Ontological Routing & POI linking

RouteYou & iKnowPascal Brackman (RouteYou) & Michael Brands (iKnow)

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“Company information”

Wetenschapspark 1 bus 8/103590 DiepenbeekBelgium

+32 (0)11 26 89 35

info@iknow.be

• founded in 2001 by Michael Brands and Dirk Van Hyfte with the mission to transform information overflow into Knowledge Streaming

• base patent on the core technology granted in 2007, 2 more patents pending

• references in Media (PCS, Concentra, Auxipress) Financial(VanderMolen), Medical (EMEA, Arbo Unie)

• 2008: partnerships with industry leaders, (Oracle, Cronos, TCS)

General positioning

Geospatial information Systems

Content Management Systems

Business Intelligence Systems

TechnologyServices Integration

Semantic middleware

i.Know Engine

file

files

EPR

system

Search

Problem lists

Encoding

RDF

Mash-Ups

Top-down: Bottom-up:

knowledgeknowledge keywords

text concepts and relations

text

detect parts of complex terms immediate recognition of complex concepts as one meaningful unit

need to pre-define complex terms as a whole to be recognised as such

time-consuming

lack precision and nuance

no need for pre-defined thesauri

automatic

precise and flexible

Bottom-up versus Top-Down

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Umberto Eco

• Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another 

(Umberto Eco, 'Foucault's pendulum, p.377)

Link

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Christian Slater (Adson von Melk)

Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is a Benedictine abbey, and one of the world''s most famous monastic sites.

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• What we will do the next 5,000 days of the Web is linking the web with the real world (Kevin KELLY) : The internet of things

(www.ted.com: the next 5,000 days of the web)

The problem/case

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What we solve

We provide places of your interest

We get you there following great paths you like

We give you info of her interest

We let you share your experiencewith others

The problem/case

Routing

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Routing

Routing

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Routing

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How we do that: data

Extending the roadnetwork with extra attributes, information & geometry

iKnow ontology builder

The pompous building near the river is a branch of the National Bank of Belgium. It was here that some bizar acitivity took place leading to the main suspect of the theft of the panel of the “Lam Gods”. Arsène Goedertier, the main suspect, opened here an account a few weeks before the theft.  Only a few transactions were made on this account. The first transaction took place before the purchasing of a typewriter in a shop in the “Vlaanderenstraat”, for almost the same amount as the price of the typewriter.A second transaction took place, just before the ransom would be paid and the exchange of the painting would take place in Antwerp. This never happened and till today, the painting is never found back.

The pompous building near the river is a branch of the National Bank of Belgium. It was here that some bizar acitivity took place leading to the main suspect of the theft of the panel of the “Lam Gods”. Arsène Goedertier, the main suspect, opened here an account a few weeks before the theft.  Only a few transactions were made on this account. The first transaction took place before the purchasing of a typewriter in a shop in the “Vlaanderenstraat”, for almost the same amount as the price of the typewriter.A second transaction took place, just before the ransom would be paid and the exchange of the painting would take place in Antwerp. This never happened and till today, the painting is never found back.

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium

Pompous building

river

nearbranch

is

of

National Bank

of

Belgium

Belgium

Arsène Goedertier

shop

vlaanderenstraat

in

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium

Pompous building

river

nearbranch

is

of

National Bank

of (10)

BelgiumBelgium

Arsène Goedertier

shop

vlaanderenstraat

in

BelgiumRechtvaardige Rechters

stole

is (5)

painting

Belgium

Van Eyck

Painted by

took

carried

What is interesting?

accused of

theft

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iKnow

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iKnow

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iKnow

The ontology building

Concepts

Trainingset

TopicsTexts

TextsTexts

TextsTexts

TextsTexts

ConceptsConcepts

Literature

History

Engineering

ClassifierSet

Ontologies

Persons Time

Galileo

Maeterlinck

Da Vinci

Easter

Monday

August 3

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Importance

# texts

# MM

Length txt

The result

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Thematic maps

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POI model

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POI model

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The most connected get most popular (the rich get richer)

Location links: 8 – Topic Links: 9 - Related persons : 9 Location links: 6 – Topic Links: 5 - Related persons : 2 Location links: 7 – Topic Links: 6 - Related persons : 8 Location links: 3 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 0 Location links: 9 – Topic Links: 6 - Related persons : 4

Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 1 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 0 Location links: 13 – Topic Links: 3 - Related persons : 2Location links: 4 – Topic Links: 5 - Related persons : 3Location links: 1 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 0Location links: 6 – Topic Links: 6 - Related persons : 5

Location links: 7 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 3 Location links: 3 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 4 Location links: 4 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 1 Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 2 Location links: 1 – Topic Links: 1 - Related persons : 0Location links: 2 – Topic Links: 2 - Related persons : 1

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What can we do now

Extending POIs with information, classifying and linking these POIs

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Specific thematic-networks & routing

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How we do that: make the data available

(routes, POIs and networks)

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How we do that: SW & services

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How we do that: SW & Services

Routing Engine with plenty of flavours – try them out on www.routeyou.com or on several of our partners websites or appllications

A few of our partner’s websites & applications

http://www.tov.behttp://www.rvv.be

http://www.nieuwsblad.behttp://www.hbvl.behttp://www.gva.be

http://www.citytripplanner.behttp://www.twente.nl

http://www.fietsactief.nlhttp://www.fiets.nl

http://www.twentejezelf.nl/http://www.vvvzwolle.nl/

http://www.rivierenland.nl/http://www.sallandnatuurlijkgastvrij.nl/

http://www.fietsenwandelweb.nl/http://www.lekkerfietsen.nl

http://www.ulugh.com/

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How do we do that: building and using a community

On www.routeyou.comPassed our 4 000 000 th visitor>10 000 visits /day>1 300 000 pageviews / month350 000 routes / month viewed18 000 routes / month downloaded

Community>15 000 websites plugged in RouteViewer30 000 routes planned via partners / month45 000 routes viewed via partners / month

Architecture

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Architecture of community testbed

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TELE ATLAS ORACLE LBS INNOVATION CENTER TESTBED

SERVICE PROVIDER

END USER APPLICATIONS

Service Provider 3

Access Control and Quotas

OSB/ WSM/ BPEL

SERVICE BROKER

PORTAL

Documentation, Pilot info, Forum, Q&A , ,

ROUTING

DATA

SERVICES

GeoC. Routing Mapviewer WMS WFS CSW

Oracle OGC

WEBSERVICES

DATA

WWW.ROUTEYOU.COM

Registry input

Service Provider 2Service Provider 1 access to3rd party services and content

Registry

acc

ess

3rd

pa

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Se

rvic

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nd

co

nte

nt

Registry Logging

3D CityMap

GeocodingTables

MultiNetRoutingTables

RepositryDirect. poi

DirectoryService

OpenLSGeo

codingRouting

MapViewer

Directory

VIEWER

NTW, POIs

Third party

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The next 5,000 days of the WEB

• We always going to be on it… (Kevin KELLY)