Webinar: Fusion methodology for point clouds deep learning

Speaker: Fauzy Othman, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Date: 30 May 2022
Time: 15:00 – 16:00
Venue: Online

Fauzy is a PhD student working with Phil Bartie, Oliver Lemon, and Ben Kenwright. During the weekly SWeL meeting, Fauzy will be giving his first year progression presentation.

Abstract: This project aspires to address gaps in autonomous detection in aerial surveillance on ground objects. There are existing point cloud deep learning techniques, however many are having gaps in accuracy of detection and not developed for objects which are of interest to energy industry surveillance work. Hence the aim is to improve accuracy of object detection by exploring deep learning architecture, focusing on point cloud data manipulation and fusion methods. This Year 1 presentation covers literature review and initial implementation works.

BioHackathon 2019

I once again attended the European BioHackathon which took place in November outside of Paris. It was another intense week with 150 developers from across Europe (and beyond) working together on 34 topics. Bioschemas was well represented in the topics and the hacking activities of the week. By the end of the week we had […]

Petros and Alasdair hacking at the BioHackathon

I once again attended the European BioHackathon which took place in November outside of Paris. It was another intense week with 150 developers from across Europe (and beyond) working together on 34 topics.

Bioschemas was well represented in the topics and the hacking activities of the week. By the end of the week we had an approach for marking up Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Rare Disease resources. We also had several resources with newly deployed or improved Bioschemas markup.

For a fuller overview of the event and outcomes, please see the ELIXIR news item.

Seminar: Data Quality Issues in Current Nanopublications

Speaker: Imran Asif
Date: Wednesday 18 September 2019
Time: 11:15 – 12:15
Venue: CM T.01 EM1.58

Imran will give a practice version of his workshop paper that will be given at Research Objects 2019 (RO2019).

Abstract: Nanopublications are a granular way of publishing scientific claims together with their associated provenance and publication information. More than 10 million nanopublications have been published by a handful of researchers covering a wide range of topics within the life sciences. We were motivated to replicate an existing analysis of these nanopublications, but then went deeper into the structure of the existing nanopublications. In this paper, we analyse the usage of nanopublications by investigating the distribution of triples in each part and discuss the data quality issues raised by this analysis. From this analysis we argue that there is a need for the community to develop a set of community guidelines for the modelling of nanopublications.

BridgeDb GSoC 2019 Student

During the summer, BridgeDb has had a Google Summer of Code student working on extending the system to work with secondary identifiers; these are alternative identifiers for a given resource. The student Manas Awasthi has maintained a blog of his experiences. Below are some excerpts of his activity. Google Summer of Code 2019: Dream to […]

During the summer, BridgeDb has had a Google Summer of Code student working on extending the system to work with secondary identifiers; these are alternative identifiers for a given resource.

The student Manas Awasthi has maintained a blog of his experiences. Below are some excerpts of his activity.

Google Summer of Code 2019: Dream to Reality

Manas Awasthi
May 28 · 3 min read
Google Summer of Code, an annual Google program which encourages open source contribution from students. The term I was introduced to by my seniors in my freshman year. Having no clue about open source, I started gathering knowledge about ‘How to contribute to open source projects?’ Then I came across version control, being a freshman it was an unknown territory for me. I started using Github for my personal projects which gave me a better understanding of how to use it. Version Control Service was off the checklists. By the time all this was done Google Summer of Code 2018 was announced.

Google Summer of Code 2019: Dream to Reality

Manas Awasthi
Jun 12 · 3 min read
The Coding Period: The First Two Weeks
The coding period of Google Summer of Code started on 27th of May, at the time of publishing it’s been more than 2 weeks, here I am writing this blog to discuss what I have done over the past two weeks, and what a ride it has been already. Plenty of coding along with plenty of learning. From the code base to the test suite.

Google Summer of Code 2019: Dream to Reality

Manas Awasthi
Jun 22 · 3 min read
The Coding Period: Week 3 — Week 4
Hola Amigos!!! Let’s discuss my progress through week 3 and 4 of GSoC’s coding period. So the major part of what I was doing this week was to add support for the secondary identifier (err!!! whats that) to BridgeDb.

Google Summer of Code 2019: Dream to Reality

Manas Awasthi
Aug 21 · 3 min read
Hey Folks, this is probably the last blog in this series outlining my journey as a GSoC student. In this blog I’ll go through the functionality I have added over the summer and why the end-users should use it.

FAIRplus Newsletter 2

Below is the opening exert from the second FAIRplus Newsletter: Though FAIRplus has been running for just six months, there is already a lot to talk about. Our two task-focused ‘Squads’ have booted up and begun the FAIRification of the first set of four pilot datasets, our industry partners in EFPIA organised the first ‘Bring Your Own Data’ […]

Below is the opening exert from the second FAIRplus Newsletter:

Though FAIRplus has been running for just six months, there is already a lot to talk about. Our two task-focused ‘Squads’ have booted up and begun the FAIRification of the first set of four pilot datasets, our industry partners in EFPIA organised the first ‘Bring Your Own Data’ workshop in London, and we’ve been busy explaining our goals and answering many questions from our stakeholders.

You can read about these activities in this second FAIRplus newsletter. On top of that, we bring you an update on upcoming events, news from our partners and also a new section ‘Track our progress’ where you can check for yourself how we are progressing towards our goals and what Deliverables and reports we’ve recently submitted.

Finally, we’ve launched our own LinkedIn page. Besides regular updates on our activities, it will also feature job opportunities and news from the FAIRplus partners.

The next FAIRplus Newsletter will come out in November 2019. In it we’ll present the FAIRplus Fellowship programme, report on the FAIR workshop in October and more.

We wish you a relaxing Summer and look forward to meeting you at our events!

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School

SICSA is sponsoring the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School which is taking place on 6th– 8thAugust at Heriot Watt University.

The SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School is Scotland’s first ever summer school designed to allow students to explore key concepts for the design of advanced AAL systems.

The program includes presentations from industry representatives and healthcare organisations, in addition to lectures and tutorials on sensing, linked data, machine learning and robotics for AAL applications.

The summer school is open to students and research staff, and employees of charities, non-profit organisations and companies with relevant backgrounds. Financial support is available for students at SICSA institutes to cover their on-campus accommodation and lunch costs, generously sponsored by SICSA, SICSA CPS and AI themes, and Nexus.

The deadline for applications is 30th June. Attendance will be limited, so please apply early.

Full details of the SICSA AAL Summer School can be found here.

If you have any questions or you would like to contact the Organisers, please see here.

Research Software Engineer Post

We are advertising for a Research Software Engineer to come work on

Identifier linking and Scientific Lenses in the context of the FAIRplus project, and
Data validation and markup support in the context of Bioschemas.

The post is for 12 months. Furth…

We are advertising for a Research Software Engineer to come work on

  1. Identifier linking and Scientific Lenses in the context of the FAIRplus project, and
  2. Data validation and markup support in the context of Bioschemas.

The post is for 12 months. Further details available on the Heriot-Watt Vacancies Site.

Seminar: Utilising Linked Data in the Public Sector

Title: Utilising Linked Data in the Public Sector

Speaker: Angus Addlesee, PhD Student, Heriot-Watt University

Date: 11:15 on 25 March 2019

Location: CM F.17, Heriot-Watt University

Abstract: In this presentation I will explain how Wallscope (a small tech company in Edinburgh) is using linked data in public sector projects.

Bio: Angus has worked at Wallscope for two years in various roles and is now studying his PhD at Heriot-Watt which is part funded by Wallscope.

Wallscope uses Machine Learning and Semantic Technologies to build Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data applications. We are motivated to lower the barriers for accessing knowledge to improve the health, wealth and sustainability of the world we share.

Seminar: Building intelligent systems (that can explain)

Title: Building intelligent systems (that can explain)

Speaker: Ilaria Tiddi, Research Associate in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (NL)

Date: 10:00 on 6 March 2019

Location: EM3.03, Heriot-Watt University

Abstract: Explanations have been subject of study in a variety of fields (e.g. philosophy, psychology and social science), experiencing a new wave of popularity in Artificial Intelligence thanks to the success of machine learning (see DARPA’s eXplainable AI). Yet, the events of recent times have shown that the effectiveness of intelligent systems is still limited due to their inability to explain their decisions to human users, hence losing in understandability and trustworthiness. In this talk, I will give an overview of my research, aiming at developing systems able to automatically generate explanations using external background knowledge. In particular, I will show how such systems can be based on the existing research on explanations, combined with AI techniques and the large-scale knowledge sources available nowadays.

Bio: I am a Research Associate in the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group of the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (NL).  My research focuses on creating transparent AI systems that generate explanations through a combination of machine learning, semantic technologies, and knowledge from large, heterogeneous knowledge graphs. As part of my research activities, I am member of the CEUR-WS Editorial Board and the Knowledge Capture conference (K-CAP) Steering Committee, while I have organised workshop series (Recoding Black Mirror, Application of Semantic Web Technologies in Robotics, Linked Data 4 Knowledge Discovery) and Summer Schools (the 2015 and 2016 Semantic Web Summer School).

Twitter: @IlaTiddi

Website : https://kmitd.github.io/ilaria/