Solutions for NGOs & Cultural Heritage

Time: 
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 11:45 to 12:45
Place: 
Danube Suite 2

Talks

STIP Compass or how to make the most of analytical surveys

“STIP Compass” the EC-OECD international Database of Science, Technology and Innovation was launched 26 April 2018. It is a joint effort between both the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which provides information on over 7000 policy initiatives from more than 50 countries, collected  through the EC-OECD STI Policy Survey. The EC-OECD STI Survey, is an analytical survey, developed and maintained  in an XML/Triple store, entirely based on taxonomies and completed online using an Open Source application.

Constructing A Knowledge Base For Entity Linking On Irish Cultural Heritage Collections

A known problem for proponents of Entity Linking in Cultural Heritage collections is the poor representation of entities in popular knowledge bases such as DBpedia. This is largely due to the niche nature of the entities contained in these collections. Where such problems arise it may be possible to generate more complete knowledge bases from existing resources used by scholars who specialise in the domain of the collection in question.