The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), based at NUI Galway, has won second place in the Elsevier Grand Challenge, a global competition which invites researchers to prototype tools dealing with the ever-increasing amount of online life sciences information.
Hosted by Elsevier, a global healthcare and scientific publisher, DERI was competing again over more than 70 groups from Universities and Research organisations around the globe.
In its submitted work, entitled ‘CORAAL – Dive into Publications, Bathe in the Knowledge’, DERI developed a prototype to integrate knowledge representation and reasoning technologies in life science publications to better integrate, search and retrieve life sciences knowledge.
Commenting on the win, Dr. Siegfried Handschuh, SFI Stokes Lecturer at NUI Galway and research leader of the Semantic Collaboration team at DERI said, “This is a very significant achievement for our team. Within our research of semantic authoring and publishing, we have been following the general vision of changing the way how science is communicated and published already for quite a long time and Elsevier has provided a lot of real world data for the challenge that can be used to test our tools and make them work better. The contest has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to present our work to an international audience and we very much plan to build on that success”.
Prof. Fionn Murtagh, director of information, communications and emergent technologies at Science Foundation Ireland, who supported the research added, “DERI is making significant strides on researching technologies that will underpin the next generation of the World Wide Web – the Semantic Web. Life Sciences are an important application area for the technologies that DERI is creating, and this win is a great recognition of itsleadership position in international web science research that interlinks technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society”.
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