Aquenergy Portal Elisabetta Zuanelli, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy E-Age 2014 Muscat december

aquenergy zuanelli Aquenergy: preconditions current situation in the water and energy sectors: a high fragmentation of information a scattering of sources a lack of common criteria for sharing and monitoring in a cost-effective way

aquenergy zuanelli An ontology for the automatic treatment of related links The system supports a platform for targeted external users, with easy and ready-to-use access for different users: from public institutions to private enterprise from academics to students being itself a structured repository the search engine is designed for advanced queries (e.g. technological solutions, scientific outcomes, social frameworks, etc.) with pertinent answers and targeted links in a time/effective cost/effective approach

aquenergy zuanelli Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment site and relevant links acquisition management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain links cataloguing and correlation

aquenergy zuanelli Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment site and relevant links acquisition management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain links cataloguing and correlation

aquenergy zuanelli Activities a) analysis of sources, format and contents b) checking of the quality of sources and contents c) definition of categorial/relational schemes d) design of the overall system e) development of the domain ontology f) thematic-functional modelling and structure of the platform

aquenergy zuanelli A portal for thematic searches Minimalistic interface Three search types Categories Engines Sites

aquenergy zuanelli Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

aquenergy zuanelli Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

aquenergy zuanelli Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

aquenergy zuanelli Functionalities Search categories Search engines Professionals Institutions Thematic Seach sites

aquenergy zuanelli Why it is different Categories Subcategories Data Institution cards Related data Data belong to one or more categories Search on categories (not text)

aquenergy zuanelli Institution card...

aquenergy zuanelli … Institution card Institution / site informations Acronym Short description Long description Hyperlink Related data Activities Documents … Hyperlinks in related data

aquenergy zuanelli Activity card...

aquenergy zuanelli Activity card...

aquenergy zuanelli … Activity card Related data card (activity) Acronym Short description Long description Hyperlink Hyperlink to belonging institution

aquenergy zuanelli Technologies used Python Django PostgreSQL

aquenergy zuanelli OpenID: authentication of users to manage the private parts of the site. Value-added services can be offered to selected users Liferay: Content Management System (CMS) based on Java that allows for the management of multilingual content. This will allow research in different languages Norconex-collector: a crawler to gather and filter content from Internet Solr: a standard search platform used to store the crawled data forming the feed base for the Aquenergy engine MapServer: Server of geographic data that enables the generation of multi-layer maps to aggregate information of interest. For example, it may show a map representing information on power lines, roads and cities The additional technologies that could be integrated in later versions and their features

aquenergy zuanelli Next version New three stage architecture

aquenergy zuanelli Next version technologies Liferay Solr Norconex-collector

aquenergy zuanelli Next version technologies OpenID MapServer

aquenergy zuanelli Search companies Companies showcase and marketplace

aquenergy zuanelli Search by category Water activities Water use

aquenergy zuanelli Search companies Consultancies companies

aquenergy zuanelli Search companies Company card

aquenergy zuanelli Search companies Name – Abbreviation - URL

aquenergy zuanelli Search companies Companies by location

aquenergy zuanelli Conclusions Intelligent search category based Search on category definition not on the data text All data are categorized Organized data: institutions – related data Direct links: related data belong to an institution Reverse links: institution points to related data Every element has a hyperlink to the original data