Semantic Content Management enhancements (George Milis, G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd)

1. SEMANTIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT
ENHANCEMENTS
1 George Milis, G.M EuroCy Innovations Ltd
2nd ViPi Workshop
(02/05/2012, Vilnius, Lithuania)
www.vipi-project.eu
511792-LLP-1-2010-1-GR-KA3-KA3NW

2. THE STORY OUTLINE
 The story is about a bookstore in Vilnius that
was selling books of different topics and from
different writers
 Actors:
 Bookstore owner: Ignacijus
 Customer 1: Gabrielė
 Customer 2: Silvijus
 Time: spans from 1999 to 2012
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3. SCENE #1 – AT THE BOOKSTORE IN
1999
 Gabrielė enters the bookstore where Ignacijus
(the owner) is sitting on his desk reading
 “Hi Ignacijus! How are you doing today?”
 “Good morning Gabrielė. Everything is
Fine..how can I help you? Are you looking
for something specific?”
 “Well, I want to read and learn how to use MS
Word..I need it for my job”
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4. SCENE #1 – CONTINUE
 “Ok, Gabrielė…looking at the shelves here, I
suggest you take these two books…”
the first is clear from the title that is
about MS Word, the second not that clear
but should be fine as the first gives
reference to it in the text”
 “Thank you Ignacijus! Let me check a
little bit their content”
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5. SCENE #1 – CONTINUE
MS Word is a text processing tool
that…
Internet Explorer is not a text
processing tool, like MS Word is.
Internet Explorer is a web browser…
 “Ignacijus…it seems that the second book has
nothing to do with MS Word!”
 “I am sorry Gabrielė for the inconvenience…was
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not able to know…I will try to remember it”
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6. SCENE #2 – AT THE BOOKSTORE IN
2004
 As time passed, many more writers were sending
books to Ignacijus store…from journals to comics
to scientific articles to cooking recipes to
academic books…
 Ignacijus was standing sad, as he could not be of
any help to his customers anymore…too much
information to process
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7. SCENE #3 – AT THE BOOKSTORE IN
2008
 Ignacijus was in the process of organising
his store…he bought a computer and also
a furniture for storing card-catalogs
 Then he tagged all books with card-
triplets of the form [subject – property –
object]
and properly filed this tagging…he was now
able to look at the cards and locate any
book to match his customers’ needs
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8. SCENE #3 – CONTINUE
 For convenience Ignacijus used the following
tagging for the books:
 [bookID1 - is about - MS Word]
 [MS Word - is a tool for - text processing]
 [Libre office - has tools for - text processing]
 [bookID2 - is about - Web browsers]
 [Internet Explorer - is a - Web browser]
 …
 [Gabriele – speaks – Lithuanian]
 [Gabriele – prefers to pay by – credit card]
 [Silvijus – has impairment – visual]
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 [Silvius – uses assistive device – keyboard]
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9. SCENE #4 – AT THE BOOKSTORE IN
2012
 Silvijus enters the bookstore and asks for a book
about ViPi mobile applications
 “Hi Silvijus…yes of course I can help
you…let me check my computer and I
will bring you exactly what you want!”
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10. SCENE #4 – AT THE BOOKSTORE IN
2012
 Ignacijus finds in his cards that Silvijus has a
visual impairment, that he prefers to read books
in English and that he is using some assistive
technology with his keyboard…
 So he goes directly on the proper shelf and brings
two books that fit exactly what Silvijus needs and
are also accessible for him
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11. THE STORY OF THE WEB
 Initially the Web was full of static websites and interlinked
pages/documents. Nice!!
 People were searching using keywords and were provided
with lots of results through which they were (sometimes)
able to find exactly what they wanted.
 Lately, the search engines also became smarter and
helped people by learning of links…
 But then social networking sites came, and blogs and wikis
and collaboration tools and…
 They allowed anyone to write and publish content on
the Internet
 The Web 2.0 era…Very nice!!! but
 Too much information and too difficult to search within
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12. THE STORY OF THE WEB
 And finally the Web 3.0 era started where ICT
scientists realized that this huge repository of
content should somehow be organized and tagged
semantically.
 The Semantic Web! The content entities/objects (text,
images, videos, chats, emails, blog posts, etc) is not
thrown in the repository directly, but is first
described with pre-defined vocabularies
 [Subject --Property -- Object]
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13. VIPI UTILIZES THE SEMANTIC WEB
CONCEPTS
 ViPi large repository of Learning Objects (LOs)
 All LOs are semantically tagged with predefined
vocabularies
 [LOid1 – is of type - video]
 [LOid1 – is compatible with impairment - hearing]
 At the same time, all users’ profiles are enriched
with semantic tags
 [User1 – has impairment - hearing]
 [User1 – prefers content of type – image/video/text]
 Searching through the repository and finding the
proper content becomes much easier because of 13
the stored meaning!
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14. THANK YOU!
“There are no disabled people…just societies not
able enough to accommodate their people needs.”
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