On-To-Knowledge:On-To-Knowledge:Dissemination and UseDissemination and Use

Hans AkkermansHans Akkermans

Free University Amsterdam VUA

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Dissemination and Use:D30 (website) & D34 (plan)

General dissemination and use strategy Consortium-wide actions Partner-specific actions Status and conclusion

www.ontoknowledge.org

Deliverable D30

General Dissemination Strategy and Consortium-wide Actions

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What Do We Disseminate?

Vision: the Semantic / Knowledge Web Ontologies as a key technology to achieve this

Results: OTK info service toolset Ontology language plus web inference layer Methodology: How-to guidelines for roll-out Industry case study experiences

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Vision: Exploiting the World-Wide Information Resources IT, and especially Internet/WWW, have boosted

potential for knowledge acquisition and sharing BUT:BUT: information resources are heterogeneous,

distributed, semi-structured, & enormous in size HENCE:HENCE: need for KM tools for selective semantic

(meaning-oriented) access => On-To-KnowledgeOn-To-Knowledge Move from keyword search to query answeringMove from keyword search to query answering Move upwards in the data-info-knowledge chainMove upwards in the data-info-knowledge chain Vision:Vision: towards the next-generation “semantic”

(Tim Berners-Lee, W3C) or knowledge webknowledge web

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The Contribution by On-To-Knowledge

Knowledge Knowledge sharing issue:sharing issue: hyperlink browsing and keyword search do not tell you much, and are a waste of time

Much better:Much better: you ask questions to information resources, and just get the answer

Hyperlink structure does not really help!

OTK toolset: achieve meaningful

semantic user access

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Implementing the Vision: OTK Toolset and its Use

OTK Tools:OTK Tools: User query

access Semantic

representation & analysis

Intranet/WWW information extraction

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OTK Consortium-wide Dissemination Actions (1/2)

Spread the word: the semantic / knowledge web publications, presentations, demonstrations

e.g. EU eBeW-2000 Conference Madrid and many others

OTK website (D30) and project brochure (D33) http://www.ontoknowledge.org

Join forces with like-minded EU projects OntoWeb thematic network in preparation Joint workshop of projects (IBROW, COMMA, AKT,

MKBEEM, C-Web, ENRICH, …) proposed (D31, D32)

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OTK Consortium-wide Dissemination Actions (2/2)

Help to set web semantic standards Active participation in W3C working groups on RDF

and semantic web Links to related programmes in US (DARPA/DAML) US DAML programme considers to use OTK’s OIL

language as its standard (OIL “shell” model)

Facilitate industry take-up How-to guidelines for roll-out (WP5 Methodology) Focus on “Lightweight” semi-automatic approaches Company-specific actions at targeted market segments

On-To-Knowledge: Company-specific Dissemination Actions

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BT

KM user interface tools, application study experiences

Internal dissemination and transfer within BT International publications and presentations Demos to external visitors

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Swiss Life

Application case study experiences Internal dissemination (board, business units) International presentations and publications Involvement in KM conference organization Support role in student education

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EnerSearch

Virtual Organization experiences Shareholder companies involvement

IBM (US/WW), ABB (SE/CH), Iberdrola (ES), ECN (NL), PreussenElektra (D), EDP (PO), Sydkraft (SE)

EU Utilities workshops

Key idea:Key idea: website hyperlinks + ontology = meaningful structure

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AIFB Karlsruhe

Ontology editing tools, roll-out methodology International publications and talks KM courses KM conferences and seminars organization Participation in US programme (DAML/Stanford)

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Free University Amsterdam

Coordination, OIL ontology-based web inference layer, dissemination website and workshops

International publications and talks Inititiative for OntoWeb EU thematic network Regular KM courses and student degree work Industry and executive courses in KM W3C working groups

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CognIT

Information extraction tools Exhibitions and demonstrations New client prospects White papers and publications KM course Norway OTK server for dissemination

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Aidministrator

XML/RDF semantic query engine, semantic visualization tools

International publications and talks Tool demonstrations New client prospects W3C working groups

Interactive generation of subtype intersections

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OTK Dissemination and Use in Summary

Very active dissemination by all OTK partners Very active dissemination by all OTK partners Spread the word: the semantic / knowledge web Join forces with like-minded EU projects Help to set web semantic standards Facilitate industry take-up http://www.ontoknowledge.org