{"id":1308,"date":"2026-07-16T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/?page_id=1308"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:59:43","slug":"in-the-quest-for-the-city-of-knowledge-challenges-and-developments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/in-the-quest-for-the-city-of-knowledge-challenges-and-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"In the quest for the city of knowledge: challenges and developments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/stadia\/speakerimages\/2657.jpg\" alt=\"PhD Vanessa Lopez\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD Vanessa Lopez &#8211; IBM Research Ireland<br><small>This event took place on Tuesday 17 December 2013 at 11:30<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Today plenty of data is emerging from various city&nbsp;systems. Beyond the classical Web resources, large amounts of data are<br>retrieved from sensors, devices, social networks or governmental&nbsp;applications. There is a need to make city data easy to consume, but given&nbsp;the complexity of the domain, extreme heterogeneity and diversity of the&nbsp;data, and lack of a priori defined schematas and semantics, this proves not&nbsp;easy task. In such a diversity of information, semantic technologies can be&nbsp;used to transform the raw data into a searchable and meaningful structure,&nbsp;as such improving interoperability and discoverability of datasets by&nbsp;reusing standard vocabularies, linking to external sources and enabling&nbsp;rich queries that span over datasets. The advantages being that they can&nbsp;lower the entry cost by importing datasets as they are and processing city&nbsp;data incrementally (cataloguing, entity extraction, annotation, linking,&nbsp;integration and reconciliation), without the need for global integration,&nbsp;pre-defined schemas, or even linking the entire input, while fully&nbsp;exploiting the Web-wide wealth of resources rich in meaning and structure.<br><br>Please note, that this event will not be available live or as a replay however people are welcome to attend in person if able.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.open.ac.uk\/stadia\/preview.php?s=29&amp;whichevent=2317\">Watch the webcast replay &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/past-seminars\/\">View all past events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-css wp-custom-css-ac9b5317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"Maven of the Month\" class=\"wp-image-537\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/knowledge-media-institute\/maven-of-the-month\/\">Maven of the Month<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are also inviting top experts in AI and Knowledge Technologies to discuss major socio-technological topics with an audience that comprises both members of the Knowledge Media Institute, as well as the wider staff at The Open University. Differently from our seminar series, these events follow a Q&amp;A format.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Vanessa Lopez &#8211; IBM Research IrelandThis event took place on Tuesday 17 December 2013 at 11:30 Today plenty of data is emerging from various city&nbsp;systems. Beyond the classical Web resources, large amounts of data areretrieved from sensors, devices, social networks or governmental&nbsp;applications. 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