_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The recent massive growth in online media and the rise of user-authored content (e.g weblogs, Twitter, Facebook) has lead to challenges of how to access and interpret these strongly multilingual data, in a timely, efficient, and affordable manner. Technically, streaming online media pose new challenges, due to their shorter, noisier, and more colloquial […]
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PATINA
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Current digital research support systems take attention away from the material that they describe. PATINA will provide researchers with new opportunities to create research spaces that emphasise the primacy of research material, and support the sharing of research activities as well as results. Through the recording of research practice the project will also […]
Ego: Virtual Identity
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Ego project aims to provide tools for people to create their own online virtual identities which automatically communicate their information and content needs and preferences to relevant Web sources. The project will integrate advances in the fields of user modelling and identity management to create an evolving, complex user model. Ultimately, the […]
WeSearch: Language Technology for the Web
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The aim of this project is to enable next-generation web services within the expanding internet space of social networking. Specifically, as social networking is is driven by User-Generated Content (UGC), the project team wishes to develop a semantic parsing technology which will allow IT systems to ‘make sense’ of the human language-based UGC. […]
DYNAMO
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Intelligent data processing is becoming more and more important in improving the quality of healthcare and enhancing health data exploitation. To this end, Knowledge Organizing Systems (KOS) such as thesauri, ontologies and taxonomies have become vital in integrating, exporting, and retrieving data as well as ensuring semantic interoperability between various systems The main […]
Web of Data
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Web of Data is a research activity of the CNR’s Institue of Informatics and Telematics focusing on the areas of linked data and big data. Web of Data’s goal is to extend the Web with a data commons by publishing various open datasets such as RDF on the Web and by setting RDF […]
Wanagogo
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The goal of Wanagogo is to investigate the challenges associated with designing and building a Digital Content Platform (DCP) that is shaped as a virtual world. Specifically, the project will create a digital world targeted at young children which will host child-oriented content on a variety of digital platforms, including the ‘standard web’, […]
UMA
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The proliferation of social networking has thrown up challenges for the internet community in terms of guaranteeing end user’s safety and privacy on the web. The User-Managed Access (UMA) project seeks to develop a protocol that enable will individuals to authorise who and what can get access to their online personal data, content […]
Sematic Monitoring of the Cyberspace
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Public and private enterprises and service-providers continuously analyse their environment in search of threats and risks to their business model, work practices and customer-base. Many such threats manifest themselves on the internet – on forums, blogs and portals. This project aims to help rectify the scarcity of security tools available to sift through […]
VirCA
_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY VirCA is an Internet-based network and tool-kit which facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing between laboratories and other R&D facilities in the area of Internet of Things research. The network proposes to combine advanced technologies to create a 3D-enabled platform for the Internet of Things. This will facilitate the development of a “3D Internet” […]