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General introduction to DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute). DERI is the largest research center in the worked dedicated to research in semantic web technologies. It is hosted at NUI Galway in Ireland
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Copyright 2008 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.
www.deri.org
An Overview of DERI
March 2009
Liam Ó Móráin, Business Development Consultant, DERI, NUI Galway [email protected], +353.91.495132
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The story so far…
DERI commenced on June 10, 2003 with initial funding from Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI)
130+ team members approx to date and growing
Acquired 20 national and international research projects with leading universities and businesses
Led by Prof Stefan Decker and Prof Manfred Hauswirth
Total research fund to date is over €40 million: SFI, Enterprise Ireland, and European Union
DERI’s core research activity is to develop and exploit semantics enabling people, organizations, and systems better collaborate and
interoperate
Critically, it is about information interconnectedness of people, organizations, and systems on a global scale
DERI Overview
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Mike Turley, CEO
Prof Dr Stefan Decker, Director
Prof Dr Manfred Hauswirth, Vice Director
Liam Ó Móráin, Business Development
Oversight Board: 3 senior university executives and several industry executives, one each from HP, CISCO, Nortel, and Storm.
Scientific Advisory Board: 6 members including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the web and Dr Chris Horn Co-founder and Vice-Chairman IONA Technologies. This board is Chaired by Prof Dr Michael Brody, Chief Scientist, Verizon Communications.
DERI Leadership
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DERI Research Focus
CompanyCustomer
Content
Product & Service Continuum
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Integration & Interoperability
Search & Retrieval
Communities & Collaboration
Invocate, discover, and retrieve services dynamicallyAutomatic, context-based, device, or user-created or derived tagging of data
Deliver accurate and appropriate content to any digital device
Create interlinked online communities of friends & colleagues. Create a true collaborative environment across any digital medium and type
Transforms a data dictated and data intensive environment to a data rich and user driven experience
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DERI ECOSYSTEM
First anchor company in DERI LAND is Cyntelix: expects to grow to 15 people by year-end
DERI LAB - apply DERI Core research to specific industry needs e.g.
Telecom and eLearning
Healthcare and Financial Services
System Integrators and eGovernment
DERI LAND: companies building semantically powered products and services as a natural extension to the DERI Core and DERI LAB value chain
DERI LAB: world class applied research and development centre tailoring leading-edge advances in semantic technologies in solving industry needs
DERICore
INDUSTRY-LED PROJECTS
DERI LABDERI LAND
END USERS
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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH
DERI SFI-funded partners are:
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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH
The eLite project is working with 7 indigenous Irish companies in the application of semantics to life-long learning as manifested in their future
product and service offerings
In the final year of a three year project. Once patent filed; significant technology transfer underway.
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INDUSTRY ORIENTED RESEARCH
DERI works closely with SMEs leveraging company-funding and Enterprise Ireland’s funding mechanisms with big and small companies alike
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COMMERCIALIZATION
Some very interesting and cool technologies being created with spin-off and licensing potential
Patent-pending
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Patent-pending
The Semantic Web Index
Semantic Web Search Engine
Semantic enabled bookmarks and knowledge
Novel approach to security and identification
Multi-parameter and multi-variable negotiation
Semantic mail
Plug and play electronic patient record
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Sample Research Projects
While DERI’s research focus has a broad remit, the following projects highlight aspects of “search”
SERENITY - Enterprise Content Integration and Access using Ontology-based Content Analytics.
Semantic power analysis using NLP, ontology-based information extraction and information identification
Semantic search techniques such as entity search, information linkage, semantic index, SPARQL query
Social Semantic Desktop
Ontonoly, contextual information, document analysis, and distributed search
Personal and distributed information management
Social networks
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Sample Research Projects
While DERI’s research focus has a broad remit, the following projects highlight aspects of “search”
YARS2: A Federated Repository for Querying Graph Structured Data from the Web.
Structured data crawling and object consolidation
RDF storage, query processing, and RDF ranking
Indexing on quads and string literals
Semantically Enhanced Search
Onthology driven search enhancements
Faceted data browsing
Knowledge as a graph
Entity search and browsing