- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
Download data is being logged by every repository as a by-product of the Web requests they receive. This raw data is being and turned into useful download statistics for individual papers and users by a few institutional repositories (e.g. University of Tasmania, Southampton University), thematic repositories (e.g. RePEc) and OAI services (e.g. Citebase). However, there is no consensus over what data needs to be collected, what filtering mechanisms are appropriate, and what analyses are useful for academics in various disciplines. To create effective research statistics services, an interoperable usage statistics service will be created for all OAI-PMH-compliant repositories. This project will investigate the requirements for UK and international stakeholders and build generic collection and distribution software for all IRs. The approach will be demonstrated by a pilot statistics analysis service modelled as an OAI service provider. Working with partners experienced in analysis of usage statistics for electronic documents, and an international consultative committee of key OAI archive and service managers, the principal deliverables will be:
- An API for gathering download data implemented for common IR platforms
- A set of agreed standards defining the basis for measuring and reporting usage of materials deposited in IRs and aggregated with data from other sources where such materials can be found.
Primary investigators
Partners
- Key Perspectives Ltd
- Arthur Sale, U Tasmania
- David Goodman, Long Island U
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
This project will address the area of interactions between repositories of primary research data, the laboratory environment in which they operate and repositories of research publications into which they ultimately feed (through documented interpretation and analysis of the results and in explicit linking and citation of the data sets). It will develop prototype services and tools to address the issues of working with, disseminating and reporting on experimental data. In collaboration with scientific equipment manufacturers the project will develop methods to make raw experimental data available and richly annotated with metadata, as it is generated in the laboratory. The possibilities for aggregating heterogeneous raw experimental data from different sources and experiments, via effective management of the repository for the laboratory, will also be explored and prototype tools developed to enable, manipulate and derive reports for publication purposes. It will also engage in discussions with publishers and societies to determine anticipated requirements.
Primary investigators
- Les Carr
- Jeremy Frey
- Simon Coles
Secondary investigators
- aw1
- tmb
- Date:
- 2004-2005
- Theme:
- Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
Semantic integration has become a much-debated topic and it is viewed as a solution provider in both industrial and academic settings. As systems become more distributed and disparate within and across organisational boundaries and market segments, there is a need to preserve the meaning of concepts used in everyday transactions of information sharing. The emergence of the Semantic Web, and its anticipated industrial uptake in the years to come, has made these transactions, arguably, easier to implement and deploy on a large scale in a distributed environment like the Internet. However, at the same time it poses some interesting challenges. For instance, we observe that the demand for knowledge sharing has outstripped the current supply. Moreover, even when knowledge sharing is feasible, this is only within the boundaries of a specific system, when certain assumptions hold, and within a specific domain. The reason for this shortcoming is, probably, the very environment and technologies that created a high demand for sharing: the more ontologies are being deployed on the Semantic Web, the higher the demand to share them for the benefits of knowledge sharing to achieve semantic integration.
CROSI, which stands for (C)apturing, (R)epresenting, and (O)perationalising (S)emantic (I)ntegration aims to overcome these problems by working on a systematic approach to semantic integration which will enable us to: (a) capture and expose semantics, (b) codify them in knowledge representation formats, and (c) operationalise them for the benefit of integration. Our experience in this area draws upon existing and ongoing work under the AKT project in the area of ontology mapping.
Primary investigators
- yk1
- Nigel Richard Shadbolt
- Dave Reynolds
Secondary investigator
- bh
Partner
- Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2010
- Themes:
- Quantum Electronics and Spintronics, Nanoelectronics
- Funding:
- EPSRC (Platform grant on high frequency Si nanodevices)
Electrodeposition is being used to fabricate magnetic microstructures directly on patterned n-type Si wafers of various substrate resistivities. The Ni-Si Schottky barrier is characterized and found to be of very high quality for relatively low Si resistivities (1-2 Ohmcm with leakage currents order of magnitudes lowe than for sputtered barriers. This shows that electrodeposition of magnetic materials on Si is a viable fabrication technique for magnetoresistance and spintronics applications. This technique will be used to investigate spin injection into Si and to fabricate spin transistors
Primary investigator
- mk09v
Secondary investigators
- mkh05r
- xl04r
Associated research groups
- Nano Research Group
- Southampton Nanofabrication Centre
- Date:
- -2007
- Themes:
- Security & Trust, Interaction, Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Technologies
The projects interests and goals are whether:
- a reader's standing in the community and their trustworthiness in the context of abiding by the communities standards can be calculated by the number of potential paths existent in the web of trust between the reader and the author/archivist therefore
- the community that exists around fan fiction can be used as a way of negotiating access to stories where either the reader has preferences (either personal or imposed) about the types of stories they do or do not wish to view or the writer wishes to restrict the availability of their work.
- That this concept can be implemented as part of a series of semantic web applications which will allow authors and archivists to restrict their work if they wish to while providing readers with a easier way to find the types of stories they wish to read.
The ultimate goals of the project is to provide recommendations relating to the usability of the above system and what services would be most desired for example recommendation systems, rating systems etc.
Primary investigators
- kf03r
- monica schraefel
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Content Based Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Multimedia
The project aims to create a model for marking up media and media content. Old url was http://ontomedia.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Primary investigators
- kf03r
- moj
- Mischa Tuffield
- monica schraefel
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Date:
- 2005-2006
- Theme:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools
- Funding:
- JISC (Reference models)
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigators
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2005-2009
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, E-Business Technologies, Decentralised Information Systems, Artificial Life
- Funding:
- EPSRC
The marketplace is a dynamic place, in which the participants trade their goods and services with an intention to maximise their own utilities. Through such trading highly efficient resource allocations can be attained in dynamic and uncertain environments.
Against this background, this EPSRC funded project (in the Novel Computation call) intends to apply market-based paradigms to the design, control and evolution of complex distributed computational systems. The targetted applications include resource allocation in utility data centres, decentralised control of content delivery and multiple robotic systems. It is a collaboration between several leading UK universities, specialised in economic mechanism design, multi-agent systems and evolutionary computation. Our main role in this project is to devise the participant strategies in response to the resource constraints and the chosen market mechanism. The interactions between various agents, the behaviours that emerge and the approaches to the selection of strategies will also be examined.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Enrico Harm Gerding
- Alessandro Farinelli
- ap06r
- Adam Prugel-Bennett
- Professor Robin Mason (Economics Dept)
- zr
- ab06v
- Edith Elkind
Partners
- University of Liverpool
- University of Birmingham
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
- BAE Systems
- BT Research Labs
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Date:
- 2000-2003
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- Self funded - no external funds requested
Songs and Stories and a Glossary of Phrases of the Hua Miao of South West China.
This electronic archive has been created from documents handwritten by the Hua Miao. The documents were given to the Parsons brothers who were born in South-West China in 1906 and returned there as Methodist Missionaries before and after the Second World War.
The archive consists of over 200 songs that record the early history, aspects of Miao social life and some "narratives", essentially folk stories. There is also a "Phrase Book" here called a Glossary.
The Parsons brothers, using a PC/AT and Wordstar, supplied electronic versions of the documents. The Project involved translating these Wordstar documents (containing many special characters to display the Hua Miao script) into a form suitable for a modern word processor (in the case Word97) and then creating the website using HTML and PDF.
The archive contains a concordance for the Songs and a look-up for words in the Glossary.
Using the special features developed in the Digital Libraries Group it is possible to look at the original hand-written documents.
All the original documents have now been encoded and can be seen in the archive. The project is complete.
Primary investigator
- str
Secondary investigator
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Theme:
- Behavioural Synthesis
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- jg04r
- Andrew Brown
Associated research groups
- Electronic Systems and Devices Group
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering