1. Navigation for the Digital Universe Digital Navigation: Leveraging Semantic Metadata for Discovery and Analysis 4 th Annual Semantic Interoperability Conference for eGovernment February 10, 2006 siderean – of, or pertaining to, stars and constellations

2. 2 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda Intro to Digital Navigation Digital Navigation - building blocks Why bother? …Navigation application case-studies Dynamic Market Intelligence Research discovery and re-use Intelligence analysis Life Sciences integration and discovery Multi-media navigation and play-list composition Demonstrations and discussion

3. 3 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. At The Confluence of several Federal IT Trends: Drive to integrate silos XML adoption is underway Taxonomy & ontology development initiatives Great pressure to understand unstructured information Net-centricity, SOA, Web Services, GIG Lower TCO from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software ….semantic technology entering the picture

4. 4 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Search Obscures Scope and Availability Enterprises have been unable to use search to reveal the full scope of available digital assets Focused on unstructured content, not the full range of digital assets Users are forced to know how to ask for what they want Human insights – which provide context for what information is useful and why - are lost

5. 5 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Navigation provides “A Bird’s Eye View” vs.

6. 6 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Solution: Navigation for the Digital Universe Navigation provides context, revealing the scope of what’s available Once a user is able to see the scope of what’s available: Everything digital becomes equally accessible Users get the big picture and drill down more quickly to what they want Human insight can be leveraged to provide context

7. 7 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Navigation has broad application Multi-Media Navigation Analytics & Reporting Publishing Market Intelligence Intelligence Analysis Research Discovery and Re-use

8. 8 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Semantic Navigation Architecture User Navigation and Tagging Web Browsers Feed Aggregators User Alerts Metadata Aggregator Metadata Store Navigation Web Services CMS DBMS Web & Unstructured Content Web Services Structured Content Data Sources RDF, RDFS/OWL XML, RSS UIMA JDBC Interfaces SOAP services Procedural language APIs Web Browsers RSS Aggregators

9. 9 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Crawler SharePoint RSS Web File System FRED Sentiment Bus Logic Alignment... Collection ReadersAnnotatorsConsumers UIMA management framework for creation and alignment of metadata UIMA compliance offers “plug and play” with 3rd party extraction tools Extraction leveraging existing navigation taxonomies and ontologies Ideal for metadata extraction across large volumes of content Uses valuable content from unstructured/structured enterprise silos and internet UIMA Plug-in Tools... Leveraging UIMA - metadata extraction pipeline

10. 10 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Turning Semantics into Navigation Organized into a unified information architecture… Analyzed to generate contextual views… Presented to show the scope of what’s available Metadata about data and content is aggregated… Term Event Person Place Text View

11. 11 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Case study: Dynamic Market Intelligence Navigational views of content pulled from unstructured & structured, internal & external information sources Alerts & personal syndications on priority market developments Auto metadata generation Benefits: Improved awareness about market & competitive developments, threats & opportunities in a dynamic business environment.

12. 12 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Case study: Research Discovery and Re-use Project information aggregated from numerous NASA and JPL content and data repositories Using and extending existing NASA and JPL taxonomies Benefits: Integration of multiple data silos and taxonomies for precision access across more content *As presented at the Semantic Technology Conference, March 2005 San Francisco, CA by by Jayne Dutra, JPL, NASA

13. 13 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Case Study: Intelligence Analysis

14. 14 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Seamark application start page shows integration of OMIM, GO, KEGG, UniProt and NCBI Use Case: Integration/Analysis for Drug Discovery Simple yet powerful navigation interface Information integration using standards-based metadata (RDF) Speed time to integrate large numbers of private and public databases. Benefits: Greater through- put in experiments con- ducted at reduced costs. Easier info-integration.

15. 15 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. GO2Keyword.rdf UniProt.rdf GO.rdf Keywords.rdf Taxonomy.rdf PubMed.xml Citation IntAct.rdf Organism Enzymes.rdf OMIM.rdf GO2OMIM.rdf GO2Enzyme.rdf MIM Id KEGG.rdf Keyword GO2UniProt.rdf Protein Enzyme ProbeSet.rdf Gene Probe Pathway Compound Seamark Use Case Demonstration: Identification of new drug candidates

16. 16 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Case study: Multi-Media Navigation & Composition Simple yet powerful navigation interface Supports discovery over metadata-tagged video and imagery content Leverages texture, color, content, source, and other textual and visual tags to aid discovery “Playlist” composition Benefits: Easy to use navigation and discovery over multi-media content from diverse sources.

17. 17 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Navigation demonstrations / Q&A Multi-Media Navigation Analytics & Reporting Publishing Market Intelligence Intelligence Analysis Research Discovery and Re-use

18. 18 Navigation for the Digital Universe Copyright © 2006 Siderean Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Who we are: Siderean Software, Inc. Founded to deliver semantic- powered digital navigation solutions to enterprise and e- commerce markets - July 2001 First to deliver a turn-key, standards-based solution for navigation of the digital universe Raised initial venture capital financing - June 2004 Seamark Navigator is a robust 3 rd generation product with Federal reference customers “Siderean Software's Seamark lets a company organize information the way people think—in flexible categories—for easier navigation.” – “What’s the Big Deal: Search engines heat up”, May 2005 “Siderean has pioneered a variety of techniques, including the ability to readily build applications based on RDF and faceted navigation.” – “Siderean aims to make a business out of faceted navigation”, July 2005 “Seamark Navigation Server integrates with current enterprise search, content repositories, document management and Web systems to provide a unified view of information” – “Trend-setting products of 2005”, October 2005

19. Navigation for the Digital Universe Thank You! For more information please contact: Mike DiLascio Siderean Software, Inc. Office: +1 781 652 0339 Mobile: +1 781 354 7663 mdilascio@siderean.com http://www.siderean.com