CS AKTive Space, or how we learned to stop worrying and love the semantic Web

Abstract

Abstract-The mission of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project is to investigate how to operationalise the knowledge management mantra of "getting the right content to the right place at the right time and in the right form." A significant result of the first three years of this six year project is CS AKTive Space (CAS), a Semantic Web application that won the 2003 Semantic Web Challenge. The challenge criteria included having to use geographically distributed, real world data that would have to be used in a context distinct from which that original data had been designed to serve. CAS is an application that, in meeting this criteria, seeks to provide the experience of an integrated information overview that allows a user to determine quickly who is doing what where in computer science research in the UK. In developing the application we have engaged a number of core Semantic Web challenges: content acquisition, ontology development to mediate heterogeneous data sources, scalable RDF storage and query facilities, and semantically directed interaction design. From our work on CAS we have begun to look at how the approaches for CAS can be generalised for the deployment of AKTive Space applications, dynamically generated from an ontology and set of services.

The Semantic Grid: Past, Present, and Future

“…Thus, this distributed metadata is effectively interlinked by the objects it describes. This, in turn, enables us to ask new kinds of questions, which draw on the aggregated knowledge (e.g., [21]). The naming problem is facilitated in some areas by existing standards, such as the Life Sciences Identifier, which is the standardized naming schema for biological entities in the Life Sciences domains, and the IUPAC Chemical Identifier (IChI) for chemistry.…”

Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies

“…The user could carry on clicking to find out details of the sources, institutions and so on. This style of interface is related to the mSpace user interfaces described in [12] and used in the application described in [13].…”

Next Generation Search Interfaces – Interactive Data Exploration and Hypothesis Formulation

“…Systems like Flamenco [6], Topia [7], CS AKTive Space [8] are examples of early efforts at blending specific information exploration goals with well-associated contextual information. Information from multiple heterogeneous sources are combined and presented to provide an integrated view of a multi-dimensional information space.…”