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Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck: Towards Horizon 2020

Anna Fensel, Dieter Fensel, Jose Garcia, Nelia Lasierra, Ioan Toma{firstname.lastname}@sti2.at

November 2013

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Outline

• Introduction• Research Topics• Sample Technology and Application Field

– Multi-channel Communication and eTourism

• Current Projects• Interests / Technology Offer• Selected Recent Publications

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Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck: Introduction

• A leading institute for semantic technologies• Established in Innsbruck, Tyrol, in August 2002, initially as a “Next Web

Generation” research group at the University of Innsbruck

University of Innsbruck is the oldest, and the number 1 ranked university in Austria (according to the Times Higher Education rank, year 2010/11)

• Web: www.sti-innsbruck.at• Currently has ca. 30 staff members• Possesses strong links to local start-ups and SMEs, especially in the

areas of tourism and online marketing • More than 60 completed projects, funded by FP5, FP6, FP7 and

nationally

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• Core semantic research fields• Semantic Web Services, Service and Data Marketplaces • Integration Techniques, Linked Data • Knowledge Management, Social Web• Large Scale Smart Data Processing, Virtualization

• Applied semantics: communication and dissemination on social media, common value management, cloud computing, sensor networks, RFID, mobile services and intelligent devices in domains, such as:

• tourism, hospitality management, • media,• security,• eHealth, ambient assistant living, • manufacturing, • transport,• energy efficiency.

STI Innsbruck’s Research Topics

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• Accessing and publishing in various channels

• Semantic annotations – in various formats and languages

– in various vocabularies and schemas

Sample Technology: Multi-Channel Communication

LODPress releases + Ads

Web/Blog Social Web

Multi-channel communication is a method of information dissemination, feedback collection and engagement in various on-line web and social media channels:

RDFa-Lite

Web site (Online Communication Working group): http://oc.sti2.at

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Sample Application Field: Visibility of Innsbruck’s Tourism Association

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STI Innsbruck’s Current Projects

STI Innsbruck is currently involved in 10 projects (7 EU and 3 Austrian national funded) related to the Semantic Web, Big Data and Semantic Web Services:

+ one EU SA BYTE

(on societal impact of Big

Data) to start in 2014

7

OntoHealth

RESIDE

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STI Innsbruck’s HORIZON 2020 Interests / Technology Offer

• Integration using Linked Data • Streaming data processing techniques• Social media & communications expertise• Online dissemination, including project dissemination• Semantic Services, including semantic service

composition • Gaming for crowdsourcing scenarios e.g. on reporting

potential security challenges • Simple ontology and ontology artefacts editing tools • Ontology design and development / engineering

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Selected Recent Publications

• Toma, I., Fensel, D., Gagiu, A.-E., Stavrakantonakis, I., Fensel, A., Leiter, B., Thalhammer, A., Larizgoitia, I., Garcia, J.-M. "Enabling Scalable Multi-Channel Communication through Semantic Technologies". In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, November 17-20, 2013, Atlanta, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press (2013).

• Rogger, M., Fensel, A., Gustavi, T., Horndahl, A., Mårtenson, C. „Semantic Data Management: Sensor-based Port Security Use Case“. In Proceedings of European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), August 12-14, 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, IEEE Computer Society Press (2013).

• Lasierra, N., Alesanco, A., O‘Sullivan, D., García, J. “An autonomic ontology-based approach to manage information in home-based scenarios: From theory to practice”. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 87, pp.185-205, Elsevier (2013).

• Fried, M.-F., Fensel, A., Facca, F.-M., Fensel, D. "Information Systems for Enhancing Social Experience in a Conference Context: A Sensor based Approach", Programming and Computer Software, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 281–293, Springer-Pleiades Publishing (2012).

• Rohjans, S., Fensel, D., Fensel, A. "OPC UA goes Semantics: Integrated Communications in Smart Grids". In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (EFTA'2011), 5-9 September 2011, Toulouse, France, IEEE Computer Society Press (2011).

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Thank you for consideration!

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