1. AIFB SemIPort Semantic Methods and Tools for Information Portals Jorge Gonzalez-Olalla Gerd Stumme

2. AIFB Slide 2 Goal: SemIPort objective is to develop innovative methods and tools for creating and maintaining semantic information portals for scientific communities.

3. AIFB Slide 3 Members: University of Karlsruhe, Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) (Coordination) (G. Stumme, Jorge Gonzalez, Nenad Stojanovic) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Prof. Dr. A. Jameson, Eric Schwarzkopf) Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems, (IPSI), Darmstadt (S. Hollfelder, Nitesh Shrestha, Patrick Lehti) University of Trier, Group Data Bases and Information Systems (DBIS) (Prof. Dr. B. Walter, A. Weber)

4. AIFB Slide 4 Work Packages: Ontology-Modeling and Meta Data Standards (AIFB, IPSI, Trier) Scalable Storing, Processing and Querying of Integrated XML and RDF Data Inventory (Knowledge Warehouse ) (IPSI, AIFB) Web Mining and Ontology-based Knowledge Integration (AIFB, DFKI) Visualizing and Browsing Complex Data Inventories (Trier, AIFB, DFKI) Personalized and Agent-based Interaction (DFKI, AIFB)

5. AIFB Slide 5 Content and Structure Mining : Follow-up a previous work within AIFB regarding a Semantic Crawler. Capable of crawling HTML and RDF content. Link the crawler to the concepts and instances of the Ontology.

6. AIFB Slide 6 Server Browser Ontology Manager Usage OLAP cube Content vs Usage OLAP cube Ontology + Knowledge WH Usage Mining, closing the ‘Loop’: Ontology information Ontology Evolution Semantic crawler Other Ontology Management tools HTTP Request Inference Engine … … Web page + Ontology information semantic

7. AIFB Slide 7 Project Management:  Officially started in July 02  Duration : 3 years.  Collaboration with the planned portal of the German Informatics Society (GI).