A panoramic view on metadata application profiles of the last decade

This paper describes a study developed with the goal to understand the panorama of the metadata Application Profiles (AP): (i) what AP have been developed so far; (ii) what type of institutions have developed these AP; (iii) what are the application domains of these AP; (iv) what are the Metadata Schemes (MS) used by these AP; (v) what application domains have been producing MS; (vi) what are the Syntax Encoding Schemes (SES) and the Vocabulary Encoding Schemes (VES) used by these AP; and finally (vii) if these AP have followed the Singapore Framework (SF). We found (i) 74 AP; (ii) the AP are mostly developed by the scientific community, (iii) the ‘Learning Objects’ domain is the most intensive producer; (iv) Dublin Core metadata vocabularies are the most used and are being used in all domains of application and IEEE LOM is the second most used but only inside the ‘Learning Objects’ application domain; (v) the most intensive producer of MS is the domain of ‘Libraries and Repositories’; (vi) 13 distinct SES and 90 distinct VES were used; (vi) five of the 74 AP found follow the SF.This work is sponsored by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme (COMPETE) and by National funds through Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the scope of the project: FCOMP01-0124-FFEDER-022674.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Folksonomized ontology and the 3E steps technique to support ontology evolvement

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Folksonomies are increasingly adopted in web systems. These "social taxonomies", which emerge from collaborative tagging, contrast with the formalism and the systematic creation process applied to ontologies. However, they can play complementary roles, as the knowledge systematically formalized in ontologies by a restricted group can be enriched by the implicit knowledge collaboratively produced by a much wider group. Existing initiatives that involve folksonomies and ontologies are often unidirectional, i.e., ontologies improve tag operations or tags are used to automatically create ontologies. We propose a new fusion approach in which the semantics travels in both directions - from folksonomies to ontologies and vice versa. The result of this fusion is our Folksonomized Ontology (FO). In this paper, we present our 3E steps technique - Extraction, Enrichment, and Evolution - which explores the latent semantics of a given folksonomy - expressed in a FO - to support ontology review and enhancement. It was implemented and tested in a visual review/enhancement tool. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.1811930Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Unicamp/PAPDICConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)CNPq [CNPq 557.128/2009-9

Abstract Framework For Social Ontologies And Folksonomized Ontologies

Many web-based public repositories are widely adopting tag-based metadata approaches as their main classification mechanism. This phenomenon is fostering initiatives to improve the semantic interpretation of tags, usually involving two main entities: "social ontologies", which emerges from the collaborative tagging (folksonomies), and formal ontologies. In order to analyze and compare these initiatives we present here an abstract framework. It supports our argument that existing approaches do not explore the full potential of the combination between folksonomies and ontologies due to their unidirectionality. The framework is also the basis to evidence that a fusion approach - -as proposed in our "folksonomized ontology" - -enables to better explore the organic semantics of folksonomies combined to the engineered semantics of ontologies. © 2012 ACM.ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)Alves, H., Santanchè, A., Folksonomized ontologies - From social to formal (2011) XVII Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the WebBang, B.H.K., Dané, E., Grandbastien, M., Merging semantic and participative approaches for organising teachers' documents (2008) Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008, pp. 4959-4966. , J. Luca and E. R. Weippl, editors, Vienna, Austria, June AACECantador, I., Konstas, I., Jose, J.M., Categorising social tags to improve folksonomy-based recommendations (2011) Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 9, pp. 1-15. , MarchCattuto, C., Benz, D., Hotho, A., Stumme, G., Semantic grounding of tag relatedness in social bookmarking systems (2008) LNAI, 5318, pp. 615-631. , The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008, Proc.Intl. Semantic Web Conference 2008, Heidelberg, SpringerHeymann, P., Garcia-Molina, H., (2006) Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems, , Technical report, Computer Science Department, Standford University, AprilKotis, K., Alexopoulos, P., Papasalouros, A., Towards a framework for trusting the automated learning of social ontologies (2010) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6291, pp. 388-399. , Y. Bi and M.-A. Williams, editors, Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, Springer Berlin/HeidelbergLimpens, F., Gandon, F., Buffa, M., Helping online communities to semantically enrich folksonomies (2010) Web Science Conference 2010Resnik, P., Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy (1995) Proceedings of the 14th IJCAI, pp. 448-453. , C. R. Perrault, editor, Montréal (Canada)Specia, L., Motta, E., Integrating folksonomies with the semantic web (2007) LNCS, 4519, pp. 624-639. , Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007), Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, July Springer-VerlagSuchanek, F.M., Kasneci, G., Weikum, G., Yago: A core of semantic knowledge (2007) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '07, pp. 697-706. , New York, NY, USA, ACMTesconi, M., Ronzano, F., Marchetti, A., Minutoli, S., Semantify del.icio.us: Automatically turn your tags into senses (2008) First Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008)Van Damme, C., Hepp, M., Siorpaes, K., Folksontology: An integrated approach for turning folksonomies into ontologies (2007) Proceedings of the ESWC Workshop "Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0", , SpringerVander Wal, T., (2007) Folksonomy, , http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html, Retrieved on April, 201

Querying And Managing Complex Data

Advances in models, algorithms and computing power enabled complex network research to be applied in several areas. From social sciences to the internet, from microscopic to macroscopic phenomena, from natural to man-made networks, network analysis have expanded its application scenarios to most areas of human activity. Although research in complex networks has generated tools that cover a wide range of topics, the analysis is still largely restricted to experts and done in ad-hoc settings. Our goal is to develop data querying and management mechanisms for complex networks. We are defining and developing the Complex Data Management System (CDMS), which is intended to provide database-like means to interact with complex networks. Our current query model is based on ranking clauses defined over a Spreading Activation (SA) processing model. SA allows us to compose metrics that can capture several aspects of the dynamics of the underlying network. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.312317321Costa, L., Oliveira, O., Travieso, G., Rodrigues, F., Boas, P., Antiqueira, L., Viana, M., Rocha, L., Analyzing and modeling real-world phenomena with complex networks: A survey of applications (2011) Advances In Physics, 60, pp. 329-412Crestani, F., Application of spreading activation techniques in information retrieval (1997) Artif. Intell. Rev, 11 (6), pp. 453-482Gomes-Jr, L., Costa, L., Santanchè, A., Querying Complex Data, , Technical Report IC-13-27, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas , October 2013Gomes-Jr, L., Jensen, R., Santanchè, A., Towards query model integration: Topology-aware, ir-inspired metrics for declarative graph querying (2013) GraphQEDBTGomes-Jr, L., Santanchè, A., The WebWithin: Leveraging Web Standards and Graph Analysis to Enable Application-level Integration of Institutional Data. Technical Report IC-13-01, Institute of Computing, , University of Campinas, (January 2013

Managing Dynamic Repositories For Digital Content Components

The Semantic Web pursues interoperability at syntactic and semantic levels, to face the proliferation of data files with different purposes and representation formats. One challenge is how to represent such data, to allow users and applications to easily find, use and combine them. The paper proposes an infrastructure to meet those goals. The basis of the proposal is the notion of digital content components that extends the Software Engineering software component. The infrastructure offers tools to combine and extend these components, upon user request, managing them within dynamic repositories. The infrastructure adopt XML and RDF standards to foster interoperability, composition, adaptation and documentation of content data. 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Towards Query Model Integration: Topology-aware, Ir-inspired Metrics For Declarative Graph Querying

Accompanying the growth of the internet and the consequent diversification of applications and data processing needs, there has been a rapid proliferation of data and query models. While graph models such as RDF have been successfully used to integrate data from diverse origins, interaction with the integrated data is still limited by inflexible query models that cannot express concepts from multiple paradigms. In this paper we analyze data and query models typical of modern data-driven applications. We then propose an integrated query model aimed at covering a broad range of applications, allowing expressive queries that capture elements from diverse data models and querying paradigms. We employ graphs models to integrate data from structured and unstructured sources. We also reinterpret as graph analysis tasks several ranking metrics typical of information retrieval (IR) systems. The metrics allow flexible correlation of data elements based on topological properties of the underlying graph. The new query model is materialized in a query language named in*(in star). We present experiments with real data that demonstrate the expressiveness and practicability of our approach. © 2013 ACM.185194Auer, S., Dietzold, S., Lehmann, J., Hellmann, S., Aumueller, D., Triplify: Light-weight linked data publication from relational databases Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '09, 2009Bizer, C., D2rq - Treating non-rdf databases as virtual rdf graphs Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), 2004Blanco, R., Lioma, C., Graph-based term weighting for information retrieval (2012) Inf. Retr, 15 (1), pp. 54-92Blei, D.M., Ng, A.Y., Jordan, M.I., Latent Dirichlet Allocation (2003) Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3 (4-5), pp. 993-1022Brin, S., Page, L., The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine (1998) Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 30 (1-7), pp. 107-117Crestani, F., Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval (1997) Artificial Intelligence Review, 11 (6), pp. 453-482Gomes Jr., L., Santanchè, A., (2013) The Web Within: Leveraging Web Standards and Graph Analysis to Enable Application-level Integration of Institutional Data, , Technical Report IC-13-01, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, JanuaryHassanzadeh, O., Consens, M., Linked movie data base Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009), 2009Ilyas, I.F., Beskales, G., Soliman, M.A., A survey of top-k query processing techniques in relational database systems (2008) ACM Computing Surveys, 40 (4), pp. 11:1-11:58. , OctJensen, R., Silveira, P.S.P., Ortega, N.R.S., De Moraes Lopes, M.H.B., Software application that evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of nursing students (2012) Intl Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 23, pp. 163-171Kasneci, G., Suchanek, F.M., Ifrim, G., Ramanath, M., Weikum, G., NAGA: Searching and Ranking Knowledge (2008) 2008 IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 953-962. , IEEE, AprKimelfeld, B., Sagiv, Y., Finding and approximating top-k answers in keyword proximity search (2006) PODSLuo, Y., Wang, W., Lin, X., Zhou, X., Wang, J., Li, K., SPARK2: Top-k keyword query in relational databases (2011) TKDE, 23 (12), pp. 1763-1780Markovitch, S., Gabrilovich, E., Computing semantic relatedness using wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis (2007) IJCAIMihalcea, R., Radev, D., (2011) Graph-based Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, 26. , Cambridge University PressRodriguez, M.A., Neubauer, P., The graph traversal pattern (2010) CoRR, , abs/1004.1001Rodriguez, M.A., Pepe, A., Shinavier, J., The Dilated Triple (2010) Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies, pp. 3-16. , Springer London, JuneSarawagi, S., Information extraction (2008) Foundations and Trends in Databases, 1 (3), pp. 261-377Varadarajan, R., Hristidis, V., Raschid, L., Vidal, M.-E., Ibáñez, L.D., Rodríguez-Drumond, H., Flexible and efficient querying and ranking on hyperlinked data sources (2009) EDBT, pp. 553-564Weikum, G., Kasneci, G., Ramanath, M., Suchanek, F., Database and information-retrieval methods for knowledge discovery (2009) Communications of the ACM, 52 (4), pp. 56-64. , apr 2009, AprWhite, S., Smyth, P., Algorithms for estimating relative importance in networks Proc of SIGKDD, 200

Semantic Annotation Pattern For Coding And Its Application In Component Development

Source code annotations have an important role in software development. Structured annotations - those that follow building schemes- provide extra semantics to the code and are suitable for the automatization of complementary development tasks. There are recent initiatives towards interrelating annotations and ontologies, expanding their expressiveness and interoperability. In this paper we propose a new strategy based on meta-annotations to support structured annotations implicitly related to ontologies. It systematizes and simplifies the process of semantically annotating code, since programmers can use annotations without knowing details of the involved ontologies. 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Towards Adapting Scientific Workflow Systems To Healthcare Planning

Healthcare and research environments have common characteristics and needs, such as managing people and resources, planning and conducting distributed activities, event-sensitive and monitoring processes. There are several examples in which Workflow Management Systems can aid healthcare management, systematizing, logging and automating activities. In this work we propose a context-driven approach to produce health workflows, which goes beyond an adaptation of workflows tasks to afford health procedures - as proposed in related work - departing from the rationale born from health professionals and materialized in CIG. This paper presents our proposal to support nursing processes through customization of workflows tools using as a starting point a comparative study of systems with respect to features required by healthcare professionals.7584 Inst. Syst. Technol. Inf., Control Commun. 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