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The EPSRC funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (AKT IRC) has been a significant success in terms of papers published, grants awarded, students trained, and international impact. The Review Panel rated the project as "outstanding" scoring 34 out of a maximum possible 35 on the seven review criteria used to assess the results of projects by the EPSRC. The purpose of this proposal is to take some of the most important results from AKT and organise a next stage of research. This in turn will serve as a precursor to a longer-term ambition; the establishment of Web Science as a discipline. This initiative we are undertaking with the Web's inventor Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and MIT.

The development of new Semantic Web technologies (many developed and researched in the AKT IRC) points to a new generation of Web capability that can explore and query, assemble and integrate content in a context-aware, focused fashion. The basic idea is that we move from a document centric view of the Web to one in which data and information are the principle objects of interest. This data may relate to people, scientific structures, financial transactions or any domain that can be represented on the Web.

With the emergence of a Web of data it is essential to address three key research problems; (1) how to build ontologies quickly that are capable of exploiting the potential of large-scale user participation, (2) how we query an unbounded web of linked data, (3) how to visualise, explore, browse and navigate this mass of data.

The proposal is to undertake fundamental research in the areas 1-3 identified above. This fundamental research is supported via two application domains; one in the area of public sector information, a second in the domain of transport. The application domains will provide the context in which to gather realistic requirements, understand the social aspects that determine the success or otherwise of the systems constructed, test the adequacy of solutions, and showcase the promise of the results obtained in pursuing the research objectives outlined.

Homepage: http://www.enakting.org
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Themes: Web Science, Knowledge Technologies, Decentralised Information Systems
Dates: 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2012

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  • EPSRC

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URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/719
RDF: http://rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/project/719

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Associated Publications

Number of items: 39.

O'Hara, K. (2012) Can Semantic Web Technology Help Implement a Right to Be Forgotten? Computers and Law, 22 (6).

O'Hara, K. (2012) A General Definition of Trust. Technical Report , Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. (Unpublished)

O'Hara, K. and Hall, W. (2012) Web Science. In: William Dutton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, Oxford University Press. (In Press)

Smith, D. A., Van Kleek, M., Seneviratne, O., schraefel, m., Bertails, A., Berners-Lee, T., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2012) WebBox: Supporting Decentralised and Privacy-respecting Micro-sharing with Existing Web Standards. In: WWW2012: 21st International World Wide Web Conference, 16-20 April, 2012, Lyon, France.

Van Kleek, M., Smith, D., Shadbolt, N. and schraefel, m. c. (2012) A decentralized architecture for consolidating personal information ecosystems: The WebBox. In: PIM 2012, 11 Feb 2012, Seattle, Washington.

Correndo, G. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) Translating expressive ontology mappings into rewriting rules to implement query rewriting. In: Ontology Matching, 23/10/2011, Bonn.

Glaser, H. (2011) Co-reference and sameAs.org. In: DevCSI Linked Data Hackdays, 2011-01-14, ILRT, Bristol, UK.

Glaser, H. (2011) Consuming Linked Data. In: Linked Data Workshop - Oxford e-Research Centre, 2011-08-02, Oxford.

Glaser, H. (2011) Consuming Linked Data services: rkbexplorer.com, ecs.soton.ac.uk, britishmuseum.org, dotac.info, google gadgets, Whozat. In: DevCSI Linked Data Hackdays, 2011-01-14, ILRT, Bristol, UK.

Glaser, H. (2011) An Introduction to the Potential of Linked Data -
RKBExplorer, ResearchSpace and sameAs.org. In: Kultivate project - Linked Data workshop, Monday 12th December 2011, HEFCE, Centre Point, London, UK.

Glaser, H. (2011) Museum data, where next – consuming linked data. In: Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web, 2011-01-13, British Museum.

O'Hara, K., Whitley, E. and Whittall, P. (2011) Avoiding the Jigsaw Effect: Experiences With Ministry of Justice Reoffending Data. Technical Report , Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Omitola, T., Zuo, L., Gutteridge, C., Millard, I., Glaser, H., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) Tracing the Provenance of Linked Data using voiD. In: The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'11), May 25 - 27 , 2011, Norway. (In Press)

Popov, I., schraefel, m., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) Connecting the Dots: A Multi-pivot Approach to Data Exploration. In: International Semantic Web Conference, 23-27 October 2011, Bonn, Germany. (In Press)

Rios, S., Aguilera, F., Bustos, F., Omitola, T. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) Leveraging Social Network Analysis with Topic Models and the Semantic Web. In: International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Communities at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2011), 2011, Lyon, France.

Salvadores, M., Correndo, G., Harris, S., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) The Design and Implementation of Minimal RDFS Backward Reasoning in 4store. In: Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).

Shadbolt, N., O'Hara, K., Salvadores, M. and Alani, H. (2011) eGovernment. In: John Domingue, Dieter Fensel & James Hendler (eds.), Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies, pp. 840-900, Springer-Verlag. (In Press)

Yang, Y., Singh, P., Yao, J., Au Yeung, C. M., Zareian, A., Wang, X., Cai, Z., Salvadores, M., Gibbins, N., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2011) Distributed Human Computation Framework for Linked Data Co-reference Resolution. In: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS), Volume 6643, 29th May - 2nd June 2011, Herakilon, Greece. pp. 32-46.

Correndo, G., Salvadores, M., Millard, I., Glaser, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) SPARQL Query Rewriting for Implementing Data Integration over Linked Data. In: 1st International Workshop on Data Semantics (DataSem 2010), 22/03/2010, Lousanne, Switzerland.

Correndo, G., Salvadores, M., Yang, Y., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Geographical Service: a compass for the Web of Data. In: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010), 27 April 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Correndo, G., Granzotto, A., Salvadores, M., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) A Linked Data representation of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. In: Future Internet Assembly, 16-17 December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.

Correndo, G., Salvadores, M., Millard, I. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Linked Timelines: Temporal Representation and Management in Linked Data. In: First International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2010), 28 November 2010, Shanghai, China.

Koumenides, C., Alani, H., Shadbolt, N. and Salvadores, M. (2010) Global Integration of Public Sector Information. In: Web Science Conference 2010, 26-27 April, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Millard, I., Glaser, H., Salvadores, M. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Consuming multiple linked data sources: Challenges and Experiences. In: First International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2010), 2010-11-07, Shanghai, PRC.

Omitola, T., Koumenides, C. L., Popov, I. O., Yang, Y., Salvadores, M., Szomszor, M., Berners-Lee, T., Gibbins, N., Hall, W., schraefel, m. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Put in your postcode, out comes the data: A Case Study. In: 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 2010, Greece.

Omitola, T., Millard, I., Glaser, H., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) From Information to Sense-Making: Fetching and Querying Semantic Repositories. In: KES 2010, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 6279, Springer.

Omitola, T., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Provenance in Linked Data Integration. In: Future Internet Assembly, 16-17 December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.

Omitola, T., Koumenides, C. L., Popov, I. O., Yang, Y., Salvadores, M., Correndo, G., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Integrating Public Datasets Using Linked Data: Challenges and Design Principles. In: Future Internet Assembly, 16-17 December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.

Omitola, T., Millard, I., Glaser, H., Gibbins, N. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Topological properties of the Linked Open Data Webgraph. First International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2010) . (Submitted)

Popov, I., Smith, D. A., Van Kleek, M., schraefel, m., Correndo, G. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) GEORDi: Supporting lightweight end-user authoring and exploration of Linked Data. Technical Report , School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Rodriguez-Castro, B., Glaser, H. and Carr, L. (2010) Faceted Classification Scheme ODP. In: The 2nd Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2010) at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), November 2010, Shanghai, China. (In Press)

Rodriguez-Castro, B., Glaser, H. and Carr, L. (2010) How to Reuse a Faceted Classification and Put it on the Semantic Web. In: The 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), November 2010, Shanghai, China. (In Press)

Salvadores, M., Correndo, G., Omitola, T., Gibbins, N., Harris, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) 4s-reasoner: RDFS Backward Chained Reasoning Support in 4store. In: Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (Web-KR3), September 2010, Toronto, Canada.

Salvadores, M., Correndo, G., Szomszor, M., Yang, Y., Gibbins, N., Millard, I., Glaser, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Domain-Specific Backlinking Services in the Web of Data. In: Web Intelligence, 2010, Toronto, Canada.

schraefel, m. c. (2010) What does It Look Like, Really? Imagining how Citizens might Effectively, Usefully and Easily Find, Explore, Query and Re-present Open/Linked Data. In: International Semantic Web Conference, nov, 2010, shanghai. (In Press)

schraefel, m., Smith, D. A., Popov, I., Van Kleek, M. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Will this work for Susan? Challenges for Delivering Usable and Useful Generic Linked Data Browsers. Technical Report , School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Smith, D. A., Popov, I. and schraefel, m. (2010) Data Picking Linked Data: Enabling Users to create Faceted Browsers. Submitted to: Web Science Conference 2010, 26-27 April, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA. (Submitted)

Omitola, T. and Greaves, D. J. (2003) Agile Programming For Mobile Adaptive Systems. In: ANWIRE Workshop 2003 at the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS), Paris.

Omitola, T. and Greaves, D. J. (2003) Towards Autonomous Dependable Systems. In: Cabernet Workshop, Nov 2003, Porto Santo, Portugal.

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