EnAKTing the Unbounded Data Web: Challenges in Web Science
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Electronics and Computer Science
Abstract
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.
Organisations
Publications
O'Hara K
(2009)
The Devil's Long Tail: Religious Moderation and Extremism on the Web
in IEEE Intelligent Systems
Omitola T
(2011)
Tracing the provenance of linked data using voiD
Kieron O'Hara (Author)
(2012)
Trust in social machines: the challenges
O'Hara K
(2012)
Transparency, open data and trust in government
Kieron O'Hara (Author)
(2012)
Data quality, government data and the open data infosphere
Shadbolt N
(2012)
Linked Open Government Data: Lessons from Data.gov.uk
in IEEE Intelligent Systems
Correndo G
(2012)
Database and Expert Systems Applications
Correndo G
(2013)
Linked Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
in Semantic Web
Description | University of Southampton |
Amount | £6,219,059 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/J017728/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2012 |
End | 05/2017 |
Description | Keynote "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk to the premier business network in Wales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.cardiffbusinessclub.org/event/159/professor-sir-nigel-shadbolt |
Description | Keynote "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited talk to the Vodafone Institute in Berlin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.vodafone-institut.de/events/im-grunde-sind-wir-schon-heute-digitale-primaten-ai-anthropo... |
Description | Keynote "The Digital Ape: How to live (in peace) with smart machines" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote to the Institute for Policy Research - large and varied audience of 400 or so |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-digital-ape-how-to-live-in-peace-with-smart-machines/ |
Description | Keynote at Edinburgh Book Festival 2018 "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation at main venue of the Digital Ape including EPSRC research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/press-release/robots-are-neither-out-to-get-us-nor-after-our-jobs |
Description | Keynote at Royal Society ALLEA Event "Data as Infrastructure for the 21st Century" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Lead talk in a 2 day meeting around the topic of "Flourishing in a data enabled society" with other European Academies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.allea.org/events/flourishing-in-a-data-enabled-society/ |
Description | RAEng Hinton Lecture 2016 "Engineering the Future of Data" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hinton Lecture is the Flagship Lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/events/events-programme/2016/november/hinton-lecture-2016 |
Description | Sir Gareth Roberts Lecture "Engineering Intelligence" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Annual keynote talk at the University of Durham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/physics/newsandevents/lectures/roberts/ |