Town Meeting Aims Introduce the project and partners Present our baseline technologies Outline current and planned work Understand your perspectives on.

Town Meeting AimsTown Meeting Aims

Introduce the project and partners Present our baseline technologies Outline current and planned work Understand your perspectives on

knowledge technolgies Re examine AKT’s assumptions Instigate the AKTors Club Lay foundation for future possible future

collaboration

ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES

First Town Meeting 18 September 2001

The Institute of Materials, London

AGENDA

09.30 Registration and Coffee 10.00 AKT Overview (Nigel Shadbolt)

A presentation of objectives, project history, partner backgrounds, work undertaken and planned.

Coffee 11.00 Technology Demonstration I – AKT 0 (John Domingue)

A demonstration of the early integration of a number of AKT technologies.

11.30 Technology Demonstration II – Enriched Content (Enrico Motta)

A presentation of tools and methods that illustrate how AKT plans to enrich web-based knowledge content.

12.00 Open Session (Austin Tate and Simon Buckingham Shum)

Discussion of topics highlighted as important by participants and their relation to the AKT project.

12.30 Lunch 13.30 Focus Groups

Small groups discussing issues raised during the Town Meeting and suggestions of ways to interact in future. 14.30 Technology Demonstration III – Language Technologies (Yorick Wilks)

A presentation of the reality and promise of language processing technologies in AKT.

15.00 The Way Forward (Nigel Shadbolt)

Report back from Focus Groups Establishing the AKTors Club

15.30 End

The AKT ScriptThe AKT Script

The background The AKTors The context The challenges The assumptions The technologies The testbeds The AKTors Club

History of the bidHistory of the bid

EPSRC competition for computer-centric IRC’s announced

Outline bid submitted May 1999 Full bid submitted Nov 1999 – 12:120 London presentation Jan 2000 Awarded April 2000 – 4:12 Official start Oct 2000 for 6 years Full amount awarded - £ 7.5 million

The AKTorsThe AKTors

The Universities of Southampton (ECS), Aberdeen (CS), Edinburgh (CIS/AIAI), Sheffield (CS), the Open University (KMI)

Around 36 investigators and reseach staff

AKT: The story so farAKT: The story so far

AKT0 infrastructure built 1st Technical Workshop Jan 01 2nd Technical Workshop June 01 1st Town Meeting London 18-9-01

Context: DefinitionsContext: Definitions

Data – raw uninterpreted bits, bytes and signals

Information – data equipped with meaning

Knowledge – information applied to achieve a goal, effect an action, make a decision

Context: The ProblemContext: The Problem

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge

Infosmog: The condition of having too much information to be able to take effective action or make an informed decision

The deluge of data is overwhelming

Context: AspirationsContext: Aspirations

getting the right information, to the right person/system, in the right form at the right time – the provision of knowledge services

turning information into knowledge in some cases turning data into

enriched, annotated information supporting the knowledge life-cycle

Context : Supporting the Context : Supporting the Knowledge Life Knowledge Life CycleCycle

Challenges: AcquisitionChallenges: Acquisition

Diversity of sources Distributed nature Problems of scale Acquisition rationale and annotation Incidental KA is the Holy Grail

Challenges: ModellingChallenges: Modelling

What to model? How to model? How enriched? How personalised?

Challenges in the K Life Cycle: Challenges in the K Life Cycle: RetrievalRetrieval

Retrieval paradigms Framing queries Scope and extent of search Nature of search

Challenges in the K Life Cycle: Challenges in the K Life Cycle: ReuseReuse

What does reuse mean What can be reused How to identify reuse options How to model/capture for reuse

Challenges in the K Life Cycle: Challenges in the K Life Cycle: PublishingPublishing

Dynamic document/content construction

Richly linked content Integrating authoring, reviewing and

presentation Personalised presentation

Challenges in the K Life Cycle: Challenges in the K Life Cycle: MaintainanceMaintainance

How to capture and model for maintenance?

What model of custodianship? Change control, certification and re-

certification Decommissioning

Challenges to the IRCChallenges to the IRC

Reconciling short, medium and long term

Achieving practical relevance Maintaining quality over 6 years Daring to be “off the wall”

Assumptions: AKT is interdisciplinaryAssumptions: AKT is interdisciplinary

Knowledge Engineering WWW technology and standards Multimedia Information Systems Natural Language Processing Agent Based Computing

Assumptions: AKT meets Semantic WebAssumptions: AKT meets Semantic Web

Assumptions: AKT and OntologiesAssumptions: AKT and Ontologies

Shared understanding or conceptualisation set of concepts (e.g. entities, attributes,

processes), their definitions and inter-relationships

Facilitate communication Normative models…

Inter-operability: Sharing & Reuse Inter-lingua…

Assumptions: AKT aims to provide Assumptions: AKT aims to provide Knowledge Services on the Semantic WebKnowledge Services on the Semantic Web

Content with extensive meta {data,information,knowledge}

Services that exploit this enriched content

AKT: KM and K TechnologyAKT: KM and K Technology

Technology crucial to meet the challenges Technology not 100% of the solution Technology to be usable by diverse

organisations need to understand requirements should not provide monolithic system

Aim to be a research locus for technologies to support knowledge services

Example work to dateExample work to date

Tools and methods to develop, build and maintain ontologies

Services for content annotation Investigating web based inference engines Integration of link services Characterisation of ABus Agents as knowledge services Multimedia KA Knowledge valuation

Challenges Test BedsChallenges Test Beds

AKT – Scientific KM Rolls Royce Aerospace – Supporting

Design, Enriching objects Unilever – Knowledge Auditing UK E-Science – Grid Initiative

Definition of AKTors ClubDefinition of AKTors Club  “Players”“Players”  Those companies who are displaying an active interest in AKT. A named contact Those companies who are displaying an active interest in AKT. A named contact from each company would have a named contact from the AKT consortium. Each from each company would have a named contact from the AKT consortium. Each Player would be asked to produce a web page, which should be updated each year Player would be asked to produce a web page, which should be updated each year in order to remain on the Players' list.in order to remain on the Players' list.

"Audience""Audience"

Those companies who have expressed an interest in AKT but are not considered as Those companies who have expressed an interest in AKT but are not considered as being "active" (ie have not produced a web page).being "active" (ie have not produced a web page).

An annual Town Meeting will be held for the AKTors Club.An annual Town Meeting will be held for the AKTors Club.