Preface
This international Symposium on Open Data and Knowledge for a Post Pandemic Era in 2022 (ODAK 2022) is co-sponsored by the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems and the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering at the University of Brighton.
In its first edition, this Symposium was established with a firm belief that openness and collaboration in sharing information and knowledge underpin addressing global challenges, including the seventeen United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals. As such, we desired to create a forum which expands beyond the borders of traditional disciplinary silos to explore opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Given how some of these challenges have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic during the last couple of years, we sought to further advocate the role of the global community collaborating openly in sharing information and knowledge, scientific processes through open science, and software development through open-source software.
In this environment, organisations across the world require open, secure, interoperable and intelligent software systems to support digitisation, linking, aggregating, analysing, visualising and providing access to data and knowledge by using technologies such as semantic web, artificial intelligence, data analytics, immersive visualisation, as well as human-computer interaction. Thus. the symposium sought to create spaces for participants to discuss the latest research, case studies, and best practices across various disciplines and sectors such as Health, Finance, Public Sector, Education, Media and Culture. Cross-cutting issues were explored including interoperability, business models, security and privacy, as well as ethics, and legal aspects of open data and software.
For the programme, we sought different types of research contributions, including 1) full papers, which include innovative research in any of the topics below with explicit reporting of evidence of results and 2) Case Studies with updates of ongoing projects, in any of the topics below, including national or international multidisciplinary projects. The Research contributions were solicited especially on the following topics:
Secure and privacy of open data and knowledge
Interoperability and semantic web
Open Source solutions for creating and accessing data and knowledge
Large scale digitisation of analogue data, both 2D and 3D
Technologies for linked data compliant with the FAIR principles
Data quality including quality of data content and data format
Data analytics, including artificial intelligence, of aggregated large-scale datasets
Visualisation (inc. immersive environments) of large-scale datasets
Human-computer interaction with open data and knowledge
Business aspects and sustainability of open data
Applications of open data and knowledge in Health, Public Sector, Education and Cultural Heritage
Open Science best practices and Reproducibility of research with open datasets
The resulting proceeding is a record of accepted submissions to ODAK 2022. We hope these papers, the research of our community and the discussions throughout the event contribute to the wider efforts to address pressing challenges in our world.
Acknowledgements
ODAK 2022 gratefully acknowledges:
Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems and the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering at the University of Brighton for funding towards publishing the proceedings and invited keynote speakers and invited panellists to the event.
Special thanks to Myrsini Samaroudi, Dawn Whitaker, Louise Millard, Kiki Hood and Esther Shepherd for their support in organising the event, as well as Alison Bruce, Head of Research at the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering for supporting our vision in establishing the event.
Finally, we thank Ian Borthwick and Florence Leroy of the BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series, for support and advice in setting up the event and producing the online conference proceedings.
Finally, we thank all the authors, speakers, reviewers and contributors for making the event a success.
Technical Committee
The people listed below reviewed submissions for the ODAK2022 and the Organising Committee is very grateful for their voluntary help in the selection process.
Asla Medeiros Sa, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Adamantios Koumpis, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Delfina Malandrino, Dipartimento di Informatica ed - Applicazioni, Universitá di Salerno, Italy
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Maurizio Napolitano, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
Roberto Confalonieri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Tania Di Mascio, DISIM, University of L’AquilaU, Italy
Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK-IRT, Italy
Papers:
Alice Ashby, Julia Meister, Goran Soldar and Khuong Nguyen A novel cough audio segmentation framework for COVID-19 detection http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.1
Jacob Janes, Ajay Bansal and Tyler Baron Exploring AI in Healthcare: How the Acceleration of Data Processing can Impact Life Saving http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.2
Amedeo Roberto Esposito Towards a Standard Testing Data Set in Privacy http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.3
Asla Medeiros e Sá, Franklin Alves de Oliveira, Bruno Schneider, Karina Rodriguez Echavarria and Cristiana Silveira Serejo Visually Overviewing Biodiversity Open Data Digital Collections http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.4
Maurizio Napolitano, Andrea Borruso and Salvatore Fiandaca 30Cappa - The “Christmas” decree in kilometres http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.5
Somesh Siddabasappa, Suyog Somesh Halikar, Ravikanth Dodda, Nikhil Hiremath and Srividya Bansal Smart Museum Tour using Linked Open Data http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.6
Alessia Antelmi and Maria Angela Pellegrino Open Data literacy by remote: hiccups and lessons http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.7
Jerry Andriessen, Steven Furnell, Gregor Langner, Giuseppina Palmieri, Gerald Quirchmayr, Vittorio Scarano and Teemu Johannes Tokola Collaborative Open Data in education: COLTRANE experience on cybersecurity http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.8
Varun Singh and Srividya Bansal Keyword extraction and summarization from unstructured text: A case study with open data http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ODAK22.9