Kisti, in Korea, has provided a W3C Semantic Web Use Case on the OntoFrame 2008 semantic portal service on academic research. The goal of the service is to provide connection, fusion, and analysis services on academic research information to enable scientists to effectively obtain information. The portal, using technologies like RDF, OWL, or SPARQL, does more than improved search; it also provides a visualization based interface to convey data on the identification of leading researchers or research institutes for a particular topic, main research focus of a given researcher, researcher publication network, statistics of accomplishments in a particular topic area, and geographical distribution of researchers specialized in a given topic.
About Ivan Herman
Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
