qualifying Knowledge Acquisition and Inquiry (qKAI)

Keywords: Knowledge Engineering, Open Content, Knowledge Games, Linked Data, Rich Clients, SOA, Social Semantic Web.

Current development and related news can be found in the qKAI blog.

How to utilize Open Content for higher-layered applications?

Open Data and User Generated Content are ongoing trends in the “Social Semantic Web” (s2w) (Wikipedia, Freebase, Flickr, Twine, a.o.). Generic concepts and how-tos for higher-layered reuse of the arbitrary information overload for agile knowledge transfer and learning - mentioning the Internet of Services (IoS) - are not covered very well yet.

For further, directed use of distributed services and sources, inquiry, interlinking, analysis, machine- and human-interpretable representation are as essential as lightweight user-oriented interoperation and competency in handling.

Currently we are developing online knowledge games (following RIA and REST paradigms) as prototypically frontend to embed the Web of Data in learning scenarios.

qKAI application framework

Available open-source components and services for selection, extraction and semantically tasks have to be combined and tweaked with user interaction in an extensible framework – the qKAI-framework - to integrate various sources for knowledge engineering and transfer. qKAI combines Web 2.0, Semantic Web and SOA paradigms to apply and enable the Internet of Services for higher level, user-oriented applications with open access.

Programming concepts make use of JAVA, server-side techniques (Servlets, JSP), RESTful web services and Rich Clients (Flash, Flex3, Actionscript3), handling of xml-related formats (XML, XHTML) and further W3C (Semantic Web) Standards (SPARQL, RDF, OWL, Linked Data). The hybrid data layer also deals with SQL.

Current student theses

Conception and implementation of distributed resource annotation in qKAI
Martin Liro (bachelor thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. K. Schneider, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Design and implementation of a global rewarding model based on classified user interoperation tasks
Nicole Ullman (master thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. N. Henze, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Future student theses

 Further student projects might cover the following areas:

Metadata mining
Resource annotation and metadata analyzes with Aperture

... and further web services and gaming types ...

Finished student thesis

qMAP: Map-based frontend with geocoded knowledge units
Orhan Sarioglu (master thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. N. Henze, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Analysis and extension of interaction with Open Content in the Social Semantic Web
Andelko Jovancevic (master thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. N. Henze, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Design and implementation of personalized search space limitation with Points of Interests (POIs)
W-Mark Kubacki (bachelor thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. K. Schneider, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Specification and implementation of information units in qKAI
Jan Peter Hein (master thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. N. Henze, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Information quality of User Generated Content in Web-2.0-applications
Ashkan Taassob (bachelor thesis)
(First examiner: Prof. Dr.  J. Brehm, second examiner: Prof. Dr. W. Nejdl, advisor: M. Steinberg)

Publications

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"Towards enhanced user interaction to qualify Web resources for higher-layered applications"
In: Proc. DigitalWorld 2010, International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning, eLmL, Neth. Antilles, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3955-3, pp.105-110, 2010.

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"Utilizing Open Content for higher-layered Rich Client applications"
In: International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, nr. 2&3, pp. 303-316, 2009.

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"A hybrid data layer to utilize Open Content for higher-layered applications"
In: Data management in Semantic Web, Nova Science Publishers, volume editors: Hai Jin, Zehua Lv, 2009, to appear.

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"Social educational games based on Open Content"
In: Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), Spain, 2009.

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"Towards utilizing Open Data for interactive knowledge transfer"
In: Proc. DigitalWorld 2009, International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL), Mexico, pp.61-66, 2009.

M. Steinberg, J. Brehm
"qGame: Wissensqualifizierung aus unstrukturierten Inhalten über spielbasierte Nutzerinteraktion"
Konzeptpapier,  März 2008.

Please feel free to contact us for detailed information about student projects and theses.

Contact:

Dipl.-Ing. Steinberg, Monika