practical semantics - an introduction

Practical Semantics

What can Semantics do for me today?

Ben GardnerCollaboration & Information Architect

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Practical Semantics

An introduction to Semantics

Delivering semantic solutions today

meet Jessica – A vision of working in a Semantic enabled organisation

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We live in exponential times

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A list is good enough?

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A list is not enough

Quosa

Network Analysis

Utopia

Carrot 2

Semantics

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Reflect

Many Places for Lots of Bits

Targetpedia

TOU

?

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Integrating Relational Data is Hard

Complexity

Cost

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e/Ti

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An Alternative Approach

Semantics Relational

OpenDiscoverableInteroperable

RobustPerformanceAuditing

Exploratory/InvestigativeEvolvingDynamicAgile

Best practiceReproducibleStandardisedConsistent

Business Drivers

Technology Strengths

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HTML Links Pages

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World Wide Web

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Things have Properties

Jessica

ExpertiseMolecular PharmacologyMolecular BiologyReceptor TheoryG-Protein Coupled ReceptorsModellingData VisualisationReceptor RegulationIn Vitro Assay Development

ProjectsD3 Agonist for FSDNav1.7 for PainCB2 for ObesityD2 for Schizophrenia

Targets5HT1a&bG-ProteinsCB1&2P38Arrestin’s

LocationSandwich

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Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Subject

<Jessica>

Predicate

<hasExpertise>

Object

<CB2>

RDF Triple

<Jessica>

<CB2>

<Sandwich>

<Nav1.7 forPain>

<MolecularBiology>

hasExpertise

hasLocation

hasWorkedOn

hasSkill

Graph

Combining Triples creates a directed, labelled graph

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Connections are common properties shared by Things

Jessica[+] Expertise[+] Projects[-] Targets

CBR25HT1A&CG-ProteinsP38Arrestin’s

[+] Location

Cannabinoid Receptor 2[+] Structure[+] Isoforms[+] Pharmacological tools[-] Implicated in

MigraineObesitySchizophrenia…..

Migraine[-] Targets

CGRP5HT1DCB2PDE3Ras

[+] Competitive Intelligence[+] Treatments[+] ……

Vocabularies

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Inspired by J Phil Brooks

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

<Jessica>

<CB2>

<Sandwich>

<Nav1.7 forPain>

<MolecularBiology>

hasExpertise

hasLocation

hasWorkedOn

hasSkill

<CB2>

<PF-334,765>

<Migraine>

<GPCR>

hasTool

Implicated_in

subClassOf

Graphs can be joined together ……

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<Jessica>

<CB2>

<Sandwich>

<Nav1.7 forPain>

<MolecularBiology>

hasExpertise

hasLocation

hasWorkedOn

hasSkill

<CB2>

<PF-334,765>

<GPCR>

hasTool

Implicated_in

subClassOf

<Migraine>

<Tryptan>

<5HT1D>

<CGRP>

hasTreatmentClass

Associated target

Associated target

…... to traverse the knowledge space

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

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Linked Open Data

http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

Ok so it is a bit more complicatedDisambiguation Context

Sildenafil Citrate

Viagra Revatio

= =

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Rest Services (Abstraction layer)

Data Sources

RDBMSOracle,Postgres

SQL, mySql

RDF Triple Store

MS ExcelTXTDoc

RDFSparql EndPoint Sparql EndPointNative

Semantic Integration FrameworkKnowledge Collation, Concept mapping, Distributed Query

Result inference, Aggregation

Increasing Ease of DevelopmentDecreasing knowledge of Semantic technologies

Applications

Business Process / Workflow Automation

PURL

Building a linked data cloud

1

2

3

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But this is all theoretical right?

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Patents have Properties

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Patents can be aggregated by Properties

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Pfizerpedia Patents is a Node

http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

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Making

Connections

Matterwith Jessica

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18 months ago Jessica’s did not know what she was missing

She needed to know where information was before she could use it

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Today because of Semantics…..

…… information finds Jessica’sBen Gardner

Ask Jessica what semantics means to her it’s most definitely about

Making

Connections

Matter

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“It’s all about connections”

People 2 People Data 2 Data

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Semantics on the Gartner Hype Cycle

visibility

time

TechnologyTrigger

Peak ofInflated

ExpectationsTrough of

Disillusionment Slope of EnlightenmentPlateau of

Productivity

Linked Data

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