School of Computer Science and Statistics
Many knowledge graphs are not constructed from scratch, but rather are based on the ongoing uplift of data from existing data sources hosted in a variety of diverse data representations (relational data, JSON, CSV, XML etc.). The community has developed specifications that allow engineers who construct and maintain knowledge graphs to flexibly specify what data … Read more
Increasingly Knowledge Graphs are underpinning Digital Humanities projects to support the representation and interlinking of data. For example in the recently launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), the KG of Irish History is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries. Typically these KGs are … Read more
Over the last number of years Digital Humanities projects such as the Virtual Record Treasury (virtualtreasury.ie) have attempted to provide user interfaces for public users to engage with the historical resources that are being digitised at speed and at scale. The focus has primarily been placed on enabling this engagement through website organisation (themes, collections … Read more
Vast amounts of data is being published by governments as open data (e.g. https://data.gov.ie). Typically the decision to publish a dataset in an open manner is mandated but decision made in isolation as to how it could be integrated with other datasets. This research would focus on development of an App/Tool that would bring together … Read more
Containers provide a concept for the deployment and orchestration of micro-services e.g. in deployments using Kubernetes. Embedded systems tend to be based on resource-constrained devices that are limited in terms of resources compared to desktop and server computers but have evolve over time to feature significant resources that may be suitable to implement a form … Read more
Information-centric networking/Named-data networking provides an alternative approach to host-oriented, IP-based communication. Communication following this paradigm directs network traffic to a host that advertises a given name. A number of approaches have been implemented to demonstrate the basic viability of concepts; however, none of these approaches provide observability and introspection as provided by a lot of … Read more
Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. ICN approaches such as Named-Data Networking (NDN) require consumers to express interests for individual chunks of … Read more
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) relies on frequent acknowledgements to drive the progress of transmissions. This approach works well in well-connected networks with connections that exhibit relatively low latency, however, it suffers when the connection between nodes is disrupted regularly or experiences significantly high latency. Delay-tolerant networking attempts to address this issue by introducing concepts … Read more
Information-centric networking assumes that content is the focus of communication and is uniquely named in networks e.g. a consumer asks a network for specific content instead of connecting to the IP address of a specific server. This approach allows content to be cached within the network and network nodes to change their location without affecting … Read more
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