Elsevier Grand Challenge

Last Week, at the Experimental Biology conference in New Orleans, the winners of the Elsevier Grand Challenge were announced. And, we are happy to announce that DERI's team won the second prize at the Elsevier Grand Challenge

First Prize winner : Sean I. O’Donoghue, Lars J. Jensen, Heiko Horn, Evangelos Pafilis, Michael Kuhn, Nigel P. Brown and Reinhard Schneider, EMBL Germany, for their project “Reflect: Automated Annotation of Scientific Terms”

Second prize winner: Vit Novacek, Tudor Groza and Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Ireland, for their project CORAAL—Dive into Publications, Bathe in the Knowledge

Find on the SMILE Blog, a report by Vit Novacek on the Elsevier Grand Challenge Final.

2 weeks of SIOC wishes

Two weeks to list your thought, suggestions for SIOC . This activity runs until the end of April. If you have wishes for SIOC, you are encouraged to add it on the page dedicated to it.
- what new applications would you like to see?
- what features / bugfixes are you looking for in existing applications?
- new ontology terms or integration with other ontologies?
- [better] explanations of SIOC terms or answers to puzzling questions needed?
- ...

The wishlist already contains a bunch of suggestions and has also become an area for discussions (and even voting) about these ideas. 

RDF is being integrated into the core of Drupal 7

Since the post " RDF is being integrated into the core of Drupal 7", Lullabot has released two interviews regarding the Semantic Web & Drupal.
In the Drupal Voices 18, Stéphane Corlosquet have been interviewed about it. And in the Drupal voices 17, "Boris Mann gives a practical introduction to the Semantic Web and Drupal."

DERI Tutorial

Next thursday, in DERI, Conor Hayes is giving a tutorial : " Introduction to Web Mining".  Visit our Tutorial Page, to get slides of the previous tutorials, and to get information about the following.

 

 

Dear Readers, 

After the Easter break, we are coming back with the following news. 

Enjoy!

DERI, NUI Galway Team at The Elsevier Grand Challenge Final

"The Elsevier Grand Challenge : Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific community to describe and prototype a tool to improve the interpretation and identification of meaning in (online) journals and text databases relating to the life sciences." [1]

Next week, on the 21th of April, at New Orleans will be held the Finalist Round - To know more about it 

DERI, NUIG Team Members:
Vit Novacek - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Siegfried Handschuh - DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Tudor Groza - DERI, National University Of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Project Title: CORAAL – Dive into Publications, Bathe in the Knowledge
Website: http://smile.deri.ie/projects/egc
Blog: http://smile.deri.ie/blog
Press Release : http://www.deri.ie/about/press/releases/details/?uid=90&ref=213 

Two incubator groups were recently initiated within W3C

The two incubator groups recently launched by W3C in which DERI is involved are The Social Web Incubator Group, in which DERI is an initiating member and the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

"The mission of the Social Web Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to understand the systems and technologies that permit the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, and user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting ways."
See the charter for more information.

"The mission of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to begin the formal process of producing ontologies that define the capabilities of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop semantic annotations of a key language used by services based sensor networks."
See the charter for more information.

The Semantic Web Conference Corpus

On the Semantic Web Dog Food Corpus find out papers, people and others things related to the main conferences in the area of Semantic Web Research.

Thanks to the data available from EPrints, you can search information about papers and authors for the WWW2009. 

The World Wide Web Conference 2009 - April 20-24, 2009

The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web.
The WWW2009 is starting next week in Madrid (Spain) from April 20 to April 24.

The institute is attending the conference with the following:

Main Track :

Rapid Prototyping of Semantic Mash-Ups through Semantic Web Pipes
Danh Le Phuoc, Axel Polleres, Chistian Morbidoni, Manfred Hauswirth, Giovanni Tummarello

Workshop Papers :

Towards ECSSE: live Web of Data search and integration
Richard Cyganiak, Michele Catasta, Giovanni Tummarello
Semantic Search 2009 Workshop (SemSearch09)

Semantic Search for Enterprise 2.0
Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin and Stefan Decker
Semantic Search 2009 Workshop (SemSearch09)

DING! Dataset Ranking using Formal Descriptions
Nickolai Toupikov, Jürgen Umbrich, Renaud Delbru, Michael Hausenblas, Giovanni Tummarello
Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW09)

Describing Linked Datasets - On the Design and Usage of voiD, the 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets'
Keith Alexander, Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas, Jun Zhao
Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW09)

Interlinking Multimedia: How to Apply Linked Data Principles to Multimedia Fragments
Michael Hausenblas, Raphael Troncy, Yves Raimond, Tobias Bürger
Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW09)

Tutorial :

Hello Open World - The Web of Data for the Pragmatic Developer
Michael Hausenblas and Alexandre Passant
Monday 20th – morning

DERI is involved in the Drupal Community by giving the relevant practise to integrate RDF in Drupal and also by supporting some events such as the  Drupalcamp Galway of this last weekend - 4th and 5th April.

About Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source modular framework and Content Management System use from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites as the recently launched recovery.gov website.

From wikipedia, 450,000 users accounts have been created on Drupal.org. And since last year, core downloads more than doubled to 200k/month.

Drupal has a dynamic community. More than 1400 people attended the last DrupalCon in Washington DC (USA), a 4 day conference which had more than 100 sessions. Moreover, 2000 people have a developer account and contribute to the growth of the community.

To know more about Drupal :
Dries Buytaert Blog – creator of Drupal -, you will find also proposal of books and videos for both mainstream and technical audience for training, understanding, development.
Visit the Drupal Website, for any queries about it.

RDF in Drupal

The video “RDFa and Drupal” shows examples and use-cases about having embedded RDFa representation of Drupal Structure.

Many RDF modules have been developed for Drupal 6, including three which were developped at DERI:
The SIOC module which allows community data from a Drupal website to be exported in RDF using the SIOC vocabulary.
The RDF CCK module which allows site administrators to map each content type, node title, node body and CCK field to an RDF term (class or property)
The RDF external vocabulary importer module . It will cache any external RDF vocabulary in Drupal, and expose its classes and properties to other modules. 
According to the statistics available on drupal.org, 1102 sites had installed the core RDF API module in Drupal 6. 

Drupal 7, announced for 2010, will see RDF baked in its core. If you want to know more about the Roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7, visit the Drupal Website. 
A few developers of the Drupal community will gather at DERI in May during the event titled “ RDF Sprint” in order to integrate RDF in drupal 7. The dates are to be decided soon.

Drupalcamp - 4th and 5th April 2009

More than 60 people attented the DrupalCamp Galway. Mix of newbies and developers.
On the Saturday, the event included presentations from experienced Drupal developers. Two tracks were defined. The newbies sessions aimed to give an introduction to Drupal and to learn entire website development process from start to finish.  Specific topics were presented such as “Documentation”, “Building a site with Drupal”, and to the more advanced “what's new in Drupal 7”, “Security in Drupal”.

At 5pm started the challenge, during 24hours, 2 groups of Drupal developers worked on building 2 real working Drupal sites for 2 good causes. The two winners are :

• Rural Science Association
• Zikomo Ireland

Among other speakers, Addison Berry, head of the Drupal documentation team, was visiting from the US. She gave a presentation about the Drupal Documentation and explained also the need to get more people involved in it. To know more about it.

On Flickr, few photos of this event.

Upcoming events : The next DrupalCon - official twice-yearly conference -  will be hold in Paris, France in early September.

Dear Readers,

We are pleased this week to announce the following news :

Project News

Final review meeting concluding the EU project inContext

"Very successful that has achieved its goals", "project went through very smooth", "academic partners have done a sterling job"...stressed reviewers and Project Officer this week at this final review.
inContext is a project which developed a pervasive context-aware service infrastructure for collaboration systems, based on a semantic context model. DERI's contributions to this project, among others were the XSPARQL language which was originally developed by DERI's URQ group to translate conveniently between the data in the RDF-based context store (that holds context information about locations, activities, tasks, etc.) and XML data used by applications consuming context data.

MAARS Applications

MAARS is an outcome of Machine 2 Machine Business Negotiation (M2MN) project from the DIA unit (Industrial Application Unit) within DERI. It is a result of 3 years technology development and commercialization project funded by Enterprise Ireland.
There are two MAARS applications in the area of fund management : (1) MAARS FPC (Fund Portfolio Construction) for discretionary client accounts and (2) MAARS FS (Fund Selection) for advisory client accounts.

Learn more about MAARS product : http://www.maars.ie
Contact : info@maars.ie

Book Chapter

Nils Reiter, Paul Buitelaar
Lexical Enrichment of Biomedical Ontologies
In: Violaine Prince and Mathieu Roche (eds.) Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration. IGI Global, 2009

"Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in this area according to a linguistic granularity. As a critical mass of advanced knowledge, this book presents original applications, going beyond existing publications while opening up the road for a broader use of NLP in biomedicine." [1]

[1] : http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33268

Next Week Events

Reminder : The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place this week-end, on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April in DERI building at NUI, Galway and will run from 10am to 5pm both days. Registration is free.