Contact
Dr. Pierre Andrews
Dr. Università degli studi di Trento - Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza Dell'Informazione
andrews@disi.unitn.it
Via Sommarive 14
Trento
,
38100
Italy
I have joined the KnowDive group at the University of Trento as a Reasearch Fellow to work on a number of issues relevant to management, input and presentation of knowledge within the scope of the group vision.
In the digital age, our records of past and present are growing at an unprecedented pace. Huge efforts are under way in order to digitize data now on analogical support; at the same time, low-cost devices to create records in the form of e.g. images, videos, and text are now widespread, such as digital cameras or mobile phones.
This wealth of data, when combined with new technologies for sharing data through platforms such as Flickr, Facebook, or the blogs, open up completely new, huge opportunities of access to memory and of communal participation to its experience.
The objective of INSEMTIVES is to bridge the gap between human and computational intelligence in the current semantic content authoring R&D landscape. The project aims at producing methodologies, methods and tools that enable the massive creation and feasible management of semantic content in order to facilitate the world-wide uptake of semantic technologies.
The key idea underlying GLOCAL is to use events as the primary means to organize and index media, e.g., photos, videos, news. Instead of starting from media and seeing a posteriori how to describe their contents, we organize a priori our data and knowledge in terms of events and use media to populate them, thus providing their experiential dimension. Events provide the common framework inside which the local experience-driven contextual information can not only be coded, but also shared and unified. Events have a local and a global dimension. The former allows mapping tags (conceptualizations) to media (personal experiences), while the latter allows sharing event descriptions (thus enabling social sharing and networking of events, tags and media) but also event structures across similar events, thus providing a common way to index media (social sharing and networking of event structures). In turn, the networking of events and event structures enables the creation of networked communities inside which common (global) descriptions of the world can be built and continuously enriched by the continuous flow of individual (local) descriptions.