Third Workshop on an Open Knowledge Network: Building the National Semantic Information Infrastructure

这次讲习班让多学科社区参与讨论，讨论采取初步步骤建立一个不断演变的开放知识网络，以编码所有实体及其之间的关系，这些实体将随着新的数据和信息不断演变。因此，OKN将是将万维网发展到一个新的语义理解和应用水平的基本构件。考虑到随着时间增长的大数据的可用性，先进的机器学习技术可以帮助创建如此庞大的图表并在其使用中使用，以及重要的是通过现有的商业服务(如Apple Siri、GoogleTalk、Amazon Alexa和Microsoft Cortana)展示此类知识图表的力量，这样的知识图表的愿景是可行的。开放的知识网络将使新一代知识丰富的智能应用程序和系统成为可能。研讨会考察了这一想法在多个学科和应用领域的适用性。来自生物医学、医学、地球科学、金融和制造业等多个学科的专家将讨论特定领域的问题，并确定共同的方法和跨领域的共同问题。研讨会将制定将采取的具体步骤，以帮助实现OKN的愿景。与大型知识结构的自然接口有可能对科学、教育和商业产生与WWW相当的影响。虽然第一波此类技术现在可以在Siri、GoogleTalk、Cortana和Alexa等消费者服务中使用，但这些服务的知识范围有限；不对直接访问或公司防火墙以外的贡献者开放；并且只能在特定业务领域回答相对有限的问题。正在提议的这种类型的开放倡议将允许在许多用户社区进行大规模实验，并将支持学术界的研究和创新，使行业能够进行实验，并使各级政府(地方、州、联邦)能够使用开放数据创建新的服务。拟议中的OKN的愿景是，它将渴望成为来自科学、商业、医学和人类事务世界的所有已知概念的清单。它不仅包括原始数据，还包括机器可读形式的语义信息。该体系结构将允许撰稿人对与其感兴趣的主题相关的知识进行编码，从而将其连接到更大的网络，而不必通过所谓的“看门人”。通过提供开放的服务，OKN将使“未经许可的创新”的概念成为可能。事实上，像OKN这样的开放资源可能比专有的、封闭的系统更能提供更可信的信息/知识。创建这样一个共同知识网络的愿景与NSF利用数据革命和融合的大想法产生了共鸣。

This workshop engages a multidisciplinary community in a discussion about taking the initial steps in building an evolving Open Knowledge Network to encode all entities and the relationships among them, that would evolve continuously with new data and information. The OKN would thus be a fundamental building block in evolving the world-wide web to a new level of semantic understanding and application. The vision of such a knowledge graph is feasible given the availability of big data that are growing with time; advanced machine learning techniques that can aid in the creation of such a massive graph, and in its use; and, importantly, demonstration of the power of such knowledge graphs via extant commercial services such as Apple Siri; GoogleTalk; Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana. An Open Knowledge Network would enable a new generation of knowledge-rich intelligent applications and systems. The workshop examines the applicability of this idea across multiple disciplines and applications domains. Experts from a wide range of disciplines, including biomedicine, medicine, geosciences, finance, and manufacturing, will discuss domain-specific issues as well as identify common approaches and common issues that cut across domains. The workshop will develop concrete steps to be taken to help realize the vision of OKN.Natural interfaces to large knowledge structures have the potential to impact science, education and business to an extent comparable to the WWW. While the first wave of such technology is now available in consumer services such as Siri, GoogleTalk, Cortana and Alexa, these services are limited in their scope of knowledge; not open to direct access or to contributors beyond their corporate firewalls; and, able to answer only relatively limited questions in specific business domains. An open initiative of the type being proposed would allow for experimentation at scale across many user communities and would support research and innovation in academia, enable industry to experiment, and enable governments at various levels (local, state, federal) to create new services using Open Data. The vision for the proposed OKN is that it would aspire to be a listing of every known concept from the worlds of science, business, medicine and human affairs. It would include not just raw data, but semantic information in machine readable form. The architecture would allow contributors to encode the knowledge related to their topics of interest and, thus, connect that to the larger network, without having to go through so-called "gatekeepers". By providing an open service, OKN would enable the notion of "permission-less innovation." Indeed, an open resource like OKN may be in a better position to provide more trustworthy information/knowledge than proprietary, closed systems. The vision for creating such a common knowledge network resonates with the NSF Big Ideas of Harnessing the Data Revolution and Convergence.