra Okada From March 2017 to January 2018, acting as international researcher of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi / OU). Her research visit focuses on "Responsible Research and Innovation in Higher Education for Gender and Ethics", referring to the European ENGAGE project led by Dr. Okada, being relevant for collaborations in the field of educational technology and interdisciplinary studies in the Brazil and the United Kingdom. She held a cultural exchange with Stanley-Boyd High School in Stanley-Wisconsin / USA from 2014 to 2015. Her research interests include the areas of technology, e-learning, knowledge mapping, collaborative networks, ethics and law.
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Alexandre Marino Costa
Visiting Researcher
Dr. Alexandre Marino Costa is associate professor of Sciences of Administration Department, of Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He has been working in Higher Education for over 10 years in the areas of teaching and research with large experience in planning, implementation and evaluation of Distance Education Programmes. Among the program coordinated in recent years stands out the National Program of Formation in Administration Publishes, part System Open University of Brazil. The program includes 66 universities and 100,000 students in all regions of Brazil. Currently he is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in period august of 2015 to July of 2016. Scholarship from CAPES Foundation Ministry of Education in Brazil.
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Aristotelis Charalampous's profile document
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Aristotelis Charalampous
Research Assistant
I am actively helping further enhance CORE’s recommendation and search engines, including tasks ranging from (big) data processing to algorithm implementations that suit our users' needs. In collaboration with the rest of the team, these solutions are tested on a daily basis on KMi infrastructure and their performance evaluated on them. Lastly, I am catering to the creation and provision of analytics metrics to track the impact of our in-house solutions with the rest of the world.
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Agnese Chiatti's profile document
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Agnese Chiatti
Agnese is a post-doctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on Computer Vision applications in Robotics, with a particular focus on Neuro-symbolic Learning methods. She is interested in how robots can autonomously build and maintain a visual model of the environment in which they are deployed. Agnese is also a Visiting Fellow at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thanks to funding from the L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" Program. She obtained a PhD In Artificial Intelligence from the Open University and holds a MS in Information Sciences and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Angel Casado Hidalgo
Visiting Undergraduate Research Student
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Claudia Machado's profile document
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Claudia Machado
Visiting PhD Student
Claudia Machado holds an MA in Education from the University of Minho - Portugal and has Postgraduate Certificate in Distance Education at SENAC - Brazil as well as in School Supervision by UNIVERSO – Brazil and a Licentiate Degree in Pedagogy by UNICEUMA - Brazil. She was a lecturer at UNIVIMA - Brazil before moving to Portugal. She became a researcher at the E-learning program at the University of Lisbon - Portugal. She was also a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in 2014. She is a Doctoral student in Educational Technology from the University of Minho - Portugal. Her research interests focus on the area of education, with an emphasis on distance education, mainly in the following areas: Continual Professional Development, Moodle VLE, Social Media and Educational Technologies. Machado is currently a participant of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and GIPTE - Research and Innovation in Educational Technologies (UFPE – Brazil). Her research interest focuses on Teacher’s CPD for using ICT and social media. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal OnisCiência. Her publications comprises 10 articles in academic journals, 11 papers in conference proceedings and 2 books in Brazil.
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Aba-Sah Dadzie's profile document
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Aba-Sah Dadzie
Research Associate - Data Science
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EDSA
European Data Science Academy
Data explosion on the web, fuelled by social networking, micro-blogging, as well as crowdsourcing, has led to the Big Data phenomenon. This is characterized by increasing volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, originating from sources that generate them at an increasing rate. This wealth of data provides numerous new analytic and business intelligence opportunities to various industry sectors. Therefore, more and more industry sectors are in need of innovative data management services, creating a demand for Data Scientists possessing skills and detailed knowledge in this area. Ensuring the availability of such expertise will prove crucial if businesses are to reap the full benefits of these advanced data management technologies, and the know-how accumulated over the past years by researchers, technology enthusiasts and early adopters. The European Data Science Academy (EDSA) will establish a virtuous learning production cycle whereby we: a) analyse the required sector specific skillsets for data analysts across the main industrial sectors in Europe; b) develop modular and adaptable data science curricula to meet these needs; and c) deliver training supported by multiplatform and multilingual learning resources based on our curricula. The curricula and learning resources will be continuously evaluated by pedagogical and data science experts during both development and deployment.
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HUB4NGI
Unlocking the value of the Next Generation Internet
HUB4NGI is the first Coordination and Support Action dedicated to transforming the Next Generation Internet initiative into an increasingly dynamic, collaborative, vibrant and participatory Research and Innovation Ecosystem. HUB4NGI aims to offer a collaborative platform capable of effectively supporting and coordinating activities across the whole NGI context by combining knowledge, tools and processes to reach and engage top-notch Internet researchers and innovators. The selected and carefully designed activities HUB4NGI will pursue have been organised around 5 main work packages: the NGI APPROACH, the NGI GUIDE, the NGI CATALYST, the NGI BOOST and the NGI FIGHTER. By close interaction of these activities, HUB4NGI is covering strategy and operation by: Defining a methodology for collecting and assessing the information in the NGI domain. Grounding the NGI vision, strategy and plans. Accelerating the NGI programme implementation. Running community building and outreach activities. HUB4NGI will ultimately help the whole NGI community to grow and liaise with relevant European, international, national and regional initiatives.
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Elizabeth Cano
My research effort concentrates in the area of Social Computing, particularly in the analysis of social media based on the following topics: - Data mining based on Bayesian modelling and NLP techniques - Information retrieval methods based on semantic web technologies and graph-based algorithms - Machine learning-based approaches - Online algorithms I'm particularly interested on the real-time analysis and detection of antisocial behaviour in social media. My previous work includes the development of methodologies for child-grooming detection in online chatrooms and the automatic detection of violence-related content in tweets. I studied for a Ph.D. (2008-2012) under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Ciravegna at the University of Sheffield. My PhD thesis explored the application of semantic models and machine learning approaches for the mining of social media with a focus on entity profiling. Currently I work on the MKSmart project at KMi, which focuses on the use of sensor data for Smart cities. Within this project I'm working on models that allows the combination of heterogeneous sensor-based data sources and social media for the creation of a so-called city observatory.
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Arianna Graciotti
Visiting PhD Research Student
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Alessio Gugliotta
I was a researcher involved in projects concerning application of Semantic Web Service technology in the e-Government field. I am interested in modelling e-Government services by means of Semantic Web Services, adopting the IRS-III approach.
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Internet Reasoning Service (IRS)
KMi's Semantic Web Services framework
The Internet Reasoning Service - IRS - is a Semantic Web Services framework, which allows applications to semantically describe and execute web services. The IRS supports the provision of semantic reasoning services within the context of the Semantic Web.
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Alessio Gugliotta's participation in LUISA
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Aitor Gomez-Goiri
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Aitor Gomez-Goiri's participation in PT Anywhere
PT Anywhere
PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface.
PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface that can be accessed from any web browser or as a widget inside an interactive eBook. PT Anywhere is based on the Packet Tracer network simulator for Windows and Linux developed by the Cisco Networking Academy. Rather than replicate Packet Tracer's functionality in a web application, PT Anywhere is offering its basic functionality from a minimalistic interface that can be adapted to different learning contexts and purposes. PT Anywhere is available as a widget that can be embedded inside an online course, a Learning Management System (like Moodle or Sakai), or an interactive eBook (like Apple's iBooks). PT Anywhere has been jointly developed by the Open University and Cisco in the context of the projects FORGE and Open Networking Lab.
Aitor Gomez-Goiri's participation in WESPOT
WESPOT
Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning
The weSPOT project, supported by the European Commission, aims to propagate scientific inquiry as the approach for science learning and teaching in combination with today's curricula and teaching practices. weSPOT will create a Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies that supports users (from 12 to 25) to develop their inquiry based learning skills by means of: (i) a European reference model for inquiry skills and inquiry workflows, (ii) a diagnostic instrument for measuring inquiry skills, (iii) smart support tools for orchestrating inquiry workflows including mobile apps, learning analytics support, and social collaboration on scientific inquiry, (iv) social media integration and viral marketing of scientific inquiry linked to school legacy systems and an open badge system. In inquiry-based learning co-learners take the role of explorers and scientists and are motivated by their personal curiosity, guided by self-reflection, and develop knowledge personal and collaborative sense-making and reasoning. weSPOT will work on a meta-inquiry level in that it will: 1. define a reference model for inquiry-based learning skills, 2. create a diagnostic instrument for measuring inquiry skills, and 3. implement a working environment that allows the easy linking of inquiry activities with school curricula and legacy systems.
Aitor Gomez-Goiri's participation in FORGE
FORGE
Forging Online Education through FIRE
Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) with the ongoing education revolution. This project will specify development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities to learners and to the learning community in general. FORGE relates to communications and IT, as well as to other disciplines including the physical and social sciences. It will lead to a strong connection between the learning community and existing FIRE platforms and supporting tools. The eLearning community will benefit from the use of very high performance facilities, provided as reusable learning solutions. Educators, content providers and students will acquire access to world-class facilities and use them to create and execute scientific experiments. The FIRE eLearning tools and services developed by FORGE, as well as the associated learning materials will be made available as OERs, so that they can be reused and repurposed by the eLearning community for a variety of learning contexts. Finally, FIRE will benefit through the addition of an ever-growing set of FIRE-specific learning materials for an increasing number of FIRE-based students, leading to increased awareness and use. The openness and reusability of FIRE will be promoted to the eLearning community, thus leading to the development of new FIRE facilities and the extension of existing ones in order to address specific learning requirements.
Antonio Gonzalez-Pardo's profile document
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Antonio Gonzalez-Pardo
Antonio Gonzalez is a Lecturer at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2014. His main research interests are related to Computational Intelligence (genetic algorithms, PSO, SWARM intelligence, etc), and Machine Learning Techniques. The application domains for his research are Social Networks, Complex Graph-based problems and Optimisation problems. His current research focused on understanding complex networks, like the ones emerging from social media environments, particularly in the context of crisis situations caused by radical organisations. During his research stay at KMi, he will work in the COMRADES project.
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Alexei Yavlinsky's profile document
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Alexei Yavlinsky
Alexei was a a full-time PhD student in information retrieval at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in the Multimedia and Information Systems Group, supervised by Prof Stefan Rueger. His thesis http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/stefan/www-pub/a.yavlinsky-phd.pdf Image indexing and retrieval using automated annotation, published in 2007, argues that models of simple image features, such as global colour and texture, can be used to predict instances of different objects and scenes within photographic images. On this basis Alexei proposed the use of nonparametric density estimation to model these features and thus endow unlabelled images with probabilities of containing particular objects and scenes. This process, termed automated image annotation, enables one to set up a scalable image indexing framework that allows users to retrieve unlabelled images from large collections using simple keyword queries.
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Alaa Hammad's profile document
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Alaa Hammad
PhD Research Student
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Andrea Ibba's profile document
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Andrea Ibba
Visiting Research Student
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Tony Brush's profile document
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Tony Brush
Project Officer
I worked in KMi as a project officer using my skills in C++, VBA, PHP, SQL, other web development, G.I.S. & G.P.S., graphics/visualisation, image processing, neural networks etc. I implemented Magpie in Word.
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Tony Brush's participation in Magpie
Magpie
The semantic filter
Magpie adds an ontology based semantic layer onto web pages on-the-fly as they are browsed. Magpie automatically highlights key items of interest, and for each highlighted term it provides a set of 'services' (e.g. contact details, current projects, related people) when you right-click on the item.
Alan Fletcher's profile document
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Alan Fletcher
Head of Res. & Enterprise Support (STEM); Business Devel. & Lab Mngr, KMi
I have two roles at KMi. Research and Business Development is defining client needs as well as identifying innovations and potential markets for the really cool stuff we do. A client facing role set to help internal and external customers get the very best from the KMi Lab Manager covers everything from HR and communications to strategic planning, with health and safety thrown in.
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Alan Fletcher's participation in CityLABS
CityLABS
Research and Innovation in the Digital Economy
CityLabs is a place for SMEs to work with academic and industry leaders to develop concepts into prototypes for new products and services in the digital economy. Particularly focused on data-driven and IoT developments, the CityLabs team will support SMEs with a programme of Urban Business Lab, Tech Design & Prototype Evaluation, Concept Development Grants for developing concepts and access to the MK Data Hub.
Adam Jelley's profile document
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Adam Jelley
Senior Administration Assistant
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Anna Kuzilkova's profile document
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Anna Kuzilkova
Consultant
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Anita Khadka's profile document
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Anita Khadka
Anita Khadka is a PhD candidate in the Knowledge Media Institute in the Open University. Her research interest is focused on finding semantic relationships between research publications from a large corpus of digital libraries. Currently, she is working on recommender system domain specific to academic recommender systems. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a software engineer for number of years in the financial institution. And she has a Master degree in Intelligent systems and Robotics from the University of Essex.
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Anuj Kumar's profile document
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Anuj Kumar
I was a visiting researcher at KMI in 2008. My current work focuses on the application of machine learning techniques for automatic image annotation/classification. I have recently completed my masters from India, and trying to explore the realms of research.
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Karine Rocha's profile document
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Karine Rocha
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Ana Karine is a PhD student in the Program of Doctorate in Education and Contemporaneity - PPGEduC, of the State University of Bahia - UNEB; Master in Education and Contemporaneity from UNEB, specialist in Quality Management in Education and Distance Education, Bachelor in Business Administration and Bachelor of Mathematics. She is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Alexandra Okada from August 2016 to March 2018, and is funded by the CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil under the 88881.131870 / 2016- 01, public notice PDSE - Public Notice No. 19/2016. The research visit focuses on "Responsible Research and Innovation in Education and policy recommendations for secondary schools", referring to the European ENGAGE project, led by Dr. Okada, being relevant in the field of educational technology and professional development Of the professors in Brazil and the United Kingdom, contemplating his research on "Professional education policy integrated to high school in the State of Bahia: an analysis from the representations of the graduated subjects on the social objects work and education in the Territory of Identity of Irecê - TII ". She has been teaching at the State University of Bahia, DCHT - Irecê / Bahia, for more than 10 years, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses; Coordinates the specialization course in Management of Educational Organizations; Coordinated the Undergraduate Program in Distance Administration / Pole: Irecê / Bahia by UNEB; Member of the Sectoral Commission for Institutional Evaluation of DCHT - Campus XVI; Member of the Departmental Council. She is part of the research group Network Society, Cultural Plurality and Educational Digital Content - UNEB / of the group; Is the leader of the GENTTES Research Group: Research Group on Labor, Education, Management and Technologies.
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Alex Little's profile document
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Alex Little
Developer of Social Software
I was part of KMi's contribution to the OpenLearn (http://oci.open.ac.uk) team, mainly developing and integrating BuddySpace/MSG messaging systems into the Moodle VLE. Currently working for VSO, see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/alex
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Alex Little's participation in MSG
MSG
The World's Simplest Messenger
MSG a web application that allows you to use the basic functionality of the earlier BuddySpace Instant Messaging system within a standard web browser. This makes it ideal for use in environments where software can not be installed, or on networks where Internet access is restricted by firewalls and proxy servers, or where performing the installation is just cumbersome for the users.
Alex Little's participation in Open Sensemaking Communities
Open Sensemaking Communities
Helping e-learners construct interpretations of open content courseware
The Open Content movement is concerned with enabling students and educators to access material, in order to then learn from it, and reuse it either in one?s studies or one's own courses. The core efforts to date has focused on enabling access, e.g. building the organizational/political will to release and license content, and in developing open infrastructures for educators to then publish and reassemble it. The key challenge in the next phase of the open content movement is to improve the support for prospective students to engage with and learn from the material, and with each other though peer learning support, in the absence of formally imposed study timetables and assessment deadlines. KMi is now engaged in developing the next generation of tools for e-learning and collaborative sensemaking for open content learning support.
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Andriy Lisovoy
I am currently working as a researcher at STAR Lab, VUB
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Ainhoa Llorente's profile document
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Ainhoa Llorente
Research Student
I started my research studentship with KMi in October 2006 and obtained my PhD in 2010. My PhD topic was about identifying innovative ways to enhance a standard automated image annotation system. In order to reach this goal I applied technologies belonging to disciplines as diverse as Multimedia Information Retrieval, Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing. The final goal of this multidisciplinary research was to develop a set of techniques that can increase the effectiveness of any existing image search engine. My supervisors were Prof. Stefan Rüger and Prof. Enrico Motta.
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Andre Luis Correa's profile document
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Andre Luis Correa
André Luis Correa majored in Biology from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) in 2007. He has a Master’s Degree in Science Education from the same university and is currently taking his Doctorate in Science Education at UNESP, where he works as a associate lecturer, responsible for introducing ICT to pre-service teachers in Science Education. André Correa was a visiting researcher under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) in 2013/2014. During this period, he participated in various projects: 1.“21st century education” (by Telefonica Foundation) as part of the group COLEARNERS21, 2.“weSPOT ( working with social personal open technologies for inquiry based learning)”, responsible for the first pilot in Biodiversity in Secondary Schools, 3.OER & Social Newtorks as part of the Scientific Committee Correa is currently a research collaborator of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU). He is investigating skills and competences for the use of Information and Communication Technologies to science teaching with the COLERNERS21 Group.
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Alexandre Goncalves
I am interested in text mining integrated with ontologies and how this approach can provide solutions to the knowledge discovery area.
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Anna De Liddo's profile document
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Anna De Liddo
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
My research focuses on the socio-technical factors influencing the design and uptake of Collective Intelligence infrastructures. These are online environments which seek to improve collective awareness of the changing environment, and collective capacity to make the best use of expertise to problem solve, and adapt appropriately. I have particular interests in knowledge construction through discourse, and the role of technology in scaffolding dialogue and argumentation in contested domains, in which there is more than one point of view. The approaches I work with are network-centric, modelling and visualizing ideas and arguments as networks of nodes which can be analysed for topographical and semantic patterns. As background, I am an Urban Planner and Designer; I took a BSc in Civil Engineering, a MSc in Transport Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, and a MSc in Environmental Policy and Management at Institut National des Sience Appliquees in Lyon (France). I gained my PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning at Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, investigating ICT for Participatory Planning and Deliberation. In this respect I am interested in investigating tools to support knowledge representation, structuring and management, particularly with regards to collaborative decision-making processes in Environmental and Urban Planning domain.
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Anna De Liddo's participation in Compendium
Compendium
Managing the connections between information, ideas, interpretations and arguments
The Compendium tool and mapping method combines meeting facilitation, modelling and collaborative hypertext. It can be used to capture discussions and arguments in meetings, integrating perspectives from multiple stakeholders, and the construction of a collective memory resource. It is a collaborative project with international partners, and an active user community. In March 2013 the codebase was formally taken over by the user/developer community coordinated through the Next Generation site http://compendiumng.org. The archival site of the Compendium Institute at http://compendiuminstitute.net
Anna De Liddo's participation in Hypermedia Discourse
Anna De Liddo's participation in Cohere
Cohere
A Web 2.0 application for weaving connections between ideas
We experience the information ocean as streams of media fragments, flowing past us in every modality... To make sense of these, learners, researchers and analysts must organise them into coherent patterns... Cohere is an idea management tool for you to weave meaningful connections between ideas, for personal, team or social use... Cohere is part of an emerging vision of sensemaking infrastructure for crafting, sharing and disputing ideas. We hope it wil contribute to effective online deliberation and debate in fields such as open, participatory learning, e-democracy, scholarly research and knowledge management.
Anna De Liddo's participation in OLnet
OLnet
Open Learning Network
The aim of OLnet is to tackle gathering evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences. We want to gather evidence together but also spot the ideas that people see emerging from the opportunities.
Anna De Liddo's participation in Election Debate Visualization
Election Debate Visualization
The EDV Project will provide radically new ways for the public to replay the televised debates from the next UK general election
During the 2010 UK general election, the first ever televised Prime Ministerial debates took place. Research showed that there was a significant public appetite for this means of learning about the candidates and their policies, but that many viewers were left feeling uncertain about the meaning of and relationship between the competing arguments they had witnessed. KMi pilot research demonstrated the potential value of mapping the debates as visual diagrams. In 2015 the next election is envisaged, providing the opportunity to investigate how knowledge media can deliver completely new ways to replay the debates and engage with the arguments at stake. Funded by the UK EPSRC
Anna De Liddo's participation in Engage
Engage
Equipping the Next Generation for Active Engagement in Science
The ENGAGE project is part of the EU Science in society agenda to promote more Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). ENGAGE is about equipping the next generation to participate in scientific issues to change how science is taught. Traditionally students gain an image of science as a body of content, whereas RRI deals with uncertain areas of knowledge, where values and argument matter as much as facts. This shift is hugely challenging. ENGAGE focuses on a more inquiry-based methodology, which gives students opportunity for self-expression and responsibility for coming to informed decisions.
Anna De Liddo's participation in Evidence Hub
Evidence Hub
A collective intelligence platform for mapping a community and what it knows
The Evidence Hub concept is that we need better ways to pool, map and harness what a community knows. The Evidence Hub is a collaborative knowledge-building (specifically evidence-building) web platform. It was designed in KMI by the team developing the concept of "Contested Collective Intelligence" [1,2], where it is important to understand different perspectives and support quality debates. The first Evidence Hub was developed for the Open Learning Network project [3], and further refined in the Communities of Practice for Health Visiting project [4]. An Evidence Hub provides novel visual analytics designed to give insight into, and provoke reflection on, users’ knowlege-building activity. It is designed for use by practitioner communities/networks engaged in informal learning, and by students in more formal educational contexts. The Evidence Hub is designed to answer questions such as: • Who in my region is working on this problem? • Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme? • What are the key challenges we’re facing? • Who has potential solutions to these, and what’s the evidence that they work? • What evidence-based claims can we make with confidence? • What are the most controversial issues? The Evidence Hub concept has morphed and migrated to other groups who have ported it to other platforms and changed the conceptual model to suit their community's specific needs [5]. [1] De Liddo, Anna; Sándor, Ágnes and Buckingham Shum, Simon (2012). Contested Collective Intelligence: rationale, technologies, and a human-machine annotation study. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 21(4-5) pp. 417–448. http://oro.open.ac.uk/31052 [2] De Liddo, Anna and Buckingham Shum, Simon (2013). The Evidence Hub: harnessing the collective intelligence of communities to build evidence-based knowledge. In: Large Scale Ideation and Deliberation Workshop, 29 June - 02 July 2013, Munich, Germany. http://oro.open.ac.uk/38002 [3] De Liddo, Anna; Buckingham Shum, Simon; McAndrew, Patrick and Farrow, Robert (2012). The open education evidence hub: a collective intelligence tool for evidence based policy. In: Cambridge 2012: Joint OER12 and OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2012 Conference, 16 - 18 April 2012, Cambridge, UK. http://oro.open.ac.uk/33253 [4] Ikioda, F. , Kendall, S. , Brooks, F. , De Liddo, A. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2013) Factors That Influence Healthcare Professionals’ Online Interaction in a Virtual Community of Practice. Social Networking, 2, 174-184. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/sn.2013.24017 [5] Open Education Research Hub: http://oerresearchhub.org
Anna De Liddo's participation in Catalyst
Anna De Liddo's participation in CIDashboard
CIDashboard
The Collective Intelligence Dashboard (CI dashboard) is an open online service that provides analytics visualizations for online debate platforms.
The Collective Intelligence Dashboard (CI dashboard) is an open online service that provides analytics visualizations for online debate platforms. It is a place in which analytics on conversational and social dynamics can be made visible and fed back to the community for further awareness and reflection on the state and outcomes of an online debate. The CIDashboard website gives an overview of all analytics visualizations we provide, allows to view them individually with demo and own data, to assemble a custom dashboard of visualizations, and provides the information necessary to embed the visualizations or the custom dashboard into other online debate platforms. CIDashboard uses your data passed to us in the Catalyst Interchange Format (CIF).
Anna De Liddo's participation in ARIA/GOMARCH
Anna De Liddo's participation in OER
Anna De Liddo's participation in Urban Inquiries
Anna De Liddo's participation in LiteMap
LiteMap
LiteMap is a Web tool for mapping out visually the content of online debates across different forums and Websites.
Online discussions on issues of public concern are often dispersed across different Websites and Social Media environments. This makes it difficult for stakeholders to make sense of the state and progress of a public debate. LiteMap is a tool to support sensemaking and summarization of public debates across Web forums and discussion media. By allowing easy markup and annotation through any Web browser, LiteMap enables users to grasp clips of text from an online conversation and make them objects of further reflection and discussion. Within LiteMap content from previously disconnected online conversations and debates can be connected in new meaningful ways. Visual maps can be built by single users or groups to make a point or better communicate ideas and results to others. LiteMap is designed to help both community managers. Community managers can use LiteMap to organise contributions to the debate, reduce idea duplication, and support content analysis and summarisation. Community members can use LiteMap for sensemaking and self-reflection: to build a visual representation of their own view of a topic or debate; to communicate personal ideas to others; and to point the community’s attention to important issues. LiteMap is one of the Catalyst’s ecosystem of Collective Intelligence Tools to improve community deliberation of complex societal challenges.
Anna De Liddo's participation in DebateHub
DebateHub
Debate Hub is a tool for online communities to collectively organize and progress good ideas forward
Public deliberation in complex socio-technical debates is critical, but poorly supported by today’s social media platforms: it is hardly possible for citizens and community managers to quickly grasp the state of a public debate, know where they might best contribute to advance understanding, and effectively identify and pursue socially innovative ideas. Debate Hub is an innovative tool for community deliberation that provides an intuitive interface for large-scale argumentation and advanced analytics and visualisations to enhance sensemaking, attention mediation and community moderation. Debate Hub helps communities to identify the most robust ideas in the noise. It provides a collaboration environment in which ideas can be debated and assessed, in a way that it is not the most popular idea to win, but the one for which the best arguments are brought forward and the best evidence are provided. Debate Hub also supports informed participation to public debates by providing a collective intelligence visualization dashboard consisting of summary analytics and attention mediation feedback. These features support newcomers to get a sense of where is the debate at and where is the best way for them to contribute. The DebateHub Visualization Dashboard is also a tool for community managers to monitor their community, promote attention and prioritize community’s resources and actions.
Anna De Liddo's participation in CoLearn
Anna De Liddo's participation in EnquiryBlogger
Anna De Liddo's participation in AI4EDI
Anna De Liddo's participation in ORBIS
Alexandra Okada's profile document
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Alexandra Okada
Ale Okada is a Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, senior consultant to the Association of Science Education UK, visiting senior lecturer at the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil and the Open University of Portugal. She also leads the open research network COLEARN on collaborative open learning. Her research through 10 projects in Europe and Brazil focuses on knowledge and social media technologies to foster Scientific Digital Literacy - future citizens embracing the potential of science and technology. She has a particular interest in innovative approaches that empower colearners to develop key competences and succeed in the 21st century. She is currently the principal investigator of ENGAGE and co-investigator of weSPOT, and collaborator in various projects: Catalyst and MK:Smart She has supervised 10 doctoral students to successful completion including in Brazil and in Portugal. She is currently supervising two postdoctoral students and pHD students funded by CAPES & FAPESP - Brazil and FCT -Portugal. She has also been acting as an external examiner in different overseas universities. Before joining the OU-UK, Okada worked for Brazil Government in diverse projects for teaching professional development and digital literacy. She also worked at Johnson & Johnson and IBM. She holds a BSc in Computer Science, a MBA in Knowledge Management and Marketing, a MA and PhD in Education-Technology. Her publications comprise more than 100 papers in international conferences and academic journals, 40 book chapters and 15 books.
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Alexandra Okada's participation in Prolearn
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Alexandra Okada's participation in OpenLearn
OpenLearn
Open Content Initiative
OpenLearn is the University's Open Content initiative, making educational resources freely available on the Internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators. How OpenLearn started The OpenLearn story started in 2005 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (http://www.hewlett.org/). Sharing our aim to open access to education for all, they agreed to help us set up the OpenLearn website. Since 1969, The Open University has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC. Many of our television and radio programmes are already supported by free internet activities and print materials. We wanted to use our knowledge of the latest technologies in education to extend our mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. The vision was free online education. Website development began in May 2006 and the site was launched in October 2006, with an aim to regularly add new content and features. OpenLearn now offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen over 3 million visitors since launch. In April 2008 OpenLearn reached its target to have 5,400 learning hours of content in the LearningSpace (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/) and 8100 hours in the LabSpace (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/). It continues to grow representing The Open University's commitment to opening access to education.
Alexandra Okada's participation in iCoper
Alexandra Okada's participation in OpenScout
Alexandra Okada's participation in WESPOT
Alexandra Okada's participation in Engage
Annika Wolff's profile document
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Annika Wolff
I am involved in work relating to narrative, hypermedia, mobile-learning, inquiry-based learning for interpretative tasks and learning analytics.
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Annika Wolff's participation in TINY-IN
Annika Wolff's participation in SILVER
SILVER
Semantic Interactive Learning Visualisation Environment Research
The aim of the SILVER project is to develop educational software based on knowledge visualisation technology that will allow learners and educators to collect, organise, experiment and interact with multimedia assets. With the software, learners and teachers will be able to select multimedia assets related to a theme, visualise conceptual relationships associated with those assets and assemble them in different ways reflecting alternative perspectives. The SILVER project is supported by the Technology Strategy Board and is a collaboration with the Bridgeman Art Library and Lexara. Bridgeman Art Library is the world's leading source of fine art, history and culture with some 260,000 images available on-line, plus 750,000 historical photographs, from 8000 locations. LEXARA is a company that develops technology-enabled products to support organisations in the publishing, education, corporate and cultural heritage sectors. SILVER is developing applications aimed at supporting both school and work-based learning.
Annika Wolff's participation in DECIPHER
Annika Wolff's participation in RETAIN
Alexander Mikroyannidis's profile document
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Alexander Mikroyannidis
Senior Research Fellow
My research expertise is in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning. I have been investigating the use of novel educational technologies for enhancing personalised learning, self-regulated learning, lifelong learning, as well as open education. I am currently exploring the responsible integration of Generative AI into online and distance education contexts for improving learner outcomes.
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Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in ROLE
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in OpenScout
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in PT Anywhere
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in WESPOT
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in EUCLID
EUCLID
EdUcational Curriculum for the usage of LInked Data
As the popularity of Linked Data increases, so does the demand for data practitioners possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to understand its main concepts, and apply the associated technologies for data-analytics purposes. The availability of such expertise is a driver for the sustainable future development of the Linked Data community. It can be achieved through targeted knowledge transfer, in particular through easily accessible training programs addressing the real needs of data practitioners, as proposed in the EUCLID project. EUCLID will facilitate professional training for data practitioners aiming to use Linked Data in their daily work, through a curriculum implemented as a combination of living learning materials and activities (eBook series, webinars, face-to-face training), validated by the user community through continuous feedback.
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in FORGE
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in EDSA
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in SlideWiki
SlideWiki
Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics
A major obstacle to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of education in Europe is the lack of widely available, accessible, multilingual, timely, engaging and high-quality educational material (i.e. OpenCourseWare). The creation of comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) is tedious, time-consuming and expensive with the effect that often courseware employed by teachers, instructors and professors is incomplete, outdated, inaccessible to those with disabilities and dull. With the open-source SlideWiki platform (available at SlideWiki.org) the effort of the creation, translation and evolution of highly-structured remixable OCW can be widely shared (i.e. crowdsourced). Similarly to Wikipedia for encyclopaedic content, SlideWiki allows to collaboratively create comprehensive OCW (curricula, slide presentations, self-assessment tests, illustrations etc.) online in a crowdsourcing manner: 1. to semi-automatically translate this content into more than 50 different languages and 2. to improve the translations in a collaborative manner and 3. to support engagement and social networking of educators and learners around that content. Several hundred comprehensive course materials are available in SlideWiki in dozens of languages. In this large-scale trial project, we will further mature the SlideWiki technology platform, integrate it with a state-of-the-art MOOC delivery platform and perform four large-scale trials in: 1. secondary education, 2. vocational and professional training, 3. higher education and 4. community-driven open-education. Each of these large-scale trials will be performed with hundreds of educators and thousands of learners in countries all over Europe. A particular focus of the technology development and testing in the trials will be the suitability for academics, teachers and learners with disabilities.
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in HUB4NGI
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in Open Networking Lab
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in OpenLang Network
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in QualiChain
QualiChain
Decentralised Qualifications' Verification and Management for Learner Empowerment, Education Reengineering and Public Sector Transformation
QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments. The project focuses more specifically on the assessment of the implications (technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural) as well as the impact - in terms of benefits and risks - of the prescribed solution's utilisation, whose disruptive potential lies both in the exploitation of the innovative features of the aforementioned individual technologies, as well as in their unique combination in a new territory for the provision of a set of baseline services (Awards / Qualifications Archiving; Awards / Qualifications Verification; Qualifications Portfolio Management) and a number of value-adding services (Career Counselling and Intelligent Profiling and Competency Management including Recruitment; Competencies Evaluation and Development; Consulting and Decision Support). The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services.
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in DEL4ALL
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in SAGE-RAI
SAGE-RAI
Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI
Can responsible Generative AI (GenAI) lead to improved student outcomes? In SAGE-RAI, we utilise partner-applied education-oriented GenAI tools to explore this. Inspired by Bloom's 1984 study on 1-to-1 teaching's efficacy and the potential for cost-effective, scalable personalised education, we aim to unlock this potential. Addressing tutor limitations in accommodating large cohorts, we investigate how responsible GenAI can enhance tutoring, offer tailored more personalised learning experiences and generate student feedback. Our goal is to create a platform supporting assessment and student guidance while responsibly applying GenAI, addressing challenges of misinformation, copyright, and bias. The journey embodies educational innovation for better outcomes.
Alexander Mikroyannidis's participation in AI Digital Assistant (AIDA)
Andrea Mannocci's profile document
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Andrea Mannocci
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Andrea Mannocci's participation in Supporting Editorial Activities at Springer Nature
Antonello Meloni's profile document
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Antonello Meloni
I am actively engaged in enhancing conversational agents within scientific knowledge domains, particularly focusing on the advancement of AidaBot, the Open University's conversational agent based on the AIDA Knowledge Graph. My work entails thorough exploration, learning, and experimentation with state-of-the-art methodologies, specifically leveraging the latest language models such as transformers. The primary objective is to refine communication between users and the bot, ensuring smoother interactions and more effective information exchange. Additionally, I am dedicated to enriching the AIDA Dashboard with innovative functionalities, empowering editors and researchers to navigate the scholarly landscape efficiently and derive valuable insights to inform their future strategies.
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Albert Selvin's profile document
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Albert Selvin
Part Time PhD Research Student
Thesis Title:- Participatory Knowledge Creation as Facilitated Art: An Investigation into Practitioner Ethics and Aesthetics.
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Albert Selvin's participation in e-PhD Project
e-PhD Project
Developing Research Skills, Presence and Collaboration at a Distance
KMi's e-PhD Project is investigating ICT which can make it possible for faculties and students to foster these critical skills, trialling robust prototypes with its own staff and students, and disseminating knowledge to OU and the wider doctoral training community.
Albert Selvin's participation in Compendium
Albert Selvin's participation in CoAKTinG
Albert Selvin's participation in Hypermedia Discourse
Alba Morales Tirado's profile document
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Alba Morales Tirado
Alba Morales is a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Her current research activities are linked to the Polifonia European Project, being the leader of the MEETUPS Pilot and investigating hybrid methods for the generation of Knowledge Graphs. She completed her PhD in the fall of 2022, entitled "Health Condition Evolution for Effective Use of Electronic Records: Knowledge Representation, Acquisition, and Reasoningâ€. Her research set out to improve how data can be used to support Smart Cities services. During her research work, she studied how to support the identification of relevant health information about people involved in an emergency, such as a fire evacuation. During her PhD, Alba designed the "Health Condition Evolution Ontology (HECON)" and extended the SNOMED concept taxonomy to incorporate information of health event evolution. Furthermore, she designed a "methodology for generating a Knowledge Graph of health condition evolution" from natural language resources, combined with a human-in-the-loop workflow. She then applied "the knowledge graph for reasoning on health condition evolution" for detecting vulnerable people in emergency settings. Finally, an end-to-end demonstrator, "the Condition Evolution Radar (CONRAD)", shows how such methods can effectively support decision-making in an emergency scenario. Alba's previous experience includes working in public and private sectors as an Information Security Specialist for several years, specialised in auditing Industrial Control Systems. She has a master's degree in Information Security and Audit from the University of Greenwich.
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Andriy Nikolov
I joined KMi as a PhD student in October 2005. After my graduation in 2010, I continue working in KMi as a research associate. The main focus of my research is knowledge fusion for Semantic Web data: integrating pieces of information extracted from different sources and resolving ambiguities and inconsistencies between them.
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Andriy Nikolov's participation in KnoFuss
KnoFuss
Information fusion system for semantic datasets
KnoFuss represents a modular architecture for automated knowledge fusion of Semantic Web repositories. Knowledge fusion involves two main subtasks: coreference resolution and inconsistency resolution. Different datasets often contain information about the same entities but refer to them using different URIs. Identifying such individuals is the task of coreference resolution. Moreover, pieces of data defined in different knowledge bases can influence each other (e.g., they can be mutually contradictory). Inconsistency resolution is needed to process such cases. The KnoFuss architecture allows different methods for coreference resolution and inconsistency resolution to be combined in order to improve the quality of resulting data.
Andriy Nikolov's participation in SmartProducts
SmartProducts
Smart Products
SmartProducts develops the scientific and technological basis for building "smart products" with embedded "proactive knowledge". Smart products help customers, designers and workers to deal with the ever increasing complexity and variety of modern products. Smart products leverage "proactive knowledge" to communicate and co-operate with humans, other products and the environment. Proactive knowledge encompasses knowledge about the product itself (features, functions, dependencies, usage, etc.), its environment (physical context, other smart products) and its users (preferences, abilities, intentions, etc.). In addition, proactive knowledge comprises executable workflows and knowledge about interaction, enabling the smart product to proactively engage in multimodal dialogues with the user. Thereby, smart products "talk", "guide", and "assist" designers, workers and consumers dealing with them. Some proactive knowledge will be co-constructed with the product, while other parts are gathered during the product lifecycle using embedded sensing and communication capabilities. The outcome of SmartProducts will impact the manufacturing and consumer domain, primarily targeting consumer goods, automotive and aerospace industries.
Nancy Pontika's profile document
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Nancy Pontika
Project Manager - Strategic Projects on Generative AI
Currently, I am a Project Officer - KMi Strategic Projects on Generative AI. Prior to this role, I worked in Open Science, in the following services and projects: * CORE (https://core.ac.uk) * FOSTER+ (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/) * OpenMinTed (http://openminted.eu/) * FIT4RRI (https://fit4rri.eu/) * ON-MERRIT (https://on-merrit.eu/)
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Nancy Pontika's participation in UK Aggregation 2
UK Aggregation 2
Large scale aggregation of open access research papers
UK Aggregation 2 aims at maintaining the CORE aggregation system developed through a series of projects and currently operated in the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University (OU). UK Aggregation 2 is a follow-on of the UK Aggregation project, which analysed the cost implications and scenarios for running the CORE aggregation system and resulted in the discussions between Jisc and OU about creating a sustainable service to be jointly delivered from July 2015. In addition to basic maintenance, the goals of the project are to continue: - the harvesting of metadata and content from repositories - the expansion of the supported repositories - the serving of the existing CORE applications - the integration with existing services in the repository ecosystem - the monitoring of the progress of the aggregation activities through a set of benchmarks - dissemination and promotion of the CORE services towards various target audiences including researchers, developers, text-miners, repository managers, funders, etc. In addition, the project aims to provide: - the implementation of the Jisc/OU recommendations on branding - a new feature offering the UK view on an international aggregation - the communication/collaboration with key projects, partners and stakeholders in the area, such as OpenAIRE, as needed or recommended by Jisc to ensure the main use cases around CORE can be or are effectively exploited. - a service-ready aggregation solution by the end of the project with the capabilities to support multiple use cases.
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Nancy Pontika's participation in CORE - COnnecting REpositories
CORE - COnnecting REpositories
Linking semantically similar publications from Open Access repositories using text mining from full-text and representing the relations as Linked Data
CORE (core.ac.uk) aims to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
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CORE
The world's largest collection of open access research papers
CORE hosts the world's largest collection of open access research outputs, which are used and referenced by people globally, including researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and many more. CORE delivers a number of key measurable benefits to institutions, repositories, and researchers through its services. The value of CORE is not only provided by its services, but mostly by helping others in the delivery of their use cases. This makes CORE an enabling infrastructure, allowing for text mining, business intelligence, compliance monitoring and research analytics. Benefits The CORE services: provide real-time machine access to metadata and full texts of research papers in CORE. help to download CORE data and run processes in your own infrastructure, access data across all of our data providers, prototype new methods, data analysis and text mining recommend papers to read based on users' interests;support users in discovering articles of interest from across the network of open access repositories increase the visibility of content in open access repositories and journals assist users in finding freely accessible copies of research papers that are often behind a paywall provide an online interface offering valuable technical information and statistics to content providers We aim to: Support the right of citizens to access the results of research towards which they contributed by paying taxes Provide support to both content consumers and content providers by working collaboratively with them Contribute to a cultural change by promoting open access, a fast-growing movement for good Make use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to enrich and organise research content and support users in discovering knowledge of their interest
Nancy Pontika's participation in FOSTER
FOSTER
Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research
FOSTER aims to support different stakeholders, especially young researchers, in adopting open access in the context of the European Research Area (ERA) and in complying with the open access policies and rules of participation set out for Horizon 2020 (H2020). FOSTER will establish a European-wide training programme on open access and open data, consolidating training activities at downstream level and reaching diverse disciplinary communities and countries in the ERA. The training programme will include different approaches and delivery options: elearning, blearning, self-learning, dissemination of training materials/contents, helpdesk, face-to-face training, especially training-the-trainers, summer schools, seminars, etc. OBJECTIVES - Support different stakeholders, especially young researchers, in adopting open access in the context of the European Research Area (ERA) and in complying with the open access policies and rules of participation set out for Horizon 2020; - Integrate open access principles and practice in the current research workflow by targeting the young researcher training environment; - Strengthen the institutional training capacity to foster compliance with the open access policies of the ERA and Horizon 2020 (beyond the FOSTER project); - Facilitate the adoption, reinforcement and implementation of open access policies from other European funders, in line with the ECï¿½s recommendation. MAIN ACTIVITIES 1 ï¿½ Identifying already existing contents that can be reused in the context of the training activities and repackaging, reformatting them to be used within FOSTER, and develop/create/ enhance contents if/where they are needed. 2 ï¿½ Creation of the FOSTER Portal to support e-learning, blended learning, self-learning, dissemination of training materials/contents and Helpdesk. 3 ï¿½ Delivery of face-to-face training, especially training trainers/multipliers that can carry on further training and dissemination activities, within their institutions, countries and/or disciplinary communities. Project number: 612425 Start Date: 01/02/2014 Duration: 24 months Funding from the EC: 1.499.860,00ï¿½
Nancy Pontika's participation in Europeana Cloud
Europeana Cloud
eCloud
Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, submitted under Objective 2.1.a and coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform - Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators, across the European information landscape, urgently need a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure that is capable of storing both metadata and content. Researchers require a digital space where they can undertake innovative exploration and analysis of Europe's digitised content. Europeana needs to get closer to the target of 30 million items by 2015. Europeana Cloud meets these needs. The key objectives of Europeana Cloud are: 1. To provide access, at Europeana, to 1.1m new metadata records and 5m research focussed items from across European Universities, libraries, data centres and publishers; 2. To create a cloud based infrastructure capable of delivering cost-efficient content and metadata storage for stakeholders across Europe; 3. To understand and incorporate the legal, strategic and economic issues of a cloud-based system for content for cultural heritage institutions and domain aggregators; 4. To achieve a broad consensus among European content aggregators and research networks on the advantages of a cloud based solution; 5. To develop a digital platform, named Europeana Research, to discover and use Europeana research content; 6. Via this cloud to provide tools and services for researchers that permit innovative research that exploits digitised content in Europeana. This is a vital project for the Europeana network of content providers and aggregators, moving to an infrastructure that can deal not just with descriptive metadata but actual digitised content as well.
Nancy Pontika's participation in UK Aggregation
UK Aggregation
Developing the UK Aggregator of Open Access metadata and content from repository systems
UK Aggregation will provide technology for aggregating metadata and content from UK institutional repositories to be used as a component of the Jisc Repository Shared Services Infrastructure. The resulting aggregation will be used as a building block to satisfy various use cases, such as (a) the provision of a centrally managed cache of metadata and content for search engine optimisation, (b) the delivery of source data for text-mining from open access papers, (c) the monitoring of metadata (OpenAire, RIOXX) or open access policy compliance (HEFCE. RCUK) or (d) the analysis of growth and usage of repository data. In technical terms, the project will build on the existing CORE aggregator, which is already largely in a service ready state. Therefore, the project will largely focus on integration and interoperability of the aggregation service with relevant services maintained by different stakeholders. It will consult these stakeholders and propose an integration plan that will be realised in the next stage (after the end of this project). Finally, the project team will, based on consultations with Jisc, decide on the economical and governance structure under which the service will operate in the future.
Nancy Pontika's participation in OARR
OARR
Open Acess Repository Registry
The OARR project will provide a data-driven open access repository registry infrastructure which will allow services to share or reuse underlying data. The project will take what we have learned from building and maintaining OpenDOAR to the next level to provide an advanced, data-driven infrastructure which will maximise the potential for use with 3rd party services such as aggregators, cross-search tools, multiple-deposit interfaces, etc. by making available authoritative and quality controlled data through a RESTful API.
Nancy Pontika's participation in OpenMinTeD
OpenMinTeD
Open Mining Infrastructure for Text & Data
OpenMinted sets out to create an open, service-oriented e-Infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) of scientific and scholarly content. Researchers can collaboratively create, discover, share and re-use Knowledge from a wide range of text-based scientific related sources in a seamless way.
Nancy Pontika's participation in FIT4RRI
FIT4RRI
Fostering Improved Training Tools for Responsible Research and Innovation
Bridging the gap between RRI and Open Science to manage the rapid transformation processes affecting science, requires a critical mass of experts that is available at the European level. Acknowledged experts from both Universities and Institutes have multi-disciplinary expertise.
Nancy Pontika's participation in ON-MERRIT
ON-MERRIT
Observing and Negating Matthew Effects in Responsible Research and Innovation Transition
ON-MERRIT targets an equitable scientific system that rewards based on merit rather than the "Matthew Effect" of cumulative advantage. The project aims to analyse the role of Matthew Effect in Open Science/RRI, and look for and test the use of new and more equitable OS/RRI indicators. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), including elements like Open Science and Gender Equality, promises to fundamentally transform scholarship to bring greater transparency and participation to research processes, and increase the impact of outputs. Yet just making processes open will not per se drive re-use or participation unless also accompanied by the capacity (in terms of knowledge, skills, motivation and technological readiness) to do so. ON-MERRIT will hence investigate how existing inequalities drive outcomes in the uptake of Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation across academia, industry and policy-making. Once this evidence has been gathered, alternative policy-proposals to counteract any negative effects will be tested through modelling, and final recommendations made to policy-makers, funders and institutions.
Nancy Pontika's participation in FOSTER (fosteropenscience.eu)
FOSTER (fosteropenscience.eu)
FOSTER was a coordination initiative that promoted the integration of open access principles and practice in the current research workflow.
FOSTER's Objectives: - support a culture change, whereby the practical aspects of Open Science are fully implemented and ultimately rewarded, by providing an advanced-level, outcome-oriented training programme based on courses and activities for which participants can attain digital badges; - consolidate and sustain a training support network comprised of Open Science ambassadors from a range of research performing organisations and research infrastructures; - strengthen the training capacity by addressing the current skills and content gaps, both at community/discipline and institutional levels, on the practical implementation of Open Science.
Nancy Pontika's participation in FOSTER Plus
FOSTER Plus
FOSTER Plus project focuses on promoting the practical implementation of Open Science, with activities targeting academic staff and young scientists.
FOSTER Plus (Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond) is a 2-year, EU-funded project, carried out by 11 partners across 6 countries. The primary aim is to contribute to a real and lasting shift in the behaviour of European researchers to ensure that Open Science (OS) becomes the norm. Research communities, research performing institutions, and research funders have each recognised that OS skills are increasingly essential for researchers to undertake responsible research and innovation. While there is increasing agreement around the need to improve OS skills amongst all stakeholders, the adoption of OS approaches has been quite limited to date. Indeed general awareness of OS approaches has improved among EU researchers. However, there is still a lack of practical guidance and training to help researchers learn how to open up their research within a particular domain or research environment. For this reason, FOSTER Plus places specific emphasis on creating discipline-specific guidance and is partnering with expert organisations representing the scientific areas of life science, social science and humanities. FOSTER Plus will enhance existing materials and co-produce new training content. The resources will be discipline-specific and their practical and tangible outcomes can directly be applied into researchers’ daily practices. The training activities will be addressed to all relevant stakeholders in the European Research Area, with a focus on young scientists, academic staff and policy makers. A strong train-the-trainer approach and network of open science trainers to act as ambassadors will help to reach a wide audience.
Alessia Pisu's profile document
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Alessia Pisu
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Alessio Antonini's profile document
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Alessio Antonini
Dr Alessio Antonini is a research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. He is the lead of the Knowledge Design team, part of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science group. His research focuses on the design of intelligent and interactive media, research infrastructures for the Humanities and AI-enabled innovation for community and personal wellbeing.
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Alessio Antonini's participation in Conversational Media Supporting Group Intervention for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Conversational Media Supporting Group Intervention for Mental Health and Wellbeing
This project aims to adapt a conversational media platform (In The Room) to support Verbal's (a Northern Ireland charity) therapeutic storytelling techniques for mental health interventions, thereby providing support beyond the duration of the programme provided by Verbal. It would also widen and scale Verbal's reach to more deprived communities, especially where sensitive topics are addressed by participants who find difficulties in engaging in a group setting or face to face.
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Alessio Antonini's participation in Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC)
Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC)
Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control (VRREC) is an app for Oculus Quest enabling the full-body remote control of a robotic platform
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dependence and reliance of fragile population on the support of their family members on their activities of daily living. Through the collaboration with the SME Extended Robotics (ER), we designed the Virtual Reality Robotic Embodiment and Control VRREC. VRREC is an APP for Meta Oculus Quest enabling remote, real-time full control of a robotic platform. VRREC reconstruct the 3D model of the location in virtual reality via the RGBD camera live stream, enabling an embodied presence through the robot platform, navigation and manipulation of objects through a robotic arm. The ER low-latency video streaming technology enables the operation of the robot in an environment with other people and precise manipulation of objects. VRREC will be piloted as one of the technologies involved in the UK pilot part of the EU H2020 GATEKEEPER project.
Alessio Antonini's participation in Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE)
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE)
Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment is an Innovation project aimed to develop
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dependence and reliance of older adults on the support of their family members on their activities of daily living. This project aims to readapt a Virtual Reality technology from the SME Extended Robotics (ER) for remote control of robotic arms to the context of remote care. Robot Embodied Presence in House Environment (REPHE) will provide the opportunity to build a strategic collaboration with ER and to investigate the hybridisation of robot autonomy and human control. REPHE will exploit the ongoing EU H2020 GATEKEEPER project to pilot the use of this new technology in a real-life setting and to bring to the market this new solution as part of the European platform GATEKEEPER under development. REPHE has been supported by the OU through HEIF.
Alessio Antonini's participation in READ-IT chatbot
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Anxela Perez Costa's profile document
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Anxela Perez Costa
The aim of the thesis is to study the user experience applied to augmented reality through head-mounted devices in the context of orthopaedic surgery. At this stage at KMI, the research focuses on different evaluation methods with users of different interaction styles, using a Hololens device. The expected outcome is to obtain functional prototypes, as well as the complete approach to the evaluations and the subsequent analysis of the data obtained.
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Angel Pavon Perez's profile document
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Angel Pavon Perez
Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI
Ãngel is a Research Associate in Responsible AI at the Centre for Protecting Women Online and is currently completing his PhD at the Knowledge Media Institute in collaboration with VISA Europe. He has a background in studying radicalised online communities, particularly within the manosphere. His research also focuses on identifying and addressing bias in AI systems within financial services, with an emphasis on how these systems may unintentionally disadvantage minoritised groups. Committed to using technology for social good, Ãngel is dedicated to using responsible AI to protect minoritised communities.
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Adam Rae
I'm working on improving large-scale image based search engines by looking at the way users interact with them, extracting useful information from images without the need for a user and improving the overall user experience.
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Antonio Roberto Coelho Serra
Visiting Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Antonio Serra holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Administration from the State University of Maranhão (UEMA), a Master’s Degree from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a Doctoral Degree from the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). He is a Senior Lecturer/Adjunct Professor at the Applied Social Sciences Center at the Department of Administration at UEMA as well as the Coordinator of the Educational Technology Centre in that Institution. Antônio Serra has been working in Higher Education for over 15 years in the areas of teaching and research with large experience in planning, implementation and evaluation of Distance Education Programmes. He was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in 2013/2014. He contributed to several projects: 1.“21st century education” (by Telefonica Foundation) as part of the coordinator team of COLEARNERS21 2.“weSPOT ( working with social personal open technologies for inquiry based learning)”, responsible for co-supervising the the first pilot in co-inquiry between Educational and Business Organisations in Brazil. 3.OER & Social Newtorks member of the Brazilian Editorial Team leading the partnership between EDUEMA Brazil and Colearn UK. Currently, Dr. Serra is an international member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and representative of the institutional partnership between the e-Tec Brasil Network of the Ministry of Education and Colearn KMI-OU.
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Alexandra Siposova
Contractor
I was an Intern at KMi in 2008. Prior to this I worked at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava as a research assistant in multi-criteria optimization. In the Knowledge Media Institute I was an Intern in the research team of Dr Zdenek Zdrahal.
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Andreas Scheuermann's profile document
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Andreas Scheuermann
Visiting Research Associate
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Aswin Sundaram's profile document
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Aswin Sundaram
External Contractor Consultant
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Advaith Siddharthan's profile document
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Advaith Siddharthan
Professor of Computer Science and Society
My research specialisation is in Computational Linguistics and Data Science, with a focus on communicating complex data and making information and data (particularly telemetric data) accessible through text analytics, summarisation, reformulation and natural language generation. I have a particular interest in Citizen Science, and in particular, technologies that break down the divide between professional scientists and lay public and facilitate the meaningful engagement of the public with science.
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Anamika Singh's profile document
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Anamika Singh
Visiting Undergraduate Student
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Aneta Tumilowicz's profile document
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Aneta Tumilowicz
KMi Research Manager
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Aisling Third's profile document
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Aisling Third
I'm interested in the use of semantic technologies and natural language semantics and generation to improve both intelligent systems and services, and human interactions with them. The Semantic Web and Linked Data platforms offer a great opportunity for standards-based applications to a wide variety of domains, and I have a particular interest in using such approaches to improve patient experience and care. My background is in formal semantics and philosophy, and I am interested in the use of practical computing applications to feed back into theoretical advances, and vice versa.
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VPH-Share
Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing for Healthcare
VPH-Share will provide the organisational fabric (the infostructure) realised as a series of services, offered in an integrated framework, to expose and to manage data, information and tools, to enable the composition and operation of new VPH workflows and to facilitate collaborations between the members of the VPH community.
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Aisling Third's participation in IMPAQT
IMPAQT
Intelligent management system for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is acknowledged as a promising solution for the sustainable development of aquaculture. However, IMTA has been only tested at very small scale in Europe, while management of large-scale IMTA areas remains difficult. The high level ambition of Impaqt project is to drive a paradigm shift in EU Industry, paving the way to both a more environmentally friendly and more efficient/higher yielding European Industry. To that respect, Impaqt proposes an intelligent management platform for IMTA. Impaqt will develop and deploy novel sensors and data sources, together with smart systems required for long term autonomous monitoring in the field. An advanced IMTA model will be provided which yields spatially explicit information on how the different farm components interact with the environment on the scale of an ecosystem and that can be used for planning decisions by both farmers and regulators. Last but not least, an integrated management system, operating at the scale of an IMTA farm and comprising analytics and decision support functionalities, will be developed to enable enhanced operational decisions for animal welfare, production optimization, environmental protection and food quality assessment. Impaqt systems and models will be validated in 6 pilots (Scotland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey and China), addressing inland, coastal and offshore aquaculture. Impaqt will demonstrate the eco-intensification of EU aquaculture, by demonstrating the eco-efficiency and the environmental impacts minimized, the socioeconomic benefits and ecosystem services enabled, as well as the transition towards a circular economy business model. Impaqt brings together a considerable range of partners including 14 academic/research organizations, 4 SMEs and 3 large industries, all leaders in their respective fields/business, while aims to effectively transfer the project’s results to relevant stakeholders through training activities. Impaqt is a Horizon 2020 project
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Airina Volungeviciene
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Arthur Stutt
I am interested in the educational uses of knowledge engineering representations and techniques. I also maintained a knowledge engineering course - Intelligent Systems: Analysis and Design.
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Anna Zelinska
Project Manager
I'm a project manager in CORE. A professional of getting people for meetings.
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Bikash Gyawali's profile document
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Bikash Gyawali
Research Assoc. - text and data mining
I am a researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing. Before joining the KMI, I was as a postdoc at the French national research centre (CNRS) where I worked on different topics related to human language understanding and generation. Currently in the CORE(http://core.ac.uk/) team, I use my NLP skills to analyse the huge quantity of openly accessible research articles on the web. As a team, I work for building models that support better discovery, processing and impact analysis of scientific content worldwide.
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Ben Hawkridge's profile document
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Ben Hawkridge
I am primarily a software developer supporting academics with their research and internal or external projects particularly in applied Educational Technology. In more recent times I have worked with Trevor Collins on the Stadium Live project which is been actively used to deliver Labcasts and Fieldcasts to OU students, the latter been of particular interest to Trevor Collins research. I have long focused on digital audio-visual media, covering both on demand (podcasting) content and delivery of live events using live streaming or video conference technologies. In more recent times the rapid uptake of video conference technologies has led to a lot of experimentation with hybrid solutions.
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Ben Hawkridge's participation in The Virtual Student Advisor
The Virtual Student Advisor
On-line multimedia support for Open Learning
Providing on line advice and guidance to our students involves bringing together a wide range of synchronous and asynchronous materials. In this project we have explored a range of visions of how we might provide asynchronous support to our students via appropriately streamed media. The progress of these experiments have lead the university to fund a New Technology for Student Support service which will use this work to support OU web based students.
Ben Hawkridge's participation in XO
The automatic presentation creator
The playback engine XO Stage and its companion editing tools XO Editor and XO ButtonEd make the creation and viewing of multimedia presentations a breeze. It uses a combination of Apple QuickTime and Macromedia Flash to provide an easy way to create professional looking presentations.
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XO Backlot
The Stadium Backlot system facilitates the management and maintenance of both live web casts and rep
The KMi Stadium project has supported a vast range of educational webcasting experiments, both within the Open University and for external clients. The logistics of managing such events, from a web based access point of view, has led to the development of the Stadium Backlot System.
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Ben Hawkridge's participation in Podcasting
Podcasting
A short introduction to podcasting
The word 'podcasting' is a combination of the words 'broadcasting' and 'iPod'. Podcasting is a means by which audio and video programs can be distributed via the internet by allowing users to subscribe to 'feeds'. These feeds contain details and descriptions of the programs, which are logically displayed for the user, and provide an easy way to download the associated files for users to listen to at their leisure. By using a subscription model the user can regularly check for new content to download to a computer and subsequently upload on to an iPod.
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iTunes U
iTunes University and Podcasting from KMi
Since late 2005 North American Universities have been using Apple's iTunes as a powerful platform to reach their students and the wider world. On June 3, 2008, Apple finally invited some other countries into this exciting channel. The 3 European Universities to launch at that time were The Open University, University College London (from the UK) and Trinity, Dublin (Ireland). Each of us launched with a pretty decent selection of materials and podcasts. KMi executed the launch, working closely with the Open University Learning and Teaching Solutions division. The team in LTS will take ahead the service and make it work effectively throughout the University work flows. KMi will take this work forward with an innovative range of new features and some exciting new support services for podcasting; and using the special features of this channel in some new ways...
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Bjarte Johansen's profile document
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Bjarte Johansen
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Barry Norton's profile document
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Barry Norton
For one year I have been employed by KMi as Research Fellow in Semantic Web Services. I work within the DIP and SUPER projects on service composition. Before joining KMi I had previously collaborated within the DIP and AKT projects, on which I worked at the University of Sheffield. My own general interests are in formal models for software composition which are, accordingly, compositional. The intersection between the two is embodied in the Cashew project, which is implemented in the IRS, integrated in the DIP project, and informs my work within the WSMO Working Group and the OASIS Semantic Execution Environment Technical Committee.
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CASHEW
Composition And Semantic enHancEment of Web-services
The Cashew project concerns the description and composition of semantic web-services, unlike most efforts from the semantic web community, the primary flavour of semantics concentrated on is behavioural semantics. In particular we concentrate on the operational style of behavioural semantics from which we can directly form an implementation. Furthermore, the fundamental guiding principal is that of compositionality, missing from existing work. The Cashew project is inspired by both OWL-S and WSMO, as well as by BPEL, Workflow Patterns and UML. It defines two formal languages Cashew-S - a language for orchestrations and choreography, visualised in UML Activity and State Diagrams respectively - and Cashew-Nuts, a process language via which semantics are induced in labelled transition systems and thereby abstract state machines.
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Bogdan Kostov's profile document
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Bogdan Kostov
Intern
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Bassem Makni's profile document
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Bassem Makni
I was working on semantifying the TV by bonding the Semantic Web and the Internet TV worlds. My PhD was supervised by Prof. John Domingue and Dr. Stefan Dietze and was part of the NoTube project. My research interests include Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, Internet TV, Linked Data and Personalisation.
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Beatriz Olarte-Martinez's profile document
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Beatriz Olarte-Martinez
Beatriz is currently doing a PhD at the Politecnico di Milano, in the context of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) programme. Her research focuses on the application of Semantic Technologies to digitalise tacit knowledge in the context of Industrial Process Planning.
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Brian Pluss's profile document
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Brian Pluss
I am Research Associate in the Electoral Debate Visualisation (EDV) project, working with Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum on using technology to enhance the experience of debate viewers in the next UK General Election. I recently completed a PhD in computational linguistics, under the supervision of Paul Piwek and Richard Power from The Open University’s Computing and Communications Department. My thesis specialised in analysing and modelling non-cooperative behaviour in political interviews. I am currently extending this work to political debates in the context of the EDV project. Before becoming a computational linguist, I obtained a MSc in computer science from the National University of Rosario, Argentina. I have carried out research on virtual human systems at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, California, and on software architectures and formal methods in Portugal, Argentina and Finland. From 2001 to 2004, I worked as a software engineer for ATX Software in Lisbon, Portugal. My duties included web interface design, database administration, quality assurance, project management and customer liaison.
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Bertrand Sereno's profile document
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Bertrand Sereno
I am interested in finding a way to assist the extraction of claims from the scholarly literature. My work is connected with both the study of the way researchers argue in their documents and the information extraction techniques.
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Bertrand Sereno's participation in Semantic Blogging
Semantic Blogging
Link blog entries with meaningful relations (such as 'agree', 'disagree') instead of just plain link
We are investigating Web Logs ('blogs') as a new paradigm for distributed knowledge construction and sensemaking, whether for Open University students, or communities of interest of any sort. Our interest in Semantic Blogging flows from ongoing research themes in KMi on hypermedia discourse and social software. Semantic Blogging is for us an intruiging convergence of practices and tools which could help us address long-standing challenges and themes in Knowledge Media: How can we support distributed sensemaking and argumentation with tools that are both intuitive enough to be quickly learnt, flexible enough for widespread adoption in everyday work, but provide enough semantics for computational support? How can human-generated narrative co-exist and synergise with computational-semantics to create hybrid layers of meaning? How do people adopt, break, customize and share metadata schemes? How can we provide summaries and filters over complex networks of interweaving commentary and inter-document connection?
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Bjornar Tessem's profile document
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Bjornar Tessem
Visiting Professor
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Bethany Walker's profile document
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Bethany Walker
Manager - Business & Partnerships
Bethany is responsible for CORE's business development and maintaining our commercial partnerships programme. Her goal is to help internal and external customers get the very best from CORE.
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Carlo Allocca's profile document
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Carlo Allocca
I started my PhD in KMi in October 2007. My PhD research is in the Semantic Web field. In particular, I have investigated how to make explicit semantic relations between ontologies and evaluate their effects of "finding the most appropriate ontologies" through the Semantic Web search engine such as Watson. My supervisors are Dr. Mathieu D'Aquin and Prof. Enrico Motta.
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KANNEL
Detecting and Managing Semantic Relations Between Ontologies
Making explicit semantic relations between ontologies in large ontology repositories
Carlo Allocca's participation in DiscOU
DiscOU
Discovering Open University Content from Other Online Resources
There is a growing base of open educational content being made available online. At The Open University, this currently includes 650 units of course material on OpenLearn and 3,800 audio and video podcasts. With such content available, discoverability of educational resources becomes a major challenge. DiscOU is a resources discovery engine relying on a semantic index of Open University Open Content. It semantically analyse the content of an online resource, and match it by similarity to other existing Open University content to retrieve the most relevant pieces. It currently works with BBC programme pages.
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Kitty Chisholm
Part-time PhD Research Student; KMi Co-Founder
Kitty Chisholm is a professional coach and facilitator who has worked with Boards and leaders in both the private and public sectors, specialising in career development and strategic change. She is a founder Director of Boardwalk, supporting women in achieving their full leadership potential. Kitty has been involved with pioneering work in learning and development, from the first major application of AI to the creation innovative structures for corporate learning. Her proudest achievement was being part of the team that created the Knowledge Media Institute in 1995. She was a member of the Technology Foresight Leisure and Learning Panel and on the advisory boards of the BT Corporate University, VTES and JRBH, now Board Intelligence. Kitty was a Trustee of the Science Museum Group until January 2015 and chaired the Advisory Board of the School of Management of Royal Holloway. She has an MA from Cambridge, a BSc from the OU and her interest in the neurological bases of behaviour change led to an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley. Kitty co-authored a book, Neuroscience for Leadership, The Brain Gain Advantage, published by Palgrave in January 2015. Her latest book, Championing Women Leaders, written with Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj was published in November 2015.
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Celestina Banjo's profile document
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Celestina Banjo
Part-time KMi Clerk
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Chloe Bays's profile document
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Chloe Bays
Clerical Assistant
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Cristian Barladeanu
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Claudio Baldassarre's profile document
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Claudio Baldassarre
AKA: Burbero , Swiffer , Amatrano. Electronic Engineer Master Degree; I was involved in developing Watson a new search engine/repository of semantic content retrievable on the web. I was personally in charge of validating content of documents checking goodness, populating the repository with extracted entities and assessing semantic quality measures on the documents. Validation task also worries about finding bad usage in semantic content production and publication and reveals similarity on a scale from different to duplication. I also designed a translator between RDFS - DAML - OWL languages to OCML language which is used by KMi people involved in DIP and POWERAQUA projects. I was involved in "Relation Extraction" from raw text against semantic content contained in knowledge base. Particular signs: Enrico Motta was my boss ;)
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Carla Greubel's profile document
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Carla Greubel
Visiting Student
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Catie Gamble's profile document
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Catie Gamble
P-time External PhD Research Student
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Charlotte Hamilton
Research Manager
I'm KMi's Research Manager and provide support with the financial aspects of bidding and managing awards. I am also the Co-Chair of KMi's Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Board.
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Clement Jonquet
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at LIRMM (Lab of Informatics, Robotics, Microelectronics of Montpellier), France. My PhD is about the concept of service. I am interested on dynamic service generation that means services that are built on the fly according to a conversation between a user and a service provider. To realise these kinds of adapted and interactive services (opposed to product deliveries) I am especially interested in agent conversation and Grid technologies. I work on an agent representation and communication model called STROBE. My internship in KMi aims to discover the tools proposed by the team here (especially IRS III). I am particularly interested in trying to extend their theoretical concepts (WSMF, WSMO) to Grid and agent approach.
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Chris Sanders's profile document
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Chris Sanders
Software Developer
I am a Software Developer for the Digital Development Services team
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Chenghua Lin's profile document
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Chenghua Lin
I joined KMi as research associate in Oct 2011 after receiving my PhD in computing from the University of Exeter. My PhD study focused on developing statistical topic models for sentiment analysis from the Web. My current research effort is mainly devoted to developing theoretically principled machine learning models for social media analysis and semantic Web applications.
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Catherine Tate's profile document
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Catherine Tate
ERDF Project Secretary
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Christina Myers's profile document
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Christina Myers
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Clara Mancini's profile document
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Clara Mancini
I am interested in the way hypermedia systems, as well as the Web, allow people to model knowledge and shape discourse. Furthermore, I am interested in the way the technical characteristics of electronic media inform new languages and new forms of communication.
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Carmen Martinez-Cruz
Fuzzy logic makes flexible and natural the process of representing or querying information. This characteristic also can be applied to ontology’s or other kinds of schemas in order to make matching operations. So you can associate the confidence you have in a matching process result with a certainty degree.
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Chris Denham's profile document
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Chris Denham
BuddyFinder: a BuddySpace extension designed to help find users based on keywords and websearches. SimLink: a BuddySpace extension for downloadable plugins, including an architecture that allows shared control in a group chat environment. BuddySpace Web Client: a web application that allow basic Jabber interactions in a standard web browser.
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Chris Denham's participation in BuddyFinder-CORDER
BuddyFinder-CORDER
Find the right people with the right knowledge in the right place at the right time
Online social networking tools are extremely popular, but can miss potential discoveries latent in the social 'fabric'. Matchmaking services can do naive profile matching with old database technology, and modern ontological markup, though powerful, can be onerous at data-input time. BuddyFinder-CORDER can automatically produce a ranked list of buddies to match a user's search requirements specified in a term-based query, even in the absence of stored user-profiles. We integrate an online social networking search tool called BuddyFinder with a text mining method called CORDER to rank a list of online users based on 'inferred profiles' of these users in the form of scavenged Web pages.
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Vague Query Responder
Bookshop owners can outperform Amazon and Google when the queries are vague - so can our software
Although today's web search engines are very powerful, they still fail to provide intuitively relevant results for many types of queries, especially ones that are vaguely-formed in the user's own mind. We argue that associations between terms in a search query can reveal the underlying information needs in the users' mind and should be taken into account in search. Our initial experimental results on a corpus of 500 books from Amazon shows that our approach can find the right books for users given authentic vague queries, even in those cases where Google and Amazon's own book search fail.
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Charlie Hou
Part Time Student
My research focused on how to make a negotiation software agent predict, learn and better respond to opponent's behaviour in negotiation. To be applicable to negotiations in real world, this learning approach tries to make less assumptions about the opponent, and makes use of only the opponent's previous offers to predict their behaviour and respond with appropriate offers, in order to get better share in the final deal or agreement.
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Carlos Pedrinaci's profile document
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Carlos Pedrinaci
I am interested in the development of intelligent distributed systems for the Web. My research mainly builds upon results from the Semantic Web and Services communities, and is strongly influenced by Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering principles. Currently I'm focussing on the automated location, interpretation and mining of services and things at Web scale. In previous years I also worked on the development of Semantic Business Process Analysis techniques.
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SOA4All
Creating a Web of Billions of Services
SOA4All is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. The SOA4All consortium - comprising 17 leading partner institutions from academia and industry - aims at improving the state of the art in Service-oriented Architectures to enable the service-oriented paradigm to be deployed on a web-scale. These ambitious goal will be achieved by integrating and enhancing existing Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and SOA technologies, leveraging current service oriented infrastructures to a Web of Billions of Services.
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in SWEET
SWEET
Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool
SWEET: Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool is the first tool developed for the semi-automatic acquisition of semantic RESTful service descriptions, aiming to support a higher level of automation of common RESTful service tasks, such as discovery and composition.
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in SugarTube
SugarTube
Semantic Searching
Searching for information, data, and multimedia resources that are semantically related is a key feature of future Internet. Today's path to achieving that vision lies through the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud of RDF data. SugarTube (Semantics Used to Get Annotated video Recording) is a Web3.0 application to search for videos through RDF-based annotated video stored as part of the Open University Broadcast Unit's learning material. The fundamental technology used to develop the application is Semantic Web Services. Users can search based on keywords, textual analysis of related documents, URLs, or geographical maps. Moreover, SugarTube gathers more useful data from the LOD cloud to enrich the search results, such as related events, people, knowledge, websites, geo-location, maps, and additional video streams from YouTube, the BBC, and OpenLearn.
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in Hyperdata
Hyperdata
Writable Linked Data
Hyperdata API is a software package for creating update-oriented APIs for linked data. It is driven by simple declarative configuration, and it focuses heavily on discoverability of the update capabilities. The technology is so new that we haven't been able to publish the sources and proper documentation yet. In case of interest, we'll be happy to hear from you.
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Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in Linked USDL
Linked USDL
Linked Unified Service Description Language
Linked USDL aims to better promote and support the use of the Unified Service Description Language (USDL) on the Web. USDL is a platform-neutral language for describing services consolidated from SAP Research projects. The kinds of services targeted for coverage by USDL include human services (e.g., consultancy), business services (e.g. purchase order requisition), software services (e.g., WSDL and RESTful services), infrastructure services (e.g., CPU and storage services), etc.
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in OmniVoke
OmniVoke
A Framework for Automating the Invocation of Web APIs
OmniVoke is a framework that aims to automating the invocation of generic Web APIs. It provides a unique entry point for the invocation of most Web APIs that can be found on the Web. The framework abstracts away the heterogeneities of different APIs and consequently eliminates the need for developing a custom tailored client per Web API. OmniVoke relies on non-intrusive semantic annotations of HTML pages describing Web APIs, in order to capture both their semantics as well as the information necessary to carry out their invocation. The framework developed is based on RESTful principles to simplify its use and to adequately exploit the Web infrastructure for scalability.
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in COMPOSE
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in ACQUA
Carlos Pedrinaci's participation in BASIL
Catia Prandi's profile document
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Catia Prandi
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Chris Valentine's profile document
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Chris Valentine
Joining the OU in the Spring of 1992, my initial projects were related to the transcription of course material for print-disabled students. I was a founding member of KMi when it was launched in 1995. I am now a web applications developer using PHP and mySQL, writing custom code or extensions for open source CMS like Drupal or Wordpress. I am particularly interested in the application of mobile technology to teaching and learning in remote locations. Projects have included a photo and audio blog for L204, a second level Spanish language course which made custom use of Google Maps for location data. I was also part of the award-winning team for ERA - the use of wireless networking technology to make geology field trips accessible to disabled and/or remote students. I worked on the website that hosts the Open University's immensely popular podcast service http://podcast.open.ac.uk and the OU's webcast hosting system STADIUM. I have been involved in four EU-funded projects related to language teaching and inter-cultural competence. Outreach projects include collaboration with the Halle Orchestra and the Field Studies Council. I worked on Making The News (a web-based news system being used in schools nation-wide http://mtn.e2bn.net), ROSTRA, CLUTCH, CABER, VDC, MK Schools OnLine and the citischool project (teaching for kids who dropped out of mainstream education in the Milton Keynes area). I have also created web applications for the OU's Research School including PhDSkills (to track the progress of all PhD students at the OU) and the Research Diary. I both judge and run the online part of the annual research students' poster competition where new PhD students show off their projects (https://researchposters.open.ac.uk) In 2008 I was a recipient of two OU Teaching Awards, for my role in T189 'Digital photography: creating and sharing better images' (https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/short-courses/tg089) and as part of the ERA team. I received a third Teaching Award in 2014 for my part in webcasting the Student Connections conference. I have since contributed to the OU's new photography course 'Creating a Professional Portfolio' including a Raspberry Pi-powered remote SLR and hosted on FutureLearn. I now work mostly on Citizen Science projects including iSpot (https://ispotnature.org)
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Interacting in A Virtual Gallery
Adding interactivity to virtual reality movies
There's nothing new about virtual reality, but recently considerable advances have been made in how interactive it can be. Using the latest version of Apple's QuickTime virtual reality authoring, combined with advanced digital photography and image editing, CNM have developed a fully interactive approach to virtual environments, with a customised interface that can link to Internet resources.
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VDC
The Virtual Degree Ceremony
In this project we are exploring how to use technology to appropriately support a strongly social type of event - the celebration of the award of degrees to students in a virtual format. Our second worldwide virtual degree ceremony was webcast live on April 18th 2001. The live ceremony included chat, slides and animations as well as audio and video from the Berrill Lecture Theatre in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Apart from staff on stage, the auditorium itself was entirely empty during the presentation - as all the audience were remote! In addition to the UK based participants, students attended from as far away as New Zealand, Brazil, Denmark and the USA. In this ceremony, students graduated at home whilst baby-sitting, in the office with colleagues and a glass of champagne, and even with a cappuccino in a local cyber-cafe. A student in New Zealand joked that it was so early/late that he was graduating in his pyjamas!
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Hallé KTP
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the Hallé Concerts Society and KMi
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the Hallé Concerts Society and KMi and provides an opportunity for KMi to use and furtheer develop some of its key technologies in a real commercial setting, whilst proving the the Hallé Concerts Society with expertise in the field of New Media Technologies For more information on KTPs, see www.ktponline.org.uk
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Chris Valentine's participation in IEREST
IEREST
An Erasmus Multilateral Project which aims at developing an Intercultural Path for Erasmus students.
Given that 'mobility still remains the exception rather than the rule' (COM(2009) 329: 5), there is a need of further innovative efforts in promoting it, above all in higher education. Also, the quality of the young Europeans' mobility must be taken into account, since it is well known that residence in a foreign country does not of itself reduce students' stereotypical perceptions of otherness (Shaules, 2007; Strong, 2011). IEREST will meet these needs by developing an Intercultural Path (namely, a set of teaching modules) to be provided to Erasmus students before, during, and after their experience abroad, in order to encourage learning mobility and to support students in benefiting as much as possible from their international experiences in terms of personal growth and intercultural awareness.
Chris Valentine's participation in GreenDATA
GreenDATA
Capturing and sharing renewable energy generation data.
A new project to capture, store and share power generation and use data from domestic renewable energy installations, including solar, wind and solar/geo thermal sources. We will employ low-cost off-the-shelf systems, such as the emon Pi, to send data to a central data store and allow students and courses to query that data in a wide variety of ways.
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Open Blockchain
Investigating The Potential Of Blockchains
A blockchain is a publicly shared immutable ledger ï¿½ an append only log of transactions which uses crypto-currency techniques to minimise any security risk. Transactions are contained in blocks which are linked together through a series of hash pointers. Any tampering of a block can be detected since the hash pointer to it would no longer be valid. As a ledger system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of algorithmic processes which can result in payment. Small payments can be attached to individual transactions. Consensus on what types of blocks and transactions can be part of the blockchain is automatically reached according to whether the majority of blockchain holders accept newly proposed blocks. This attribute leads to a system where consensus is hardwired into the software. Without the need for any central control or mediator blockchains allow for leaderless democracy - a new way of governing human behaviour online through "one computer one vote". In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organizations.
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Colin Barrett's profile document
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Colin Barrett
Training and Support Manager
I used to manage the CABER project - in which 3 pilot schools in the East of England use broadband to produce local history resources for the web. Prior to this, I was Training & Support Manager of the CLUTCH Club Millennium Awards Scheme. I've enjoyed a long career in video production for education and business, having fronted my own small business for several years. I also write about video techniques for consumer magazines like Camcorder User, MacUser, What Camcorder and Computer Video.
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Cintia Rabello
Cíntia Rabello holds a BA in Languages and Literature (Portuguese/English) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a Master’s Degree in Educational Technology in Science and Health from the same university. She is a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA/UFRJ) and was a visiting researcher under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) in 2013/2014. Cíntia Rabello currently works as a lecturer at the graduate course in "English Language Teaching and Use of New Technologies" at Universidade Estácio de Sá in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil). She is a researcher at the Information and Communication Technologies Laboratory (LATEC/UFRJ), Language, Education and Technology Research Nucleus (Lingnet/UFRJ). She is also an international research member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU). Her research interests comprise the areas of distance education, e-learning, virtual learning environments, social networking sites, learning networks, teacher professional development and education, and educational technology. At the moment she is investigating teacher competences for the use of digital technologies in Higher Education and colearning networks in teacher professional development via social media.
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Camilo Thorne
I'm working on ontology validation within the CORDER project. My interests run on areas such as knowledge representation logics and formal grammars (master thesis on categorial grammars) and on how these model knowledge contained in corpora.
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Chukwudi Uwasomba
Chukwudi is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University. He holds a BSc in Information Technology and Business Information Systems with First Class Honours, an MSc in Business Information Systems Management with a Distinction, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computing. During his PhD, Chukwudi specialised in knowledge extraction and ontologies for Artificial Intelligence. In addition to his academic credentials, Chukwudi boasts significant professional experience, particularly in software quality and release management. Chukwudi currently leads the Polifonia Child pilot project, where he is at the forefront of exploring innovative methods for knowledge graph completion. He also plays an instrumental role in the SPICE project, where he is leading the development of an intelligent agent for privacy preservation. His dedication to advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence is evident in his ongoing research efforts.
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Claudia Wagner
At the moment I am working on my master thesis about Data Portability in the Social Semantic Web. My work explores how Semantic Web technologies can be used to improve the data reuse process in the Social Web (i.e. make the reuse process traceable, support users during the reuse process via suggesting categories/tags for the reused content or via warning users if licenses or privacy setting are compromised through certain reuse). I am supervised by Enrico Motta and Klaus Tochtermann.
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Darius Augaitis's profile document
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Darius Augaitis
SocialLearn Web Developer
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Diego Ansorena Sainz
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David Beran
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Dilek Celik
External Consultant
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David C Bradbury
We would like to express our sorrow at the tragic sudden death of David, in November 2005. David worked with us here for a year from 2003-4, in his words "building web applications that make use of advances in artifical intelligence to enable the experience of using the web both easier and richer". His presence in our world will be sadly missed.
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Danilo Dessi's profile document
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Danilo Dessi
Danilo Dessi' got the B.Sc. (2014) and M.Sc. (2016) degrees in Computer Science at University of Cagliari. His B.Sc. thesis treats mobile payment technologies and recommendation systems to improve business revenues between costumers and sellers. For his Master Thesis, he worked at a regional project of the Sardinia government named "Rete Natura 2000: Valutazione dei piani di gestione e studio dei corridoi ecologici come rete complessa". The Thesis, titled A Complex Network approach to evaluate the Natura 2000 network, shows a complex indices analysis of the network on the regional land to support enviromental regional planners. During Academic Years 2015/2016, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 Danilo was tutor of the Computer Architecture course of the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari. From June to September 2016, he was in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) for an internship at Data Science Department of Philips Research under the supervision of Dr. Sergio Consoli. At the moment, Danilo is Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari supervised by the Professor Diego Reforgiato. His research activity focuses on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and Graph Analysis. During his PhD studies, he was visiting student of the Professor Dennis Shasha at the Center for Data Science of the New York University. He has been visiting student at the KMi of the Professor Enrico Motta.
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Danita Davidson
KMi Clerical Assistant
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Davide Guidi's profile document
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Davide Guidi
I'm worked on the Open Knowledge project. I was involved in the design and implementation of PowerMagpie, a Web browser extension to handle Semantic content. I was also in the Watson team, and had fun with a lot of ontologies :)
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PowerMagpie
A semantically-enhanced web browser
PowerMagpie is a new generation semantically-enhanced web browser, which is able to dynamically identify and bring into a web browsing session any available semantic markup, which can be found on the Semantic Web. In contrast with previous systems, such as Magpie, which can only use information from a specific, pre-selected ontology, PowerMagpie accesses the whole of the Semantic Web through the Watson gateway and intelligently selects and presents to the user relevant information, drawn from millions of existing semantic web documents. As a result, PowerMagpie avoids the brittleness of earlier semantic browsers and defines a novel, very powerful approach to web browsing in the age of the Semantic Web.
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Dileep Damle
Part Time Research Student
As a PhD student and I was interested in combining the use of ontologies with existing techniques in text-mining and information extraction to improve indexing and retrieval of documents. The title of my thesis was 'Learning Ontologies by processing Natural Language Text'
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Dnyanesh Rajpathak
My background is in Production Engineering from University of Pune, India and Manufacturing Engineering: MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering from University of Surrey. During my PhD I developed a library of problem-solving methods for the scheduling task.
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Drahomira Herrmannova
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2730-1546
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Dave Lambert
I was a Research Associate, working with John Domingue et al on semantic web services. I initially worked on the SOA4All and SOFI projects, but ended up working on many other things, including the NoTube project and the Annomation tool.
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David Winter
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Dominika Koroncziova
Internship
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Daniel Lewis
I was a visitor from Oxford Brookes University, where I am studying for a BSc(Hons) in Intelligent Systems & Software Engineering, I will be graduating Summer 2007. I am at KMi to complete my Undergraduate Project on building a bridge between the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Tagging Systems (such as CiteULike, del.icio.us and Flickr), my dissertation will be titled "Adding Semantics to Social Web Tagging Systems".
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Dong Liu's profile document
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Dong Liu
I received my Ph.D. in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. My thesis was on context-aware computing technology and its application in semantic Web services. In 2008, I joined the Knowledge Media Institute. My current interests are semantic technology and runtime monitoring on execution of Web services.
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SmartLink
SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services
Smart Link is short for "SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services". Simply put, it is an easy-to-use Web application aiding users in the creation of Linked Services - semantic service annotations following Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org/) principles. Amongst other things, it provides an interface to populate and query the Linked Services repository iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk). SmartLink builds on existing technologies and standards to enable wide reach of its annotations. Users can annotate arbitrary services - whether REST-ful or WSDL/SOAP-based - via a simple Web form. Annotations are stored in RDF following established service schemas, namely WSMO-Lite (http://cms-wg.sti2.org/TR/d11/) and the Minimal Service Model (MSM, http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Simple_vocabulary) which follow a light-weight approach to Semantic Web Services. Storage of annotations is spread across two public RDF-stores: iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk) handles all functional properties defined in the MSM schema while an additional and SmartLink-specific SESAME repository hosts further non-functional service properties. A unified interface to store and query annotations across both repositories is provided by SmartLink.
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David Goddard's profile document
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David Goddard
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David Pride's profile document
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David Pride
I completed my MSc. in Computer Science at The University of Hertfordshire in 2016 and then joined KMi as a part of the CORE team. I completed my PhD. in 2020 and am currently a Research Associate working on the On-Merrit project looking at the Matthew Effect in Open Science and the ramifications for responsible research metrics. (http://on-merrit.eu)
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REF 2021 Predictions
Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and trends: data-driven approaches to Scientometrics.
Over the recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing new scientometric measures that go beyond the traditional citation-­â€based bibliometric measures. This interest is motivated on one side by the wider availability or even emergence of new information evidencing research performance, such as article downloads, views, and twitter mentions, and on the other side by the continued frustrations and problems surrounding the application of citation-­based metrics to evaluate research performance in practice. The research looks into new ways of utilizing full-­texts of research papers to evaluate research impact at the granularity of individual papers, researchers as well as institutions. It will consider the evolution of evidence influencing research metrics in time and the emergence of new trends and new research communities as valuable signals.
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Dan Ordish
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David Orzechowski
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David Castledine
Systems & Network Administrator
I am one of the Systems & Network Administrators in the Systems team here at KMi. My role is to provide support for the department's I.T. infrastructure, including Windows, Linux, networking, server and storage virtualisation.
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David Roldan Alvarez's profile document
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David Roldan Alvarez
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Damian Dadswell's profile document
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Damian Dadswell
Snr Manager (Digital Development Services)
As Senior Manager of the Digital Development Services my role involves shaping the digital footprint of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Faculty. This role is a strategic leadership position that carries significant responsibility for ensuring that the faculty's digital presence aligns with its objectives and effectively represents its activities, research, and initiatives to the online community. My team is responsible for overseeing the entire digital development process, from planning and design to implementation and maintenance. This involves setting the strategic direction for the faculty's digital initiatives, defining the digital roadmap, and ensuring that it aligns with the broader organisational goals. I play a critical role in harnessing the team's creative and technical capabilities, fostering collaboration, and encouraging innovation to enhance the online experience for stakeholders, students, faculty members, and external partners. My aim is to enhancing the faculty's online visibility, facilitating effective communication, and delivering a seamless digital experience that empowers students, faculty, and researchers to thrive in the digital age.
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Architectures for scripted media objects
A partial solution to the reusability paradox
Developments in the underlying media technologies provide the potential for a new flexibility in the development of e-learning materials. It is now possible to create scripted media objects with a rich embedded pedagogy of expository structure and learner interaction. The difference between scripted media objects and conventional multi-media resources is that they are designed to share parameters derived from their local context and to communicate with each other. This allows them to be customised by course authors within a simple web-based architecture and offers a potential solution to one of the major problems of open-source media reusability, how to create flexible media objects that are not pedagogically empty. scripted media objects - view all media as flexible, programmable objects, defined by external parameters for mode, configuration, overlay, position, text, etc - configured initially by contextual control parameters and then dynamically - communicate with other media objects and remote servers provide - malleable graphic representations and interactivity - layered complexity allowing alternative levels of description - shared communication between users Related papers http://weblab.open.ac.uk/related-papers/interaction_enquiry.pdf http://weblab.open.ac.uk/related-papers/layered_media.pdf
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COVID-19 Research
A view of our labs response to the pandemic
Within KMi we have been shocked and saddened by the devastating impact the global pandemic is having and like many wish to do what we can to help. To this end we have mobilised our knowledge and media research and innovation expertise, to support the Open University's collective response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Our academics are, for example, tracking the extent of false information about the virus so that it can be brought to the attention of policymakers and have developed the world's first privacy-preserving verifiable digital COVID-19 vaccination/antibody test certificate.
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Duygu Bektik
I joined KMi as a full-time PhD Student in October 2012. My PhD is being supervised by KMI's Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna De Liddo and IET's Rebecca Ferguson. The main question that this PhD aims to answer is: "To what degree can computational text analysis and visual analytics be used to support the academic writing of students in higher education?" This research investigates: 1) whether computational techniques can automatically identify the presence or absence of attributes of good academic writing, as correlated with grades and as identified in the literature 2) if this proves possible, how best to feed back actionable analytics to support students and educators 3) and whether this feedback has any demonstrable benefits. To answer the main research question, the following four supplementary research questions are aimed to be addressed: RQ1: To what extent is the rhetorical parser XIP accurate and sufficient for identifying the presence of attributes of good academic writing within student writing, as judged by the grade, and by educators? RQ2: In what ways should XIP output be delivered to end users (students and educators)? RQ3: To what extent do educators value the results of XIP’s analysis of an individual student or cohort’s work when the primary focus is on assessment? RQ4: To what extent do students value the results of XIP’s analysis as formative feedback on their writing? One contribution of this PhD will be a conceptual framework bridging between educational research into academic writing (the features deemed to be important to quality writing), and research into language technologies (the features which can be automatically detected). This framework will occupy the ‘middle ground’ between learning and computation, helping members of both communities articulate, in precise terms, the opportunities for pedagogically sound learning analytics. This provides the rationale for investigating rhetorical parsers, whose feature extraction capabilities overlap with key features of academic writing. A second contribution will be the evaluation of a particular rhetorical parser, XIP, against several measures of quality (RQs 1-4), both quantitative and qualitative, engaging both educators, and students from undergraduates to PhDs. Since this is a technology developed outside education, the PhD will exemplify a holistic learning analytics approach to the evaluation of commercial analytics products when migrated into learning contexts, which should be of interest to the wider LAK community given the rapid growth of this market.
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Denilson Sell
I'm interested in how semantic web technologies can support the development of flexible analytical applications.
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Dawei Song
Senior Lecturer
My research interests include various theoretical and practical aspects of information retrieval (such as logical models, language models, high-dimensional indexing and dimensionality reduction, relevance feedback, query expansion), text mining, applied logic, and their applications in knowledge discovery and management. In addition to text information retrieval, I have also been heavily involved in several projects/bids on multi-media retrieval.
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Thanh Le
SocialLearn Technical Developer
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Daniel Woodyer
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Daniel Vila
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Danica Vukadinovic Greetham
My aim is to create new methods to model, predict and understand human behaviour from big data sets.
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RAE (Responsive Algorithmic Enterprise)
Energy management system for SMEs
In this project, we work with AND technology and research (https://andtr.com/) to develop new methods and algorithms to better understand current and anticipate future electric demand of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The recurrence quantification analysis based-method is capable of alerting users of unusual behaviour, exceeded budget constraints or faulty equipment. Consequently, this work has been incorporated into a system and app AEMS, www.myaems.com by ANDtr. During 2018-2020, trials toward commercialisation are funded by the UK government, Dept. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), expecting a commercial product to be released in 2020.
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Valeria Pintacuda
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Emanuele Di Buccio
I am a first year PhD student at the School on Information Engineering at the University of Padua. My research activity is focused on Personalized Search. My research interests include also Distributed Information Retrieval, particularly Information Retrieval across Peer-to-peer networks. During my visit to KMi I worked on some Implicit Relevance Feedback techniques.
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Emanuele Bastianelli
Research Associate (Urban Data Mining)
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SciRoc
Bringing Robots into Smart Cities through Competitions
SciRoc is a EU-H2020 funded project supporting the European Robotics League (ERL), and whose aim is to bring all ERL tournaments in the context of smart cities. A key novelty of the SciRoc project is the introduction of robots in smart cities in ERL challenges and, in particular, the ERL Smart Cities, whose aim is to show how robots will integrate in the cities of the future as physical agents living in them. This adds a new challenge to ERL, which will be pursued through the organisation of two Smart CIties RObotics Challenges (The SciRoc Challenges) in years 2019 and 2021. Leveraging the functionalities developed within ERL Consumer, ERL Professional and ERL Emergency, robots will be required to cooperate with the smart city infrastructure and interact with its citizens, accomplishing tasks of different nature in different scenarios – assisting customers, providing professional services and supporting during emergency situations.
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Enrico Daga
Enrico Daga has carried out R&D on Web Semantics first at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and then at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University in the UK, where he obtained a PhD. Enrico is currently Senior Research Fellow in KMi. RESEARCH His research is exploring novel methods for Knowledge Graph construction (SPARQL Anything) and infrastructure, with particular focus on metadata management, policies and process knowledge; applied to data-intensive scenarios in the smart cities, healthcare, humanities, and cultural heritage domains. He has so far supervised three PhD students to completion. ACTIVITY Enrico is Technical Director and Principal Investigator (PI) for the OU in the EU-funded H2020 project Polifonia and co-investigator and work package leader in the H2020 project SPICE. He is Technical Director of the OU Open Knowledge Graph and of the MK Data Hub, a Smart City Data Infrastructure supporting research (SciRoc - robots in Smart Cities) and innovation (CityLABS project). Before, he played key roles in projects developing intelligent systems for Ontology Engineering (NeOn) and Smart Cities (MK:Smart).
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The Open University Linked Data
The home of open linked data from The Open University.
data.open.ac.uk is the home of open linked data from The Open University. We interlink and expose data available in various institutional repositories of the University and make it available openly for reuse. The data can be queried through a SPARQL endpoint. Currently, the datasets relate the publications, qualifications, courses and Audio/Video material produced at the Open University, as well as the people involved in making them. All these data are available through standard formats (RDF and SPARQL) and are (in most cases) available under an open license (see details).
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Evan Brown's profile document
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Evan Brown
I started my PhD at KMi in May 2010. Prior to this, I worked for almost ten years as a developer and project manager in the software industry. I started my career as a Knowledge Transfer Associate with Napier University in Edinburgh, working on multimedia content delivery platforms for distance learning. Latterly I developed corpus-based search engines for education with the late Professor John McHardy Sinclair of the University of Birmingham and the Tuscan Word Centre. My research areas are near-duplicate image detection and content-based image retrieval. I am supervised by Professor Stefan Rueger and Dr. Yulan He. We aim to enable people to search effectively for information based on photographic or pictorial queries rather than just words and phrases. I am also generally interested in the field of law and computing - particularly rights management on the Internet and the development of open source business models.
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Enrico Motta's profile document
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Enrico Motta
Professor of Knowledge Technologies
I lead the KMi's Intelligent Systems and Data Science research group, which carries out research in a variety of areas relevant to the development of user-centric, intelligent, data-intensive solutions, including Data Science, Semantic Web Technologies, Visual Analytics, Robotics, Large-Scale Data Infrastructures, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction and others. Application domains include (but are not limited to) Smart Cities, News Analytics, Scholarly Data and Digital Humanities and Learning. Research Group: https://isds.kmi.open.ac.uk/
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University for Industry Observatory
Using KMi technologies for integrating web documents with formal representations of knowledge
The aim of this project is to provide an 'observatory' for the University of Industry (learning direct) which collects together related work on distance education. This work builds on a number of KMi projects including the Enrich and KMi planet projects.
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Enrico Motta's participation in WebOnto
WebOnto
Browse and edit knowledge models over the web
WebOnto is a tool providing web-based visualisation, browsing and editing support for developing and maintaining ontologies and knowledge models specified in OCML. An ontology can be seen as a model of the conceptual structure of some domain and WebOnto provides the means for graphically representing this.
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PlanetOnto
Web based news server, which facilitates lab-related items of interest in KMi to a wider community
The use of KMi Planet on a day-to-day basis has highlighted a number of knowledge management issues: how to provide semantic search and knowledge retrieval facilities in an effective and sustainable way; how best to provide individualised presentations and news alerts; how best to emulate the behaviour of a newsroom team. To address these challenges we have developed an integrated suite of tools, which is called PlanetOnto. These tools allow ontology-driven document formalization and augment standard browsing and search facilities with deductive knowledge retrieval. In addition, the PlanetOnto architecture includes specialized agents, which provide personalised news feeds and alerts and can proactively identify potentially interesting news items.
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Enrico Motta's participation in AKT
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Enrico Motta's participation in Evolva
Evolva
Ontology Evolution
Evolva is an Ontology Evolution tool that handles information discovery from external data sources (e.g. text documents), data validation, ontology changes, evolution validation and evolution management. One of the advantages of Evolva is that it relies on various background knowledge sources (e.g. online ontologies and lexical databases) for knowledge integration.
Enrico Motta's participation in climateprediction.net
climateprediction.net
State-of-the-art simulation of the climate system
The climateprediction.net [http://climateprediction.net] is a state-of-the-art simulation of the climate system which runs on PCs. Project participants will be able to download and run different parametrizations of a climate simulation program, thus providing data for studying climate change. The collaborators in this large-scale e-Science project are The Open University, the universities of Oxford and Reading, Rutherford Appleton Labs, and The MetOffice. KMi's role in the project is to develop a robust semantic web portal for the estimated 2 million participants. A mixture of technologies will be used, including integrated discussion forums, a web-based news service, conferencing services and social areas using the latest instant messaging programs. This portal will also use state-of-the-art semantic web technology (developed in KMi) to provide fully customisable 'semantic filters' that can be placed over any web-based document (whether local or remote), and provide the user with the context of identified 'concepts-of-interests'.
Enrico Motta's participation in Magpie
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Enrico Motta's participation in AquaLog
AquaLog
AquaLog, a portable question-answering system for organizational ontologies
AquaLog is a portable question-answering system which takes queries expressed in natural language and an ontology as input and returns answers drawn from semantic resources compliant with the input ontology. AquaLog differs from other similar systems with respect to two important aspects: 1) It is truly portable: no configuration effort is needed at all, to interface AquaLog to a particular ontology; 2) Over time it adapts to the jargon used by a particular user community, hence there is no need to manually customise the system for a particular domain. AquaLog integrates a number of technologies, including NLP, ontology-based reasoning, machine learning and user modelling.
Enrico Motta's participation in The KMi semantic web
Enrico Motta's participation in MnM
Enrico Motta's participation in OntoWeaver
OntoWeaver
an ontology-based approach to web site design and development
OntoWeaver is an ontology-based approach, which provides high level support for web site design and development. It relies on the following major components to achieve its task: i) a site view ontology, which provides fine-grained modelling support for user interfaces and navigation structures of the target web site, ii) a presentation ontology, which provides high level support for the specification of layouts and presentation styles for user interface elements, and iii) a customization framework, which exploits the declarative specification of the target web site and provides comprehensive customization support at design time as well as run time.
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Enrico Motta's participation in OpenKnowledge
OpenKnowledge
Open Architecture for Coordinated Knowledge Sharing
OpenKnowledge is a 3 year long STReP project financed under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. The goal of the project is to decrease the cost of participation in semantic based systems that are increasingly developed in the context of the Semantic Web.This will be achieved by focusing on semantics related to interaction (which are acquired at low cost during participation) and using this to avoid dependency on a priori semantic agreement; instead making semantic commitments incrementally at run time. The "Open" in OpenKnowledge thus is significant in two senses: it assumes an open system, which anyone may join at any time; it assumes an openness to being joined, achieved through participation at low individual cost. The project will provide a unifying framework based on interaction models that are mobile in the sense that they may be transferred to other components, this being a mechanism for Web service composition and for coalition formation. A key contribution of OpenKnowledge is to demonstrate that by shifting the emphasis to interaction (the details of which may be hidden from users) we can obtain knowledge sharing of sufficient quality for sustainable communities of practice without the barrier of complex meta-data provision prior to community formation. This requires us to re-interpret forms of contextual reasoning, ontology mapping, query routing and visualisation for this new arena. We ground our research in two testbed areas: bioinformatics and emergency response. The role of KMI is to evaluate whether the technology developed in the project can be successfully reused to (re-)implement two of its Semantic Web tools, AquaLog and Magpie.
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Enrico Motta's participation in PhiloSURFical
PhiloSURFical
Semantically browse a philosophical text
PhiloSURFical is an application built to experiment the new navigation mechanisms the Semantic Web can make available. Thanks to a domain ontology, the navigation and understanding of a philosophical text is enhanced by providing it with a series of departing contextual pathways. We call these pathways "learning narratives", as they dynamically recollect dispersed web-resources and organize them into a coherent narrative, whose structure is inspired by perspectives commonly used when teaching philosophy (e.g. theoretical, historical, geographical, argumentative..)
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Enrico Motta's participation in PowerAqua
PowerAqua
A Natural Language Interface to the Semantic Web
PowerAqua is a multi-ontology-based Question Answering (QA) system, which takes as input queries expressed in natural language and is able to return answers drawn from the relevant distributed resources on the Semantic Web. In contrast with any other existing natural language front end, PowerAqua is not restricted to a single ontology and therefore provides the first comprehensive attempt at supporting open domain QA on the Semantic Web.
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Enrico Motta's participation in Dedalo
Dedalo
Explaining patterns with Linked Data
Dedalo is a framework which exploits Linked Data to generate explanations for patterns of data. The Web of Data contains vast amounts of background knowledge and natively connects cross-domains datasets. We developed Dedalo, an Inductive Logic Programming based- framework, that performs dynamic traversal of the Linked Data graph using an A* search, to find commonalities that form explanations for items of patterns to be explained.
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Enrico Motta's participation in Smart Topic Miner
Smart Topic Miner
Classifying scholarly publications according to an ontology of research areas
The Smart Topic Miner (STM) is a novel application, developed in collaboration with Springer Nature, which classifies scholarly publications according to an automatically generated ontology of research areas. STM analyses in real-time a collection of publications and returns a description of the given corpus in terms of a taxonomy of research topics drawn from a large scholarly ontology and a set of Springer Nature Classification tags. This information is used for a variety of tasks such as: i) classifying proceedings in digital and physical libraries; ii) enhancing semantically the metadata associated with publications and consequently improving the discoverability of the proceedings in both the Springer digital library, SpringerLink, as well as third-party sites such as Amazon.com; iii) deciding where and when to market a specific book; and iv) detecting novel and promising research areas that may deserve more attention from the publisher.
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Smart Book Recommender
An ontology-based recommender system for books, journals, and conference proceedings
The Smart Book Recommender (SBR) is a ontology-based recommender system, developed in collaboration with Springer Nature, which suggests books, journals and conference proceedings that are likely to be relevant to the attendees of a given conference. It relies on a background knowledge of 27K books and 270 journals. Each editorial product is represented as a distribution of research topics drawn from the Computer Science Ontology, a large-scale automatically-generated ontology of research fields. In addition, SBR offers an advanced interface for visualizing and comparing the taxonomy of research areas associated with each item. This solution allows users to comprehend the rationale behind the recommendation and to gain a good understanding of the content of each editorial product.
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Springer Nature Collaboration
Since 2014, the Scholarly Knowledge Modelling team in KMi has been collaborating with Springer Nature, working together to develop innovative solutions that both improve the state of the art in this area and are also shape new business solutions in Springer Nature. This partnership has produced dozens of publications, a variety of novel solutions, a REF Impact Case and has been recognised with numerous awards. A new contract was signed in December 2023, extending the partnership until the end of 2025.
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Elia Tomadaki's profile document
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Elia Tomadaki
I was a Research Fellow in the Centre for New Media, working on cooperative learning systems. I was mainly concerned with the integration of the video conferencing tool FlashMeeting with the OpenLearn platform and the study of large-scale synchronous collaborative media.
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Em Dean
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Felice Merra
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Fatma Chamekh
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Farshad Hakimpour's profile document
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Farshad Hakimpour
I enjoyed working at KMi from September 2003 till end of 2004 in the framework of AKT project. During this period, I worked on Semantic Web Services and IRS system.
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Franck Hetroy-Wheeler
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Francisco Bolanos Burgos's profile document
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Francisco Bolanos Burgos
Francisco Bolanos is a Ph.D. student at the Knowledge Media Institute in the Open University. His research interest is focused on the implementation of AI techniques for scientific discovery. Before starting his Ph.D., he was a lecturer and the graduate director of the master's programs: Data Science and IT Auditing at UEES, Ecuador. Furthermore, he led the national and international accreditation team for the Graduate Faculty. Regarding high school teaching, he was the computer high school teacher and IT Coordinator at the US Consulate School InterAmerican Academy in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Currently, he is a guest lecturer at the Graduate Faculty at UEES teaching scientometrics to the medical specialties.
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Fawad Nazir
I am worked on the X-Media Project. I was developing methods for Semantic Search Visualization.
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Francesco Osborne's profile document
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Francesco Osborne
I am Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media institute of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, where I lead the Scholarly Knowledge Mining (SKM) team. My research covers Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Science of Science, Semantic Web, Research Analytics, and Semantic Publishing. I have authored more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications in top journals and conferences in my research areas, including the Semantic Web Journal, Neurocomputing, Future Generation Computer Systems, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, ISWC, ESWC, WebConf, JCDL, TPDL, and UMAP. I won several awards, including the Best In-Use Paper Award at the International Semantic Web Conference 2022, the Best Demo Award at the International Semantic Web Conference 2020, and the Semantic Publishing Award at European Semantic Web Conference 2014. The SKM team aims to produce innovative approaches leveraging large-scale data mining, semantic technologies, machine learning and visual analytics for making sense of scholarly data and forecast research dynamics. We collaborate with several commercial organizations (e.g., Springer Nature, Elsevier, Microsoft, Digital Science, Figshare), non-profit organizations, and universities. More information about the SKM team at http://skm.kmi.open.ac.uk. More information about my work at http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/francesco.
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Faisal Ramzan
I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics. I hold a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, Italy. My research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models, Named Entity Recognition, and Generative Modelling. I am highly research-oriented and committed to advancing knowledge in these areas. I am Visiting Research Student at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), where I am working on semantic web ontologies, with a specific focus on the CSO Classifier: Ontology-Driven Detection of Research Topics in Scholarly Articles.
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Farina Sikander's profile document
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Farina Sikander
Administration Assistant
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Fridolin Wild's profile document
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Fridolin Wild
Fridolin Wild is now a professor at the Institute of Educational Technology of The Open University, follow the link for more information: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/faw56 During his time at KMi, Fridolin Wild was championing research on performance augmentation ('learning by experience'), consequently looking into wearables-enhanced learning and performance analytics. Fridolin Wild was a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University of the UK. His relevant experience as Principal Investigator included the TELLME project (the learning models work package) and the LTfLL project (coordinating the infrastructure work package). Since May 2009 he had been the deputy coordinator of the European network of excellence STELLAR. He shadowed the lead of the work package on community building and sustains this in the ROLE project and a European policy project on TEL Futures, TEL-Map. Fridolin was the voted treasurer of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL). He studied information science in Regensburg, Hildesheim, and Munich (all Germany). He founded axon-e interactive media in 1998, and managed numerous commercial and governmental projects there until he left the company in 2003. In 2004 he graduated as magister artium in information science and politology. Between 2004 and 2009, Fridolin worked as a scientist at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria within the European projects PROLEARN, iCAMP, LTfLL, and ROLE thereby serving as the overall technical manager with an additional work package lead in interoperability of social software learning tools in iCamp, leading the work package infrastructure within LTfLL, and leading a work package on community building and sustaining in the ROLE project.
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MUPPLE II
mash-up personal learning environment
MUPPLE II is your learning companion in the web. It supports you in learning new best practices from all the others out there - new practices in how to use tools for learning effectively. More precisely, MUPPLE II helps you to trace and replay usage strategies on the web. As a learner, you learn how to work with all the cool new tools on the web without loosing endless hours exploring their 'potential'. As a more knowledgeable other, you give your fellow peers a guide at hand that brings them up to speed - without you bothering to explain the thing over and over again. MUPPLE II is of course built as a Firefox Jetpack.
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Edukapp
UK-wide Higher Education App & Widget Store
A personalized learning environment offers an open eco-system that helps individuals to retrieve content and create (or manage) knowledge in a collaborative way (often utilizing their social networks) and is a modern way of using technology for educational purposes. Widgets are essential building blocks for creating personal learning environments. Widgets are small, web-enabled tools that provide functionality through a use-case sized user-interface. Widgets manage to decompose complex software activities into small dialogue-based activities, which can be re-used and re-embedded in different containers according to differing contexts. Countless institutions for Higher Education (particularly in the UK) have invested over recent years into the creation of widgets and into widget-compatible infrastructures to be used in their institutionally promoted personalised learning environments. For example, widely used virtual learning environments such as the open source projects Moodle and Sakai as well as commercially offered software Blackboard and Clix support the integration of widgets into formal learning activities. A considerable problem, however, is access to this large variety of widgets for learning available. Commercial market places such as Google Gadgets or Apple’s App Store bury any tools for learning and their community of practice under a pile of generic purpose tools and games. They also do not foster the creation of a community of practice around these widgets that is dedicated to learning and teaching. In order to be more accessible, learning widgets need to be catalogued in a way that makes browsing, recommendation, and retrieval easy for a vast community of learners and educators. The solution to this problem is Edukapp, the cross-university widget store: it's a market place software for end-users and developers to share, annotate, exchange about, recommend, and instantiate widgets and track their afforded practices through logging interaction data. Edukapp is Open Source (Apache License 2.0).
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Fouad Zablith's profile document
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Fouad Zablith
My PhD research was in the Semantic Web field, focusing on Ontology Evolution starting from domain data. The aim was to decrease user involvement during the process of ontology evolution, through the reuse of various sources of background knowledge. I was also working on modeling and publishing linked data within http://data.open.ac.uk
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Gerald Aranha's profile document
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Gerald Aranha
Collaborator
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Gregoire Burel's profile document
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Gregoire Burel
I am a research associate and data scientist at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) with over 10 years of experience applying Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in domains such as misinformation detection, crisis event extraction and question answering. I am currently investigating the spread of misinformation and fact-checks for the Co-Inform (coinform.eu) and HERoS (heros-project.eu) projects. I develop and maintain the Fact-checking Observatory (fcobservatory.org). Over the years, my work has involved the development and application of machine learning techniques for the investigation of user behaviour in different settings (e.g. answering behaviour, energy consumption habits and emerging behaviour in emergency crises), the development of visualisation tools and platforms (e.g. energyuse.eu, Sparks Prism) and the creation of formal ontological models (e.g. DoRES, EUse,Veracity, Curio).
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Giorgio Basile's profile document
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Giorgio Basile
Java Developer
Software developer of the CORE team Former collaborator of the MK:Smart project
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Frictionless Data Exchange Across Research Data, Software and Scientific Paper Repositories
This project was funded under the EOSC Pilot H2020 project as demnstrator.
The work produced the following outputs: - Implementation and a deployed online version of the demonstrator service exhibiting fast and highly scalable exchange of metadata and content across repositories storing research data, papers and scientific software. - A piece of evidence and argument for modernising existing communication mechanisms routinely used by repositories using our solution. This was delivered in the form of an empirical evaluation, comprising the source code, the experimental data and a formal research publication describing the experiment. The impact of this work was: - A clear path to go beyond the current state-of-the-art in efficient and effective information exchange between EOSC data providers and services. - Scalable client/server implementation(s) of the ResourceSync protocol for easy adoption at the side of data providers. - Raised awareness of existing problems and the offered solution
Gianluca Bardaro's profile document
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Gianluca Bardaro
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Giacinto Barresi
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Ginevra Chelli
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Gareth Davies's profile document
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Gareth Davies
Research Associate (part-time)
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George Gkotsis
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Gaston Burek's profile document
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Gaston Burek
Currently working at the linguistics department of Tuebingen University. Within the LTfLL project (www.ltfll-project.org) my research focus on LSA applications for supporting long life learners in achieving their specified learning goals. I build next generation of NLP based tools capable of finding the optimal learning path according to each individual learning history. In addition, I have a special interest in computational semantics for recognising textual entailment (RTE). My ongoing PhD work at KMi focus on a robust and scalable model for fine grained semantics that incorporates the principle of "distributional compositionality" in semantic spaces. PREVIOUS PROJECT: Semantic mining project (www.semanticmining.org)
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Geoffray Bonnin's profile document
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Geoffray Bonnin
Visiting Senior Researcher
Geoffray Bonnin obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 and joined the Loria lab in 2014 as an Associate Professor at the Université de Lorraine in France. His research topics are related to artificial intelligence for music and for education. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, where he is working on a project about artificial intelligence for inclusion in educational digital tools.
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Gary Li
Web Developer
My research interests are: Agent and multi-agent system technology applied in Knowledge Engineering; Human Computer Interaction; Visual Representation Knowledge base.
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Gemma Bessant's profile document
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Gemma Bessant
MK:Smart PR Associate
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Gabriela Pavel
P-time external PhD Research Student
Research studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, supervised by Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal and Dr. Paul Mulholland. My topic is "Machine learning support for human learning from examples". Currently part-time.
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Giulia Renda
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Giuseppe Scavo
Project Officer - Augmented Reality
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 experience provided by these technologies and the sensing capabilities of new generation sensors, Giuseppe’s aim is to study new interaction paradigms that can facilitate workers’ skills acquisition, decrease tasks completion time and error rate and boost safety and ergonomics on the workplace.
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Gonzalo Silva Cruz
Part-time Postgrad Researcher
Part time research student at KMI
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Guido Zuccon
My current research is focusing in developing a new framework based on a Quantum Theory (QT) formalism. In the last months I've been working on a formalisation of Logical Imaging in a QT framework. I am also interested in theoretical and formal models for IR, in context modeling, especially using QT, and in evolutionary operators. Moreover, in the last months I am also working on High Dimensions Vector Spaces and in particular on Voronoi structures. During my visit at KMi I will investigate HAL spaces in QT, and the effect of dimensionality reduction techniques (i.e. SVD, RP) on Semantic spaces.
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Harith Alani
KMi Director
I hold the position of Director at the Knowledge Media Institute, where I have founded and currently lead the interdisciplinary Social Data Science group. Our cutting-edge research is dedicated to the field of computational social science, utilising advanced methodologies to create models, gain insights, and track various social phenomena in the digital landscape. This research draws upon the collective expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web Technologies, and Social Computing, synergising their capabilities for impactful socio-technical outcomes.
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Sense4Us
tools and techniques to enable policy makers to gather, integrate, and analyse policy-related discussions
The objective of the EU FP7 Sense4us project is to advance policy modelling and simulation, data analytics and social network discussion dynamics, providing economic and social benefits at all governmental levels across Europe. The project will provide tools enabling policy makers to find and select relevant information; link and homogenise the data; model policy in terms of constraints and intent; validate the policy; discover and incorporate views from NGOs and public; predict social impact of policy; provide decision support; and provide understandable visualisation.
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DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change
The lack of collective awareness negatively impacts perceived personal efficacy, which hampers efforts to address societal problems. DecarboNet is a multidisciplinary effort to tackle this problem by identifying determinants of collective awareness, translating awareness into behavioural change, and providing novel methods to analyse and visualise the underlying processes. DecarboNet will research and develop (i) generic tools to co-create knowledge with on-the-fly recommendations of related content from multiple sources; (ii) a cross-platform social media application to provide eco-feedback and engage citizens in games with a purpose; and (iii) methods to measure and predict behavioural change, and to capture collective awareness in a quantitative framework based on diffusion models and resonance patterns in public discourse. DecarboNet is funded under the FP7 ICT call for Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation - CAPS. CAPS are ICT systems to leverage the crowds and the emerging "network effect" by combining distributed knowledge creation, with data from online social media and from real environments ("Internet of Things") in order to increase engagement and awareness of problems and possible solutions that require collective efforts and novel forms of social innovation.
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ReelLives
Development of filmic representations of social media content for individuals and groups using a mixture of semantic, content, and network analysis
ReelLives is a interdisciplinary project funded by EPSRC. ReelLives aims to combine our expertise and technologies in social media data processing and semantic extraction, with social science expertise in citizen identity, trust, and culture, to build tools for automatic generation of filmic, narrative structures from social media, that are easy to comprehend and edit and that allow for a simple comparison of one digital life with another
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Heshan Andrews
Full Stack Web Developer (OU Analyse)
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Hussain Ahmad
I was a visiting researcher in KMi. My field of work is Semantic Web. I am focusing on utilizing semantics in the business domain.
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Helene de Ribaupierre
Research Associate in Information Extraction
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Holger Lewen
I visited KMi in January 2009 from Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) as part of my work in the EU funded project NeOn. I worked with Mathieu on the integration of a Topic-Specific Open Rating System for Ontologies with Watson
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Haiming Liu
P-time SocialLearn UX Developer
I am working on SocialLearn Project as a user experience developer. My PhD was on improving the interaction between users and the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system from three perspectives: user interaction model, interactive interface and users.
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Heliomar Lima
Visiting Consultant of FAO
Dr. Heliomar Lima holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degree in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the ePlanning Lab at the University of Lisbon was well as at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) in 2014 under the supervision of Dr. Okada. He is currently a participant of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU). His research interests comprise the areas of ICT for improving social development and participatory citizenship. Dr. Lima also holds large experience in electric engineering with emphasis on telecommunication systems such as satellite data communication, performance analysis, communication error and protocol recuperation, connectivity solutions for rural areas and digital inclusion. His publications comprises several journal and conferences papers disseminated in both national and international events.
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Harriett Cornish
Graphic Designer
I am the graphic designer for KMi, I maintain the general graphical elements for KMi along with the overall look and feel of the Lab. I also provide the graphics for KMi projects, these can range from posters to presentation backgrounds to web design to application icons.
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Hong Qing Yu
I am currently working as RA in KMi for EU projects. I got my PhD degree from University of Leicester 2009. My Research Interests are Semantic Web services selection and composition, Data reasoning for Semantic Web, Context modeling and reasoning in (PCE) Pervasive Computing Environment and Applications of Graph Transformation Theory.
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Hannah Gore
Online Community & Devel Manager
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Hassan Saif
Hassan Saif is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute. His research interests are in Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning and Social Semantics. Hassan has recently had a PhD degree at the Open University on semantic sentiment analysis of microblogs. He has extensive expertise in social media analysis and data mining, and has published in top semantic web conferences and journals. Along his career in KMI, Hassan has been involved in several EU projects including, ROBUST and SENSE4US, where he developed various novel techniques of using Semantics in Sentiment Analysis. Previously to joining KMi, Hassan worked as a research assistant at the University of Lincon, UK and as research engineer for NordicSense, Finland.
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Ian Pulford
Event Manager
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Ivan Cantador Gutierrez
Visiting Senior Lecturer
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Isabella Distinto
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Julia Kantorovitch
Visiting Research Fellow
I am a Senior Research Scientist at VTT - Technical Research Center of Finland, KIPS - Knowledge Intensive Products and Services. Since Nov 2013 I am happy to be a visiting researcher at KMi, joining Enrico Mottaï¿½s research group. Adaptable service technologies, middleware, and semantic technologies applied to smart pervasive computing environments are the main topics in my current and past research projects, a few most recent ones to mention are FP7 Smart Products, ITEA Guarantee, and ICT Lab My-Sleep. Currently I am working in two EU projects, FP7 CONCEPT and FP7 COnCORDE. CONCEPT project is about developing of a semantically driven collaboration framework dedicated to assist professional product designers during the early stages of the product design process. Number of research and technological challenges are to be addressed here, including the semantic integration of collaborative tools and knowledge, effective methods for interaction among distributed teams, group awareness & knowledge organization and the support for using of metaphors and associations for conceptual design. This project is a joy. In COnCORDE project we are looking for Decision Support System and semantic technologies to improve preparedness and interoperability of medical services during an emergency situations. This is a serious stuff but itï¿½s a joy too.
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Izabel Meister's profile document
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Izabel Meister
DR. IZABEL MEISTER holds a Master and Doctoral degree in Education, Art and Cultural History from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo Brazil with doctoral internship at The Open University (OU-KMI) under Dr. Okada supervision. She also holds BSc in Architecture and Urbanism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (1991) with Specialization in Communication Theory and Practice of Audivisual (1998) and BSc in Technology Management and Publishing from United Metropolitan Colleges (2004),São Paulo. Dr. Meister is also research collaborator of COLEARN open research network on Collaborative Open Learning (OU KMI), researcher of EDUTECHI Group on Education, Technology and Hypermedia (UPM Brazil) and CEMRI Center for the Study of Migration and Intercultural Relations (OU PT). She is currently lecturer at the Federal University of São Paulo-UNIFESP, which is an Institution part the Open University of Brazil – UAB. Her role is to develop research on construction of knowledge through social networks; data visualization applied to distance education and pedagogical architecture for virtual teaching and learning environments.
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Inna Novalija's profile document
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Inna Novalija
Visiting Research Assistant
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Ivana Quinto
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Ilaria Tiddi
I am a Research Associate at the Data Science Group of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), in the U.K. My area of research is the interaction of robots and cities in the context of the MK:Smart project. I am currently investigating how to use mobile sensors such as robots to dynamically acquire and update knowledge about a smart environment. During my Ph.D. research, I focused on exploiting Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery. I studied how to use Linked Data as a background knowledge to explain patterns of data in an automatic way. I combined different Machine Learning and graph techniques to create a framework that could explain patterns automatically using information found in the Linked Data.
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Isha Tyagi
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Yanna Vogiazou
Yanna's PhD research was focused on the notion of 'presence' in the online and wireless connected world and investigated the potential of massive multiplayer games and playful multiuser interaction based purely on 'presence' information.
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BuddySpace
Enhanced Presence Management for Collaboration, Messaging, and Gaming
BuddySpace aims to provide enhanced capabilities for users to manage and visualise the presence of colleagues and friends in collaborative working, gaming, messaging, and other contexts. Of particular interest is the role of graphical metaphors for presence, including maps, logical layouts such as building schematics and project timelines and abstract artistic layouts such as graffiti walls. We are also studying the semantics of presence, in order to move beyond simple flags such as 'online' and 'busy' to include rich contextual and spatio-temporal information more appropriate to one's focus of activity.
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Cititag
Research in social location-based play for large groups in city environments
CitiTag is an innovative wireless location-based multiplayer game. These are boundaries we are exploring : what kind of engaging social experiences can emerge in the real world based on the awareness of individuals participating in a parallel virtual experience? Does virtual presence penetrate physical presence in any way? How do group behaviours emerge?"
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Joe Corneli
Ex PhD Research Student
Thesis: Peer Produced Peer Learning A Mathematics Case Study, available on ORO. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40775/ After completing his PhD under the supervision of Alex Mikroyannidis and Professor Peter Scott, Joe now works as a researcher at Goldsmiths College in the Computational Creativity Group.
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Joely Whild
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John Domingue's profile document
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John Domingue
Professor of Computer Science
I am a Professor of Computer Science [1] at the Knowledge Media Institute [2], the Open University's technology research and innovation centre, and the President of STI International [3], a semantics focused networking organisation. I have published over 280 refereed articles (h-index 57) in the areas of semantics, the Web, distributed ledgers and eLearning. My current work focuses on how a combination of blockchain and Linked Data technologies can be used to process personal data in a decentralised trusted manner and how this can be applied in the educational domain [4]. I serve as the leader of the first of five themes, on University Learners, for the £20M funded Institute of Coding [5] which aims to increase the number and diversity of computing graduates in the UK as well as enhancing the connection between university teaching and corporate training. Since January 2019, I have played a leading role in the EU funded QualiChain project [6] which has the aim of revolutionising public education and its relationship to the labour market and policy making by disrupting the way accredited educational titles and other qualifications are archived, managed, shared and verified, taking advantage of blockchain, semantics, data analytics and gamification technologies. Until February 2020 I was also a key player in the European Blockchain Observatory [7] supporting the European Commission on road-mapping the future of this technology in a number of key sectors. February 2020 saw the start of a new EU project, DEL4All [8], where under my leadership the OU will aid in road-mapping how education will be transformed due to the impact of blockchains, AI, data and augmented and virtual reality technologies. In 2017 my research in blockchains and education was referenced in the Joint Research Centre Policy Report Blockchain in Education for the European Commission [9]. Prof. Domingue has given many talks on his work including at the Royal Institution in 2018 [10] and at TEDx [11]. Very recently my focus has centred on our blockchain based platform could be applied for COVID-19 Anti Body Test and Vaccination certification which has attracted attention from the media [12]. Last year I became a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association [13]. [1] http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/domingue/ [2] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/ [3] https://www.sti2.org/ [4] http://blockchain.open.ac.uk [5] https://instituteofcoding.org/ [6] https://qualichain-project.eu/ [7] https://www.eublockchainforum.eu/ [8] https://www.del4all.eu/ [9] https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC108255/jrc108255_blockchain_in_education%281%29.pdf#page=66 [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwYDMdji3k [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPefcmWFWyM&t=6s [12] https://blockchain.open.ac.uk/#covid-19 [13] https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/fellowship
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Virtual Participant
Tool for monitoring, recording and recognising current topics of discussion
The Virtual Participant is an agent that participates in electronic conferences. It monitors the current topics of discussion, and when it recognises a topic that has been discussed previously, for example, in a previous year, it posts a message telling the conference about the previous discussion. The Virtual Participant was first assessed over two years in First Class conferences for the OUBS course B882 Creative Management. At the moment new versions of the Virtual Participant are being planned and developed, to support learning in an industrial setting.
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KMi Planet
Online Newspaper
KMi Planet is an online newspaper managed entirely by intelligent agent software. The software undertakes the mundane tasks of alerting readers, soliciting, gathering, and formatting stories, integrating these tasks in a compelling fashion with minimal overheads for the in-house reporters and maximal benefit for readers. KMi Planet has been used successfully for a number of years and now contains 100+ stories. A number of customised versions are now running in corporate and educational enviroments.
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Storymaking Project
Design and evaluation of a story metadata scheme and annotation environment
Stories are our most primitive, and enduring, means of human communication. We are interested in stories as a medium for knowledge sharing amongst practitioners, and from a knowledge media perspective, we are investigating how they can be mediated in new ways via the Web.
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SEALS
Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale
The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation. The SEALS Platform will provide an integrated set of semantic technology evaluation services and test suites. They will be used in two public and worldwide evaluation campaigns. The results of these evaluation campaigns will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications. The semantic technology evaluation services will initially be available for five different types of technologies (ontology engineering tools, storage and reasoning systems, matching tools, semantic search tools, and semantic web service tools) and for different evaluation criteria (interoperability, scalability, etc.). The platform will provide easy and free access to the evaluation services and to the results of the evaluations performed.
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PlanetData
Large-Scale Data Management
The PlanetData Network of Excellence aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way, by conducting interdisciplinary research on ï¿½ the Web‐friendly representation, robust integration, and scalable transmission, processing, and management of stream‐like data, such as sensors, news stories, and microblog entries; ï¿½ the assessment and improvement of the quality of large open data sets of various modalities, and the augmentation of these data sets with self‐descriptive metadata giving an account of quality and contextual aspects; and ï¿½ the accountable usage of Web‐based data sets taking into consideration provenance, privacy, trust, and access rights. KMI has a sub-project in PlanetData, called ParkMe: Linked Open Parking Data, which works on a mobile and Web application that combines geographic data and parking space information with user location, social networks and other data sources in order to let its users conveniently find parking and related value-add services when coming to work or driving into town.
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Jack Park
I worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, as a research consultant on the CALO (Cognitive assistent that learns and organizes) project.
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Julien Cojan
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Jason Carvalho
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Jen Williams
My role is split between supporting Business Development and Project Support Administration in the Lab. I work alongside Alan Fletcher, Jane Whild, Keyur Dave, Aneta Tumilowicz and provide support for a number of Senior Academics.
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Juan Carlos Vidal Aguiar
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John Davies
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Joerg Diederich
My current work is focused on ranking (PageRank & Co) and recommendation algorithms and how to combine such things with Magpie. In my previous life (mainly during my PhD thesis) I was working in the area of communication networks, especially the mobile ones (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WirelessLAN) and their protocols (TCP/IP, MobileIP), focusing on Quality of Service aspects (Integrated Services, Differentiated Services) in cellular mobile networks.
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Jamie Daniels
Mobile Applications Developer
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Julie Vince
SocialLearn Secretary
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Jane Whild
Administration Manager
I'm KMi's Administration Manager and Co-Chair of our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Board. My proudest KMi achievements are: - coordinating flagship projects: MK:Smart 16m, EU-funded NeOn 14m, Institute of Coding and Millennium Clutch Clubs. - OU MBA in 2012. I represent the OU in Thames Valley Citizens https://www.citizensuk.org/chapters/thames-valley/
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Jerzy 'Jez' Grzeda
Business Manager
Jerzy 'Jez' Grzeda was the KMi Business Manager from the launch of KMi in 1995 until he had to take early retirement in 2000. As Business Manager, he helped KMi rise to a prominent position on the UK, European and World stages as a significant force in the emerging world of Knowledge Media, and spearheaded the establshment of KMi as a world-wide registered trademark. He helped us experiment with first-stage spinoff companies, and advised us on how to ride the waves of dot.com boom and bust. He balanced our books, kept us from worrying when finances were in doubt, and always had an eye out for the next opportunity, be it UK academic research funding or international corporate sponsorship. Jez was the first 'virtual performer' on stage in the Java implementation of KMi Stadium, and gained international fame as a result of his sailing adventures aboard the tall ship the STS Lord Nelson. It is with deepest regret that we learned of Jez's tragic death on the morning of 23rd May 2007. More details, including a series of tributes, can be found on http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jez
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Jaisha Bruce
I am one of the senior administrative assistants in KMi. 50% of my role involves supporting various members of KMi project leaders with their project administration whilst the other 50% is providing a comprehensive support to the MK:SMART project.
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Jorge Gracia
I work at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and my interests include ontologies, sense discovering and semantic disambiguation techniques. We have been working recently on discovering the possible senses of a group of user keywords among a pool of online ontologies (applying integration techniques when the senses are considered very similar). Also we have ideated a multi-ontology disambiguation method that is independent of a single lexical resource. We use it to discover the most suitable keyword senses according to the context. My work at KMi was to study possible applications of these techniques into PowerAqua and other related projects.
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Jon Hall
Senior Visiting Researcher
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Jozef Harag
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Joanna Kwiat
Given that stories are an effective and appropriate means of knowledge communication and discovery; and given the wealth of stories among medical professionals in online discussion forums, attention turns to capturing and making available a valuable resource. This is a story about designing a minimally constrained story-making space for use by medical people generally. Suitable organizational concepts, naturally enough, are drawn from literary theory.
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Joseph Kwarteng
Joseph Kwarteng is a Research Associate in Responsible AI on the SAGE-RAI project. He focuses on researching, designing, and implementing GenAI educational experiments to enhance educational practices and outcomes. His work lies at the intersection of responsible artificial intelligence (AI), social justice, and education. Drawing on his extensive research into Intersectionality in Hate Speech Detection, particularly "Misogynoir"—a unique form of misogyny experienced by Black women at the intersection of sexism and racism—he's interested in initiatives that integrate these critical areas.
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Jacek Kopecky
I work in the project SOA4All on making Web services accessible to the common Web users.
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Jakub Kuzilek
OU Analyse project with Zdenek Zdrahal, Drahomï¿½ra Herrmannovï¿½ and Martin Hlosta
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Jakub Kocvara
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Jiri Komzak
C++/Java Developer/Researcher
I worked on the BuddySpace and ELeGI projects. My primary areas are presence visualisation and scientific collaboration support. I'm interested in large scale presence visualisation using different visualisation spaces and techniques as fisheye, etc.
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John Lee
I joined KMi in the summer of 2023, and will be working with my colleagues in the OU Analyse team, developing software in the area of learning analytics.
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João Magalhães
João was a full-time PhD student in information retrieval at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in the Multimedia and Information Systems Group, supervised by Prof Stefan Rueger. His PhD thesis http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/stefan/www-pub/j.magalhaes-phd.pdf Statistical models for semantic-multimedia information retrieval, published in 2008, has improved multimedia search by exploring semantic-multimedia analysis through two complementary search paradigms: (1) search-by-keyword and (2) search-by-semantic-example. After his PhD studies João joined Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal, as Adjunct Professor.
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Juan-Manuel Dodero
Visiting Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor of the University of Cadiz, Spain. My current research is carried out as a member of the INDESS Social Sciences research institute, located in Jerez. My research is related with the interdisciplinary application of computing and software technologies to improve learning, as a means to link computing with social sciences, arts and humanities, health and well-being, among other subjects. I am especially concerned about the introduction of computational thinking abilities in all such disciplines.
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Jose M Garcia
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Julian Gilbert
Snr Manager (Infrastructure Services)
I am one of the Systems and Network Administrators in the Systems Team at KMi, I configure and support systems and infrastructure for MK:Smart and projects within KMi. I cover our Windows, Linux, Virtualisation, Backup and Storage infrastructures.
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Jan Svehla
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Juraj Skandera
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Joseph Harrison
KTP - New Media Associate
I worked as a KTP New Media Associate, under the supervision of Kevin Quick, I was leading a project that will explore the application of New Media in the context of classical music products and services. I was based at the Bridgewater Hall which is the home of the Hallé Britain’s longest established professional symphony orchestra. The project will identify new and emerging technologies that can enhance the Hallé’s work and increase and diversify participation.
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Jan Uhlir
I am PhD student and research fellow at the Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University (CTU). http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz My research interests are: Knowledge Management, and Semantic search and annotations in particular. I was involved in the CIPHER project. During my KMI internship I worked mainly on development of Apollo - an ontology editor developed in cooperation with KMI and CTU.
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Apollo
User-friendly knowledge modelling application
Apollo is a user-friendly knowledge modelling application with a main goal of staying independent from the representation languages and reasoning back-ends. It does a full consistency check while editing and supports I/O plugins.
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Jonas Vaclavek
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Jozef Vrana
I am a PhD student at the Technical university of Kosice but occasionally I hang out at KMi as a visiting researcher. If you want to find out more about me, visit my web site: http://neuron.tuke.sk/~vrana/
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Jon Linney's profile document
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Jon Linney
I produce HTML5 widgets, web design, SVG interactive images, computer illustrations & animations for KMi. Some of the projects I have worked on include The Virtual Microscope, FlashMeeting, FlashVlog, Hexagon, FirstFlight, Stadium and Stadium Live, as well as many graphics and designs for other projects - and yes I am old enough to have created the original KMi logo!
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The Virtual Corporate University
Streaming media solution to the corporate university sector
The Virtual Corporate University is a rapid prototype of a streaming media solution to the basic requirements of the emerging corporate university sector. Corporate clients expect simple media on demand delivery of materials to their students desktops in a very tightly managed system that is tuned to their corporations? working practices. In this prototype we explore how Open Learning materials and practices could be combined with commercial student management facilities to suit these corporate requirements.
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Jianhan Zhu
I have worked on the AKT, Dot.Kom, and ELeGI projects. Currently I am interested in expert search in organizational intranets. A novel two-stage language model is proposed for effective expert search, and achieved excellent results in TREC Enterprise Track Expert Search task. I have led the development of the CORDER (Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities) system which measures associations between named entities in a text corpus by integrating their occurrences, distances in text, and frequencies in documents. I authored the ESpotter tool, which provides effective named entity recognition for a domain by adapting its lexicon and patterns to the domain through a URL tree.
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Jakub Zapletal
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Kai Waddington
P-Time External PhD Research Student
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Kevin Quick
Communications Project Manager
I am Communications Projects Manager in Research & Innovation Software Team (RIST). My role includes development and research into blockchain technologies and its implications and applications in education, principally (although not solely) using the Ethereum/OpenEthereum platform and IPFS. In the past i have been, responsible for development of interactive webcasting environment and a browser based video conferencing system (flashmeeting) and the creation and deployment of a number of interactive books (Apples iBook format)
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AEC
Assisted Electronic Communications in Health
The project is aimed at the application of media and knowledge technologies in a heath care context. The project was funded by the UK Department of Health, under the Information and Communications Technologies Research Initiative.
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Katja Buelow
Media Systems Programmer
Before I moved to England in November 2008, I studied Media Computer Science in Germany. I started as "Media Systems Programmer" at KMi and helped with the further development of the Flashmeeting Project. I have also worked on various other projects and developed web pages and applications. 2010 I have started doing mobile development on the iPhone/iPad. In December 2010 I have switched to primarily develop Android applications as part of KMi's Mobile Innovations Group.
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Kleanthi Georgala
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Keyur Dave
Snr Manager (Research and Enterprise)
Senior Unit and Innovation Manager at KMi, overseeing strategic planning, research support, innovation and operational activities. Passionate about fostering collaboration and driving innovative projects within the OU
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Konrad Wulf
Having originally Graduated in Business Administration, I then worked as researcher in the field of distributed systems at the High performance Computing Centre at Stuttgart, Germany. My main interests lie in Service Oriented Architectures, with special focus on collaborative services. I worked on the EU funded project ELeGI. At KMi,I researched the following topic: "A Generic Framework for Integrated User Management of Heterogeneous Collaborative Services within Service Oriented Architectures"
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Kwo (aka Lax) Chan
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Karine Souza
Karine Pinheiro is a Doctoral student in Educational Technology from the University of Minho – Portugal. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Planning from the State University of Ceara (UECE), a Specialist’s Degree in Educational Technology from UFRGS, and a BA in Linguistics from UECE. She was a visiting researcher under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) in 2013/2014, where she collaborated to weSPOT european project by developing a co-inquiry on entrepreneurial learning with students and lecturers in Portugal and Brazil. She worked in the deployment of Educational Technology Centers (NTE) with PROINFO, a Program from the Ministry of Education in Brazil and was an advisor for Public Policies in Education and Technology. Her experience includes managing ODL programs, acting on the themes of digital inclusion, virtual environments, instructional design, articulation of technological projects and entrepreneurship networks. Currently, Karine Pinheiro coordinates the Digital Design Agents (UFCVirtual). She is also an international researcher member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU). She received an ICT award from the Ministry of Culture (BR) for Notice Creative Economy in the category of Training Creative Skills for the “Brazil RiverWalk Project” in partnership with the University of Michigan (USA).).
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Kiran Parmar
KMi Digital Marketing Apprentice
I am a Digital Marketer, who supports those who are part of events and projects to promote KMi's activity and achievements using digital and social media. I have worked on the Social Media for the partner project VocTeach. I have also successfully completed my Digital Marketing Apprenticeship.
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Kate Dungate
Project & Business Devel Support Asst
I work as part of the Admin team led by Jane Whild, as well as working on communications for the MK:Smart project and for the KMi lab in general. This means I get to work alongside lots of lovely, interesting people in KMi, and I liaise with the project's partners too. These include staff from Milton Keynes Council, BT and the University of Bedfordshire. My work in comms ranges from writing news and content for websites, monitoring and contributing towards social media, and suggesting layouts for leaflets and publicity materials. I also enjoy attending KMi and MK:Smart events. I started at KMi in January 2014, with a view to taking on responsibilities related to Business Development, which I look forward to getting my teeth into.
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Kosmas Stampoulidis
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Anu Simon
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Keerthi Thomas
I research privacy and data protection for big data generated by smart city technologies. In particular, my research focuses on architecture for automated privacy rights management in a smart city data hub (http://www.mksmart.org). As my research interests lay in both the problem and solution spaces, I aim to translate problem knowledge into innovative designs and engineer practical solutions. From a software engineering perspective, I look at how software engineers might be benefited in exploiting the use of privacy enhancing technologies in their system design. As an Associate Lecturer at The Open University I tutor an undergraduate module in Computer Science - 'M269: Algorithms, data structures and computability'. Before completing a PhD in Software Engineering from the OU in 2013, I worked in the industry as a Software Engineer / Systems Analyst for 10 years.
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Khadija Tahera
My job was to support research within the context of a European Framework funded project TECH-IT-EASY, which aims to develop an information system, based on analytical and knowledge-based tools, able to support electromechanical European SMEs in structuring and systematising the internal produce innovation process.
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Tech-It-Easy
information system, based on analytical and knowledge-based tools
The TECH-IT-EASY project will develop an information system, based on analytical and knowledge-based tools, able to support electromechanical European SMEs to in structuring and systematising the internal product innovation process. The result will be a fully operating information system, consisting of: A methodological tool box to structure and define SMEs technology products, abstracting them from the specific industrial context, to allow the usage of external knowledge for technology innovation. Such methodological tool-box will be based on the combined application of QFD (Quality Function Deployment) market-pull approach with technologypush potentials of TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). An information agent that analyses digital information within the enterprise, at information providers, and on the Web. This system will work context-sensitive in terms of considering the role and the experience of the person that carries out the search as well as the current product under study. Such information agent will make usage of ontology as symbolic knowledge representation of the overall innovation knowledge domain. An Innovation-Process support tool, to guide users through the whole innovation process, connecting the technology system related to the product under study with the knowledge base constituted by market and technology information (gathered through the information agent), and by a set of pre-acquired knowledge (such as the so-called "trends of evolution" of technological systems) allowing SMEs to identify innovation opportunities out of their internal knowledge Main Scientific Achievement will be the development of an information system that is able to deal with weakly structured content as well as formalized databases, such as the ones related to the overall innovation-process, and the structuring the overall innovation-process through the usage of ontologies as formal way of representing knowledge in a way understandable by machines.
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Kostiantyn Voskoboinik
Front-end Developer
I am an experienced front-end developer interested in building usable, useful, well-constructed websites and applications. Also interested in continuation of learning and cooperation with excellent people.
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Lucas Anastasiou
I am working on CORE project (http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk). I daily work on maintaining CORE service, continuously enhancing it with new features and developing new services for it. Me and my colleagues (Petr Knoth, Samuel Pearce, Drahomira Herrmannova) work towards building the world's largest full text open access dataset
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Liliana Cabral
I am a researcher and Java developer, interested in modelling and implementing knowledge and semantic based systems for the Web. I am involved in projects concerning the semantic web .
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Lia Carolina Rossi
Lia Carolina is a visiting student from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who holds a BA in Communication with specialization in journalism and mass communication research at Cásper Libero University . She has worked for more than ten years in Brazil as a journalist in television network channels in Sao Paulo and as a freelancer director, reporter and scriptwriter of corporate videos and presentations for multinational companies. During the last four years, she worked in Educational Technology at Santillana, an educational publisher that is a leader in the Latin American textbook market. There she became project manager for UNO International, an iPad-based educational system, coordinating external and internal production teams and participating in planning, budgeting, and development of educational content and apps. After falling in love with educational technology, she realized that training teachers to use technology in the classroom is a key factor for implementing innovation. Her research interests focus on understanding the needs of educators and identifying opportunities for them to innovative through technologies. She also believes that high quality content and interesting educational design for interactive use can help learners for better understanding. Deeply interested in how digital will transform the educational field, Lia is currently looking for innovative technologies to accomplish the 21st Century skills as a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) - Open University.
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Lewis McCann
IT Support
After ten enjoyable years in KMi I retired at the end of September 2011. The desktop support part of my role in KMi was taken over by Central IT; however that has only been a part of my day to day work. I have been your first port of call if you had a problem with your PC,Network,Printer,or anything else that I helped you with before! My background is in electronic design and data transmission, long before the advent of the PC or Bill Gates! I am an IEng,GCGI,MIET,MCP & ECDL. I have experience in Manufacturing, Purchasing, PAYE,VAT,Company Accounting,Help Desk,PC & Server Configuration. In my spare time I research my family history. The KMi has been a great place to end my career of 50 years. May it continue to do great research.
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Laurian Gridinoc
My interests are towards Semantic Web, identification and reference on the web, and semantic navigation. I'm also interested in REST (REpresentational State Transfer) and ROC (Resource Oriented Computing) as styles of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems, such as the web (but not limited to).
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Lucia Lupi
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Lucie Matusova
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Luis Marco-Ruiz
I am a visiting PhD student at KMI. I work for the Norwegian Centre of Integrated Care and Telemedicine and I focus my research in the interoperability of clinical decision support systems using clinical information standards and semantic web technologies. The aim of my research is to enable the implementation of clinical guidelines as executable artifacts that can be shared among different health information systems.
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Liza Mu
I'm a associate professor of South China Normal University(GuangZhou, China), where I'm studying for PhD on modelling of semantic-supported knowledge management system now. I was lucky to have had a chance to do my research in KMi for 12 months. I have a far-ranging research interest such as knowledge management, semantic web applications, cognitive style and modelling and so on. But this time, in KMi, I will focus on the knowledge management supported by semantic web appliation.
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Lenka Novakova
I was intern in KMi for the summer of 2008 working on Eugene project. I am a PhD student in the Czech Technical university in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. I am interested in interactive data visualization and ontology driven annotations.
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Laura Po
I was an intern at KMi during the July-October 2008 period. At that time I was a 3th year PhD student at the ICT school at University of Modena e Reggio. My research activity is focused on the study and the development of some disambiguation techniques that can be apply on structured and semi-structured data sources in order to improve Data Integration. Within the DBGROUP of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia I have developed different disambiguation algorithms(MELIS and CWSD that is a combined algorithm) and I have integrate them into our data integration system (MOMIS). I am currently studing a probabilistic way to combine different WSD algorithms to improved the disambiguation result. During my visit at KMi I compared my techniques to the Jorge Garcia disambiguation techniques and I investigated some research lines to improved the disambiguation techniques used in Scarlet. My supervisors were Dr. Marta Sabou and Prof. Enrico Motta.
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Luca Panziera
The focus of my research is to construct Semantic Web descriptions of real services, by exploiting information available on the Web. My aim is to extract explicit information, such as service operations or non-functional properties, as well as subjective characteristics, such as service popularity and usage complexity. I am involved in the COMPOSE project with Dr. Carlos Pedrinaci. The results of my research will be provided for developing iServe and Ply technologies.
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Linda Castaneda
Based at the University of Murcia in the Educational Technology Research Group, I spent four months in Milton Keynes working in the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. I collaborated with Dr. Peter Scott and his FlashMeeting development team, Kevin Quick and Jon Linney.
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Luca Secchi
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Lucia Specia
From November 2005 to January 2007 I worked as a part-time research fellow on the AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies)Project, headed by Enrico Motta. My work addressed the extraction of semantic relations from text, aiming to map those texts onto a semantic web format.
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Lara Piccolo
Honorary Associate
My personal mission is to design technology for triggering positive social changes. Beyond pursuing adequate and pleasant user interactions, my research aims at exploring design methods and artefacts to design with a socio-technical approach, taking into account also the impact of technological innovations on people's lives and their communities. With this perspective, I have worked mainly in designing technology for people unfamiliar with ICTs and engaging communities in the design process. I have worked on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for more than 15 years, first in Brazil and now in the UK. My background is Computer Engineer and my PhD was obtained at UNICAMP, in Brazil, in 2015. Since then, my research has addressed energy conservation supported by a public and tangible eco-feedback, smart meters, and social media; social media to promote community resilience in disasters; co-creation of chatbots for children's online safety and, most recently, strategies to fight misinformation spread online.
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Lukas Trejtnar
I was a research assistant and I'm interested in how dynamic systems can be modelled by knowledge modelling approach, how they can be shared within a community. I'm also interested in how handheld devices can help the community to share its knowledge.
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Lucie Váchová
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Lukas Zilka
While I was at KMi in 2011, the problem of cross-language linking the multi-lingual document collections kept me awake all (work)day long.
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R Manmatha
Visiting Reseacher
Visited in June/July 2009; Department of Computer Science: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Murray Altheim
I'm interested in the construction of literary narrative from a complex knowledge web. My research involves how knowledge representation, management and visualization technologies may be used to augment both the organization of research materials and the authoring process.
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Muhammad Arshad
I was a visiting researcher working on semantic web services field in LUISA project.
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Moizzah Asif
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Maria Macintyre
I've been involved in health services research prior to joing KMi. My background is in Health Psychology and Sociology research and my PhD project reflects this by exploring the impact of information and communication technologies on the health service user and the health service provider, and the delivery of patient care.
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Maria Tarasiuk
Software services and infrastrucutre developer. Keeping and continuously improving our backend systems.
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Michal Bohuslavek
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Mark Gaved
I am a postdoc researcher at the Open University working on the MASELTOV project (http://www.maseltov.eu) exploring how mobile phones might support language learning and social inclusion for recent migrants to the EU. My particular focus is on incidental learning (unplanned or unintentional learning) that takes place in everyday life. The OU team, based in the Institute of Educational Technology is developing an Incidental Learning Framework, and considering how feedback and progress indicators might motivate and supporting learning. Research interests: mobile, networked, and locative learning technologies, informal learning and community based research. For my PhD research, I worked with communities that developed their own computer network infrastructure to support their activities, and explored the challenges they faced in developing sustainable local community solutions to the digital divide and supporting neighbourhood approaches to technology enhanced social interactions. I believe that networked tools may prove to be as important for supporting local as much as remote interactions. The internet may reduce the friction of space, but not the importance of place. This work continues in my participation in the Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) project: (http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/era/ )
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Matteo Cancellieri
Lead Developer - Open Research
Works on improving and and maintaining CORE (http://core.ac.uk) FOSTER (http://fosteropenscience.eu) and Stories Of Change (http://storiesofchange.ac.uk). Once he was a Super Mario plumber.
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Matthew Rowe
I joined KMi in Sept 2010 after studying for a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. My research interest is largely concerned with the Semantic Web and how information across the Web can be represented in a common, machine-readable format. My other research interests include disambiguation, the Social Web, machine learning and identity.
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Mari Suárez-Figueroa
My name is Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and I belong to the Ontological Engineering Group of the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Computer Science School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). I graduated in Computer Science from UPM in 2001. I teached at the Computer Science School at UPM from January 2002 until March 2002). I am currently a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence in UPM. My research activities include methodologies for ontology development, ontology development tools, ontology evaluation, and the Semantic Web. I am currently participanting at the NeOn project (IST-2005-027595) and at the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence (FP6-507482). I have also participated at the OntoGrid project (FP6-511513), at the Esperonto project (IST-2001-34373) and at the OntoWeb thematic network (IST-2000-25056). I was a research visitor at Department of Computer Science (University of Liverpool).
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Maria Domingue
Work Experience
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Marilena Daquino
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Martin Dzbor
I worked on the NeOn project (http://neon-project.org) - as a senior research scientist and technical manager. NeOn is a flagship project of IST FP6 and investigates aspects of evolution, collaboration, contextualization and human-ontology interaction in the environment of large-scale networked ontologies. Before NeOn I managed OU contribution to the KnowledgeWeb project (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/kweb), and previously, I have worked in the climateprediction.net (http://www.climateprediction.net) project - a large-scale climate modelling and distributed computing project (similar to SETI@Home). The motivation for KMi in both projects was the application of our cutting-edge tools and technologies developed around Magpie and BuddySpace, and to make a contribution to the Semantic Web vision. I delivered a tool that can be called a 'Semantic Web browser'. The Magpie plug-in of MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which is one of my main designs and implementations, supports ontology-based interpretation, sense-making and exploration of web resources. Find out more on the Magpie project web page (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie)...
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Meet-O-Matic
The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler
Have you ever tried to schedule a meeting involving participants who don't use your official authorized scheduling tool? In fact, even if your participants did use that tool, would it really help solve your routine scheduling requirements? With Meet-O-Matic, you can propose and schedule meetings online and invite participants using your own email system, then monitor responses to your meeting invitation as they arrive and are displayed in Meet-O-Matic's intuitive visual constraint table.
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MKSchools.net
Milton Keynes Educational Portal
Wired/wireless: whatever it takes, we are excited by the prospect of helping schools achieve ubiquitous Internet access in order to facilitate creative learning, particularly through original content creation by children. We initiated MKSchools.Net to help local schools attain wireless broadband access, along with suitable filtering and mentoring, in order to kick-start their activities. MKSchools.Net is now a fully managed service delivering broadband wireless and wireline Internet to over 25,000 children in 90 schols in Milton Keynes
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Maurizio DiMatteo
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Mathieu d'Aquin
I have now moved to the Insight Centre for Data Analytics of the National University of Ireland Galway. in KMi, I was a senior research fellow. The major common point between all my research activities is the Semantic Web, and especially methods and tools to build intelligent applications relying on formalised knowledge distributed online. I have especially been involved in the development of the Watson Semantic Web search engine, and in many applications of its APIs. As part of several projects, I have worked on many aspects of building and exploiting the Semantic Web, including ontology building, ontology modularization, ontology matching, ontology evolution, ontology publication, etc. More recently, I have been working on aspects related to the use of semantic technologies and the Semantic Web for monitoring and managing online personal information, as well to the realisation of applications producing and consuming linked data. As part of MK:Smart, I'm leading the development of the MK Data Hub infrastructure for data curation, management and analysis.
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Marc Eisenstadt
Emeritus Professor; KMi Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
CURRENT ACTIVITY: Tamper-proof COVID-19 Vaccination & Test Result Certification. PAST ACTIVITY: I co-founded KMi in 1994, served as KMi Director until 2000 and became Chief Scientist until my retirement in 2007. Building upon my long-term interests and background in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and novice programming environments, my research focus included very large scale presence via messaging and gaming; social software; knowledge technologies as mediating tools for human interaction; internet mapping and visualization. My KMi colleagues and I created a variety of widely-used software environments, tools, and projects including Lyceum, KMi Stadium, BuddySpace, CitiTag and Meetomatic. Recently I have been working with the Blockchain Group, in particular on COVID-19 Test and Vaccination Certification (see the 24 April 2020 news story and IEEE publication below for additional info and links). For my music and other activities, see my LinkedIn profile via the link at left.
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Lyceum
Voice conferencing internet groupware
Lyceum, prototyped in KMi and then further developed by LTS, is voice conferencing internet groupware. It enables students and tutors (with a normal PC and modem connection) to talk over the internet whilst sharing and annotating visual material. Lyceum is currently being used by students on a variety of courses, e.g. to practise fluency skills in foreign languages.
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Elizabeth Almeida
Visiting Lecturer
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Maria Cortes Cediel
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Massimiliano Fadda
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Maximilian Addison
Work Experience Placement
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Miriam Fernandez
Professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Miriam Fernandez is a Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University (OU), UK. Her research agenda revolves around advancing Responsible AI, ensuring that technological innovation aligns with ethical principles and societal values. Her pioneering work spans diverse domains, from algorithmic transparency and fairness to the societal implications of AI deployment. By integrating cutting-edge AI techniques with a human-centred approach, she fosters solutions that prioritise social responsibility, transparency, and inclusivity. With a portfolio of more than 100 scientific articles in some of the best conferences and journals in her field, and having won numerous external grants supporting her research with over £2.5M, Professor Fernandez has significantly influenced the discourse in the field of technology development and its impact on society. Her commitment to education is demonstrated through her leadership of OUAnalyse (https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk/), a strategic initiative leveraging machine-learning methods for the early identification of students at risk. This technology, currently supporting the Open University's 200K student body, has been highly awarded for its transformative impact on student outcomes. Additionally, she serves on the organising committee behind HESPA's (The Higher Education Strategic Planners Association) Learning Analytics Interest group, facilitating knowledge sharing and best practices among organisations across the UK. Professor Fernandez is also Equality and Diversity Champion for both KMi and the OU.
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Mariano Fernandez Lopez
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Marco F Ramoni
Children's Hospital Informatics Program
Marco F. Ramoni was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at Children's Hospital, Boston. His research interests included statistical methods for machine learning and their applications to biomedical informatics. He was also chairman and co-founder of Bayesware, a software company that developed knowledge discovery programs based on Bayesian methods. Between 1995 and 2000, Marco was a research fellow in KMi, where he developed his Bayesian-based software.
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Matteo Guenci
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Mark Glaister
Socialearn Project Manager
I spent my days herding various cats by managing all key resources (people - from across OU and externals - and budget) to deliver the products of the SocialLearn Project. After many years as a Management Consultant hopping from assignement to assignment, it's great to be focussed on something that brings together some really cool ideas and people. Main SL Team are Simon Buckingham Shum, Rebecca Ferguson and Thanh Le.
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Martin Hlosta
I am a Visiting Research Fellow. Currenlty at Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz – FFHS) - The Institute for Research in Open, Distance and eLearning (IFeL) I spent 7 years in KMi, most recently as technical lead and a data scientist of OU Analyse Project (https://analyse.kmi.open.ac.uk). The project is focused on improving student retention at Open University using machine learning techniques. I am exploring how to best use OUAnalyse to teachers (Associate Lecturers) in order to better use data and analytics for improving student outcomes. Moreover, I was responsible for design and the development of the Curriculum Analytics Tool (CAT) - the tool has been deployed in 2017 to help in the curriculum review. It is expected to facilitate data-informed decisions on the curriculum and finance planning in the future.
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CAT: Curriculum Analytics Tool
Application for faculty representatives to analyse the curriculum
CAT stands for Curriculum Analytics Tool. It is an application developed at KMi originally for STEM representatives to analyse the curriculum with the goal of being used at all the faculties. The system enables data oriented view of the qualifications and modules, combining financial data with retention and progression. This data is available in the visual analytics dashboard application. Our plan is to apply various analytics and machine learning techniques in order to provide deeper analysis of how students progress across the qualifications, where are the main issues and how to improve them.
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Michal Huptych
OU Analyse project with Zdenek Zdrahal, Drahomï¿½ra Herrmannovï¿½, Jakub Kuzilek and Martin Hlosta
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Michael Armstrong
Web Developer (REED Agency Temp)
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Magdalena Krygielova
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Matej Koss
I work on the "Clockwork" project, implementing software for sharing of simulation models. I am also developing "Apollo", a sophisticated knowledge modelling editor.
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Milan Lysonek
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Martin Memmel
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Martino Mensio
Part of the Social Data Science group, I started my PhD at the Open University on 1st October 2019 under the supervision of Harith Alani and Alistair Willis. In my PhD I want to explore how different articles present the same events, by using different emphasis and selecting different details and therefore providing a different framing. In the past, I worked on the Co-Inform project with the objective of creating tools to identify the credibility of news sources and help to develop critical thinking.
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Michael McCoubrey
I'm a part time PhD student aiming to create a scientific hypothesis generation system that can produce plausable and novel hypotheses. I'm working as a part time PhD student at KMI but I also have a full time job at the OU, as a Data Scientist. As a data scientist I help improve student retention using ML in targeted email campaigns. My PhD study are on Tuesday and Saturday (8am-6pm). I do my job on Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri (8am-6pm).
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Magda Machkova
I am a graduate of the department of Art History, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. I am currently studying for my Ph.D. I cooperate on CIPHER projects-Historical Architecture, Bletchley Park.
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Miklos Nagy
My research is about the application of uncertain reasoning (Dempster-Shafer theory) for data integration in multi-agent query answering system on the Semantic Web. The main research objective of my project is to investigate the level of machine intelligence multi agent systems can exhibit on the Semantic Web.
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Naveed Anwar
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Mireille (aka Lena) Pinas
Postgrad Researcher
I am a Doctoral Researcher and am supervised by Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis, Dr Trevor Collins, and Dr Venetia Brown. I am investigating the reflective practices of teacher educators in higher education and how AI technology can support their reflection.
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Michele Pasin
My PhD research focused on improving the learning experience through making use of annotated web resources to develop novel and flexible knowledge paths. I worked on an ontology and an application for the philosophical domain.
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Michal Pantucek
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Manoharan Ramachandran
Res. Assoc. for Blockchain Learning Verificatiion
Dr Manoharan Ramachandran is a Research Associate and a mobile application developer at the Open University. He obtained his undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree in Computer Science (2013, 2015) from Anna University, India. Manoharan received his PhD in Intelligent Transportation Safety from Bournemouth University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Reza Sahandi, Dr Simant Prakoonwit and Dr Wajid Khan. After completing his PhD, Manoharan joined the Open University as a Research Associate in 2018. His current research focuses on how Blockchain can be used to store lifelong learning records of students and to create an industry-standard accreditation tool for learners in the UK. His research is funded by the Institute of Coding, which is the UK's initiative to increase graduate computing skills and employability. Manoharan has also developed several award-winning mobile applications in the field of transportation safety. Particularly for his work on drowsy driver alert mobile application, he has received the Qualcomm developer of the month award in the year 2016 (Qualcomm is the primary manufacturer of Android mobile phone processors). Manoharan developed the COVID-19 antibody test/vaccination certification mobile application prototype on top of iOS/Android platform along with his colleagues at the Open University. He also runs Tamil-language Blockchain news and tutorial Youtube channel with 38,000+ subscribers mainly focusing on the Tamil speaking people around the world.
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Marco Ratta
I work in the Polifonia team where I research graph representation of scores for the facilitation of music conservation, retrieval and musicology tasks.
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Moritz Staudinger
Visiting Doctoral Student
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Monia Sannia
I was a visiting researcher from the Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona in Italy. My research area is in e-learning. I am involved in investigating the identification of criteria for the quality evaluation of the tools to support the student in the virtual learning environment, in order to define their pedagogical effectiveness. The topics of my study are technology and education, instructional design, information design, learning design, learning objects.
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Michelle Bachler
Research & Innovation Software Manager
I manage a team of software developers working on research and innovation projects throughout STEM. I have myself primarily coded on collective intelligence, knowledge mapping, and blockchain technologies.
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Maria Maleshkova
My current research work focuses on the semi-automatic extraction of semantic Web service descriptions. I am also involved in the SOA4ALL project.
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Ali Tavakoli
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - CIMPLE
Ali is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, and a member of the Social Data Science group. He has obtained a Ph.D. funded by the President's Doctoral Scholar Award in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. His research interests are focused on natural language processing and text mining. His current research project CIMPLE focuses on the development of XAI models for detecting and assessing structural, emotional, and coverage manipulation of content. Ali is investigating the Use of Machine learning, NLP, linguistic models, and semantic technologies to detect and track the manipulation of information across multiple versions of a given story or event.
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Minh Dang
Developing Social Learn web application
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Martin Veselovsky
I am working on CORE project (http://core.ac.uk/).
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Marcus Voss
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Maria Vargas-Vera
I received my PhD from The Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, Scotland UK. I worked on the AKT Project (Advanced Knowledge Technologies). In particular, I worked in Information Extraction from text using domain specific templates, Ontology-Driven Question Answering, Automated Assessment of Student Essays and Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from text. I currently work in MCT http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/People/m.vargas-vera
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Nailah Abdullah
I am working on analyzing dialogues of Flashmeeting across different situations, such as student-teacher meetings and European Union project meetings. My interests are in trying to model social and psychological cognitive processes through looking into changes in the resequencing of conversations. I am also keen to relate the analysis to tools. Specifically I tie the observation to learning and communication theories at the neural level.
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Neil Benn
I was in KMi from November 2002 to November 2010, first as a PhD student then as a researcher in the Semantic Web Services group headed by John Domingue. Projects I have been affiliated with are: Scholarly Ontologies (ScholOnto), LUISA, Living Human Digital Library (LHDL), NoTube, Service Web 3.0, and mEducator. Quick personal background: Originally I am from the lovely island of Barbados and I came to the (also lovely) island of Great Britain in 2001 where I spent a year in the lovely city of York before coming to the lovely (tongue in cheek) city of Milton Keynes. I have now moved to the lovely city of Leeds. And I swear 'lovely' isn't the only adjective I know. Lovely, now back to work.
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Nick Barratt
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Nicolas Jay
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Ning Li
My research interest in KMi is mainly concerned with Semantic Web and Semantic Web Service. In particular, I have worked in the NeOn project on the aspects of ontology summarization and its evaluation, ontology summarized visualisation and navigation. In SmartProduct project, I have investigated the performance of rule-based reasoning on small devices. I having been working on providing invocation supports for generic Web APIs in the context of SOA4All project and mEducator project. I am currently working on SEALs project for supporting large-scale evaluation of Semantic Web Service technologies.
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Namrata Londhe
Joined OU as web developer from July 2021, my day-to-day activities involved working on accessibility projects, styling and developing new and existing websites.
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Niaz Chowdhury
Research Assoc. for Blockchain Learning Verification
I'm a researcher primarily working with various aspects of blockchain technology. I have diverse, yet well-connected research experiences gathered from three nations in the British and Irish Isles: Ireland, Scotland and England. I presently hold a Research Associate position in the Open Blockchain group at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University where I investigate the problems of blockchain learning verifications as well use-cases that can be fit into this new and innovative technology. Beside blockchain, I also have a keen interest in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Privacy & Trust and Data Science. Prior to my current position, I completed two other postdocs, one at the KMi and the other in the Department of Computing and Communication in the same university where I worked in the Strategic Data Science project and smart city project MK-Smart respectively. I obtained my PhD from the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, as a recipient of the Scottish ORS Scholarship in conjunction with the Glasgow University College of Science and Engineering Scholarship. I was also a research scholar at the School of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin where I received Govt. of Ireland IRCSET Embark Initiative Scholarship. My earlier background is in Computer Science and Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh where I pursued a bachelor and a masters degree with Gold Medal distinction.
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Nikolaos Nanas
My research focuses on the development and evaluation of an adaptive user profile for the knowledge worker.
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Nieves Pedreira-Souto
External Seminar Speaker in 2013: Rapid prototyping in distance learning for Industrial Design Studies. Collaborating since 2016 as Visiting Research Fellow in the group specialising in Social Semantics and Web Science. Participating in the OUSocial project on the use of social media for distance learning education. 2023 A Visiting Research Fellow in the Intelligent Deliberation (IDea) group led by Prof. Anna De Liddo, who will be researching digital democracy and developing tools for tracking and analysis of political debate.
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Nirwan Sharma
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Oscar Araque
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Olivia Hagen
Web Administrator
I am a Web Administrator for the OU Analyse team.
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Oke Onyebuchukwu
KMi Summer Scholar - 2024
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Omkar Kharkar
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Ortenz Rose
KMi Snr Services Asst (initial sole member of KMi Admin)
I am an active member of the KMi Admin Team, (though my 'primary role' as KMi Senior Services Assistant relates to matters surrounding Internships, Consultants and PhD Research Students). Other tasks include visitors, new starters / leavers, DSA, DSE, Finance and Estates related issues.
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Olga Parkhimovich
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Oleksandr Huba
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Giota Alevizou
Dr Giota Alevizou is a digital culture scholar with an expertise on civic methods and collective intelligence, digital literacies and information politics as well as data ethics. Giota is particularly interested in socially and politically motivated aspects surrounding the Open Web and Collective Intelligence, and, in methods to incentivise collaboration and social change. She has had the opportunity to investigate these topics in more than five national and European projects, often as a principal investigator and a lead researcher. Currently holding advisory roles in research projects pertaining credibility and participatory methodologies, she is interested in working more closely in areas involving data ethical challenges and young peoples perceptions of digital citizenship. Giota has published widely in the cultural politics of the Open Web and Open Education and on civic technologies and informational media. A co-editted book, the Creative Citizen Unbound, stemming from a large AHRC-EPSRC funded project exploring the intersections of social media, digital cultures and cultural value was published by Policy Press, in 2016. Her book monograph, The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in the Digital Age is forthcoming by Cambridge Polity. Prior to joining KMI, Giota held teaching and research positions at The Open University (e.g. the Institute of Educational Technology, the Department of Engineering and Innovation and more recently the Strategic Research Area Citizenship and Governance), where she explored how digital technologies are reshaping what participation and collaboration mean in social, political, cultural and pedagogical contexts, She has previously held research and faculty positions in Media, and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as at the Department of Media and Film at Sussex University. She has served as advisor at the Wikimedia Foundation and WikiTribune, and Tate Gallery's Tate Exchange Programme.
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Paul Alexander
Senior Technology Officer
Until April 2019, I served as the Senior Technology Officer at KMi, where I led the Systems, Development, and Project Officers Teams. In this role, I oversaw the institute’s technology development and utilisation plan, managing all information technology resources. I held primary responsibility for the day-to-day technology operations, including planning, developing, implementing, managing, and expanding the institute’s technology infrastructure. My duties also encompassed ensuring the availability, efficiency, and financial sustainability of all technology-related components within KMi.
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Pedro Antonio Gonzalez Calero
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Alioune Ly
I'm working on: - Extending an existing open source crawling system to deal with Web APIs (RESTful and RPC-style) - Developing new solutions for processing Web pages and identifying features typical of Web APIs description - Extracting the main features of Web APIs for their indexing
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Petr Baxant
I was a research visitor to KMi in the summer of 2007. I have finished my Ph.D. studies in 2000 and currently I have got whole-time job as a teacher and scientific assistent on Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic), see: http://www.vutbr.cz/?set_lang=1. I am interested in illuminating engineering (lighting theory, lighting systems, luminarires, lamps...), computer technology, computer modelling and simulation (especially power electric system circuits), information systems, etc. On KMi I'd like to learn more about Artifical Inteligent Sytems, especially Expert systems. I'd like to find any existing and functional empty system (as Expert system shell) for application in lighting system design area. Then I'd like to try fill it by some testing knowledge data. Next step should illustrate utilization of the ES in a routine engineering work during lighting system design. So, my work here is more about the AI application than about designing any new system. I'd like to improve in english too :o)
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Peter Cooke
Data Engineer
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Peter Whalley
Sadly, two months after retiring from KMi Dr Peter Whalley died on 8 January 2013 due to ill-health. He is greatly missed. Peter joined the OU in 1976, initially working in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET). He joined the Knowledge Media Institute at its formation in 1995, where he was a 'creative visionary' in the new media team, and a stalwart of the lab. Peter brought numerous new ideas to his research and to students of The Open University. He was deeply engaged in applying his ideas within schools, including a long-standing collaboration with the innovative staff and children of our local middle school, Heronsgate, where many of his prototypes and experiments saw their first ‘student click’. Towards the end of his career he was a strong evangelist and contributor to the OU’s flagship 'virtual microscope' work.
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Pierre Grenon
I was a research associate at the Open University. I worked in the semantic web services group of the Knowledge Media Institute. Most of what I did was to do with ontological engineering and knowledge representation.
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Peter Howarth
Peter was a full-time PhD student in information retrieval at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in the Multimedia and Information Systems Group, supervised by Prof Stefan Rueger. Peter's thesis http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/stefan/www-pub/p.howarth-phd.pdf Discovering images: features, similarities and subspaces, published in 2007, investigates three of the core components of content-based image retrieval: visual features, similarity functions and indexing methods. In the content-based paradigm images are searched in a purely visual domain, where they are represented by high-dimensional features. Exhaustively searching this feature space can take a prohibitively long time. The thesis argues that by the use of judicious approximations we can search large collections interactively, while keeping a good level of retrieval performance. Using normal hardware, Peter's system was able to search four million images in just over one second, thus satisfying the goal of effective real-time searching of large image collections. Peter joined Redington Partners, London, after his PhD research.
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Pasquale Iero
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Paul Hogan
I have worked for The Open University since 1983, the first 25 years being at Distribution. In 2008 I moved to KMi as Mobile Applications Developer tasked with developing concept applications to run on IOS devices with the aim to demonstrate to faculties the use mobile technology can play in an educational environment. In early 2010 I visited the Masaya volcano in Nicaragua accompanying a team of OU scientists / researchers in collaboration with EarthWatch to proof test an IOS mobile data collection app. In 2012 I returned to my home unit but have since returned to KMi in August 2014 to take up the role again of Mobile Application Developer primarily focusing on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and exploring smart glass technology such as Google Glass and other wearable technology. I have developed two AR applications released to the app stores, OU Alive and OU Hunt and am finalising a further two applications that will be used in mainstream student module material for E117 and SK299 that will also be released to the app stores as well as Windows and Mac OSX versions for desktop use.
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Peter Scott
Professor Peter Scott is the Director of the Knowledge Media Institute of the UK's Open University. KMI is a Research and Development Unit, which explores the future of learning. He has a BA & PhD in Psychology. Before joining the Open University in 1995, he taught Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield, with a textbook in each of these subjects. From 2007-10 he was elected founding President of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning. From 2008-12 Peter was the coordinator of STELLAR, the EU’s 7th Framework Network of Excellence in TEL. Peter's research group in the institute, prototypes the application of new technologies and media to learning. Peter’s current research interests range widely across knowledge and media research. Three key threads are: telepresence; streaming media systems; and ubiquity. In June 2008 he coordinated the launch of The Open University in iTunes U, which passed 60 Million international downloads in January 2013. Peter is currently musing on how to exceed that milestone...
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Learning Disability History
Enabling people to share experiences
Each year the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University organises a conference where people with learning difficulties, supporters, practitioners and academics share their life history experiences about a common theme. It's been a common concern at these meetings that only a limited number of people can take part. In this short project, we looked at how we would build a record of such a conference within the limits of current technology. The year is 2001 and the theme "resistance". Please remember that all materials are copyright and permission is required for re-use.
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SocialLearn
Learning on the open, social web...
SocialLearn is a cross-University project to combine the best of social web technologies with those of online social learning. SocialLearn is a vehicle to think about learning in the Web 2.0+ context. Who is learning, how are they are they learning, what and when are they learning? SocialLearn integrates concepts and technologies from KMi's social/semantic/multimedia technologies research.
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Petr Knoth
Professor of Data Science
Petr Knoth is Professor of Data Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University. He leads the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) which conducts research and develops new technologies powered by AI in the area of the machine processing of scientific information. He is the Founder and Head of CORE (core.ac.uk), a large not-for-profit full text indexing system for open access papers with millions of monthly active users. CORE makes research papers available for people to freely discover and access, and for machines to text-mine. In this capacity, Petr has been involved in numerous knowledge exchange cooperations with enterprises, funders and not-for-profit organisations, supporting a wide variety of use cases requiring scalable access to research content. Petr has a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows. He has been involved as a researcher and as a PI in over 25 European Commission, national and international funded research projects in the areas of NLP, AI, Open Science and Technology Enhanced Learning.
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Eurogene
The first Pan-European Learning Service in the Field of Genetics
EuroGene is a European Commission supported e-ContentPlus project concerned with providing high quality semantically enriched educational content in genetics. The objective of the EUROGENE project is to migrate toward the more efficient development of high quality didactic material on genetics through the guided editing and assembly of educational packages based on the IMS learning design metadata framework and the sharing of different types of learning objects between content owners, in 14 languages. The EuroGene consortium brings together16 partners in the field of genetics from 11 different countries. The primary role of KMI within EuroGene is to apply tools and methods for content annotation, content authoring and assembly and the navigation different learning pathways through the available content.
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Eurogene Software
Eurogene e-learning system in the domain of genetics
Eurogene is an e-learning system in the domain of genetics that provides free multimedia learning resources in nine languages for statistical, medical and molecular genetics and delivers them to students and professionals. The Eurogene content includes presentations, reviewed research articles, images, videos and learning packages submitted by world-leading geneticists. An essential part of the Eurogene system is a multilingual search engine that allows to search for content in one language while retrieving the results in other languages. This is complemented by the use of a machine translation system fine-tuned for genetic terminology. The search engine uses a query language similar to PubMed. Eurogene also aims at providing intelligent ways of navigation through the e-Learning system. As new learning resources are being continuously submitted to the system, it is not possible to maintain links between them manually. Eurogene automatically links resources that are semantically similar using natural language processing.
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ServiceCORE
Services for Connected Repositories
The ServiceCORE project aims to develop a new nation-wide aggregation service that will improve the discovery of research publications stored across British Open Access repositories. The ServiceCORE project will extend the solution provided by the CORE system, developed in the first stage of the Resource Discovery programme. CORE is a pilot system that harvests both content and metadata from British repositories and makes them accessible through three applications - a Web portal, a Mobile application and a Plugin for institutional repositories. The ServiceCORE project will extend this system with: (a) a new Web Service layer working on top of the CORE Linked Data repository, providing programmable access to both content and metadata, (b) an enhanced related resource discovery system based on text-mining, (c) a pilot tool for automatic subject-based classification of content using text categorisation techniques. The ServiceCORE will also increase the CORE repository coverage to at least 80% of British OAI-PMH compliant repositories and will improve the policies for content updating.
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DiggiCORE
Digging into Connected Repositories
The goal of DiggiCORE is to analyse a vast set of research publications from the Open Access domain using natural language processing and social network analysis methods to identify patterns in the behaviour of research communities, to recognise trends in research disciplines, to learn new insights about the citation behaviours of researchers etc.
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Petr Kremen
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Pavel Kefurt
Visting Research Student
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Prashant Khare
I am a PhD student at KMi, Open University working under the supervision of Dr. Harith Alani and Dr. Miriam Fernandez. My interests are around mining and understanding what the users talk about over the social media in the context of their interests, situations, and feedback etc. The focus is on building up tools utilising the various Information Retrieval techniques enveloped by NLP and Machine Learning techniques, and also exploring the scope of leveraging the semantic web in order to generate knowledge out of a data which is voluminous and unstructured in nature.
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Peter Sharpe
Senior Administrator
I was KMi's Senior Administrator for a time; that means I got to look after things like the finances, personnel, internal liaison with the University, reports, bid preparation, administration, etc. Now I can return to the proper occupation for a person - growing things, looking, listening, reading and, occasionally, thinking. I will miss some great colleagues and meeting the interesting visitors that came through( and, not infrequently when meeting the great and the good, wondering how on earth they managed to get to their exalted position).
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Peter Coetzee
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Paul Mulholland
My research is concerned with developing computational tools and methods to help people make sense of information, and develop and express their ideas. I have been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 12 national or European projects delivering outcomes including: technologies for the visitor use of archives and museum collections, mobile applications for formal and informal learning, automated narrative generation tools, and semantic and knowledge technologies for school and work-based learning. I have a first degree in psychology, a Masters degree in computing and PhD in cognitive science. I have published over 100 conference and journal articles. I am also Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies. As part of the European Union Horizon 2020 SPICE project I am working on tools and methods to support Citizen Curation, in which citizens are supported in developing personal interpretations of cultural artefacts, sharing their own perspective and understanding the perspectives of others. I work on OUAnalyse, which applies machine methods to detect students who are at risk of failing. Currently, we are developing an Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Learning Analytics (LA) Dashboard to better understand which assignments seem to be causing more difficulties to BAME students in order that they can be adapted. Within the European Union Horizon 2020 Polifonia project I am working on the use of visualisation, gesture and haptic interfaces to create novel ways of interacting with musical heritage. I work with Paul Warren investigating the usability of languages such as SPARQL for querying data. In the OCGM project I worked with Terri Cole (University of Bournemouth) and the NCA comparing methods for assessing the risk posed by Organised Crime Groups. I co-supervise PhD students carrying out research on topics such as tools for managing information overload, wearable sensors to support rehabilitation, end-user music programming, and tools for the development of musical skill. I am interested in supervising further PhDs students related to my interests, in particular on topics concerned with technologies and methods to support Citizen Curation, and human interaction with complex data sources and notations.
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ELC
Empowering Learning Communities
This project is investigating and developing organisational learning technology that is community-centred rather than user-centred, or even learner-centred. It is looking to improve our understanding of how learning communities work best. It is beginning to develop a number of demonstrations and projects in this area, all to show how appropriately community-centred technology can enhance learning in communities.
Paul Mulholland's participation in Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL)
Paul Mulholland's participation in Subtle
Subtle
Semantic Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning and Exploration
The SUbTLE project builds on the results of two separate EU projects, the work of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) on the CIPHER project and the work of the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) UserLab on the MOBIlearn project. One of the outcomes of the CIPHER project was a set of tools for exploring annotated digital resources. The MOBIlearn project produced a number of models for guiding the design and development of content for mobile learning. The SUbTLE project aims to build on these outcomes in order to produce a set of educational tools for facilitating learning in mobile contexts.
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Hank
Cognitive Modelling Environment
Hank is a new cognitive modelling language designed for use on the Open University's Cognitive Psychology course-D309. In order to make Hank simple to learn and use, it is based upon a combination of grid views, rather like spreadsheets, and flow charts, along with state-of-the-art software visualization technology. This software has been entirely developed within KMi and is an innovative approach to the problems presented by introducing cognitive modelling techniques to psychologists without the need to learn a programming language.
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Paul Mulholland's participation in G-LEARN
G-LEARN
Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre
G-LEARN is the project name for our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre (MKCDC). MKCDC is an educational organisation that develops urban geography learning materials and activities for schools and universities. The objective of G-LEARN is to design and develop an electronic resource to assist with school-level Key Stage 3 Human Geography learning and teaching. The project aims to use the case study of Milton Keynes to develop learning resources for use in schools nationally. The G-LEARN application is based around the decisions made during urban planning and draws on the educational and archive resources of MKCDC to illustrate the complexities and tradeoffs which urban policy makers and planners have to reconcile.
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Paul Mulholland's participation in Bletchley Park Text
Bletchley Park Text
Using mobile and semantic web technologies to support the post-visit use of online museum resources
The Bletchley Park Text system is an information service provided for visitors to Bletchley Park, the home of the British Government's Code and Cipher School during the Second World War. The Park is now a museum dedicated to telling the story of the work done there and the influence it has had on our modern day communications and computing technology. Visitors to the museum identify the items of interest to them by sending SMS text messages containing keywords taken from labels on the exhibits. These messages are later used to select relevant resources, which are organised into a number of views and presented as a personalised website for the visitor to explore when they return home from their visit.
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Paul Mulholland's participation in Organised Crime Group Mapping
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Philip Meyer's profile document
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Philip Meyer
I worked for the STELLARnet team together with F. Wild, T. Ullmann and L. Anastasiou et al. My main goal is to finish my M.A. thesis in context of the TELeurope.eu platform with a study on Cultural Identity and Interdisciplinarity in Globalized Research Networks
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Peter Devine
I was standing in for Harriett Cornish whilst she was on maternity leave and as such was maintaining all print graphic requirements for KMi such as business cards and other promotional material. I also contributed graphic design for the various project web sites and other online activities.
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Phillimon Mumba
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Prince Akah
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Paula Reyero Lobo's profile document
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Paula Reyero Lobo
PhD. Researcher under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) programme. She is part of the Social Data Science group and researcher at the "NoBIAS- Artificial Intelligence without Bias" project. Her PhD research focuses on developing novel techniques leveraging Semantic Web technologies to understand better and mitigate bias in hate speech detection.
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Paul Lefrere's profile document
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Paul Lefrere
Working with Peter Scott on FP7 projects in Technology Enhanced Learning: - mainly ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) - also occasional ad hoc contributions to the TEL network of excellence STELLAR Global connections at director level and above to corporations and public sector Keynote speaker and entrepreneur on R&D and commercialization of fast-track approaches to acquiring, certifying and codifying e-skills and competences; related areas of expertise include m-learning
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Petr Stolar's profile document
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Petr Stolar
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Pinelopi Troullinou's profile document
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Pinelopi Troullinou
I am a Research Associate at the Data Science Group of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), U.K. My research focuses on the social implications of digital technologies and algorithmic governance adopting a close synergy between Computer and Social Sciences. The latest achievement of this interdisciplinary approach is a co-authored paper on '"Ethics by Design" methodology for AI research projects' to be published at the proceedings of the AAAI/ACM conference "AI, Ethics, and Society" conference in February 2018, New Orleans. Furthermore, I was invited to give a talk at the workshop on societal challenges at the "European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science 2017: Inequality and Imbalance" in November 2017, London. To foster the collaboration between computer and social scientists on the study of societal phenomena emerging from technological advances, I have co-organized the workshop "re-coding Black Mirror" hosted in its second edition at "The Web Conference" in April 2018, Lyon after a successful first one at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in October 2017, Vienna. I have presented my work in leading conferences, and served as guest co-editor for the special issue 'Redesigning or Redefining Privacy?' (2017) published by the Westminster Papers in Communication Culture (WPCC).
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Patrick Wang
I am a Research Associate at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). My research interests comprise Technology-Enhanced Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. At KMi, I work on Garden Monitor (http://www.mksmart.org/gardenmonitor/), which is part of the MK:Smart project (http://www.mksmart.org/). I am responsible for conducting and analysing the user trials, as well as exploring new techniques to improve the performances of the Garden Monitor Android application.
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Paul Warren's profile document
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Paul Warren
Working with Dr Paul Mulholland, I am interested in using insights from cognitive psychology to understand how people make sense of information. My Ph.D. thesis looked at Description Logics, a class of languages used to create ontologies. Specifically, I investigated a particular Description Logic syntax called Manchester OWL Syntax. Subsequently I looked at how people query and make sense of Linked Data. Recently, I have been investigating how people make sense of art and how this sensemaking can be influenced by music. Currently, I am interested in analysing text to gain an understanding of people's sensemaking processes.
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Qiang Huang's profile document
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Qiang Huang
I started my work as a Research Fellow on the Project LUPMIR at KMi in November 2006. My work was focused on language modeling with integrating context information into one framework for document retrieval. My research interests included language modeling, machine learning, signal processing, and natural langauge processing.
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Suhail Shaik's profile document
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Suhail Shaik
I worked on improving the newsfeed project. The project records the BBC 8 o'clock news and it segments the stories and displays the user relevant stories matching to his query along with a few key frames and the extracted text from the news videos. I impoved the shot boundary detection algorithm previously used and improved the efficiency of the whole system.
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Roxana Belecheanu's profile document
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Roxana Belecheanu
My research was focused on the use of semantic web technologies for business process modelling and automation. I worked on the SUPER project, where I was involved in developing ontologies for general business concepts, for business process execution (BPEL), and for business processes in the telecommuncations sector. My previous research focused on semantic web services for ubiquitous computing.
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Robbie Bays's profile document
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Robbie Bays
Snr Manager (Systems Analysis & Architecture)
I am the Senior Systems & Network Administrator and manager of the KMi Systems team. Working under the KMi Senior Technology Officer, I am responsible for the architecture and implementation of server-side lab and associated project requirements which are hosted in KMi and managed by the KMi Systems team. My team and I oversee KMi's server and systems infrastructure, including management of the department's VMware ESXi estate, the physical server estate (including multiple, enterprise, hardware vendors and components), it's storage (management via a virtualised fibre SAN and the University's first hyperconverged ESXi platform), network topology & associated security, backup and server / application monitoring. I oversee the management of each server's OS and application-level services hosted at KMi. These include Linux (primarily Red Hat and Ubuntu) and Windows Server editions. I am responsible for the managed services that my team delivers the KMi lab, including areas of the application architecture (i.e. web, database, file and computational services). We also support KMi's "Big Data" Cloudera cluster, providing a HDFS cluster and enabling the lab to use many mainstream analytical engines and computational services for their project requirements. My role spans many projects that KMi supports, including OU Podcasts / iTunesU, CORE, OUAnalyse, Data Science and MK:Smart (plus its subsidiary projects) in addition to many others, all of which utilise various technologies to achieve their bespoke requirements.
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Rachel Barnett's profile document
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Rachel Barnett
Snr. Admin Assistant
My work consisted of assisting Jane Whild and Alan Fletcher in the bids process, visitor/intern programme, IPR issues, CDSA, H&S issues around the lab, Management Board etc. As well as support to Peter Scott and his team and general admin support.
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Raquel Crespo
In the summer of 2009 I made a 4 months research visit to KMi, working on the iCoper project.
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Renato Cortinovis's profile document
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Renato Cortinovis
Thesis: Supporting the discoverability of Open Educational Resources. My research investigates and proposes strategies to better support educators in discovering OERs. The literature suggests that the effectiveness of existing search systems could be improved by supporting high-level and domain-oriented tasks. Hence a preliminary taxonomy of discovery-related tasks was developed, based on the analysis of the literature, interpreted through Information Foraging Theory. This taxonomy was empirically evaluated with a few experienced educators, to preliminary identify an interesting class of Query By Examples (QBE) expansion by similarity tasks, which avoids the need to decompose natural high-level tasks in a complex sequence of sub-tasks. Following the Design Science Research methodology, three prototypes to support as well as to refine those tasks were iteratively designed, implemented, and evaluated involving an increasing number of educators in usability oriented studies. The resulting high-level and domain-oriented blended search/recommendation strategy, transparently replicates Google searches in specialized networks, and identifies similar resources with a QBE strategy. It makes use of a domain-oriented similarity metric based on shared schema.org/LRMI alignments to educational frameworks, and clusters results in expandable classes of comparable degree of similarity. The summative evaluation shows that educators appreciate this exploratory-oriented strategy because, balancing similarity and diversity, it supports their high-level tasks, such as lesson planning and personalization of education. Personal info: I have background experience in R&D sectors in the context of the European Space Agency, European Community and CERN, as well as technology transfer sectors at the International Telecommunication Union. I had the opportunity to work with various interesting technologies: human computer interaction, e-learning, software engineering, artificial intelligence, operating systems design, image processing, parallel architectures, telecommunication, hardware and VLSI design. I left the corporate rat race a couple of lives ago, to work as a consultant and educator, and in my fourth life I have engaged in this academic research experience.
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Renata Calonego's profile document
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Renata Calonego
Renata Calonego is an undergraduate student in Business, Human Resource Management & Public Relations at UNESP University in Sao Paulo Brazil. She was a visiting research student under the supervision of Dr. Okada at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) during 2013/2014. She participated in three projects: 1.OpenScout(European Project): co-investigator of Tool Library platform and OpenScout Portal in High Education with undergraduates for reusing OER in the area of Business and Management. 2. weSPOT (European Project): researcher on a co-inquiry case study in FOOD about the “Nestle Programme” for Health Schools in Brazil. She used the weSPOTworking with social personal open technologies for inquiry based learning to develop her research with Nestle and Schools. 3.COLEARN(Open Research Network : member of the Communication strategies team about collaborative open learning Calonego is currently a researcher participant of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and a member of COLEARN Communication Strategies team. She was the youngest student at the Knowledge Media Institute with impressive quality of publications, posters and reports.
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Roberto Confalonieri
I am an undergraduate student from the University of Bologna Italy. I have been working on Semantic Web Services with IRS-III in the DIP project
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Rachael Smith's profile document
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Rachael Smith
For my summer internship in 2008, I worked on the PowerAqua project at KMi. I returned to Edinburgh University to finish my degree in Artificial Intelligence and Maths.
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Rebecca Ferguson's profile document
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Rebecca Ferguson
I was a research fellow working on the university's SocialLearn project, developing a social media platform that is tuned for learning. You can visit my blog on analytics for teaching and learning http://diving-4-pearls.blogspot.com/ The SocialLearn team is working to align current thinking on good pedagogy with the use of Web 2.0 technologies. We aim to support and encourage users to clarify their intention, ground their learning and engage in focused conversations. My other research interests also relate to people learning together online. I have worked since 2007 on the Schome project, an ongoing research initiative which is working to develop a 'fit for purpose' education system for society today. This has included working on an island in Teen SecondLife. Details of Schome publications are available at http://www.schome.ac.uk/publications/ and details of OU Second Life publications are available here http://www.open.ac.uk/virtualworlds/p5.shtml Together with colleagues in the university's Institute of Educational Technology, I am carrying out a longitudinal investigation of research blogging. The pilot study was published in 2007, and details of the full four-year study are due for publication late in 2010. As part of the university's Children and Young People (CYP) research programme I am investigating children's use of social media and technologies to support informal collaborative learning. I am also an active member of a special interest group which focuses on the ethics of researching higher education in Web 2.0 environments http://heethicsweb2zero.ning.com/
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ELLIMent
Online mentoring tool for the ELLI framework for lifelong learning
ELLIMent is an online tool which aims to support mentors and mentees with reflection on their dispositions for lifelong learning. It helps to organize the workflow between mentors and mentees through (1) Keeping lifelong learning dispositions at the heart of the reflection process (2) Enabling mentors and mentees to exchange reflection and action notes (3) Enabling mentors and mentees to determine which reflections they share with each other and which they keep private (4) Keeping track of the history of the mentoring sessions. ELLIMent is based on on ELLI, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (link to the ELLI research project page: http://www.ellionline.co.uk/), a self-report questionnaire designed to find out how learners perceive themselves in relation to the key dimensions of learning power. These dimensions are: (1) changing and learning - a sense of myself as someone who learns and changes over time; (2) critical curiosity – an orientation to want to ‘get beneath the surface’; (3) meaning making – making connections and seeing that learning ‘matters to me’; (4) creativity – risk-taking, playfulness, imagination and intuition; (5) learning relationships – learning with and from others and also able to manage without them; (6) strategic awareness – being aware of my thoughts, feelings and actions as a learner and able to use that awareness to manage learning processes; (7) resilience – the readiness to persevere in the development of my own learning power. ELLIMent represents a learner’s self-report in term of these dimensions as a spider diagram, giving mentors and mentees the opportunity to reflect on it, choosing dimensions and interventions to work on, to develop learning power.
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Rafaella Folgieri
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Justin (aka Raymond) Hunt
Dr R. Justin Hunt is an artist, educator, and researcher based in London. Justin is a Research Fellow at the Open University, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Ithaca College London, and a Cultural Advocacy Fellow in the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Justin is a founding producer of the live art producing collective I'm With You, the international touring salon Naked Queers Reading, and the lifelong learning platform Queer Extension.
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Retno Larasati
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Retno Larasati is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Knowledge Media Institute in the Open University. Her research interest is focused on trust, explainable AI, and AI ethics. Her PhD research is about the effect of explanation on user trust in AI healthcare. Before starting her PhD, her research was around computer vision area, including handwritten recognition and visual-only word boundary detection. She has a Master's degree in Advanced Software Engineering with Management from King's College London.
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Roberto Fernandez Martinez
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Rossana Moura
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Rebecca McCormack
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Raquel Menendez Ferreira's profile document
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Raquel Menendez Ferreira
Raquel Menendez-Ferreira, has a BSc in Pedagogy from University of Oviedo (2011) and an MSc in ELearning and Social Networks from Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, she is currently a PhD candidate at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid. Her research is about the use of videogames as approach to promote social values. She has worked as specialist on teaching and learning methods for the Innovation Centre of the University of Oviedo (2013-2015).
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Marta Sabou's profile document
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Marta Sabou
During my time at KMi I focused on building a new generation of applications and tools that exploit the large scale semantic information available online. Within the context of this research line, I investigated methods for ontology selection, ontology evaluation, dynamic ontology matching and background knowledge based relation discovery (Scarlet). I also supervised three PhD's on topics related to this paradigm: multi-ontology question answering (AquaLog), ontology evolution (EVOLVA) and semantic enrichment of folksonomy tagspaces (FLOR).
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Razvan Petrusel
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Riccardo Pala's profile document
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Riccardo Pala
Software Engineer
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Raquel Kowalski
Raquel Pasternak Glitz Kowalski holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design and a Master’s Degree from the Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), and she is currently a PhD student at PUCPR. She is a researcher of Design in school of Architecture and Design at PUCPR and at FAE in Curitiba/Brazil. She was a PhD visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in 2015/2016. She contributed in the Engage Science project.
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Riasat Islam's profile document
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Riasat Islam
The SENSE project is a novel initiative aimed at enhancing sensory exploration of nature through cutting-edge technology. The project involves testing a haptic device that has been integrated with a web application containing textures from nature such as fur, scales, tree barks, and bees. This haptic device offers a unique and interactive way for school kids to experience and learn about the textures of nature in a hands-on manner. The web application is designed to be user-friendly, allowing children to navigate and explore the different textures with ease. The project also involves using the think-aloud protocol to gather data and feedback from the children as they use the haptic device and web application. The data collected will be analysed to further refine and improve the SENSE project, making it an even more valuable tool for sensory exploration and education. The SENSE project has the potential to revolutionize the way children learn about and experience nature, and we are excited to see what the future holds for this innovative initiative.
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Rachel Coignac-Smith
Executive Team Assistant
I am the Executive Assistant to the Director of KMi, Professor Harith Alani, Alan Fletcher (KMi Lab Manager & Head of STEM Research & Enterprise) Prof. Anna De Liddo (KMi Director of Research). I am also responsible for the office coordination for the Knowledge Media Institute.
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Rui Zhou
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Stefanos Armakolas
Stefanos Armakolas has been a member of the instructional Laboratory Personnel at the Department of Education and Social work of the University of Patras. He holds a B.Sc. from Dept. of Technological Applications of Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, and Master in Education from Dept. of Humanities of Hellenic Open University. His teaching experience includes teacher education and training on these topics: Teaching Practical Exercises, Educational Technology, Pedagogical Applications with New Technologies. He holds a PhD at the Department of Primary Education of University of Patras with prof. Chris Panagiotakopoulos as his supervisor. His PhD research focuses on synchronous distance learning. He is a member of Research group of CETL in University of Patras.
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Simone Angioni's profile document
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Simone Angioni
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Shuang Ao
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Sofia Angeletou's profile document
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Sofia Angeletou
I started my PhD in KMi in October 2006. I am interested in applications integrating the Web2.0 content with the Semantic Web structure. My research explores folksonomies, and ways to enrich them with semantics in order to enhance their content retrieval through searching and browsing. My supervision team consisted of Dr. Marta Sabou, Prof. Enrico Motta and Dr. Lucia Specia. I was also a member of the NeOn working group. Folksonomies: http://www.vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html Ontologies: http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
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Stanislav Bagley
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Susan Begley
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Smitashree Choudhury's profile document
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Smitashree Choudhury
I am currently working in ReelLives project and led by Harith Alani. Objective of the project is to generate film like documents from Social Web using various technologies besides Semantic Web. Previously I was part of the ROBUST : an EU project on studying and analysing online communities.
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Samantha Colclough
Joined the OU as part of the Software Innovation Services Team in the STEM Faculty, in Jan 2020, as a software developer working on research and innovation projects, I've been involved in the development of some features on the Institute of Coding badging website, and the Collective Intelligence (CI) and Online Deliberation Research tools (DebateHub, LiteMap, EvidenceHub).
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Sunny Chugh
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Stephane Carpenter
Software / Data Engineer
Maintenance and development of OU Analyse
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Simona Colucci's profile document
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Simona Colucci
I am a Ph.D student in Information Technology Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, Italy. My Ph.D is about semantic-based matching of individual profiles and design of Description Logics based algorithms and frameworks for the assignment of individuals to tasks. I am currently designing an ontology for individual profile matching tasks by taking the classification problem solving approach proposed for Ibrow project
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Samuel Pearce
Samuel Pearce is a software developer for CORE. He focuses on content processing and pipeline optimisation.
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Sonia Pinto
Sonia Pinto graduated in Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Salvador - Bahia and has a Master’s Degree in Education and Contemporaneity at the State University of Bahia (UEBA). She is completing Doctoral Research at the Federal University of Bahia at the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Diffusion (DMMDC-UFBa) Sonia Pinto is a lecturer at the University of Bahia and currently, she coordinates a project on digital literacy with young people at Telecentros.BR, a program of the Federal Government of Brazil whose aims focus on digital inclusion and social innovation. She is investigating a CPD model based on Social Network and Knowledge Mapping in the contexts of ICT s and the skills that enable the (re)construction and sharing of knowledge. She was a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute - Open University - UK (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in 2013. She is currently an international researcher member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and representative of the institutional partnership between the Digital Literacy Training Programme of the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government and Colearn KMI-OU. Her research interests include the areas of digital literacy, scientific literacy, networked learning , knowledge mapping, education and technology and distance learning.
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Stefan Dietze's profile document
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Stefan Dietze
My research at KMi was focused on Semantic Web Service (SWS) technologies, Knowledge Modelling and Context Modelling in particular. I worked on the NoTube project which follows a SWS-based paradigm to provide unified access to distributed digital media, whereas my previous research was concerned with the application of SWS technologies to the eLearning domain in the LUISA project.
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Simon Foster's profile document
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Simon Foster
I visited KMi to study the IRS and get an indepth knowledge of WSMO. I am doing a PhD at the University of Sheffield, which involves improving the orchestration model given by the Cashew project.
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Salman Elahi
I was based in Milton Keynes, UK as Research Assistant in Knowledge Media Institue (KMi) of the Open University. I did my Masters in Knowledge Management and Engineering from the University of Edinburgh. I am interested in applied semantic technologies. I was involved in the NeOn project (http://www.neon-project.org/web-content/) in the development of the Watson Semantic Web Gateway and Cupboard ontology publication system. Recently I have been working on LUCERO (http://lucero-project.info/). A JISC funded project to publish University wide data as open linked data. I have been involved in the development of basic infrastructure which consists of routines for crawling and transforming heterogeneous data, e.g. library EPrints, OU ITunes RSS feeds etc. into OU RDF models.
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Shirley Evans
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Suzanne Little's profile document
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Suzanne Little
I started at KMi in July of 2008 as a postdoctoral research fellow on the PHAROS project. My research was in developing tools and approaches to improve the process of analysing, annotating and storing both images and video to improve the end-user's search experience.
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Simon Overell's profile document
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Simon Overell
Simon was a full-time PhD student in information retrieval at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in the Multimedia and Information Systems Group, supervised by Prof Stefan Rueger. His research augmented the Geographic Information Retrieval process with information extracted from world knowledge. He approached this from three directions: classifying world knowledge, disambiguating placenames and modelling users. Simon finished his PhD thesis http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/stefan/www-pub/s.overell-phd.pdf Geographic Information Retrieval: Classification, Disambiguation and Modelling, in 2009 and has since joined TrueKnowledge Ltd in Cambridge.
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Sarah Sutcliffe's profile document
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Sarah Sutcliffe
As a graphic designer at KMi Sarah provided graphical support for a wide range of projects in both print and web-based media. Her work included: print literature, project logos, large format posters, presentations, web site design and development, web graphics.
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Silvar Ribeiro
Silvar Ferreira Ribeiro graduated in Pedagogy from the Catholic University of Salvador - Bahia and holds a Master’s Degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He finished his Doctoral Research at the Federal University of Bahia at the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Diffusion (DMMDC-UFBa) on 26th of March of 2015. Silvar F. Ribeiro currently works as a lecturer at the graduate course in "Administration" at State University of Bahia in Camaçari and as a researcher in Information and Communication Technologies at UNEB University. Before it, he was a local coordinator of the Open University in Bahia-Brazil. His doctoral research on the Brazilian Open University System focuses on collaborative network management through knowledge mapping for developing key competences in the digital age. He was a visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute - Open University - UK (KMi-OU) under the supervision of Dr. Okada in 2013. Ribeiro is currently an international research member of the Scientific Committee of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and representative of the institutional partnership between the Digital Literacy Training Programme of the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government and Colearn KMI-OU. His research interests comprise the areas of distance education, e-learning, social networking sites, knowledge mapping, collaborative network management, and educational technology. Visiting Researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute - KMi - Open University he did the Post Doctoral Research under Alexandra Okada's supervision (2016/17). The project is entitled "The 21st Century Skills Development - integrated studies Brazil - United Kingdom".
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Stefania Galizia
I was a researcher involved in projects concerning the semantic web services. In particular, I am interested in modelling and representing, by ontological descriptions, web services communication.
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Sandra Alcock
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Simon Buckingham Shum's profile document
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Simon Buckingham Shum
Professor of Learning Informatics
My work is inspired by the vision and >40 years’ work of pioneer Doug Engelbart: to develop technologies which “augment human intellect”, our “collective capability for coping with complex, urgent problems.” My current work revolves around these separate but also intersecting fields: * Collective Intelligence infrastructure (technologies and ways of working that pool what is known) for contested knowledge (these days most claims are contestable, and in any serious dilemmas, there is disagreement about the way forward). * Learning Analytics (how do you know if someone is learning from the digital traces they leave behind?), in particular, for 21st century qualities (the personal skills and dispositions that citizens need to thrive in an age of turbulence and complexity — starting at primary school).
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D3Eprints
Auto-generate a document discussion space for Eprint Archive documents
D3Eprints is a specialisation of KMi's Ubiquitous-D3E tool, part of the D3E tool suite. D3Eprints is released as part of the ePrints.org software, providing the facility to auto-generate a document discussion space for Eprint Archive documents.
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Simon Knight's profile document
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Simon Knight
I'm interested in epistemic beliefs - beliefs about the source, structure, justification and stability of knowledge - and their relationship to actions by individuals and organisations. On the latter, I wrote my MA thesis in philosophy of education on the implications of one perspective on mind (the Extended Mind thesis) for our understanding of knowledge and its assessment. There I focussed particularly on the use of external tools, and an experiment in Denmark which allowed students access to the internet during their exams (which to my knowledge is still ongoing) and the different notion of 'knowledge' implicated in that sort of system from the UK system. There I was supervised by the Institute of Education's/London Knowledge Lab's Jan Derry http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=86 My MPhil explored these beliefs in action, looking at how children talk about their information needs when engaged in collaborative information retrieval activities in the classroom, and finding that these 'epistemic beliefs in action' were - unsurprisingly - related to the quality of information they retrieved. This work also found that their use of 'exploratory talk' - talk in which reasons are explained, ideas respected, etc. - was related to search success. This work was supervised by Neil Mercer at Cambridge http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/mercer/. My PhD research will explore these beliefs in the context of mapping user epistemic beliefs as linked to their information retrieval behaviours, and working to scaffold the development of these beliefs through the use of learning analytics and collaborative platforms. I will track a group of students engaged in a collaborative subject-based task which requires sourcing and information retrieval. In contrast to more traditional quantitative cognitivist approaches, my focus will be on behaviours in action, and the discursive properties of epistemic acts “to do”, rather than attempting to uncover underlying “belief” structures. I'm now being supervised by KMI's Simon Buckingham Shum and CREET's Karen Littleton. * http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/simon-buckingham-shum * http://www8.open.ac.uk/education-and-languages/main/people/k.s.littleton&samsredir=1349358009 I am sjgknight on most platforms, and my KMi blog is http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/
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Shuangyan Liu
Research Associate (Data Architectures)
Dr. Shuangyan Liu obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Warwick. She studied for an MPhil in Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong, and BEng in Software Engineering at the Yunnan University, China. Shuangyan Liu is currently a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute. She is a member of the Data Science group. Prior to join KMi, she was a research fellow at Aston Business School, where she worked in an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, social scientists, and mathematicians. Shuangyan's research currently concentrates on data integration and data quality assessment, in particular the following topics: - Knowledge Graph quality assessment - Smart city data acquisition and storage - Learning analytics Shuangyan has published 19 scientific papers. She currently works on the MK:Smart project, and previously worked for the EC-funded project Disaster 2.0.
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Sarah Wood
Administrative Assistant
I am a member of the OUSST (Open University Secretarial Support Team)and helped KMi as an Administration Assistant in the summer of 2008.
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Sandra Miller
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Sergei Misak
Front-End Developer
Developing CORE front-end services and making sure they are kept in good shape.
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Stefanie Nowak
I was a research visitor at KMi between October 2009 and January 2010 and used my time there to learn and work on my PhD. Normally I am employed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology in Ilmenau, Germany. The project I am there working on is called THESEUS. In THESEUS I am concerned with the evaluation of multimedia analysis and retrieval approaches. In my PhD I am concerned with the combination of ontologies with automatic annotation algorithms for photos and investigate how far these machine learning approaches can benefit from the additional incorporated knowledge.
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Silvio Peroni
I was a Intern in KMi from April to September 2008. I'm working on the Open Knowledge project (http://www.openk.org). My current work subject concerns the dedection of key concepts of an ontology through three different approaches: density evaluation, natural category identification, best coverage discovery. My supervisors at KMi were Dr. Mathieu D'Aquin and Prof. Enrico Motta.
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Stefan Rueger
Emeritus Professor
Stefan Rueger is a Professor of Knowledge Media at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, a Honorary Professor (2009-2014) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, and used to be a Visiting Principal Research Fellow (2006-2009) at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. He holds a diploma in Theoretical Physics (equiv to MSc) and received his PhD in the field of computing for his work on the theory of artificial neural networks. Between 1999 and 2004 he held a prestigious EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowhip at Imperial College London, where he carved out his academic career from PostDoc (1997) to Reader in Multimedia and Information Systems (2005). His research has evolved over the years from theory of artificial neural networks over data mining and knowledge management to applications in multimedia search engines. At the Knowledge Media Institute he is responsible for the Multimedia and Information Systems area; he chairs the UK Multimedia Knowledge Management research network and was Principal Investigator for The Open University in the European funded Pharos project (2007-2009) amongst other projects.
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ANSES
Automatic News Summarization and Extraction System
'Watch the news while I was away and tell me what happened.' This project combines a Video scene change algorithm, with the current text segmentation and summarization techniques to build an automatic news summarization and extraction system. Television broadcast news are captured both in Video/Audio format with the accompanying subtitles in text format. News stories are identified, extracted from the video, and summarized in a short paragraph which reduces the amount of information into a manageable size. Individual news video clips can be retrieved effectively by a combination of video and text, using a reversed indexed search engine to provide distilled information such as a summarized version of the orginal text and highlights important key words in the text.
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VISHNU
Document search engine
This is a document search engine with several new visualization front ends that aid navigation through the set of documents returned by a query. Keywords from the document set are identified and selected on the fly. These keywords are then used to compute document clusters. The clusters can be displayed and explored using three visualisations: Sammon cluster view, Dendro map or radial interactive visualization.
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Simone Spaccarotella
I am an undergraduate student from the University of Calabria (Italy) and I worked at KMi from the 6th April to the 31st July 2009 as an Intern student, on the European project called "Erasmus Placement Program". I was involved in the SOA4ALL project and my task was writing a "web editor" for semantic annotation of web services. My aim was to finish the work and write my degree thesis about it.
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Shailesh Sivan's profile document
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Shailesh Sivan
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Shweta Suran's profile document
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Shweta Suran
In my work, I primarily focus on multiple strands of research including collective intelligence, social network analysis, computer science and psychology. My goal is to understand how technology is transforming our mental processes and behaviour; particularly, how individuals process information and perceive reality, how the same affects the beliefs of people around us, and how it affects the evolution of our societies (with respect to perception, practices, and values). Furthermore, I am interested in understanding how groups of people consume and perceive content (i.e., information and knowledge) on online platforms and how their interpersonal relationships or intrinsic biases impact their willingness to share or promote said content. For my PhD (Computer Science) research, I developed a novel ‘generic’ framework for Collective Intelligence (CI) systems [10.1145/3368986]. Based on a first-of-its-kind exhaustive meta-study of scientific literature on CI and crowdsourcing in ICT, and designed using quantitative and qualitative methods, the framework not only enables researchers to understand, how CI can be enabled in different ICT systems but also empowers both researchers and system designers, looking to harness the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ through ICT solutions. To give some background of my previous academic and professional experience, I have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree (first rank with honours) in Computer Science with a specialization in Knowledge Engineering. After my master’s, I worked as a Programmer Analyst (and Tester) with Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) for almost a year. During this period, I was responsible for the requirement analysis and testing of Pfizer’s post-marketing surveillance system. In the past seven years, I have worked as an Early-Stage Researcher and Teaching Assistant, in Estonia and as an Assistant Professor (of Computer Science) in India. I have contributed to the development of three web-based collaboration platforms, including a silver economy project, an organizational sense-making tool and an open web-annotation system that focuses on semantic data and knowledge co-creation.
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Sanyukta Shrestha's profile document
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Sanyukta Shrestha
Content-based information retrieval from large video databases.
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Sylvia Truman
E-Learning Designer
My background is in Information Systems, in particular, the development of e-learning systems. My PhD concerned the presentation a generative framework for creative learning to be used as a design support tool for e-learning.This was demonstrated through a music composition program called SoundScape. I worked as an E-Learning Designer on the G-LEARN project which is an e-learning program designed to assist students with decision making in approaching city planning.
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Svetlana Rumyanceva
Responsible for helping to provide high quality services and deliver the best possible results as quickly as possible. Believes that smooth communication and motivation is the basis of efficient teamwork and successful projects. Passionate about networking, achieving great results and acquiring new knowledge.
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Stuart Watt
The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
My intelligent agent Luigi acts as a personal assistant to arrange meetings via e-mail and the web. I am currently exploring a number of other personal agent applications. Now at School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
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FRAMES
automated monitoring of marking of student essays
A joint KMi-IET project funded by the e-OU initiative. This is a feasibility study to determine the most useful measures for inclusion in a system for carrying out automated monitoring of marking of student essays. Project Goals Long-term goals include augmenting the University's e-TMA infrastructure with three new services to support tutors, monitors, and students through the processes of preparing essays and reports. These services share common technologies, based on advances in automated essay grading, and will: · give monitors an environment which will enable them to focus on assignments which most need their attention, and to provide tutors with high quality feedback. · give tutors automated feedback on their marking, and contextualised staff development · give students automated feedback on written assignments Progress Since its beginning in February 2002, the first phase of this project has concentrated on improving monitoring through identification of the most appropriate surface measures for this task. Future work includes integrating content-based techniques such as Latent Semantic Analysis.
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Sophie Wise
PA to Director / Snr Project Secretary
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Serge Zagorac's profile document
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Serge Zagorac
Research Developer
Main interest Pharos project
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Salvatore Zagaria's profile document
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Salvatore Zagaria
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Tanay Aggarwal's profile document
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Tanay Aggarwal
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Teresa Connolly
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Tomas Danis's profile document
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Tomas Danis
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Trevor Collins's profile document
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Trevor Collins
I am interested in the development and use of technology to support learning and discovery. Current areas of involvement include inclusive education and fieldwork.
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Thomas Ullmann's profile document
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Thomas Ullmann
Thomas Ullmann researches in the area of technology-enhanced learning. He is especially interested in the automated detection of reflections in writings. His background is in empirical educational science and computer science. At KMi he worked for CATALYST, STELLAR, the X-Media project and for SocialLearn. During his work for the CATALYST project (http://catalyst-fp7.eu/), he led the design, implementation, and evaluation of the CATALYST Collective Intelligence Analytics Dashboard. His focus of work for the STELLAR Network of Excellence (http://www.stellarnet.eu/) was about the development of the STELLAR Science 2.0 infrastructure for the researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. He helped to develop the social networking platform TELeurope.eu and still maintains it. He developed 'Knowledge Lenses' for the SemSearch Semantic Search Engine within the X-Media Project (FP6 European Research Project: http://www.x-media-project.org/) to enhance the possibilities of knowledge engineers. For SocialLearn he built the ELLIMent tool, which aims at supporting mentees developing their life long learning skills within a mentor relationship. ELLIMent builds upon the Effective Life Long Learning Inventory. Permanent link to most recent research profile: http://qone.eu/ullmann
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Takayuki Goto
I am a PhD student at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Sokendai.(http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/) My research theme is how a retrieval system that reflects user's will is achieved. I think that a user interaction environment is important. I am currently researching the user interface.
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Tom Heath
My PhD research focused on using the semantic web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically it aimed to: understand how people use word of mouth within their social networks to locate information or explore particular topics; model these processes so they can be replicated in an online environment; build semantic web-based systems that support people in these locating and exploring tasks by making use of their social context.
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Technical Support Staff
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Thomas Klebel
ON-MERRIT Project Partner
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Tom Dickinson
I am currently a PhD student who's thesis title is "Telling Life Stories from Social Media Content". The approach I am taking looks at identifying and categorising events from a persons social media data. Given this data, we then look at how we might be able to rank events in terms of how memorable they are for a particular agent, as well as investigate ways we can seek to maximise recall for events by addressing things such as semantic memory, and ordering. I am also attached to the ReelLives project which looks at doing something very similar. The goal of ReelLives is to create short documentaries that are automatically generated from a persons social media data, using things such as photos, videos and posts.
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Tracie Farrell
Tracie Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University and recipient of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (Round 6). Her transdisciplinary, mixed methods research explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society, including impacts on people, their communities, and the wider ecosystems in which they live. Before her academic career, Tracie worked for 18 years in the non-formal education sector on issues related to human rights, gender, leadership and citizenship.
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Tamara Sumner
University of Colorado at Boulder
Tamara Sumner is an Assistant Professor with the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, design support systems, and educational technology. Lately, she has been applying these interests towards the design of innovative scholarly technologies such as e-journals and digital libraries.
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Tom Vincent
Head of METG
I head the Multimedia Enabling Technologies Group (METG). The focus of METG's research is on applications of information technology for teaching and learning that draw on innovations in multimedia and enabling technologies. A central theme of this work is the use of technology to address the individual learning needs of students with physical, sensory or learning disabilities
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Usha Achar
SocialLearn Lead Web Developer
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Venetia Brown
Venetia is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mixed Methods and AI in Education. Her current research focuses on Artificial Intelligence and justice intersections. In particular, she is leading a qualitative study on how AI researchers and developers come to hold their viewpoints on the impacts of AI and their role in determining those impacts. She is also the academic lead of the KMI annual Summer Scholarship Programme for Black Students. Her research interests include the critical AI literacies, pedagogies of ethical AI and evaluating educational technologies
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Vaclav Bayer
Lead Software Engineer
I am a Data Engineer at the OUAnalyse team and currently also a technical lead of the project. As a part-time PhD student, I am investigating how Learning Analytics can be used to target awarding gaps, which is a severe problem occurring in Higher Education institutions across the whole UK. My main focus is currently the development of an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion dashboard to spotlight awarding gaps across diverse groups of students within their modules and help understand the driving factors of awarding gaps.
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Vanessa Lopez
I was a research associate at KMi starting from 2003. My research was a key contribution towards an on-going effort in the lab to build a new generation of applications and tools that exploit the large scale and distributed semantic information available online. In particular, my research line was related to explore, develop and evaluate novel forms of Natural Language questions answering, able to take advantage and cope both with the huge number of structured data available on the Semantic Web and also with their extreme heterogeneity. As well as, to devise novel forms to exploit the combination of information spaces provided by the Semantic Web and by the (non-semantic) WWW and enhance traditional keyword-search technologies. During my stay at KMi, I participated in several European projects (Dot.Kom, AKT, OpenKnowledge, Xmedia, SmartProducts) and I was the project champion and main developer of AquaLog and PowerAqua, a pioneer systems in Natural Language interfaces for the Semantic Web. PowerAqua is the first implemented question answering system that combines and aggregates semantic information, publicly available on the Web, to interpret and answer user queries pose in Natural language on the fly.
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Sub Contractor
Front-end developer at CORE.
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Victoria Uren
I worked on knowledge management projects that use semantic web technologies.
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Vlad Tanasescu
I am a PhD student at KMi with a hybrid background in philosophy and computer science. Geographical Information Systems aim to become a complete and useful, hence cognitively sound, representation of our environment. At the same time the Semantic Web ambition is to unleash the true power of the Web through the use of standardised, machine understandable, services and protocols. My interest lies in trying to articulate both fields in order to provide a different approach to GIS interaction which would successfully make use of the emerging Semantic Web resources.
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Lead Front-End Engineer
An expert in Web Development who believes that functional and accessible UI is the key of success of the product. Lead front-end development and maintain CORE's design system.
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Wenjin Lu
Dept Computing, City University London
My research at KMi involved logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, formal method and knowledge-based systems. Whilst in the lab I worked on the IBROW project which aims at developing an intelligent broker to configure a knowledge-based system from software components distributed over the World-Wide-Web.
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Xiang Ma
I was an intern in KMi for the summer of 2008 working on video and camera motion analysis. I am a PhD candidate in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Yulan He
I am interested in investigating machine learning techniques in enabling rich access to information. My current research interests are sentiment analysis and optinion mining; text mining; information extraction; natural language processing; business intelligence and data mining; machine learning; bioinformatics; spoken language understanding and information retrieval.
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Yuangui Lei
I am worked as a research fellow in KMi. My research mainly focused on i) building a semantic web portal infrastructure, which aims to make ordinary web sites semantic by adding a semantic data layer to them, and ii) building a methodology, which supports knowledge sharing across different media formats.
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Yangxi Wu
Visiting Academic
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Zarko Aleksovski
I was visiting researcher at KMi for a four week period in February 2007. My purpose of visiting was to do some work on ontology matching together with Marta Sabou. In my research I am focused on using background knowledge in ontology matching, which I have been working on for the last couple of years. My past experience on this topic includes experiments with different medical and music ontologies. However, my research interests are not limited to the Semantic Web area, as I am rather interested in Machine Learning as well.
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Helen Huang
I was a postdoctoral research fellow at KMi. My research interests included multimedia search, spatial database, knowledge discovery, bioinformatics, and natural language processing. I was working on the EU PHAROS project to develop a generation audiovisual search platform.
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Iman Naja
I am a Research Associate who joined KMi in Sep 2022. I am currently a PDRA on the AIDA/AIDA4Inductionproject. I was previously a PDRA on the ResilientEnterprise, MarK, and Gatekeeper projects. I was also a PI on the ‘Conversational Media Supporting Group Intervention for Mental Health and Wellbeing’ project and the 'Intelligent Companion for Recovery, Learning and Growth’ project. Before joining KMi, I was a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen, researching accountability of AI systems. I am a member of OU’sSteering Group of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers as well as the following OU staff networks: Women@OU, Enabling Staff @OU, International Community Suport, and Enabling Staff @OU.
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Kevin Swinton
I joined the KMI team in July 2020 as a Web Developer to help with the iSpot project and to help deliver accessibility compliance within the unit. I have a long and varied technical background, I'm keen to continue the study and application of good quality software engineering practices. Can occasionally be found tinkering on a 32/64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi.
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Taha Tobaili
I am a datascience PhD student conducting research in Sentiment Analysis for dialectal languages on social media with a specific focus on Arabic. Unlike other languages, Arabic is very dialectal and differs significantly among regions. Many Arabs tend to express their natural mother-tongue in text on social media without following a unified orthography. This unstructured form of language lacks semantic and linguistic resources, making it a challenge for the Arabic Natural Language Processing. Through my research I plan to leverage sentiment analysis methods to handle the heterogeneous Arabic social data. Extracting sentiment from text stems from my interest in Affective Computing: Developing machines that can understand, and react to, human emotion.
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Zdenek Zdrahal
My research interests include the application of AI in design, case based reasoning, information extraction, predictive modelling, machine learning and knowledge sharing.
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