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University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield has been described by The Times as one of the powerhouses of British higher education. The University is a member of the Russell Group, the twenty universities who receive two-thirds of universities' research grant and contract funding in the United Kingdom.
It is a major contributor to research, being the sixth most highly rated research university in the UK. In the latest round of Teaching Quality Assessments (TQA 1993-2001) Sheffield ranked third in the UK for the highest number of "Excellent" rated subject areas. Nearly 75% of all teaching subjects achieved a 24/24 (Excellent) score.
The University of Sheffield is participating with the Organisations, Information and Knowledge Group in the Department of Computer Science.
Contacts:
Professor Dr Fabio Ciravegna
Director of Research and Innovation in the Digital World, University of Sheffield
and
Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies
Organisations, Information and Knowledge Group,
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio
fabio AT dcs DOT shef DOT ac DOT uk
Links:
University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science
Organisations, Information and Knowledge Group
Projects:
X-Media (http://www.x-media-project.org/, FP6-26978) addresses the issue of knowledge management in complex distributed environments. It studies, develops and implements large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed in different media (images, documents and data) and repositories (data bases, knowledge bases, document repositories, etc.). The project is lead by Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, started in March 2006 and will last for 4 years. It has a budget topping Euro 13.5M. 15 partners Germany, Italy, France, Slovenia, Greece and Norway.
WeKnowIt (http://www.weknowit.eu/) is a European Integrated Project on Collective Intelligence funded under FP7. The main objective of WeKnowIt is to develop novel techniques for exploiting multiple layers of intelligence from user-contributed content, which together constitute Collective Intelligence, a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition among many individuals, and that seemingly has a mind of its own.
SmartProducts, an Integrated project funded as part of the European Framework 7. It concerns embedding of proactive knowledge into smart products. Coordinator is SAP, users are Philips, Fiat and Eads. (2009-2012)
SEALS: Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale: an FP7 European Project on Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies (2009-2012
Samulet (Strategic Affordable Manufacturing in the UK with Leading Environmental Technology). This is a £90m research project aiming to revolutionise the lifecycle of aerospace engines to address environmental emissions. We participate in Workpackage 3.7 focussing upon Semantic support for the Knowledge lifecycle. Our group is funded 100% by Rolls Royce to work on visualisation of information and knowledge about the manufacturing process. (2009-2012) .
ArchaeoTool: project funded by ESR + EPSRC on mining millions of grey literature archaeological documents. In collaboration with the University of York, Department of Archaeology. (2007-2009).
