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SUMMARY:Linked Data infrastructures for HE - Thanassis Tiropanis (Universi
 ty of Southampton)
DTSTART:20111110T160000Z
DTEND:20111110T170000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Linked Data provide a pragmatic approach to an evolution towar
 ds Semantic Web vision\; the first priority here is the publication of ope
 n linked data\, which\, in turn\, can lead to the development of more inte
 lligent applications based on the use of meta-data and ontologies. This se
 minar will start by discussing the value of linked data in the UK Higher E
 ducation (HE) sector and by presenting a roadmap of semantic technology ad
 option\, which was developed as part of recent project activities. It will
  subsequently discuss the motivation and the challenges to deploying a HE 
 Linked Data Infrastructure and present relevant work on linked data reposi
 tory deployment in HE institutions and on supporting distributed queries a
 cross such repositories. The Web Science perspective on studying the impac
 t of such infrastructures in HE will also be discussed.\n\nShort Bio\n\nDr
  Thanassis Tiropanis is a lecturer with the Web and Internet Science Group
  at the University of Southampton\, Electronics and Computer Science. His 
 work focuses on linked data and semantic technologies for higher education
 \, virtual communities and social networks. His interests also include tec
 hnologies and infrastructures for communication\, collaboration\, and lear
 ning and he is involved in a number of Web Science and Internet Science re
 search activities. Thanassis has a PhD in computer science from the Univer
 sity of London (UCL). He is a senior member of the IEEE\, a member of the 
 British Computer Society\, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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