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can be filtered by a subject-specific focused browsing. The IDOL
information engineer to reflect a platform is able to generate and
professional focus. present her with contextually relevant
The IDOL approach brings meaning to
Susan notices that the highest- and conceptually similar content unstructured content across a raft of formats,
relevance article (Discrimination of automatically and in real time.
human stem cells by photothermal An additional feature, soon to be
geographical locations and languages
microspectroscopy, with 91.72%) implemented, is for the system to
relates to her area. On clicking it, she identify Susan’s individual
is presented with options for an professional and search profile and so connected digital archive. ultimately into innovation, then this
abstract or machine-driven summary learn to adapt to the particular ways a73 community knowledge support kind of knowledge layer needs to be
view as well as a link to retrieve the in which she looks for information. with meaning-based computing in place.
whole article as a PDF from the technology deployed across the The project also concluded that
institutional repository at the CONCEPTUAL KEY institution. there is a natural complement
University of Lancaster. What the UK Institutional Repository between targeted text and data-
She is also alerted to “related Search project has demonstrated is This extra functionality would allow mining applications within a specific
documents”: what the meaning-based that meaning-based computing can a researcher to see if anyone else area, often drawing from a scalable
computing platform has done is to provide such key benefits as working in a team outside their own and secure enterprise knowledge layer
re-search the corpus of information, conceptual access to all relevant faculty was searching for and able to do the heavy lifting. a73
having understood the context of her content, boosted collaboration and conducting similar work. Web 2.0
initial enquiry and its relationship ultimately a more dynamic and community applications could be Vic Lyte heads up technical
with associated concepts in other responsive knowledge infrastructure. easily linked to this, allowing services at Mimas, and Sophia
papers. She clicks on the link and it While the project experimented researchers to meet up and join forces Jones disseminates Institutional
displays a narrowed result set in with only a few basic meaning-based in a prospective bid. Repository Search activity
which two articles capture her computing capabilities, its academic What a meaning-based computing
interest, both from different focus groups have requested two infrastructure layer can allow a The Institutional Repository Search’s
application science areas from her other key developments that are university to do is to tap into and meaning-based computing
own. Both are contextually relevant achievable by this technology: leverage its existing knowledge demonstrator is available at:
and one is an unpublished thesis, so capital, and refine the alert system for www.intute.ac.uk/irs/demonstrator
she downloads the full PDFs of both. a73 personalised alerts to inform changes in the research intelligence
It has all been achieved without the researchers and academics when environment. If UK universities are to A fuller description of the project is
need to enter additional search terms something of conceptual relevance optimise their capability to discover available on the IRS Project website at:
allowing both serendipitous and is placed in a repository or any knowledge assets and translate that www.intute.ac.uk/irs
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