Success at the ISWC Conference
The Dataspecer tool, developed by experts from the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, achieved success at the prestigious International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). At the 23rd forum, held in mid-November in Baltimore, USA, representatives of CUNI MFF received the Best Demo Award.
Associate Professor Klímek receiving the award at the ISWC conference, held from November 11 to 15 in Baltimore
ISWC is a prestigious international conference focusing on linked data and semantic web technologies, which have already become industry standards adopted by companies such as Google, Amazon, SAP, Samsung, and others.
Dataspecer facilitates the creation and derivation of semantic data specifications using the latest web technologies. These specifications serve as proper documentation for web-accessible data, enhancing their comprehensibility for both providers and users and promoting the straightforward use of described data. “The tool targets, for example, the area of scientific data repositories across various fields (such as the National Repository Platform project), where it enables records in repositories to be described in a consistent manner across domains, facilitating uniform handling of such records,” explains Associate Professor Jakub Klímek, who presented the tool in Baltimore.
Currently, the technology is utilized by the Czech Digital and Information Agency for managing several national data specifications, but it also has applications abroad. “It enables consistent derivation (profiling) of data specifications for specific use cases from more general data specifications, which in turn are derived from global specifications, while maintaining compatibility across the levels of this so-called hierarchy of application profiles,” adds Associate Professor Klímek.
