1. SW ACTIVITY IN RUSSIAN
UNIVERSITIES
Dmitry Mouromtsev
NRU ITMO
2. RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN
RUSSIA
• Most of research work are performed by small group of SW enthusiasts, but the
number of supported project is growing quickly.
• Raise of interest to SW in 2013
• The most popular research area in Russia:
✴ NLP and text mining (math linguistic is quite well developed in Russian universities)
✴ Ontology engineering (many project using light-weight ontologies, but few based on
DL and semantic science)
✴ Linked data (applied works using semantic wiki and RDF storages)
• Many (probably most) project are run by students and young researchers.
3. EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN
NRU ITMO
• Linked learning project (started in 2013)
• Domain ontology visualization and graphcal editing web application
(for knowledge engineers and knowledge base access)
• IoT and IoD projects (smart environment, semantic base of food data)
• Open Data for Government (Open Budget of St.Petersburg)
• Semantic search and text mining (scientific publications, eTourism)
• Semantic Data integration of University data
4. POSSIBLE KEYTOPICS OF SW ACTIVITY
IN RUSSIA DURINGTHE NEXT FEW
YEARS
• Open Gov Data (Both Federal and Regional)
• LOD in education
• Digital libraries
6. PAST EVENTS
• 2010 - was planned as local event, but only in two month
people from all around Russia were attracted
• 2011- two events: SW school and the conference
• 2012 - three events (school, hackathon, conference), STi was a
Gold sponsor, the woking language in English. SW school in
two tracks (thanks to Leipzig University and LOD2 project for
support of LD track)
7. KESW 2013
• 3 events during 10 days
• International team and about 50 PC members from all around
the world
• Proceeding will be published in Springer and indexed in
Scopus
• Many participants from outside of Russia
• Industry track (Russian non academic projects will be present)
