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Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Government Linked Data: A Tipping Point for the Semantic Web
No full textGovernments around the world collect information. This information is often non-personal public sector information. It relates to transport and education, health and the environment, business and leisure. Publishing and releasing this information in a machine readable way could lead to huge economic and social improvements. This talk will outline developments in the UK and US which are showing the potential of building a Web of Open Linked Data using Semantic Web Standards. It will discuss the technical as well as social and cultural challenges. It will show examples of the applications that can result. It will consider the impact this could have on Semantic Web research
Why Open Government Data? Lessons from data.gov.uk
No full textThe talk reviews the history of development of Open Government Data with particular reference to the UK effort and data.gov.uk - it discusses the motivations and reasons why Governments, communities and individuals support Open Data initiatives. It presents a range of challenges that this throws up from cultural to organisational, information assurance to revenue models
Open Government Data: A Case Study in Web Science
No full textThe past year has seen an increasing momentum behind the release of non-personal public data by governments. This talk will review the work in this area in the UK and represented at data.gov.uk - it will discuss the motivations and drivers behind this work, review the technical approach, outline the policy issues that arise and the opportunities and challenges that are emerging. The talk will also consider the extent to which this work represents a good case study for Web Science
Open Government Data: Making it Real??
No full textThis talk will review our successes in Open Government Data and why it is so important to us all. It will include a frank discussion of the problems encountered and the challenges that lay ahead. Problems and challenges that will be much more tractable if we work together. It will also detail some key requirements around policy and technology to ensure the efforts can scale and complement each other. It also encourages the Open Data Community to makes its voice heard in the various national consultations underway
data.gov.uk - The Linked Data Revolution
No full textThis presentation reviews progress to date in the Making Public Data Project (MPDP) that the UK Government began in 2009. The principles behind the work are presented - both technical and organisational. The move to open data precepts by a number of governments are discussed. The UK Government Information Advisors also advocate the adoption of linked data standards - the benefits of such an approach are discussed. The challenges facing such work are outlined and future ambitions discussed
The Semantic Web Linked Data and RDF: An Introduction
No full textIntroduction to the Semantic Web, RDF and Linked Data. Presented to the National and Research Library Community at the British Library May 2010
Towards a Science of the Web
No full textThe World Wide Web has changed almost every aspect of modern life and touches us all. We use it to shop, date, entertain, communicate and research. It’s billions of pages, links and other resources comprise the largest information fabric in the history of humanity. It is fundamentally a socio-technical system connecting hundreds of millions of people in networks that are constantly changing and evolving. How much of this do we understand? From a series of straightforward engineering protocols we see the emergence of large-scale structure. What evolutionary patterns have driven the Web’s growth, and will they persist? How are tipping points reached, and can they be predicted or altered? What trends might fragment the Web? What properties create social effects, and how do social norms influence the viral update of Web capabilities? Answers to any of these questions would enhance our ability to maintain the Web as an accessible information technology to help humankind prosper. This talk will argue the case for a Science of the Web. This new interdisciplinary enterprise will require insights and methods from many disciplines. It demands that we understand the Web as an engineered construct that demands scientific analysis. It requires that we see the Web as a social construct that embodies all our human hopes and fears, interests and appetites. The talk will review progress to date as we seek to establish Web Science, discuss the major research insights that are emerging and look forward to the challenges ahead
Local Matters: Your Help
No full textHigh level review of the progress to date in the data.gov.uk project and a discussion of the role of local information in extending the principle of open data into the Local Authority arena
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