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Digital Enterprise Research Institute 2 Where is Ireland?

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 3 Our Mission and Vision DERI Galway’s vision is “to be recognised as being among the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society” DERI Galway’s Mission is “to exploit semantics for People Organisations Systems to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale”

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 4 Some Statistics Founded June 2003 with 1 fulltime member (green field) Status May 2008: about 130 members and growing Research Publications > 370 Participates in 12 standardisation groups Total Research Grants: about 23 M Euro so far  8 M Euro EU/IST  2,6 M Euro Enterprise Ireland  12,4 M Euro Science Foundation Ireland Selected Technologies  Semantic Desktop  Semantic Digital Libraries  Semantic Web Search Engines  …

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 5 On the shoulders of giants… Memex (Vannevar Bush) A memex is “a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications.” Augmenting Human Intellect (Doug Engelbart) “By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” WWW (Tim Berners-Lee) “There was a second part of the dream […] we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we re doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together.”

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 6 It wasn’t the time then… Where are we now?

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 7 Now we are making progress…

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 8 A Network of Knowledge… Interconnected Universal All encompassing Enable global and local collaboration The right information for the right people at the right time

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 9 Getting to work: The DERI House Semantic Reality Social Semantic Information Spaces Web 2.0 and collaborative systems Semantic Web Web Science Linked Data Sensor Networks RFID Mobile computing SOA eBusiness & Financial Services Health Care & Life Sciences eLearning Telecommunications eGovernment eScience Application-Oriented Research Domains

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 10 Social Semantic Information Spaces: Networked Knowledge for the Web 2.0 Syntax Semantics Social Connectivity World Wide Web URIs, HTML, HTTP Semantic Web RDFS, OWL, SPARQL Collaboration and Communication Semantic Desktop,Wikis, Blogs, OSN, Collaborative Work Environments Information Spaces Social Semantic Information Spaces

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 11 Semantic Reality

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 12 How do we use these new capabilities?

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 13 …Government…

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 14 Society – Government communication problem Citizens’ participation in policy-making Service Delivery Citizens Policy making Clients Public Administration

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 15 Activities Semantics and eGovernment is a new emerging research area:  DERI participates and publishes in all relevant academic events (e.g. DEXA eGov, dg.o, ECIS eGov, HICSS eGov, International Conference on Electronic Government)  DERI co-chairs a special track on eGov and semantics 3 rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management  Results from 8 major European R&D projects (>35ME) to an upcoming Springer book, initiated and is co-edited by DERI  IEEE Intelligent Systems special issue on eGov initiated and is co- edited by DERI (2009)  MoU between DERI and the US Federal Government initiative, Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 16 Impact … so far Academic related dissemination – tutorials, demos, papers, conference special track, IEEE IS, Springer book Semantically enabled eGov Portal, demo room Work closely with the Department of the Taoiseach, Knowledge Society Policy Unit –feedback on the LION proposal received Involve agencies in tools and prototype evaluation – e.g. Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB) Attract additional funding – e.g. SemanticGov, new 7 th Framework Work Program “Governance and Policy Modeling” Export results outside Ireland –Cyprus Government documents >100 public services Standardization - W3C eGov Interest Group

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 17 eGovernment Domain Goal We will use and exploit DERI technologies for enabling… Citizens’ participation in policy-making Personalized and Seamless Service Delivery

Digital Enterprise Research Institute 18 Society Government eGovernment Domain Goal