[Fiware-data] Asking for help for the Chapter introduction

Guy Sharon GUYSH at il.ibm.com
Tue Jul 5 08:54:29 CEST 2011


This is from B1.1.3.3 of the proposal - I bet some of this could be reused

The current Internet market is a continuously evolving and heterogeneous 
ecosystem. In order to cover all existing needs and pave the way for the 
evolution towards the Future Internet, where customer-tailored goods and 
services will be readily available, the knowledge about users? environment 
and preferences, and the capability to understand the meaning of the 
information exposed or interchanged are going to be critical and 
valuable.. Only in this way it will be possible to satisfy all the demands 
posed by this diversity and create new business opportunities. During the 
last couple of years many services and tools have emerged that are going 
towards that direction. Led by the most relevant players in the IT 
industry they provide new business capabilities, supported for example by 
Social Networks development (as Facebook), context aware applications (as 
Foursquare) or services for indexing and accessing the annotated and 
structured part of the Web (like Yahoo Search Monkey). 
It is now clear that this trend towards exploiting this wealth of online 
data is here to stay and will decisively define the way in which many 
applications will be built in the future. For this reason, FI-WARE Support 
Services will offer generic modules, based on open specifications and 
common standards, which will make this data globally accessible, both by 
subscription or upon request, from any type of application. 
Furthermore, it will also support the new distributed processing and 
storage paradigms emerging in the context of the Internet of Things. All 
these technologies will be accompanied by reference implementations in 
order to help develop new businesses and services based on them. 
Some of the services to be provided by Future Internet applications will 
need advanced data acquisition and analysis techniques. Apart from the 
streams of data coming from the Internet of Things (e.g. sensor data), 
organizing and extracting meaningful information and knowledge from the 
overwhelming, unstructured or semi-structured, user-created content coming 
from the so-called Web 2.0 (social networks, blogs, etc.) is a difficult 
task. Improvements in data acquisition, analysis and knowledge extraction 
and integration from massive amounts of unstructured and uncertain data 
have to be made. The future internet has to provide means to integrate 
this new knowledge with the existing structured information and make it 
available for further search and usage. Thus FI-WARE will apply semantic 
approaches to provide solutions to discover and associate annotations 
between different types of content and data, information extraction 
services, annotation and discovery of news feeds and web content, 
stream-processing algorithms, etc. There is also a clear need to provide a 
reliable and scalable infrastructure to manage and store all the data and 
metadata associated to this data acquisition and transformation process. 
Therefore, FI-WARE will include a distributed and scalable data management 
infrastructure to deal with both data and metadata. 
While semantic technologies are contributing as a key piece to support 
interoperability on the Web, Ontology development tools and frameworks are 
crucial to produce more and more fit-to-purpose ontologies, enabling their 
reusability, and establishing the techniques, models and frameworks for 
supporting more efficient, cost-effective and flexible methods of ontology 
development and customisation. These frameworks should cover a variety of 
improvements like being able to manage networked ontologies in a 
dynamically and modular way. Instead of big, monolithic, unmanageable and 
difficult to map knowledge bases, this type of frameworks aim towards a 
network of modular ontologies linked together that helps bridging the gap 
between different terminologies. FI-WARE will provide this ontology 
development environments and data model annotations systems for ontology 
advanced engineering activities (from annotation, documentation and 
development to ontology reuses facilities). 
Current usage patterns observed on the Internet should be also taken into 
account: several connected devices are used for accessing the same 
application (e.g. Facebook), for providing specific information (e.g. 
presence) during a service interaction or for reaching similar services 
(e.g. address book). FI-WARE Support Services covers the current and 
future needs of data portability and data availability by proposing 
multi-channel data delivery and retrieving (xMS, API, Plug-in?), data 
synchronization mechanisms for bringing coherence between services and 
relevant data storage and annotation for managing the huge amount of 
information. 
Therefore a successful framework for developing a convergent platform that 
supports applications and services can be only reached through enriched 
composition of data collected from a broad scope of data sources. Among 
these, the high volume media data (especially visual data) show a clear 
trend towards higher resolutions resulting in even higher data-rate that 
needs to be handled by the whole process of data collection and data 
processing. 
Privacy and Security issues should be managed through specific tools for 
controlling the type of information that users? want to provide, 
preserving no disclosed data from any type of processing. Additionally 
digital signature or similar mechanisms should be provided in order to 
know the origin/ownership of the data. 
Hence, Support Services will be a component of the FI-WARE platform and 
together with the Apps/Services Ecosystem and Delivery Framework, Cloud 
Hosting, Internet of Things Service Enablement and Interfaces to the 
Network, will offer a complete solution for: distributed massive data 
storage and processing, context awareness management, content indexing and 
semantic enrichment, profiling and recommendation support and event 
processing enabling the implementation of flexible business models and 
allowing user driven process creation and personalization. 

Guy Sharon
Manager
Event-based Middleware & Solutions Group


Event-based Middleware & Solutions

phone : 
+972 4 8296587
mobile : 
+972 54 6976417
address : 
IBM R&D Labs in Israel, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 
31905, Israel
email : 
guysh at il.ibm.com




From:   Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>
To:     "fiware-data at lists.fi-ware.eu" <fiware-data at lists.fi-ware.eu>
Date:   05/07/2011 09:42
Subject:        [Fiware-data] Asking for help for the Chapter introduction
Sent by:        fiware-data-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu



Hi all,

   I have been rather busy with the review of the rest of FI-WARE
chapters but now I'm close to finalize and then I will start with the
integration of the different pieces of our chapter.

   Guy has volunteered to work on the integration of the different
pieces of our chapter in parallel to my work finishing the review of the
rest of the chapters.   Thanks Guy !!

   One thing that I would kindly ask someone else to work is to provide
some piece of text (no more than half a page) giving some sort of
introduction about the relevance of data (including context data) in the
Future Internet, therefore providing some sort of rational for the whole
chapter.   It's just blah, blah to some extend, but question is that all
the other WPs have some sort of introduction like the one described in
their respective chapters ...

   Any volunteer to work on this while Guy is integrating the rest of
the pieces and I finish my work reviewing other chapters ?

   Thanks,

-- Juanjo

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