 Copyright 2006 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute Stefan Decker Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway

2 DERI Galway – Mission DERI Galway’s Mission is “to exploit semantics for People Organisations Systems to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale”

3 Some statistics Founded June 2003 with 1 fulltime member Status November 2006: 78 members and growing Still hiring aggressively –Goal is 100 members by beginning of next year Core fulltime research active members: –2 Professors –3 additional senior scientific researchers –6 PostDocs –4 Research Staff –46 PhD, Master Students & Interns 17 members are administration & management, industry and community outreach, university liaison, subcontractors

4 Some more statistics Published last year: –64 Conference and Workshop papers –12 Journal papers –Several tutorials (e.g., WWW 2006, JCDL 2006), workshops (ISWC, FLOC,…), conferences (ISWC) –Output is constantly growing Total Research Grants: about 27 M Euro –14.4 M Euro EU/IST –2,6 M Euro Enterprise Ireland –10,4 M Euro Science Foundation Ireland

5 DERI – Project Partners IFOMIS

6 DERI Galway – Leadership Team Prof. Stefan Decker – Director Prof. Manfred Hauswirth – Vice-Director Michael Turley – CEO

7 Research Areas Established: –Semantic Web (Stefan Decker & David O’Sullivan) –Web Services & Distributed Computing (Manfred Hauswirth) Growth stage: –eLearning (Bill McDaniel) Seed stage: –eGovernment (Vassilios Peristeras) Identified: –eHealth –eScience –Telecommunications –Sensor Networks

8 Institute Strategic Development eLearning eGovernment eScience ….. …. Finance Telecom Collaborative Technologies DERI Core Technologies

 Copyright 2006 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Semantic Web Research Area

10 Leadership Prof. Stefan Decker –Previously Stanford University & University of Southern California –Active in the core Semantic Web area since 1997 –Research Interests: Metadata, Reasoning, Ontology Languages, P2P Systems Dr. David O’Sullivan –NUI Galway –Research Interests: Web Applications for Industrial Engineering

11 Social semantic information spaces Web 2.0 and social software

12 Key Project Involvements NEPOMUK – the Social Semantic Desktop –17.5 Million Euro IP ECOSPACE – Interoperable Collaboration DERI Lion – Semantic Desktop and Web 2.0

 Copyright 2006 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Semantics in Web Service and Distributed Computing Research Area

14 Leadership Prof. Manfred Hauswirth –Previously EPFL (Lausanne) & TU Vienna –Research Interests: Distributed Computing, Software Architecture, P2P Systems David

15 Semantics and distributed systems Infrastructures for fast and flexible integration in service- oriented architectures Large-scale, decentralized information acquisition and integration Self-organization and self-management facilitated through semantics Semantic-driven development of distributed applications Large-scale distributed information systems depend on the formalized processing of semantics

16 Key Projects Adaptive Services Grid Data Information and Process Integration with SWS EAST WEB - Asia Link Knowledge Web Roadmap for Interoperability and Delivery of E-Health Semantically Annotated Oncology and Radiology SemanticGov Semantics Utilised for Process management within and between EnteRprises (SUPER) TripCom

 Copyright 2006 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. In Growth: Semantics in eLearning Research Area

18 Leadership Bill McDaniel –Previously: Accomplished entrepreneur, CTO, Adobe Systems Senior Scientist –Research Interests: Metadata, eLearning, hypermedia

19 Research Focus Focus on Development and Deployment of Semantic Web 2.0 and Collaborative Software in eLearning –Semantic Learning Objects Repository (JeromeDL) –Semantic Social Networking in eLearning

20 Key Project Elite 2.6 Mio Euro under Enterprise Ireland Industry Led Research Programme

 Copyright 2006 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Seed stage: Semantics in eGovernment Research Area

22 Leadership Vasilios Peristeras –Previously: Greek National School of Public Administration, United Nations, Coordinator of EU Semantic Government Project) –Research Interests: eDemocracy, Metadata & Ontologies for eGoverment David

23 Planned Research Focus and Next Steps Semantic Web for eGoverment –Participation and eDemocracy Government Services Infrastructure Collaboration and Knowledge Management for eGovernment Linkage to Digital Government Foundation in Europe and North-America

24 Presentations and Events Today Only a selection possible possible –Matthew Moran: Web Services eXecution Environment –Andreas Harth: Semantic Web Search Engine –Dr. John Breslin: Information Centric Access: the case of SIOC –Prof. Manfred Hauswirth: Large Scale Sensor Networks –Prof. Stefan Decker: Semantic Web 2.0 Poster session during lunch: 16 posters and/or demos Panel: The Future of Informatics in Ireland. Prof. Mark Keane, Prof. Kevin Ryan, David Cleary, Dr. Chris Horn, Martin Hynes