Gold Sponsor

Digital Enterprise Research Institute

Mission
Enabling Networked Knowledge

The vision of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute is to be recognised as one of the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society.

The success and growth of the Internet and especially the World Wide Web have brought significant changes to everyday life and substantially transformed the way in which business, public, and private interactions are performed. The impact that the Internet and the World Wide Web have had on society can be compared to the introduction of the printing press at the beginning of the modern era. The ability to transmit and store data instantly and with negligible cost has created a universe of accessible information and relationships. Businesses, individuals, governments, science, and society in general are now far more interconnected than they were just a decade ago. This transforms society itself as organisations and communities of individuals are no longer dependent on physical or temporal proximity and coordination.
Information can be exchanged in a virtual space independent of physical and temporal limitations. This wealth of available information and services has produced new opportunities and challenges for society, within Ireland, the EU, and world-wide. The discovery, integration, and exploitation of this humongous amount of information have become important challenges which require scalable infrastructures making the semantics of the information explicit and taking semantics into account in the processing of this information. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is taking on these challenges by defining and executing a research agenda and outreach activities targeted at enabling and supporting people, organisations, and systems to collaborate and interoperate on a global scale using semantic web technologies.
On DERI

DERI is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) established in 2003 with funding from the Science Foundation Ireland.
After more than five years of operation DERI has become an internationally recognised institute in semantic web research, education and technology transfer which directly contributes to the Irish government’s plan of transforming Ireland into a competitive knowledge economy. As a CSET, DERI brings together academic and industrial partners to boost innovation in science and technology, with its research focused on the Semantic Web. In the past five years DERI has developed into an internationally leading research centre, as documented by its large number of high-quality publications in core conferences, outnumbering any other research organisation world-wide in our field of research. DERI has acquired significant additional research funding from the European Union and Enterprise Ireland, rivalling the amount of the original CSET grant.
DERI has attracted companies to set up subsidiaries in Galway, for example, Cyntelix, which provides the seed for the Silicon Valley inspired “DERI Land”, an eco-system of companies and research partners composed around DERI know-how and technologies, which intends to transform the region into a technological powerhouse. DERI’s success over the last five years has also attracted further multi-national and local companies which expand its range of core industrial partners from Hewlett Packard to include Nortel, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, Storm, and CelTrak.
NUIG

About the University

With over 17,000 students and more than 2,200 staff, NUI Galway has a distinguished reputation for teaching and research excellence.
Our reputation

NUI Galway has earned national and international recognition as a research-led community with a commitment to top-quality teaching.
How we're unique

At NUI Galway, we have a strong connection to the Irish language. Plus, volunteering and community outreach play a strong role in academic life.
Our history

From Queen's College to National University of Ireland, the University's past is intertwined with the history of Galway and Ireland.
University structure

The three pillars the organisational structure of NUI Galway are {Uacute;}darás na hOllscoile, the Academic Council and the University Management Team
LOD2 EU Project

The outputs of this project will range from sci-tech to socio-economic areas by providing new technologies and an underlying scientific basis for these and by applying these new technologies to a number of Semantic Web areas experiencing commercial (enterprise search, media and publishing), scientific (extraction, interlinking, ontology classification and fusion methods), and sociological (community knowledge, integration in social networks, eGovernment) success at present. The project aims to contribute high-quality interlinked versions of public Semantic Web data sets, promoting their use in new cross-domain applications by developers across the globe. The new technologies for enabling scalable management of Linked Data collections in the many billions of triples will raise the state of the art of Semantic Web data management, both commercial and open-source, providing opportunities for new products and spin-offs, and make RDF a viable choice for organizations worldwide as a premier data management format. The algorithms and (open-source) tools that the project will develop for data cleaning, linking and fusing will help creating and bootstrapping new data sets in domains that go much beyond the direct applications and data sets developed in the context of this project, to reach the overall goal of the project of making Linked Data the model of choice for next-generation IT systems and applications.
Semantic Web Company

The goal of the Semantic Web Company (SWC) is to help to improve the customer's knowledge management & information management. Their methods and tools support analyzing, structuring and linking data from various sources to provide the correct and decisive information in the best possible way and in the right context. Around 20 experts from the areas of knowledge management, enterprise software architecture, search engines, collaboration software, agile web development and - last but not least - the semantic web work together to realise enterprise-ready solutions for their customers. The company is embedded into a network of internationally recognised experts building together a community of semantic web pioneers.
Digital.Me

The use and disclosure of personal information for private and business life is a major trend in information society. Advantages like enhancing social contacts, personalising services and products compromise with notable privacy risks arising from the user's loss of control over their personal data and digital footprints. Large amounts of scattered personal data lead to information overload, disorientation and loss of efficiency.

The di.me project aims at integrating personal data in a personal information sphere by a single, user-controlled point of access: the di.me userware.

This tool shall be a user-controlled personal service providing intelligent personal information management and is targeted on integrating social web systems and communities. It realises a decentral communication to avoid external data storage and undesired data disclose.
Open PHACTS

Open PHACTS (Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) is a knowledge management project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a unique partnership between the European Community and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).

It is a 3-year knowledge management project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative, running from March 2011, and will deliver a sustainable service to continue after the project funding ends. The project consortium consists of leading academics in semantics, pharmacology and informatics, driven by solid industry business requirements: 23 partners, including 8 pharmaceutical companies and 3 biotechs.

The project is on track, with new partners joining the project in February 2012 and an internal prototype to be delivered to the consortium members in March 2012. A public prototype release is scheduled for September 2012.
InES - Institut für Enterprise Systems

Being a central institution within the University of Mannheim, the Institute for Enterprise Systems (InES) works on an interdisciplinary basis across faculties. The main purpose of InES is to actively enhance the valuable exchange between science and practice in the field of enterprise systems. Both, the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg (MWK) and the University of Mannheim jointly initiated the founding of the Institute of Enterprise Systems.