KISTI unveils 'Prototype Next-Generation Science and Technology Information Service'

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (President Park Young-seo) said on June 4 that it has constructed a 'Prototype Next-Generation science and Technology Information Service' using OntoFrame, a Semantic service platform and will unveil the system to the public.
'Semantic Web' refers to a cutting-edge web service that allows computers to intelligently understand information and then make logical inferences based on different types of data. Onto Frame is a next-generation search platform using Semantic Web technology that allows the user to search the most relevant information through the continual interlinking and seemingly infinite growth of data.

The new 'Prototype Next-Generation Science and Technology Information Service' offers in-depth service for 450,000 scientific journals in the fields of information and biotechnology. Specifically, services made available by the innovative system include news on the latest trends in research topics, experts and research institutes by research topic, networks of research sites, and researchers conducting similar studies, information on which is generally hard to retrieve through conventional reference materials and literature.

Additionally, the system classifies search words employed by the user according to whether the word is a research topic of a researcher, and allows the user to generate a viewing format suitable for the given search word, thus enabling him of her to locate the required data easily and conveniently.

The 'Prototype Next-Generation Science and Technology Information Service' system?utilities more than 40 patents that are being applied for or are already registered in Korea and elsewhere, and has thus earned recognition for its uniqueness and a high level of comprehensiveness. OntoFrame, which was used as the system's service platform, had been applied to projects for the Korea Research Foundation, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards, and the Ministry of Justice.

Ryu Beom-jong, head of KISTI's information technology research division, said, "The new Prototype Next-Generation Science and Technology Information Service will play a crucial role in upgrading the current search-focused information service based on simple keywords to an advanced information service based on Semantic Web technology, a key element for the Web 3.0 era."

Meanwhile, KISTI plans to make public the new system via a website(ontoframe.kr/2008) specially designed for the service, and to gather and compile opinions and assay demand for the system to further improve its NDSL service.

Photo] Sample web page of the Prototype Next-Generation Science and Technology Information Service (searched through "neural network")

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[June 11, 2009]
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