- Date:
- 1997-2002
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- Thompson Publishing
The Winston Churchill archive consists of over a million documents, ranging from handwritten letters to typed political documents. The digitisation of the archive presents a number of problems which this project aims to tackle using multimedia and hypermedia tools and technologies.
Some of the issues dealt with by this research project include :-
- Providing a user friendly interface to a large information repository. Design of adapatable user interfaces to cater for a wide variety of user needs and abilities.
- Storage mechanisms for large multimedia archives.
- Integration of database search engines to promote fast retrieval.
- Integration of hypermedia navigation to improve browsing within the archive.
- Development and use of content based information retrieval tools on both text and non-text based media.
- Presentation of facsimile images in formats suitable for a variety of end uses.
- Scanning and digitisation technologies.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
Partner
- Thompson Publishing
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2000-2006
- Theme:
- Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- EPSRC (GR/N15764/01)
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) fund the AKT project. It is one of their Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRC). AKT brings together a strong set of universities and complementary disciplines to tackle fundamental problems associated with the management of knowledge. AKT is a multi-million pound, six-year collaboration between internationally recognised research groups at the Universities of Southampton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield and the Open University.
Professor Nigel Shadbolt will be the Director of the AKT project whose aim is to develop and extend a range of technologies to provide integrated methods and services for the capture, modelling, publishing, reuse and management of knowledge. The IRC will undertake fundamental research in particular knowledge technologies and it will also bring together relevant work and produce practical results. It has attracted significant and enthusiastic industrial support. We believe it provides an exciting focus for research into knowledge technology.
It is a commonly held belief that we live in a world where there has been an explosion of data, information and knowledge. But knowledge is only of value when it can be used effectively and efficiently. The management of knowledge is increasingly being recognised as a key element in extracting its value. We need to understand how best to take knowledge through a series of stages from its creation to its use. It needs to be acquired, modelled and represented, stored and retrieved, used and reused, published and maintained.
The AKT project is intended to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach. There are six challenges that any complete approach to knowledge management must meet. We see these as fundamental bottlenecks that need to be overcome and around which AKT's research agenda is focused.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Wendy Hall
- David De Roure
- Les Carr
- Srinandan Dasmahapatra
- Hugh Glaser
- monica schraefel
- kmo
- ha
- Nicholas Gibbins
- Stephen Harris
- yk1
- Ian Charles Millard
- Mischa Tuffield
- yl504r
Partners
- The University of Aberdeen
- The University of Edinburgh
- The University of Sheffield
- Open University
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2001-2003
- Theme:
- Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
This research will investigate and develop techniques by which software agents can acquire sufficient knowledge to negotiate effectively on behalf of their user in a range of electronic commerce scenarios. The research will exploit and extend work in the Knowledge Acquisition community in order to determine exactly what knowledge an agent needs to be endowed with to negotiate on behalf of its user, what techniques are appropriate for capturing this knowledge, and how the agent's performance can be evalauted against its users' expectations.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
- xl
Partners
- Dr Chris Preist (HP Labs)
- Dr Mike Yearworth (HP Labs)
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2000-
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
The EPrints software (aka eprints.org software) is intended to allow people to set up all purposes archives on the web, which are OAI compliant. It is aimed at research papers but could be used for anything.
Used widely (200+ installations) in the HE sector EPrints aims to support the current best practise in repository and Web standards.
The EPrints project is a nexus for a number of research and consultancy activities within the group.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- dt2
- tmb
- Christopher Gutteridge
- tdb2
- Sebastien Francois
- af05v
- Kelly Terrell
- pjw
- Patrick McSweeney
Associated research group
- Web and Internet Science
- Theme:
- Space Charge Measurement
- Funding:
- Pirelli Cables Ltd
Space charge is the term given to electrical charges that become trapped within the bulk of a dielectric and can occur as a result of, electron beam irradiation, or an electric potential applied across the insulation. Space charge trapped in high voltage insulation systems (e.g. polymeric power cables) can significantly alter the internal electric stress profile, eventually leading to its premature failure at stresses well below anticipated or design values. This project is concerned with the space charge distribution measurement in polymer insulated power cables using Pulsed Electro-Acoustic (PEA) method. Regarding to the coaxial geometry of power cable and its thick polymer insulation, which will create significant influence to the final result by diverging, attenuating and dispersing acoustic waves generate from space charge layers, a correction algorithm has been developed to cancel the aforementioned effects on the measurement of space charge profile. The main effort of the project is being focused on the investigation of space charge behaviour of XLPE cable with different modified insulating material and the treatment (degassing at elevated temperature) after insulation extrusion.
Primary investigators
- aed
- George Chen
Secondary investigator
- mf98r
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 1999-2002
- Theme:
- Modelling and Simulation
- Funding:
- ORS
Existing underground cable ratings underestimate full capability of power consumption during summer. This leads to the demand of improved and more accurate ratings . An objective of this project is to look at the heat and moisture migration initiated by the heating of the medium surrounding the buried cables, which when subjected to prolonged heating under extreme condition leads to 'thermal runaway'. Identification of conditions under which 'thermal runaway' occurs will allow the improvement of the external parameters (such as soil thermal resistivity and capacitance) used in the existing cable ratings under the ground. A Philip-deVries model is used to look at the effects of drying-out.This involves looking at the changes of moisture content of the surrounding medium, the effects of native soil having different properties to that of backfill, backfills of different properties and environmental factors. A controlled environment model will be developed to monitor the changes in heat and moisture at the viccinity of the heated source.
Primary investigator
- Dr P Lewin
Secondary investigator
- Nadia Hudi
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Theme:
- Bioelectrostatics
- Funding:
- Industrial
Design and development of novel charge-on-demand liquid atomisation packaging system. Optimisation of natural charge exchange processes in single and multi-phase liquids.
Primary investigators
- lfw1
- John Hughes
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Theme:
- Bioelectrostatics
- Funding:
- Industrial
Evaluation of the behaviour of electrostatically charged airborne particles. Developemnt of a method to reduce the inhalation of PM10 partilces.
Primary investigators
- klj
- John Hughes
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Theme:
- Bioelectrostatics
- Funding:
- Industrial
Techniques evaluated for delivering new denaturing agents for the house dust mite allergen Der p1
Primary investigators
- klj
- John Hughes
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Theme:
- Bioelectrostatics
- Funding:
- Reckitt Benckiser plc
Development of charge-on-demand domestic aerosol packaging system. System now used commercially in aerosol products marketed in Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. Patents granted in various countries. Technology awarded Millennium Product Status by Design Council.
Primary investigators
- lfw1
- John Hughes
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering