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Not only did he release a new album yesterday ("Step Inside"), he's opened for acts like Michael Jackson, The Police, and BB King. Kevin Jenkins is a badass on the bass. "Step Inside" marks his first time behind the mic of a full-length album. Check it out here and see what he has to say about the project and what he wants fans to get out of it.
Q: Describe your sound in three words that begin with an K.
A: Kool, Kinetic, Kaleidoscopic. ( C would have been loads easier.)
Q: You've been an opener for so many icons–The Police, BB King, Michael Jackson. What was that like?
A: Opening for very large and or iconic acts, is at once validating and humbling. You're stoked because you get to be on the same stage with legends,in some cases your idols. At the same time the audience generally can't wait for you to be gone, and for myself at least, that nagging feeling deep down that I will never get to that level of greatness.
Q: What is soul music to you?
A: Soul music to me has changed over the years. When I was a young guy, it was all silky smooth vocals and polished harmonies ala The Tempations, Whispers, Blue Magic and countess other slick boy groups.
Later I liked my soul a little rougher, Otis and Aretha, Sam and Dave, Memphis and Stax. With the progression of time and coming to terms with what honestly moves me, I now feel Soul Music is being made by many kinds of musicians in many different genres. If it moves me, touches me in a visceral way regardless of the sonic trappings, I experience it as "SoulMusic".
Q: What can listeners look forward to with Step Inside's September 9th debut?
A: I hope they will find something "Soulful" to connect with. I have the luxury of being old enough to understand that not everybody's gonna feel this record. My hope is that folks connect with the fact that I genuinely made the kind of music that I want to listen to. A little bit retro a little bit positive message, hopeful and heartfelt.
I guess I will find out soon enough.
Q: What has been your favorite show/venue to play and why?
A: I just recently did a show in Vienne, France at an amphitheater that was roughly 1,800 years old. I was paying bass for Shemekia Copeland who s a fantastic young contemporary blues artist. The venue held around 3000 people or maybe more. The audience had little to no clue who we were, but by the end of the show they were standing and cheering and doing that soccer stadium thing that Europeans sometimes do. It was breath taking and miraculous! It all came down to them being "moved" by the music. I pray that I can experience that with my own music someday.
Q: If you could tour/play with any band (dead or alive) who would it be?
A: Easy. Jimi Hendrix band of Gypsys! Coolest, funkiest, rockinest band I ever heard!
Q: Have any outrageously awesome fan stories?
A: I don't have any for myself as regards my music, yet.
On this same European tour with Shemekia, while in Germany I sat down with a guy who had travelled from like Southern Spain to see us that night. Two days of trains and planes and automobiles.
Q: What is one thing you'd like listeners to keep in mind while listening to your music?
A: Just to hear our band! That we are all connected, that going it alone while a romantic notion, is ultimately a dead end. I'm an optimist, a heart on my sleeve, we are all in this together hippie throwback. It's never too late to step inside the circle.
And if that's too much psycho babble, then I hope they just kick back and groove with me.


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When it comes to world events, family disputes, office politics, etc., we are often quick to take a side, and sometimes very passionately. Once we have taken a side in such an argument it's usually difficult for our minds to reassess, even when presented with new information; our emotional stance can make it difficult to assess (or even want to assess) the situation with objectivity.
But what is the apparent safety of such decided opinions? Why do our minds so easily choose a side, and why do we have an adversity to uncertainty? Cognitive neuroscience may provide some insight.
Different Types of Uncertainty
Decision making is crucial to our survival; it's important that we judge correctly whether it's safe to cross the road, if this fish is still good to eat, or if we can trust that person. According to Hsu et al. (2005), there are roughly two types of uncertain events that we are regularly faced with: risky and ambiguous.
Risky decisions tend to be when the odds are known, and the probability of outcome may be assessed and estimated, e.g. I know I have 10 red cards and 10 blue cards in a deck, so I can roughly guess my chances of picking a blue card.
Conversely, in ambiguous decisions, the uncertainty of the odds creates a difficulty in analysis, e.g. I have 20 cards, but I have no idea what proportion is red, and what proportion is blue, hence picking a blue card feels more down to chance.
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How Uncertainty Affects the Brain
Hsu et al. (2005) found that in the face of uncertain events, in both hemispheres the amygdala (raw emotional responses) and prefrontal cortex (executive function) increase in multimodal sensory stimulation as ambiguity of a situation also increases. Like a pressure cooker, the missing information in a decision that creates uncertainty effectively puts pressure on our mind to seek out more information to inform our decision.
Brand et al. (2006) also suggests that unlike risky decisions, ambiguous decisions often rely less on previous rational feedback from past choices, as well as being more susceptible to emotional responses associated with comparable situations.
This could explain why we tend to repeat the same kinds of arguments with people we have history with: it's difficult for our minds to view each new situation mindfully due to our past emotional responses.
In ambiguous situations, our minds may choose to seek a definitive answer to alleviate this pressure that we sense building. Our mind attempts to balance the discomfort experienced when no clear path is right or wrong, and we are faced with a choice that doesn't involve a binary option.
Watching How Our Minds Seek Answers
A great way to explore this tendency of the mind is to delve into that part of the internet that we seem to love and loathe in equal measure: the comments section! News stories are particularly good places to try, and the more complex the matter the better.
Not only will you find a multitude of arguments and counterarguments, but you'll also be more likely to already have an opinion of your own too. As you read through the opinions, watch what your mind does. Notice any tension that builds when you read an argument you disagree with, or if you find yourself feeling torn between two (or more) different points of view.
The point of this exercise is not to decide which individual is correct in the argument, but to simply become aware of the reactions and pressure our mind presents us with in the face of allowing ourselves to sit in uncertainty. Try to 'surf' the urge to settle on just one point of view. In other words, notice the urge to 'know' what's true, but see if you can ride it out.
Being aware of this rising inner conflict has in fact been shown to strengthen the brain structures associated with executive functioning, and our ability to navigate beliefs loosely, and with more freedom. This ability is a key element to living a more mindful life.
Our ability to form opinions and make decisions is definitely a useful evolutionary tool that helps us navigate our day-to-day environment which can often be highly ambiguous. However, the persistent need to find an answer can indeed produce a fragile perception of reality and impede our navigation of complicated dilemmas.
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Virtual MP3 Player Widget From Yahoo
* The interface between your document and our library is unobtrusive Javascript and semantic HTML: even though our library is Javascript internally, the API is HTML.
* The API is fairly rich. You can set the image we use for album art. You can control the playlist sequence. You can tell us the song title. You can operate in strict mode or quirks mode. To learn more, see How To Link on the wiki.
* We're creating a new generation of playlist technology by turning the page into a playlist. Our player knits all the songs in the page together so that they play one after the other. The result is continuous play within the hosting web page.
* This is different from a badge in that we don't provide the content. It doesn't make sense for these to always be tied together.
* It's different from a normal library in that users don't need to install their own copy. This makes it easier for users to adopt, and it allows us to do ongoing maintenance at web speed.
* If you fool around with the player you'll find that you can click through to a Yahoo! search on the song title. This is a simple and unintrusive way to for us to monetize the traffic, and it keeps our business goals aligned with user needs because the search has to be adding value if we want people to use it.
Free, useful, and paid for by voluntary use of additional services. What's not to like? Besides that Menudo MP3 you have on your webpage. Seriously, get rid of that.


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Write an 800- to 1,000-word paper in which you discuss the value of ratio analysis in decision making for heath care organizations.
Complete the following in your paper:
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PARIS – Valeo SA says it filed for 612 patents last year, 20% more than its average over the past five years and a record for the French supplier.
Valeo says its research emphasizes carbon-dioxide reduction and "the specificities of Asian and emerging markets."
While the supplier does not detail what those Asian specificities are, parts producers in China and India trying to land business with local auto makers generally need to develop simpler, lower-cost solutions for automotive components.
Much of the high-tech thrust of Valeo's research is dedicated to electrifying powertrains.
"This performance…is an illustration of the group's growth strategy based on the development of innovative technologies within a context of major technological change in the automotive industry, particularly in the area of electric drivetrains," Valeo CEO Jacques Aschenbroich says in a statement.
The patent documents are considered first filings, results that generally are published 18 months later.
Valeo says its 612 new patent filings in 2010 place the supplier among the top patent filers from France, which is substantiated by figures from INPI, the French patent office.
A review of Valeo patents published during 2010 – which were filed with INPI mainly in 2008 and 2009 – shows the weight of Valeo's efforts to improve its position as a supplier of electric motors, generators and starters.
Patents cover everything from brushes in a starter motor to a method and device for detecting when a super capacitor reaches the end of its life.
Valeo uses super capacitors to capture regenerative-braking energy in the second-generation stop/start system adopted by PSA Peugeot Citroen this year.
The electric-motor division had 127 of the 755 Valeo patents published in 2010, and the motor-control systems group had another 65.
Heating and cooling engineers filed 191 patents, including systems for lithium-ion batteries as well as for internal-combustion engines.
Valeo lighting engineers had 93 patents published, and interior-safety engineers had 76. Engineers for friction materials, clutches, windshield wipers and other areas accounted for the rest.
Valeo spokeswoman Sylvie Delion says the 612 patents first filed in 2010 are a worldwide figure, including subsidiaries, while the INPI figures for 2010 are French and European and include some patent extensions.
Among the largest French automotive industry figures, PSA had the most patents published in 2010 at 1,365, followed by Renault SA (1,044), Valeo (755) and Faurecia SA (238).


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Rookies will have bad games. If they occur in isolation, then they can be overlooked. When they form part of a larger picture, then they become significant.
There was a popular narrative among many in the media, and among parts of the fan base, that Glennon had "gotten better with every game", at least until the loss last week to the Panthers. Unfortunately, the game film hasn't borne that narrative out; the truth is, Glennon has been up and down all year. After incremental improvement over his first few games, he took a huge step back in the first game against the Panthers. A better game against the Seahawks was then followed by what was, before today, his worst game as a pro.
And here comes the problem: his worst game as a pro was also his first win. That 'W' overshadowed a lot of issues, but there should be no doubt - the issues were absolutely still there. So when he went on to take a notable step forward against the Falcons, going from his then-worst to his then-best game, a lot of people assumed that it was the continuation of a steady trend of an improvement, rather than a one-game turn around. He followed that up with what was an even better game against the Lions.
That put the streak of consecutive games showing marked improvement at a grand total of two, before the wheels fell off in the second showdown against Carolina last week.
Suffice it to say, anyone who watched today's game knows that it replaced the Miami game as unquestionably his worst offering so far. Not only that, but the nature of the poor play is absolutely cause for real concern.
The statline is a very incomplete story, but it does offer some insight. We know the basic statistics: 90 yards on 9 completions from 25 attempts, leading to a completion rating of just 36% and a yards-per-attempt of just 3.6. His ten-yards-per-completion might sound like a more respectable stat - until you realise that, coming into Week 14, the league's worst yards-per-completion (according to ProFootballReference) is Alex Smith. With 10.5 yards per completion. Two touchdowns and two interceptions meant that his passer rating, for those who care about that sort of thing, was 40.4.
Look beyond the stats, though, and we see a worse picture. Those two touchdowns, Glennon should be given credit for. In fact, I'll say that Glennon's first touchdown drive, which saw him go 4-or-4, was a truly, truly impressive one.
But simple maths should already point out the problem: of his nine completions, four came on one drive. In fact, he managed three completions on his second touchdown drives.
To put it differently: in the other 13 possessions the Bucs had, Mike Glennon had two completions.
It's such an eye-opening stat that I'm going to repeat it: in the thirteen Buccaneer possessions that didn't end with passing touchdowns, Mike Glennon had two completions.
The Buccaneers picked up five first downs through the air all game. That's the second week in a row when the Bucs have had only five passing first downs.
League average? 12.5 passing first downs a game.
Oh, and here's Mike Glennon's stat line for the second half:
Five attempts. One completion. LOSS of 8 yards.
The Bucs won today, because the defense played lights out. The offense was atrocious, and Mike Glennon deserves the lion's share of the blame.
"But wait," I hear you cry, "this offensive line has been playing terribly! The Bills have the most sacks in the league! That has to be taken into account."
It's a fair point. The Bucs do face some very fearsome pass rushes this season. In fact, four of the team's final five opponents - last week's Panthers, today's Bills, Week 16's Rams and Week 17's Saints, came into this week as the four defenses with the highest sack % in the league. That should be a tough ask for any quarterback, let alone a rookie.
Two weeks ago, Detroit got to Mike Glennon a whopping 11 times, in the form of 4 sacks and 7 hits. Last week, the Panthers got the young signal caller 10 times, notching up five of each.
Today, the Bucs' offensive line allowed one sack, and one QB hit. Those two 'QB touches', as I like to call them, represent the least Glennon has been touched all season long.
And with the best pass protection he's had all year, Glennon managed to complete 9 passes, or two completions in 13 of his 15 possessions, or a second half of one-of-five-for-minus-eight.
This isn't a bad game. This is a regression streak that has now matched the longest improvement streak of his short career - two games.
He displayed all the poise of a franchise QB during one drive.
He showed an impressive ability to bounce back with a touchdown drive after throwing two interceptions.
He had a would-be touchdown overturned on what was, by the words in the rulebook, a correct call after review.
And in every other possession he had, he gave no sign whatsoever that he is ready to be automatically named the starter for 2014.


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Ahtna Support and Training Services (AhtnaSTS) underwent two performance-based audits at the Port Isabel Detention Center. These audits involved a very comprehensive review of services provided that included security, food services, transportation operations, detainee care and safety, and facility management.
All Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Service Processing Centers are required to be annually audited under the Performance Based National Detention Standards and reaccredited tri-annually under the American Correctional Association (ACA). These audits ensure compliance with nationally recognized standards and define policies and procedures necessary for the operation of programs that safeguard life, health and safety of the detainees and personnel who work in the facilities and programs.
In February, the annual PBNDS audit was performed. AhtnaSTS received a rating of "Outstanding" with no deficiencies, which is the highest rating possible. Approximately 4 months later, in June, we underwent our tri-annual ACA Audit where we received a score of 100% on all mandatory and non-mandatory standards.
In one of our employees' 14 years of Federal Contracting and oversight/management of ICE detention facilities, this is the first time they had seen a score of 100% on non-mandatory standards and the first facility to receive an overall score of 100% under ACA. That is an exceptional score and we are extremely proud of our staff and sub-contractors. The AhtnaSTS Food Service Manager was also acknowledged for the quality of the meals served to detainees and staff.
The PIDC staff's job knowledge, professionalism, and attitudes about their jobs were commended by the auditors and ICE. The auditors more than once stated that our officers seemed to really enjoy their jobs and were individually excited and proud of their work at PIDC.
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Mayor Taylor holds a public office hour at City Hall on Thursdays from 10-11 a.m. in the Mayor's Office near Council Chambers on the upper level of City Hall. Appointments to meet with Mayor Taylor are not necessary. For more information, contact the Office of City Management at 586-446-2305.
Michael C. Taylor was elected to his 1st term on the Sterling Heights City Council in 2009. In both 2011 and 2013, he was re-elected with the highest number of votes, earning him the position of Mayor Pro Tem. Following the passing of former Mayor Notte, Michael was confirmed and sworn-in as Mayor of Sterling Heights in December 2014. Mayor Taylor was elected as Sterling Heights Mayor in 2015, 2017, and 2019 elections.
A lifelong resident of Macomb County, Michael and his wife Christina, moved to Sterling Heights after he graduated from the Wayne State University Law School. Prior to earning his law degree, Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kalamazoo College, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. While at Kalamazoo College, he studied as a foreign exchange student in Oaxaca, Mexico. He is also a graduate of Lutheran High School North in Macomb Township.
Michael joined the law firm of Kirk, Huth, Lange & Badalamenti, PLC as a Senior Associate in 2017 where he continues to represent individuals and families in guardianship and conservator proceedings, probate and trust administration, fiduciary representation and estate planning including drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and medical directives. He also practices in the areas of business planning, mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, commercial transactions and litigation, real estate law and property tax appeals. Michael was admitted to the Michigan State Bar in 2008 and is a member of the Public Corporation Law section of the State Bar.
In 2013, Michael was elected as the presiding officer of the Millennial Mayor's Congress, a regional body of elected officials and millennial aged residents working to bring about regional change through local action. He has served as the Sterling Heights elected representative on the Congress since his election to council in 2009.
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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, is continuing its redevelopment study for sites surrounding the Red and Purple Modernization transit construction project (RPM Phase One).
Because the TOD study is community-driven, we rely on your input. These meetings are the third and final round of public meetings for the RPB and LBMM study areas.
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Et Tu, Lynn Sweet?
Lynn Sweet is from Chicago, where Barack Obama launched and refined his community activist/politician credentials. Sweet writes and blogs for the Chicago Sun-Times, and is one of my favorite columnists/bloggers.
When Sweet asked the now-famous question to Barack Obama last night about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it seemed so out of place. The point of the news conference was health care. Surely, Obama must have expected a sympathetic question from a hometown friend, something along the lines of, "how many children will be saved by your health care proposal?"
But Sweet knew what she was doing. After 45 minutes of Obama's droll droning on about health insurance reform, during which time the reporters barely could stay awake, Sweet waved a red flag in front of a clearly frustrated Obama:
Thank you, Mr. President. Recently Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you and what does it say about race relations in America?
While many people have faulted Obama for opining on a subject about which he didn't know the facts, the way the question was posed made a non-answer almost impossible. The question was not about Gates, but about race relations, something about which Obama frequently spoke during the campaign. While Obama could and should have deferred as to the propriety of the Gates arrest, Obama could not resist speaking about race relations, and thus began his downfall. A news conference about health care became a news conference about race, probably the last thing Obama wanted.
The rest, as they say, is history.
UPDATE 7-27-2009: Incredibly, Obama made his statement even though he had been prepped to give an answer about the Gates situation, so while Sweet may have boxed him in with the wording of the question, there was no surprise on the topic.
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Free Evangelion: 1.0 Screenings in Texas & D.C. (Updated)
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The North American anime distributor Funimation has announced that the Mu Epsilon Kappa—UNT Anime Club will host a free screening of the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone film at the University of North Texas on Tuesday evening. Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Jo is Hideaki Anno and Khara's first part in a four-film remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion science-fiction series. The screening will take place at ESSC Bld room 255 on the Denton campus at 6:00 p.m.
The same film will have another free screening at the Japan Information and Culture Center in the Embassy of Japan at Washington, D.C. on September 9 at 6:30 p.m. The center will also host a free screening of Death Note: The Last Name this Friday at 6:30 p.m. This film concludes the two-part live-action adaptation of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba's Death Note manga.
Evangelion 1.0 had already been screened at Washington, D.C. as part of the Seventh Annual National Cherry Blossom Festival in March. The film's American theatrical run will continue at least through October.
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Update: Funimation Senior Public Relations Manager Jackie Smith explained the staggered theatrical and DVD releases for this film:
EVA is stunning on the big screen, and we want fans to have the opportunity to have that experience. Thus, we are participating in film festivals and are working with theatres across North America to screen this highly-anticipated film. To make that happen, we have to put it in festivals and theatres BEFORE the DVD is released. Festivals enjoy the exclusivity they can offer film fans and theatres, whether they are a huge chain or independent, will only agree to book a film run or screening if the film in question isn't released on DVD within a prescribed window before and after the planned screening.
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I serve as the leader of the first of five themes, on University Learners, for the £20M funded Institute of Coding [5] which aims to increase the number and diversity of computing graduates in the UK as well as enhancing the connection between university teaching and corporate training. Since January 2019, I have played a leading role in the EU funded QualiChain project [6] which has the aim of revolutionising public education and its relationship to the labour market and policy making by disrupting the way accredited educational titles and other qualifications are archived, managed, shared and verified, taking advantage of blockchain, semantics, data analytics and gamification technologies. Until February 2020 I was also a key player in the European Blockchain Observatory [7] supporting the European Commission on road-mapping the future of this technology in a number of key sectors. February 2020 saw the start of a new EU project, DEL4All [8], where under my leadership the OU will aid in road-mapping how education will be transformed due to the impact of blockchains, AI, data and augmented and virtual reality technologies. In 2017 my research in blockchains and education was referenced in the Joint Research Centre Policy Report Blockchain in Education for the European Commission [9]. Prof. Domingue has given many talks on his work including at the Royal Institution in 2018 [10] and at TEDx [11]. Very recently my focus has centred on our blockchain based platform could be applied for COVID-19 Anti Body Test and Vaccination certification which has attracted attention from the media [12]. Last year I became a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association [13]. [1] http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/domingue/ [2] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/ [3] https://www.sti2.org/ [4] http://blockchain.open.ac.uk [5] https://instituteofcoding.org/ [6] https://qualichain-project.eu/ [7] https://www.eublockchainforum.eu/ [8] https://www.del4all.eu/ [9] https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC108255/jrc108255_blockchain_in_education%281%29.pdf#page=66 [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwYDMdji3k [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPefcmWFWyM&t=6s [12] https://blockchain.open.ac.uk/#covid-19 [13] https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/fellowship 4db8d5ea0235da10966c1bd43e0d1c5f8f8ae01e The Open University account for John Domingue jbd2 John Domingue's membership at KMi John Domingue on Facebook John Domingue on LinkedIn John Domingue on SlideShare @johndmk (John Domingue on Twitter) John Domingue's participation in bkd bkd bkd Bayesan Knowledge Discoverer tool BKD is a knowledge discovery tool which can extract reusable knowledge from databases, using sound accountable statistical methods, even when data is missing or incomplete. John Domingue's participation in ENRICH ENRICH ENRICH 1998-10-01 2001-03-31 Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning The Enrich Project aims to develop tools and methodologies for integrating working and learning within knowledge intensive organisations. It builds upon our existing technologies supporting web based collaboration, agents and knowledge modelling. The ENRICH project will foster the use of knowledge-enriched intranets to provide the means for sharing expertise. John Domingue's participation in Virtual Participant Virtual Participant Virtual Participant Tool for monitoring, recording and recognising current topics of discussion The Virtual Participant is an agent that participates in electronic conferences. It monitors the current topics of discussion, and when it recognises a topic that has been discussed previously, for example, in a previous year, it posts a message telling the conference about the previous discussion. The Virtual Participant was first assessed over two years in First Class conferences for the OUBS course B882 Creative Management. At the moment new versions of the Virtual Participant are being planned and developed, to support learning in an industrial setting. John Domingue's participation in Clockwork Clockwork Clockwork Creating Learning Organizations by means of Contextualized Knowledge-Rich Work Artefacts This project aims to support knowledge sharing within distributed teams, knowledge reuse within an organization and collaboration and trade between engineering companies. The Clockwork approach will combine knowledge-rich dynamical simulation tools, formal documentation and informal design rationale to closely integrate working, learning, collaboration and negotiation, within and between organizations. John Domingue's participation in University for Industry Observatory University for Industry Observatory University for Industry Observatory Using KMi technologies for integrating web documents with formal representations of knowledge The aim of this project is to provide an 'observatory' for the University of Industry (learning direct) which collects together related work on distance education. This work builds on a number of KMi projects including the Enrich and KMi planet projects. John Domingue's participation in PatMan PatMan PatMan 1998-01-01 2000-01-31 PATient Workflow MANagement System The PATMAN project aims at promoting an effective and efficient health-care delivery by providing integrated support for tackling medical and organizational issues during patient management. In the context of this project we are developing knowledge management technology to support the formalization and access to documents describing medical guidelines; thus providing a means of teaching healthcare professionals. John Domingue's participation in WebOnto WebOnto WebOnto Browse and edit knowledge models over the web WebOnto is a tool providing web-based visualisation, browsing and editing support for developing and maintaining ontologies and knowledge models specified in OCML. An ontology can be seen as a model of the conceptual structure of some domain and WebOnto provides the means for graphically representing this. John Domingue's participation in PlanetOnto PlanetOnto PlanetOnto Web based news server, which facilitates lab-related items of interest in KMi to a wider community The use of KMi Planet on a day-to-day basis has highlighted a number of knowledge management issues: how to provide semantic search and knowledge retrieval facilities in an effective and sustainable way; how best to provide individualised presentations and news alerts; how best to emulate the behaviour of a newsroom team. To address these challenges we have developed an integrated suite of tools, which is called PlanetOnto. These tools allow ontology-driven document formalization and augment standard browsing and search facilities with deductive knowledge retrieval. In addition, the PlanetOnto architecture includes specialized agents, which provide personalised news feeds and alerts and can proactively identify potentially interesting news items. John Domingue's participation in Ibrow Ibrow Ibrow 2000-02-01 2003-01-31 An Intelligent Brokering Service forKnowledge-Component Reuse onthe World-Wide Web The IBROW-3 project is developing an intelligent broker, which will make it possible to configure a knowledge-based system from software components distributed over the World-Wide-Web. This project builds on our previous work on reusable ontologies and problem solving methods. John Domingue's participation in KMi Planet KMi Planet KMi Planet Online Newspaper KMi Planet is an online newspaper managed entirely by intelligent agent software. The software undertakes the mundane tasks of alerting readers, soliciting, gathering, and formatting stories, integrating these tasks in a compelling fashion with minimal overheads for the in-house reporters and maximal benefit for readers. KMi Planet has been used successfully for a number of years and now contains 100+ stories. A number of customised versions are now running in corporate and educational enviroments. John Domingue's participation in ScholOnto ScholOnto ScholOnto 2001-02-01 2004-01-31 Build and deploy a prototype infrastructure for making scholarly claims The Scholarly Ontologies project is investigating new ways for distributed research communities to track and interpret their literatures. The ClaiMaker system enables researchers to make and contest 'Claims' by semantically connecting concepts. The resulting network of claims and arguments then supports novel forms of literature search and browsing. John Domingue's participation in Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) Synchronous and asynchronous communication medium The Internet Software Visualization Lab (ISVL) allows demonstrations to be staged over the web, providing a rich synchronous and asynchronous communication medium through which student/tutor groups can share and clarify hitherto opaque programming scenarios, even over low bandwidth connections. John Domingue's participation in Internet Reasoning Service (IRS) Internet Reasoning Service (IRS) Internet Reasoning Service (IRS) KMi's Semantic Web Services framework The Internet Reasoning Service - IRS - is a Semantic Web Services framework, which allows applications to semantically describe and execute web services. The IRS supports the provision of semantic reasoning services within the context of the Semantic Web. John Domingue's participation in AKT AKT AKT 2000-10-01 2006-09-30 Advanced Knowledge Technologies The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management. AKT will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining knowledge to publishing and sharing it. We intend to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach, making use of recent developments in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, multimedia and Internet technology. The AKT consortium comprises five UK universities and is funded by a 7M GBP, 6-year EPSRC grant in the context of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations programme. John Domingue's participation in OPAL OPAL OPAL Online Personal Academic Librarian This project is to help digital libraries provide some level of effective automated help desk support outside office hours. The project will put in place and evaluate the helpfulness of a model autonomous help desk support system, which will recognise frequently asked questions when they are asked out of office hours, and will provide the enquirer with help immediately it is needed. The project is being run by the Open University Library and the Knowledge Media Institute, in partnership with Birkbeck College and Leicester University. John Domingue's participation in climateprediction.net climateprediction.net climateprediction.net State-of-the-art simulation of the climate system The climateprediction.net [http://climateprediction.net] is a state-of-the-art simulation of the climate system which runs on PCs. Project participants will be able to download and run different parametrizations of a climate simulation program, thus providing data for studying climate change. The collaborators in this large-scale e-Science project are The Open University, the universities of Oxford and Reading, Rutherford Appleton Labs, and The MetOffice. KMi's role in the project is to develop a robust semantic web portal for the estimated 2 million participants. A mixture of technologies will be used, including integrated discussion forums, a web-based news service, conferencing services and social areas using the latest instant messaging programs. This portal will also use state-of-the-art semantic web technology (developed in KMi) to provide fully customisable 'semantic filters' that can be placed over any web-based document (whether local or remote), and provide the user with the context of identified 'concepts-of-interests'. John Domingue's participation in Magpie Magpie Magpie The semantic filter Magpie adds an ontology based semantic layer onto web pages on-the-fly as they are browsed. Magpie automatically highlights key items of interest, and for each highlighted term it provides a set of 'services' (e.g. contact details, current projects, related people) when you right-click on the item. John Domingue's participation in DOT.KOM DOT.KOM DOT.KOM 2002-10-01 2005-03-31 Designing adaptive infOrmation exTraction from text for KnOwledge Management DotKom aims to support knowledge management within large corporation through a combination of information extraction and knowledge management technologies. A current problem with both of these technologies is that they are hard-to-use and require extensive expertise. DotKom will provide user-friendly *adaptive* information extraction tools which give instantaneous feedback on the current status of the information extraction learning process and the automatically constructed knowledge acquisition mechanisms. John Domingue's participation in DIP DIP DIP 2004-01-01 2006-12-31 Data, Information and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services DIP is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme.The mission of DIP is to further develop Semantic Web and Web Service technologies for Semantic Web Services. DIP will define and implement additional layers of functionality on top of the current Web Service technology stack. Additionally, DIP will apply Semantic Web Services infrastructure to real world scenarios within e-work, e-commerce and e-government. http://dip.semanticweb.org John Domingue's participation in MIAKT MIAKT MIAKT 2002-01-09 2005-03-15 Medical Images & Advanced Knowledge Technologies MIAKT is a joint initiative between the AKT Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) and the Medical Imaging and Signals(MIAS)IRC. The aim of the project is to apply the capabilities of AKT and MIAS to collaborative medical problem solving using knowledge services provided via the e-Science Grid infrastructure. John Domingue's participation in OntoWeaver OntoWeaver OntoWeaver an ontology-based approach to web site design and development OntoWeaver is an ontology-based approach, which provides high level support for web site design and development. It relies on the following major components to achieve its task: i) a site view ontology, which provides fine-grained modelling support for user interfaces and navigation structures of the target web site, ii) a presentation ontology, which provides high level support for the specification of layouts and presentation styles for user interface elements, and iii) a customization framework, which exploits the declarative specification of the target web site and provides comprehensive customization support at design time as well as run time. John Domingue's participation in Living Human Digital Library Living Human Digital Library Living Human Digital Library 2006-02-01 2009-01-31 Technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project LHDL is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. It starts in February 2006 and runs for 3 years. The major mission of LHDL is to further develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus. LHDL aims to create the technical infrastructure for the Living Human Project (LHP). LHP will create a silico model of the human musculo-skeletal apparatus wich can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally, from the whole body down to the protein level. This model should be designed as an infrastructure that can be updated and extended whenever new data and algorithms become available. LHDL aims to develop this infrastructure. John Domingue's participation in LUISA LUISA LUISA 2006-03-01 2008-08-31 Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture LUISA is a STREP Project under the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. LUISA will apply the semantic web service framework, architecture and tools developed with the DIP project, including IRS-III, to eLearning. More specifically, LUISA will create a rich flexible infrastructure supporting the development and reuse of learning materials for both learners and educators. The enhanced architecture will open new possibilities in the automation of learning object discovery, selection, composition and negotiation, within a distributed service architectures seamlessly integrated through ontologies. The longterm goal for LUISA is to shift the paradigm in eLearning from one based on learning objects to one based on semantic web services. John Domingue's participation in SUPER SUPER SUPER 2006-04-01 2009-03-31 Semantics Utilised for Process management within and between EnteRprises Business Process Management focuses on managing the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business expert's process view rather than from a technical perspective. The underlying motivation for BPM is that organizations need to continuously align their running business processes, as executed within multiple heterogeneous systems, with the required processes as derived from business needs. BPM has gained significant attention in both research and industry, and a range of BPM tools are available. However, the degree of mechanization in BPM is currently very limited. The major obstacle preventing a coherent view on business processes is that the business processes are not accessible to machine reasoning. Additionally, businesses cannot query their process space by logical expressions, e.g. in order to identify activities relevant to comply with regulations. Founded on ontologies Semantic Web technology provides scalable methods and tools for the machine-readable representation of knowledge. Semantic Web Services (SWS) make use of Semantic Web technology to support the automated discovery, substitution, composition, and execution of software components (Web Services). BPM is a natural application for Semantic Web and SWS technology, because the latter provide large-scale, standardized knowledge representation techniques for executable artefacts. The goal of the project is to combine Semantic Web services and Business Process Management, and develop one consolidated technology. http://www.ip-super.org John Domingue's participation in GenAI-OU GenAI-OU GenAI-OU Generative AI at the Open University Together with colleagues from IET, LDS and other OU schools and units, we are looking into the ways that Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, can enhance teaching and learning at the OU. Towards this goal, we are developing, testing and evaluating Generative AI prototypes for improving OU module production and for offering personalised learning services to our students. John Domingue's participation in Storymaking Project Storymaking Project Storymaking Project Design and evaluation of a story metadata scheme and annotation environment Stories are our most primitive, and enduring, means of human communication. We are interested in stories as a medium for knowledge sharing amongst practitioners, and from a knowledge media perspective, we are investigating how they can be mediated in new ways via the Web. John Domingue's participation in Hypermedia Discourse Hypermedia Discourse Hypermedia Discourse Conceptual foundations and practical tools at the nexus of Deliberation, Argumentation and Software Our focus is on what we are finding to be a powerful and intruiging intersection: the meeting of Hypermedia and Discourse theory and technology. Our interests are both conceptual, and intensely practical: the co-evolution of digital tools and associated work practices for sensemaking. John Domingue's participation in PowerMagpie PowerMagpie PowerMagpie 2006-10-01 A semantically-enhanced web browser PowerMagpie is a new generation semantically-enhanced web browser, which is able to dynamically identify and bring into a web browsing session any available semantic markup, which can be found on the Semantic Web. In contrast with previous systems, such as Magpie, which can only use information from a specific, pre-selected ontology, PowerMagpie accesses the whole of the Semantic Web through the Watson gateway and intelligently selects and presents to the user relevant information, drawn from millions of existing semantic web documents. As a result, PowerMagpie avoids the brittleness of earlier semantic browsers and defines a novel, very powerful approach to web browsing in the age of the Semantic Web. John Domingue's participation in SOA4All SOA4All SOA4All 2008-03-01 2011-02-28 Creating a Web of Billions of Services SOA4All is an Integrated Project under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. The SOA4All consortium - comprising 17 leading partner institutions from academia and industry - aims at improving the state of the art in Service-oriented Architectures to enable the service-oriented paradigm to be deployed on a web-scale. These ambitious goal will be achieved by integrating and enhancing existing Web 2.0, Semantic Web, and SOA technologies, leveraging current service oriented infrastructures to a Web of Billions of Services. John Domingue's participation in Service Web 3.0 Service Web 3.0 Service Web 3.0 2008-01-01 2010-12-31 Coordinating the research, standardization, and dissemination activites creating the internet of billions of web services. It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address these emerging developments and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their projects, and support the preparation of future community research and technological development. The focus of Service Web 3.0 will be to: <ul> <li class="list"><span class="body">Create, maintain, and publish roadmaps as a means to plan and coordinate framework and community activities for a future service world</span></li> <li class="list"><span class="body">Set-up of dedicated cross-project clusters focusing on Semantic Web Services within STI International</span></li> <li class="list"><span class="body">Provide information material such as white papers, feasibility studies, promotional movies for raising the awareness for the technology in industry, introducing new business models and systematically facilitating Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web technology adoption, in particular for SMEs</span></li> <li class="list"><span class="body">Support standardization activities for semantic service descriptions</span></li> <li class="list"><span class="body">Exploit synergies through networking and cross-fertilization with other research and network projects related to this area</span></li> <li class="list"><span class="body">Organize special focused conferences and seminars</span></li></ul> John Domingue's participation in NoTube NoTube NoTube 2009-02-01 2012-01-31 Networks and Ontologies for the Transformation and Unification of Broadcasting and the intErnet The ultimate goal of this project is to develop flexible/adaptive end-to-end architecture, based on semantic technologies, for personalised creation, distribution and consumption of TV content. The project will take a user-centric approach to investigate fundamental aspects of consumers' content-customisation needs, interaction requirements and entertainment wishes, which will shape the future of the "TV" in all its new forms. "New technology is transforming the TV industry", says Mark Thomson, BBC CEO for Observer. Watching TV more and more happens together with PC-related activities, e.g. chatting with friends, talking on the phone, searching on the Internet for related info about programs. Already in 2000, the trend was by "couch-and-mouse toys serving 27 million Americans who were able to watch TV and surf the Web at the same time - the "telewebbers". Nowadays, digital video-recording software provides the facility to "time-shift" live television programming through a PC (e.g. via TiVo and ReplayTV). Companies are attempting to bundle "an electronic program guide into its software, along with personal viewing agents that can recommend broadcasted programs based on your viewing habits" . For example, while watching "Dancing with the stars", you can vote for your favourite couple, read their biographies, find other programs this week where they appear, record your favourite dances and send them to friends; you can also join live chats during the program. However, "such interactive services stay TV-centric (in the device sense of the term TV) and use Internet and digital technology only to enhance the entertainment that you expect to see when you plop yourself down in front of the tube." John Domingue's participation in mEducator mEducator mEducator 2009-05-01 2012-04-30 Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) aims to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions. John Domingue's participation in SWEET SWEET SWEET Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool SWEET: Semantic Web sErvice Editing Tool is the first tool developed for the semi-automatic acquisition of semantic RESTful service descriptions, aiming to support a higher level of automation of common RESTful service tasks, such as discovery and composition. John Domingue's participation in SugarTube SugarTube SugarTube Semantic Searching Searching for information, data, and multimedia resources that are semantically related is a key feature of future Internet. Today's path to achieving that vision lies through the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud of RDF data. SugarTube (Semantics Used to Get Annotated video Recording) is a Web3.0 application to search for videos through RDF-based annotated video stored as part of the Open University Broadcast Unit's learning material. The fundamental technology used to develop the application is Semantic Web Services. Users can search based on keywords, textual analysis of related documents, URLs, or geographical maps. Moreover, SugarTube gathers more useful data from the LOD cloud to enrich the search results, such as related events, people, knowledge, websites, geo-location, maps, and additional video streams from YouTube, the BBC, and OpenLearn. John Domingue's participation in SEALS SEALS SEALS 2009-06-01 2012-06-30 Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation. The SEALS Platform will provide an integrated set of semantic technology evaluation services and test suites. They will be used in two public and worldwide evaluation campaigns. The results of these evaluation campaigns will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications. The semantic technology evaluation services will initially be available for five different types of technologies (ontology engineering tools, storage and reasoning systems, matching tools, semantic search tools, and semantic web service tools) and for different evaluation criteria (interoperability, scalability, etc.). The platform will provide easy and free access to the evaluation services and to the results of the evaluations performed. John Domingue's participation in iServe iServe iServe Where Linked Data Meets Services iServe is a platform for publishing Semantic Web Services as linked data, no matter their original format. iServe addresses the publication of services from a novel perspective based upon lessons learnt from the evolution of the Web of Data. It transforms service annotations expressed in a variety of formats including SAWSDL, OWL-S and MicroWSMO into what we refer to as Linked Services – linked data describing services – that can directly be interpreted by state of the art Semantic Web technologies for their discovery and further processing. John Domingue's participation in SOFI SOFI SOFI 2010-06-01 2012-05-31 Service Offering for the Future Internet The goal of SOFI is to complement EU R&D projects in the area of Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation (Objective 1.2) through specific support activities. SOFI aims to ensure the position of European research as a leader in the definition and realisation of the theoretical and technological foundations of the Future Internet of Services, as well as European industry's competitive advantage in the creation of value and new opportunities from its use. SOFI will build upon and complement the current efforts around the Future Internet Assembly, and particularly the service related working groups, most specifically the Future Internet Service Offer WG (FISO). John Domingue's participation in Annomation Annomation Annomation Semantically annotating motion video Video is a big part of the Web: we download billions of videos from YouTube every month, stream Hollywood movies and TV programmes, and educate ourselves with iTunes U podcasts. But finding the right video now is a bit like finding the right Web page was back in the 1990s: we are limited to searching the smattering of keywords that occured to the video's creator. Annomation makes it easy for people to add semantic annotations using Web 3.0 techniques: videos, and segments in the video, can be described by links to concepts in DBpedia, the Library of Congress and Dewey classifications, geographical data sets, and other parts of the Semantic Web Linked Data Cloud. John Domingue's participation in SmartLink SmartLink SmartLink SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services Smart Link is short for "SeMantic Annotation enviRonmenT for Linked Services". Simply put, it is an easy-to-use Web application aiding users in the creation of Linked Services - semantic service annotations following Linked Data (http://linkeddata.org/) principles. Amongst other things, it provides an interface to populate and query the Linked Services repository iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk). SmartLink builds on existing technologies and standards to enable wide reach of its annotations. Users can annotate arbitrary services - whether REST-ful or WSDL/SOAP-based - via a simple Web form. Annotations are stored in RDF following established service schemas, namely WSMO-Lite (http://cms-wg.sti2.org/TR/d11/) and the Minimal Service Model (MSM, http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Simple_vocabulary) which follow a light-weight approach to Semantic Web Services. Storage of annotations is spread across two public RDF-stores: iServe (http://iserve.kmi.open.ac.uk) handles all functional properties defined in the MSM schema while an additional and SmartLink-specific SESAME repository hosts further non-functional service properties. A unified interface to store and query annotations across both repositories is provided by SmartLink. John Domingue's participation in Blockchain Blockchain Blockchain The reach of blockchain technology will expand into the education sector. Blockchain is most commonly known as the technology underpinning the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. But in recent years the open source code of the Bitcoin blockchain has been taken and extended by many groups to expand its capabilities. KMi will look at how blockchain technology can enhance the leaner experience, storing all learning outcomes in an expanding eportfolio for all students. John Domingue's participation in VPH-Share VPH-Share VPH-Share 2011-03-01 2015-02-28 Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing for Healthcare VPH-Share will provide the organisational fabric (the infostructure) realised as a series of services, offered in an integrated framework, to expose and to manage data, information and tools, to enable the composition and operation of new VPH workflows and to facilitate collaborations between the members of the VPH community. John Domingue's participation in PlanetData PlanetData PlanetData 2011-10-01 2012-09-30 Large-Scale Data Management The PlanetData Network of Excellence aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web in a useful way, by conducting interdisciplinary research on � the Web‐friendly representation, robust integration, and scalable transmission, processing, and management of stream‐like data, such as sensors, news stories, and microblog entries; � the assessment and improvement of the quality of large open data sets of various modalities, and the augmentation of these data sets with self‐descriptive metadata giving an account of quality and contextual aspects; and � the accountable usage of Web‐based data sets taking into consideration provenance, privacy, trust, and access rights. KMI has a sub-project in PlanetData, called ParkMe: Linked Open Parking Data, which works on a mobile and Web application that combines geographic data and parking space information with user location, social networks and other data sources in order to let its users conveniently find parking and related value-add services when coming to work or driving into town. John Domingue's participation in Linked USDL Linked USDL Linked USDL Linked Unified Service Description Language Linked USDL aims to better promote and support the use of the Unified Service Description Language (USDL) on the Web. USDL is a platform-neutral language for describing services consolidated from SAP Research projects. The kinds of services targeted for coverage by USDL include human services (e.g., consultancy), business services (e.g. purchase order requisition), software services (e.g., WSDL and RESTful services), infrastructure services (e.g., CPU and storage services), etc. John Domingue's participation in OmniVoke OmniVoke OmniVoke A Framework for Automating the Invocation of Web APIs OmniVoke is a framework that aims to automating the invocation of generic Web APIs. It provides a unique entry point for the invocation of most Web APIs that can be found on the Web. The framework abstracts away the heterogeneities of different APIs and consequently eliminates the need for developing a custom tailored client per Web API. OmniVoke relies on non-intrusive semantic annotations of HTML pages describing Web APIs, in order to capture both their semantics as well as the information necessary to carry out their invocation. The framework developed is based on RESTful principles to simplify its use and to adequately exploit the Web infrastructure for scalability. John Domingue's participation in PT Anywhere PT Anywhere PT Anywhere PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface. PT Anywhere offers a network simulation environment via a web interface that can be accessed from any web browser or as a widget inside an interactive eBook. PT Anywhere is based on the Packet Tracer network simulator for Windows and Linux developed by the Cisco Networking Academy. Rather than replicate Packet Tracer's functionality in a web application, PT Anywhere is offering its basic functionality from a minimalistic interface that can be adapted to different learning contexts and purposes. PT Anywhere is available as a widget that can be embedded inside an online course, a Learning Management System (like Moodle or Sakai), or an interactive eBook (like Apple's iBooks). PT Anywhere has been jointly developed by the Open University and Cisco in the context of the projects FORGE and Open Networking Lab. John Domingue's participation in EUCLID EUCLID EUCLID 2012-05-01 2014-04-30 EdUcational Curriculum for the usage of LInked Data As the popularity of Linked Data increases, so does the demand for data practitioners possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to understand its main concepts, and apply the associated technologies for data-analytics purposes. The availability of such expertise is a driver for the sustainable future development of the Linked Data community. It can be achieved through targeted knowledge transfer, in particular through easily accessible training programs addressing the real needs of data practitioners, as proposed in the EUCLID project. EUCLID will facilitate professional training for data practitioners aiming to use Linked Data in their daily work, through a curriculum implemented as a combination of living learning materials and activities (eBook series, webinars, face-to-face training), validated by the user community through continuous feedback. John Domingue's participation in FORGE FORGE FORGE 2013-10-01 2016-09-30 Forging Online Education through FIRE Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) with the ongoing education revolution. This project will specify development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities to learners and to the learning community in general. FORGE relates to communications and IT, as well as to other disciplines including the physical and social sciences. It will lead to a strong connection between the learning community and existing FIRE platforms and supporting tools. The eLearning community will benefit from the use of very high performance facilities, provided as reusable learning solutions. Educators, content providers and students will acquire access to world-class facilities and use them to create and execute scientific experiments. The FIRE eLearning tools and services developed by FORGE, as well as the associated learning materials will be made available as OERs, so that they can be reused and repurposed by the eLearning community for a variety of learning contexts. Finally, FIRE will benefit through the addition of an ever-growing set of FIRE-specific learning materials for an increasing number of FIRE-based students, leading to increased awareness and use. The openness and reusability of FIRE will be promoted to the eLearning community, thus leading to the development of new FIRE facilities and the extension of existing ones in order to address specific learning requirements. John Domingue's participation in CARRE CARRE CARRE 2013-11-01 2016-10-31 Personalised patient empowerment for cardiorenal comorbidities The CARRE project investigates information and communication technologies for empowering patients with comorbidities (multiple co-occurring medical conditions), or persons with increased risk of such conditions, especially in the case of chronic cardiac and renal disease patients. KMi will provide the semantic "glue" linking biometric sensor data, medical ontologies and Linked Data together for patient-focused decision support and medical education. The CARRE project has received a 3-year EC funding from the European Community 7th Framework Programme FP7-ICT-2013 work programme under grant agreement no. 611140. John Domingue's participation in ACQUA ACQUA ACQUA 2014-07-01 Automatic Community-based Question Answering ACQUA is looking at the discretised version of linguistic features of each candidate answer and predicts which answer is going to be marked as "accepted". Past knowledge such as user reputation or future knowledge, such as score of the answers is not taken into account. Hence, ACQUA can predict which answer is going to get accepted in real-time settings with minimum resources. ACQUA makes use of the StackExchange API, fetches all answers and analyses them. Our web service is then highlighting one answer indicating it as the "accepted". This work has been funded by the CARRE project. John Domingue's participation in EDSA EDSA EDSA 2015-02-02 2018-01-31 European Data Science Academy Data explosion on the web, fuelled by social networking, micro-blogging, as well as crowdsourcing, has led to the Big Data phenomenon. This is characterized by increasing volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, originating from sources that generate them at an increasing rate. This wealth of data provides numerous new analytic and business intelligence opportunities to various industry sectors. Therefore, more and more industry sectors are in need of innovative data management services, creating a demand for Data Scientists possessing skills and detailed knowledge in this area. Ensuring the availability of such expertise will prove crucial if businesses are to reap the full benefits of these advanced data management technologies, and the know-how accumulated over the past years by researchers, technology enthusiasts and early adopters. The European Data Science Academy (EDSA) will establish a virtuous learning production cycle whereby we: a) analyse the required sector specific skillsets for data analysts across the main industrial sectors in Europe; b) develop modular and adaptable data science curricula to meet these needs; and c) deliver training supported by multiplatform and multilingual learning resources based on our curricula. The curricula and learning resources will be continuously evaluated by pedagogical and data science experts during both development and deployment. John Domingue's participation in GreenDATA GreenDATA GreenDATA 2015-12-01 Capturing and sharing renewable energy generation data. A new project to capture, store and share power generation and use data from domestic renewable energy installations, including solar, wind and solar/geo thermal sources. We will employ low-cost off-the-shelf systems, such as the emon Pi, to send data to a central data store and allow students and courses to query that data in a wide variety of ways. John Domingue's participation in SlideWiki SlideWiki SlideWiki 2016-01-01 2018-12-31 Large-scale pilots for collaborative OpenCourseWare authoring, multiplatform delivery and Learning Analytics A major obstacle to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of education in Europe is the lack of widely available, accessible, multilingual, timely, engaging and high-quality educational material (i.e. OpenCourseWare). The creation of comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) is tedious, time-consuming and expensive with the effect that often courseware employed by teachers, instructors and professors is incomplete, outdated, inaccessible to those with disabilities and dull. With the open-source SlideWiki platform (available at SlideWiki.org) the effort of the creation, translation and evolution of highly-structured remixable OCW can be widely shared (i.e. crowdsourced). Similarly to Wikipedia for encyclopaedic content, SlideWiki allows to collaboratively create comprehensive OCW (curricula, slide presentations, self-assessment tests, illustrations etc.) online in a crowdsourcing manner: 1. to semi-automatically translate this content into more than 50 different languages and 2. to improve the translations in a collaborative manner and 3. to support engagement and social networking of educators and learners around that content. Several hundred comprehensive course materials are available in SlideWiki in dozens of languages. In this large-scale trial project, we will further mature the SlideWiki technology platform, integrate it with a state-of-the-art MOOC delivery platform and perform four large-scale trials in: 1. secondary education, 2. vocational and professional training, 3. higher education and 4. community-driven open-education. Each of these large-scale trials will be performed with hundreds of educators and thousands of learners in countries all over Europe. A particular focus of the technology development and testing in the trials will be the suitability for academics, teachers and learners with disabilities. John Domingue's participation in Open Blockchain Open Blockchain Open Blockchain Investigating The Potential Of Blockchains A blockchain is a publicly shared immutable ledger � an append only log of transactions which uses crypto-currency techniques to minimise any security risk. Transactions are contained in blocks which are linked together through a series of hash pointers. Any tampering of a block can be detected since the hash pointer to it would no longer be valid. As a ledger system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of algorithmic processes which can result in payment. Small payments can be attached to individual transactions. Consensus on what types of blocks and transactions can be part of the blockchain is automatically reached according to whether the majority of blockchain holders accept newly proposed blocks. This attribute leads to a system where consensus is hardwired into the software. Without the need for any central control or mediator blockchains allow for leaderless democracy - a new way of governing human behaviour online through "one computer one vote". In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organizations. John Domingue's participation in HUB4NGI HUB4NGI HUB4NGI 2017-01-01 2018-12-31 Unlocking the value of the Next Generation Internet HUB4NGI is the first Coordination and Support Action dedicated to transforming the Next Generation Internet initiative into an increasingly dynamic, collaborative, vibrant and participatory Research and Innovation Ecosystem. HUB4NGI aims to offer a collaborative platform capable of effectively supporting and coordinating activities across the whole NGI context by combining knowledge, tools and processes to reach and engage top-notch Internet researchers and innovators. The selected and carefully designed activities HUB4NGI will pursue have been organised around 5 main work packages: the NGI APPROACH, the NGI GUIDE, the NGI CATALYST, the NGI BOOST and the NGI FIGHTER. By close interaction of these activities, HUB4NGI is covering strategy and operation by: Defining a methodology for collecting and assessing the information in the NGI domain. Grounding the NGI vision, strategy and plans. Accelerating the NGI programme implementation. Running community building and outreach activities. HUB4NGI will ultimately help the whole NGI community to grow and liaise with relevant European, international, national and regional initiatives. John Domingue's participation in Institute of Coding Institute of Coding Institute of Coding 2018-01-25 2022-01-31 Unlock your talent The Institute of Coding is a collaboration between the UK Government, more than 60 universities, big players in the tech industry, SMEs, industry groups, experts in non-traditional learning and professional bodies. Led by the University of Bath, the world-leading consortium aims to strengthen the UK's position globally in computing and IT, address the UK digital skills gap and create opportunities for more computer science graduates. Funding is comprised of £20 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and a further £20 million in matched funding from industry. Its work will cover five broad areas: University Learners (led by the OU), the Digital Workforce, Digitalising the Professions, Widening Participation, and Knowledge Sharing and Sustainability. For university students, the Institute will deliver a range of industry-accredited courses that include top quality computer science teaching alongside the business skills, interpersonal skills and real-world experience required for success in the digital economy. Learners in industry will benefit from courses designed to ensure that their skills are up-to-date. The Institute will also work with outreach and community groups, schools and FE colleges to encourage a larger number of currently under-represented groups into digital education. John Domingue's participation in Up2U Up2U Up2U 2017-01-01 2019-12-31 Bridging the gap between schools and universities through informal education The key objective of the project is to bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher education & research by better integrating formal and informal learning scenarios and adapting both the technology and the methodology that students will most likely be facing in universities. We are focusing on the context of secondary schools, often referred to as high schools, which provide secondary education between the ages of 11 and 19 depending on the country, after primary school and before higher education. This initiative aims to respond to the requirements of a clear mandate from the European Commission allied with the provision of new cloud-based tools and services to enhance primary and secondary education in Europe. Up2U is a 36 month collaborative project with 5M Euro funding that kicked off in January this year. This project is coordinated by GÉANT and gathers 18 partners from 12 countries across Europe including NRENs, traditional and open universities, infrastructure providers and two commercial partners. John Domingue's participation in IMPAQT IMPAQT IMPAQT 2018-05-01 2021-05-01 Intelligent management system for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is acknowledged as a promising solution for the sustainable development of aquaculture. However, IMTA has been only tested at very small scale in Europe, while management of large-scale IMTA areas remains difficult. The high level ambition of Impaqt project is to drive a paradigm shift in EU Industry, paving the way to both a more environmentally friendly and more efficient/higher yielding European Industry. To that respect, Impaqt proposes an intelligent management platform for IMTA. Impaqt will develop and deploy novel sensors and data sources, together with smart systems required for long term autonomous monitoring in the field. An advanced IMTA model will be provided which yields spatially explicit information on how the different farm components interact with the environment on the scale of an ecosystem and that can be used for planning decisions by both farmers and regulators. Last but not least, an integrated management system, operating at the scale of an IMTA farm and comprising analytics and decision support functionalities, will be developed to enable enhanced operational decisions for animal welfare, production optimization, environmental protection and food quality assessment. Impaqt systems and models will be validated in 6 pilots (Scotland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey and China), addressing inland, coastal and offshore aquaculture. Impaqt will demonstrate the eco-intensification of EU aquaculture, by demonstrating the eco-efficiency and the environmental impacts minimized, the socioeconomic benefits and ecosystem services enabled, as well as the transition towards a circular economy business model. Impaqt brings together a considerable range of partners including 14 academic/research organizations, 4 SMEs and 3 large industries, all leaders in their respective fields/business, while aims to effectively transfer the project's results to relevant stakeholders through training activities. Impaqt is a Horizon 2020 project John Domingue's participation in QualiChain QualiChain QualiChain 2019-01-01 2021-12-31 Decentralised Qualifications' Verification and Management for Learner Empowerment, Education Reengineering and Public Sector Transformation QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments. The project focuses more specifically on the assessment of the implications (technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural) as well as the impact - in terms of benefits and risks - of the prescribed solution's utilisation, whose disruptive potential lies both in the exploitation of the innovative features of the aforementioned individual technologies, as well as in their unique combination in a new territory for the provision of a set of baseline services (Awards / Qualifications Archiving; Awards / Qualifications Verification; Qualifications Portfolio Management) and a number of value-adding services (Career Counselling and Intelligent Profiling and Competency Management including Recruitment; Competencies Evaluation and Development; Consulting and Decision Support). The proposed solution will be piloted through four representative scenarios: (i) lifelong learning; (ii) smart curriculum design; (iii) staffing the public sector; (iv) providing HR consultancy and competency management services. John Domingue's participation in Peer Miles Peer Miles Peer Miles 2017-10-01 2020-09-30 Recognition and rewards for peer reviewers Researchers spend considerable time in reviewing articles for workshops, conferences and journals. Such efforts of researchers need to be acknowledged, accumulated and incentivised. We are focusing on accumulating the reviewing efforts of researchers across multiple research events (e.g., workshops and conferences), and bringing decentralisation to the process of finding reviewers for research events. We would also focus on developing an ecosystem of research events where reviewers can be incentivised with spendable incentives. For more information, please visit https://peermiles-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/ John Domingue's participation in DEL4ALL DEL4ALL DEL4ALL 2020-01-01 2021-12-31 Digital Enhanced Learning for All The main goal of DEL4ALL is to transform the current European research and innovation initiatives in the area of digital enhanced learning into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, capable of effectively stimulating collaboration among all key players in an inclusive an impactful way. While consolidating outcomes of ongoing projects by analysing best-practice and success stories at the benefit of the whole community, dedicated dissemination and stakeholders' engagement activities will ensure to inject into the broader Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. DEL4ALL will guide the community and its efforts in a forward-looking perspective, analysing challenges and opportunities offered by the increasing adoption of digital technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc., for more inclusive and personalised learning solutions. This will be done by engaging experts in a multidisciplinary perspective to understand legal, organisational and technological defies to overcome, especially to scale up such solutions. This shall be the basis for providing guidelines on future research directions, as well as policy recommendations to transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe. John Domingue's participation in COVID-19 Research COVID-19 Research COVID-19 Research 2020-03-20 A view of our labs response to the pandemic Within KMi we have been shocked and saddened by the devastating impact the global pandemic is having and like many wish to do what we can to help. To this end we have mobilised our knowledge and media research and innovation expertise, to support the Open University's collective response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Our academics are, for example, tracking the extent of false information about the virus so that it can be brought to the attention of policymakers and have developed the world's first privacy-preserving verifiable digital COVID-19 vaccination/antibody test certificate.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rcGVY-XcHWo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> John Domingue's participation in 3D Audio 3D Audio 3D Audio 3-Dimensional Audio Virtual Environments The current state of the art in digital audio and desktop computing means that the real-time generation of rich audio virtual environments (AVEs) is now possible. Work is ongoing towards the application of such AVEs within education, with a key target group being blind students. The overall objectives for the research are: - To provide the foundation scientific and technical research needed to enable the development of a system, for an educational context, that facilitates the computer generation of 3-dimensional AVEs. - To demonstrate and evaluate the application of 3D AVEs in giving access for people with a visual impairment to current and emerging approaches in educational multi-media and computer based learning. <strong>Audio Virtual Environments</strong> Much promise has been held up, and some demonstrated, for the application of virtual worlds in education. The ability to learn through exploring worlds that would be otherwise inaccessible because of their size, location, time-scale or dangerous nature is attractive and offers potential benefit at all levels of education. This has applications in a wide range of subject areas; a few examples could include: - exploration of atomic structures, the solar system, or observation of magnetic field patterns - hypermedia stories and social or language learning scenarios - exploration within the human body, intracellular processes, bio-tech procedures - staged development of practical skills Now if this approach and its associated benefits is to be extended to visually impaired sighted students then the creation of rich audio virtual worlds that faithfully convey what is conventionally offered in the visual medium is needed. There is still much basic research towards the practical implementation of such audio worlds. This is particularly the case as the target is that these implementations will be readily achieved in the classroom or student's home with minimal specialised and only relatively low cost computing and audio facilities. This is the context of an ongoing collaborative work between the Multi-media and Enabling Technology Group at the Open University and the Sensory Disabilities Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire. <strong>Advances in Human Computer Interaction</strong> The creation of rich audio virtual environments also presents the opportunity of realising audio user interfaces with comparable complexity and utility to standard GUIs. Thus the approach holds the potential of enhanced access to the ubiquitous GUI based software for sight impaired computer users. Thus the work has implications far beyond educational applications of virtual environments. The researchers maintain that is not appropriate to just translate the metaphors common in GUIs (i.e. the desk top/office metaphor spatially arranged according to the limits of the VDU) to an audio representation of the same. Vision is a spatially dominant sense, where as hearing is predominantly temporal and the spatial acuity of the 2 modalities is very different. Recognising these issues empirical work is to be undertaken to evaluate alternative metaphors with the aim of improving the human computer interaction especially for visually impaired people. John Domingue's participation in AI4EDI AI4EDI AI4EDI AI technologies to tackle EDI related issues AI is here. We interact with AI technology every time we search online, interact on a social media platform or use a credit card. We know that AI can be a force for good, for example, OU Analyse uses machine learning to help identify students at risk of failing. Given the ubiquity of this technology, it is important though that we understand its potential impact, good and bad, for all users. Within AI4EDI we will highlight EDI issues related to AI research and innovation. In particular, how AI can help address EDI issues, such as the awarding gap for black students, and EDI challenges that can be present in AI systems, such as data and decision-making bias. John Domingue's participation in OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain OpenSTEM Africa Blockchain 2021-09-01 2022-07-31 Leveraging Blockchain for OpenSTEM Africa This project, led by WELS and funded by HEIF, is developing a business case and implementation model which leverages blockchain capacity to create a smart and sustainable future for OpenSTEM Africa, BlueScreenIT's education offerings and explores the wider potential for this model across the Open University. The key project objectives are to work collaboratively with BluescreenIT to: - keep track of existing patterns of OpenSTEM resource use to understand actual and potential demand better - monetise where appropriate additional delivery to ensure both sustainability and expanded project reach - validate the integrity of high value Open Educational Resources (OER) such as onscreen science applications - use blockchain to feasibly manage existing and expanded delivery in diverse and complex educational contexts by reducing the administrative cost and overheads through the use of smart contracts and other measures - use blockchain (particularly through the use of smart contracts) to monitor and manage expansions of both existing content and platform usage to allow a wider range of users to access and benefit from this content in new creative ways. In particular, use blockchain to facilitate opportunities to licence and appropriately charge for educational resources to be used on various platforms - integrate this business case and implementation model with relationships in developing countries and organisations and foundations involved in international development - use this expansion of provision to facilitate wider additional sales such as activities and CPD training - use this business case and implementation model as a template for other projects in BluescreenIT, WELS, STEM and across the Open University as a whole - be consistent with the ethics around the use of OER whilst recognising the context of OER provision - particularly around the amount of available grant funding - has changed - scope the possibility of an OpenSTEM Africa app which can be used in various ways with blockchain


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Ulla Lehmijoki
Research Fellow
University of Helsinki
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Research Interests
Ulla Lehmijoki has acted as Senior Lecturer of Microeconomics and as a research fellow in the University of Helsinki since 1996. She holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Helsinki. Her current research interests include the following topics: (i) the effects of demographic factors on economic growth, (ii) the factors dictating life expectancy convergence, (iii) the demographic and economic effects of trade shocks in developing countries, and (iv) air pollution mortality, in particular in Europe. Her publications include articles in Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Journal of Population Economics.
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2009.
Ulla Lehmijoki has (co-authored with Tapio Palokangas) published three articles in Journal of Population Economics:
"Political Instability, Gender Discrimination, and Population Growth in Developing Countries" 19(2006), "Population Growth Overshooting and Trade in Developing Countries" 22(2009) and "Trade, Population Growth, and the Environment in Developing Countries" 23(2010).


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