Title of the project: IO, TRENTINO, Autonomous Province of Trento

Brief description: The initiative of the Directorate General of the Autonomous Province of Trento, which aims at devising a new model for interaction (communication, engagement, relation management) between the Trentino public administration eco-system on one side and, on the side, citizens and businesses.

Title of the project: Provincial Geographic Database, Autonomous Province of Trento

Brief description: The initiative aims at harmonizing geo-data structures among various departments and agencies of the Autonomous Province of Trento and at enabling automated updates and transversal geo-data sharing across these entities through the provincial (central) geographic database.

Title of the project: LOD4STAT: Statistical linked open data with disclosure control, Autonomous Province of Trento

Brief description: The driving idea of the initiative was that of releasing as much official statistical data as possible on the one side, and to guarantee statistical disclosure control (SDC), on the other side, which is to never release data that allows one to pinpoint information into a single individual or institution. The institute for statistics at PAT was equipped with a system for the SDC guaranteed linked open data publishing to be able to better meet demands of user run-time requests.

Title of the project: Vivi Fiemme-2013, Autonomous Province of Trento

Brief description: An innovation pilot initiative that aims at developing a platform for an enhanced tourist experience management. The pilot is settled in the context of the World Nordic Ski championship of 2013 hold in the Fiemme valley, Trentino. The initiative is articulated into three main directions: (i) WiFi network extension in order to provide tourists with free wireless internet access in the valley, (ii) platform development, which includes a mobile (iOS and Android) app with social networking facilities as well as various services to explore the territory, (iii) organizational impacts that accompany the platform introduction within the event.

Title of the project: Semantic geo-catalogue, European Social Fund and Autonomous Province of Trento project

Brief description: From the technological viewpoint, the goal of the project is to implement a geo-catalog service following the OGC specifications (CSW – catalog service for the web) within the regional spatial data infrastructure (SDI). The semantic geo-catalog is meant to enable the semantic interoperability among various geo-data and geo-service providers.

Title of the project: A strategy for service innovation enabled by information & communication technologies for the XIV legislative session of Autonomous Province of Trento,
PAT deliberation n. 1510 of 7/7/2011

Brief description: The goal of the project was to devise a strategy for service innovation enabled by information and communication technologies articulated into (i) areas of service innovation, (ii) enabling infrastructures and (iii) project initiatives.

Title of the project: TasLab portal, European Social Fund project

Brief description: From the technological viewpoint, the goal of the project is to implement a semantically enabled web portal in order to facilitate the technology transfer among three main innovation stakeholders: final users, enterprises and SMEs, and research centers/universities.

Title of the project: TasLab, European Living Lab

Brief description: Trentino as a Lab is a cooperation cluster whose goal is to develop user-centric innovation and which involves all the three main innovation actors, namely research centers, enterprises and users. This initiative is supported by the local government. The main goal of TasLab is to create an advanced innovation infrastructure capable of responding to present and future user needs, not only from an ICT perspective but also from a cultural and social point of view. The plan is to reduce the digital divide, and at the same time to experiment new ICT solutions, with deep user involvement, all over the Trentino mountainous territory.

Title of the project: eGIF, eGovernment Interoperability Framework for Mozambique

Brief description: The goal of the project is to support the concrete implementation of eGIF in Mozambique, including the production of an eGIF strategic plan, to be instantiated in three years, with indications of concrete steps to be taken in the first year. The plan is articulated in three sub-areas: (i) networking and infrastructure, including also all aspects related to IT security; (ii) process interoperability, including aspects based on service oriented computing and the broad adoption of (web) service technology; (iii) semantic (data) interoperability, as the basis for data integration and content management, based on the broad adoption of meta-data.

Title of the project: OpenKnowledge, EU FP6 STREP

Brief description: OpenKnowledge aims to create a new form of open, coordinated knowledge sharing architecture by focusing on semantics related to interaction and using this to avoid dependency on a priori semantic agreement and making instead semantic commitments incrementally at run time. This will make semantic web communities of practise easier to form and join without pre-engineering. The "Open" in OpenKnowledge thus is significant in two senses: it assumes an open system, which anyone may join at any time; it assumes openness to being joined, achieved through participation at low individual cost.

Read an article on OpenKnowledge in EU ICT Results articles: [part 1] and [part 2].

Title: Ontology Matching

Brief description: We provide a repository of information devoted to different aspects of ontology matching. Ontology matching is a promising solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem. It finds correspondences between semantically related entities of the ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the semantic web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

Title of the project: AIM@SHAPE , EU FP6 NoE

Brief description: AIM@SHAPE aims to advance research in the direction of semantic-based shape representations and semantic-oriented tools to acquire, build, transmit, and process shapes with their associated knowledge. We foresee a new generation of shapes in which knowledge is explicitly represented and, therefore, can be retrieved, processed, shared, and exploited to construct new knowledge.

Title of the project: Knowledge Web, EU FP6 NoE

Brief description: The mission of Knowledge Web is to strengthen the European industry and service providers in one of the most important areas of current computer technology: Semantic web enabled e-work and e-commerce. We will concentrate our efforts around the outreach of this technology to industry. Naturally, this includes education and research efforts to ensure the durability of impact and support of industry.

Title of the project: ACCORD: Harmonizing Autonomy and Coordination

Brief description: We are interested in development of methodologies, theories, mechanisms, and technologies which will allow for a meaningful interaction among information sources (databases, information systems, web sites, file systems, …) within World Wide Web. The ACCORD project is a successor of the C2C project. It comprises the following research lines: peer-to-peer databases (P2P DBs), data models representation language, design and development a platform for semantic matching.

Title of the project: C2C: Coordinating Knowledge Among Peers

Brief description: The project is devoted to the development of methodologies, theories, mechanisms, and technologies which will allow for an interaction of information sources like databases, information systems, web sites, file systems, etc. within a P2P environment.The main approach proposed in the project called Data Coordination. It rejects the assumption, made in previous approaches, most noticeably in data integration that the involved information sources act as if they were a single (virtual) source, for instance modeled as a global schema. Context is used as major conceptual tool for grounding proposed solutions...

Brief description: The project EDAMOK (Enabling Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge) aims at promoting a distributed approach to knowledge management based on the principles of autonomy and coordination.