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Presentation to the 2008 International Metadata Open Forum (Sydney). Exploiting social capital to createrichly interlinked knowledge spaces.
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• Context
• n2Mate
• M3 Alliance
• CI-KISS
Structure
• Particular problem for governments
• Considerable loss of efficiency
• Many existing attempts at machine-level solutions
“Who’s doing what” is the central questionObvious failures: lack of interlinkage
• Does anyone have a wheel like mine?
If you can’t find the right standard when you need it, you’re probably going to
make a new one.
For the semantic web to take off, it needs:• Manageable number of ontologies• Vocabularies for tagging open data
• Highly re-used• Densely interlinked
Otherwise• we get killed by the n-squared mapping
problem....• we get a very large, very sparse network with
minimal interoperability.
• Who?o owns it, created it, maintains, uses it, endorses it?
• What?o domain, context, process - how is it intended to be
used? Does this suit my use case?
• Quality of Service?o is it accurate? reliable? verifiable? up-to-date? going
to be available when I need it?
•Metadata about metadata
Too hard to find one
Swoogle Ontorank and Termrank
We would like a rank based on frequency of use as a Semantic Web document, and we would like to be able to assess suitability for our intended use case!
Why don't ontologies get reused more often?
Foundational Angle: Create foundational techniques for concept definition, so you get interoperability for free
Automated Matching Angle:Improve automated matching techniques
Social Angle:Encourage more people to use the same ontologies
to describe their data, not create new ones.
Some angles on the problem…
• Context
• n2Mate• M3 Alliance
• CI-KISS
Structure
n2Mate
Exploiting social capital to create a standards-rich semantic network
Presented by
Dr Renato Iannella
David PetersonBoaB [email protected]
Anne CreganNational ICT [email protected]
Rob AtkinsonCSIRO Land & [email protected]
John BrisbinBoaB [email protected]
A researcher is
preparing her
research plan on a
section of the Great
Barrier Reef.
Although she is an
experienced marine
scientist, she is new
to the GBR and to her
host research facility.
•Use-case: new researcher
•Use-case: new researcher
1. standard naming conventions for the GBR regions;
2. standard identifications for the particular reefs;
3. standard data sampling techniques appropriate to the Australian tropics;
4. standard data formats, enumerators, and vocabularies in her datasets;
5. standard citations of agencies, programmes, and people referenced in her work;
6. standard metadata fields and vocabularies to describe her research output;
7. standard project management practice in reporting on her project’s progress.
• Semantic project depends on interlinkage of
ontologies, vocabularies, and standards.
• Humans are central to that effort.
• How to get humans involved effectively?
Create a useful context or else humans find it impossible to express knowledge
•Socially-sensitive metadata
• Recognise existing registers and metadata collections
• Use existing protocols to construct a register of
registers network
• Construct facility with social networking devices
• Popularity Rankings: number of times a standards artefact is
referenced (implemented).
• Authority Badges: mechanism to advertise an authority claim over a
standards artefact.
• Related to (“Friends of a Standard (FOAS)” ): linkages from
standards artefacts to their cohort of implementers.
• Trust ratings: showing satisfaction with the custodian of a standards
artefact.
• Hero worship: most interlinked, most trusted, most useful
A model for n2Mate relationships
Re-use and leverage existing tools and standards (self-similarity, fractal integrity)
•3: Implementation options
Account and session manager Drupal
Bookmarking and annotation tool gnizr
Storage of instance data Sesame
Semantic interpretation MOAT
Policy layer PLING
Trust & Governance POWDER
•Key Components
Watson
Talis
Swoogle
Sindice
Falcons
Ping the Semantic Web
Bootstrap: Test with existing resources
Sample interface
• Context
• n2Mate
• M3 Alliance • CI-KISS
Structure
Monitoring Modeling & Management
M3A: Fitzroy Floods Pilot
Stabilise and visualise shared knowledge
Community of Practice
“Professional Privilege”?
M3A: Fitzroy Floods Pilot
21 Agencies with complex juisdictional interlinkagesand cultures
I want to belong to a group
I want to contribute to my group
I want my group to live
3 steps to grouping behaviour
Social tools (again)
Exploit social platform techniques:
• Popularity Rankingso How many SWDs reference this ontology/artefact?
• Authority Badgeso a way to assert an authority claim over an artefact
• Related too Who uses this ontology? Which ontologies do my friends or
respected cohorts use?
• Trust & Satisfaction rankingso how do users feel about this ontology? Do they trust it? Are they
satisfied with its QoS parameters?
Automated parsing (Open Calais > Drupal)
Rich visualisation (ThinkMap + Freebase)
• Context
• n2Mate
• M3 Alliance
• CI-KISS
Structure
Concept pilot (excel)
Intention to act as social change
platform
• Knowledge
• Integration
• Synthesis
• Service
Keep it Sweet and Simple
Researchers, community groups, conservation agencies
Cultural leaders and keepers of tradition
Visitors and students: the next generation of Reef Guardians
Allow many angles to intersect... Encourage insights
• Over
Grow organicallyConnect with new challenges
Internal dynamics
Needs analysis
Needs analysis
Thank you!
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