The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference - ESWC 2008

Garlik: Semantic Technology for the Consumer

author:Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton
published: Aug. 8, 2008, recorded: June 2008, views: 183

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Slides

Slides
0:00	European Semantic Web Conference
2:55	Structure
3:26	My Journey to Garlik
5:09	Our CEOs Journey to Semantic Technology
6:25	Making the Final Decision
7:30	The Management Team
7:48	Advisors
7:51	The Management Team
8:42	Advisors
9:46	The Opportunity (1)
11:07	The Opportunity (2)
12:37	The Opportunity (3)
15:16	A selection of sources on the Web that hold information on us (1)
15:41	A selection of sources on the Web that hold information on us (2)
16:09	A selection of sources on the Web that hold information on us (3)
16:38	Garlik’s Purpose
17:27	Garlik Today
20:20	Structure
20:55	Business Criteria in Technology Selection
22:49	The Semantic Web Revisited
23:45	Technical Architecture
25:52	Garlik’s Semantic Platform
25:57	Technical Architecture
26:29	Garlik’s Semantic Platform
26:36	Structure
26:38	Pitching Semantic Technology to the VCs
27:45	Structure
27:51	DataPatrol (1)
28:54	DataPatrol (2)
28:58	DataPatrol (3)
29:03	DataPatrol (1)
31:20	DataPatrol (2)
31:26	DataPatrol (3)
32:57	DataPatrol (4)
33:10	DataPatrol (5)
33:17	DataPatrol (6)
33:41	DataPatrol (7)
34:01	DataPatrol (8)
34:05	Data Patrol CPP (1)
34:42	Data Patrol CPP (2)
34:53	Data Patrol CPP (3)
35:01	Data Patrol CPP (4)
35:35	Data Patrol CPP (5)
36:05	Data Patrol CPP (6)
36:11	Data Patrol CPP (7)
36:23	Garlik: The Nature of our Data (i) Structured Data Relationships changing order of few times a year
37:39	Garlik: The Nature of our Data (i) Semi and unstructured Data Relationships changing order many times a year (1)
38:46	Garlik: The Nature of our Data (i) Semi and unstructured Data Relationships changing order many times a year (2)
38:54	Garlik: The Nature of our Data (i) Semi and unstructured Data Relationships changing order many times a year (3)
38:57	Data Matching Issues - Examples
39:37	QDOS (1)
41:30	QDOS (2)
42:43	QDOS (3)
43:35	QDOS (4)
43:51	QDOS (5)
44:32	Structure
44:58	Technical Architecture
45:08	Garlik and the design of Semantic Databases: Why Garlik uses RDF storage
47:22	Garlik and the design of Semantic Databases: Ontology “Engineering”
48:34	Garlik and the design of Semantic Databases: Data access
49:20	Garlik and the design of Semantic Databases: The challenge of URI Management
49:59	Performance Measures and Benchmarks
50:53	Scale and Growth of our RDF data
51:49	Why did we build our own DBMS?
52:28	Cluster Architecture
52:40	Software versions
52:59	Application Parameters
53:52	Structure
54:03	Is it time for Semantic Tech Community to be bolder?
55:16	Does online identity matter to people?
56:22	Online dating is an emerging identity battlefield
56:44	Who is Robert Schock?
57:52	How a minor irritation becomes a full blown crisis
58:09	What do “Web Science” dynamics point to about Social Networks?
58:38	What might a solution look like?
59:13	Social Verification: The Concept
59:18	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (1)
59:25	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (2)
60:47	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (3)
60:51	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (4)
60:54	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (5)
60:55	FOAF: A start point for social verification? (6)
60:58	In Conclusion
60:58	Structure
61:00	Lessons Learnt
62:25	Things change… (1)
62:35	Things change… (2)
62:43	Things change… (1)
62:54	Some things are the same… (1)
63:19	Some things are the same… (2)
64:09	Thank you

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Description

In under a decade the internet has changed our lives. Now we can shop, bank, date, research, learn and communicate online and every time we do we leave behind a trail of personal information. Organisations have a wealth of structured information about individuals on large numbers of databases. What does the intersection of this information mean for the individual? How much of your personal data is out there and more importantly, just who has access to it? As stories of identity theft and online fraud fill the media internet users are becoming increasingly nervous about their online data security. Also what opportunities arise for individuals to exploit this information for their own benefit?

Garlik was formed to give individuals and their family's real power over the use of their personal information in the digital world. Garlik's technology base has exploited and extended results from research on the Semantic Web. It has built the world's largest, SPARQL compliant, native format, RDF triple store. The store is implemented on a low-cost network cluster with over 100 servers supporting a 24x7 operation. Garlik has built semantically informed search and harvesting; used industrial strength language engineering technologies across many millions of people-centric Web pages. Methods have been developed for extracting information from structured and semi structured databases. All of this information is organised against a people-centric ontology with facilities to integrate these various fragments.

Garlik has received two substantial rounds of venture capital funding (as of March 2008), has established an active user base of tens of thousands of individuals, and is adding paying customers at an increasing rate. This talk reviews the consumer need, describes the technology and engineering, and discusses the lessons we can draw about the challenges of deploying Semantic Technologies.