The story behind Everything is Connected: Multimedia narration of automatically discovered paths in Linked Data
- When:
- Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Where:
- 11th fl Large CR (rm 1135)
- Type:
- AI Seminar
- Speaker:
- Miel Vander Sande -Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Description:
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=45b27e6ddec34405a638789183ac85421d
Abstract:
Everything is Connected (http://everythingisconnected.be) is a Linked Data application for automatically generating a story between two concepts in the Web of Data, based on formally described links. A path between two concepts is obtained by browsing linked open datasets; the path is then enriched with multimedia presentation material for each node in order to obtain a full multimedia presentation of the found path. An efficient technique combining pre-processing and indexing of RDF datasets is used, which is able to find paths in a couple of seconds.
Bio:Miel Vander Sande is a researcher in computer science and engineering at the Multimedia Lab of Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium. In 2010, he graduated as M.Sc. in Industrial Science (specialisation on ICT) from University College of Ghent, Belgium. As from 2011, he was involved in several research projects involving Semantic Web technologies and Open Data. Miel Vander Sande's main interest and expertise are (linked open) data publishing (a.o. in the context of Open Knowledge Foundation), technological support for open data legislation, ontology mapping and data transformation. He is also member of the W3C Linked Data Platform working group. Together with his team, Miel developed the Everything is Connected (http://www.everythingisconnected.be) demo. This demo makes Linked Data tangible by finding paths between concepts using the DBPedia dataset. This resulted in a novel high performance approach for performing graph algorithms on generic datasets. Miel's demo paper was accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference 2012 in Boston, where it won the Best Demo Award. Currently, Miel is active in multiple Flemish government projects for creating read/write Open Data ecosystems. Additionally, he participates in a Flemish innovation project for the digitalization of book publishers and eBooks: Publishers of the future.
