Offre de Stage : « Réalisation de portails sémantiques »

Société MONDECA
Editeur logiciel en ingénierie des connaissances

Offre de Stage : « Réalisation de portails sémantiques »
J2EE, GWT, Spring, RDF

Type de stage :
Stage de pré-embauche en fin de cycle ingénieur

Société :
Mondeca est un éditeur de logiciel fondé en 2000. Notre offre se positionne sur le marché de la gestion des connaissances et adresse les besoins d’organisation de contenu, de vocabulaires, et de connaissances métier. Nos clients sont des grands comptes dans les domaines de l’édition, de l’industrie, du tourisme, ou des sciences de la vie, au niveau national et international. Mondeca s’appuie sur les technologies J2EE et Web sémantique. Mondeca a une forte composante R&D en s’impliquant fortement dans les travaux de normalisation du W3C, en entretenant des relations étroites avec des laboratoires universitaires et en participant à des projets européens.

Mission
Mondeca propose un ensemble d’interfaces web pour notre solution Smart Content Factory (incluant les outils ITM, CA Manager, etc.) mais aussi pour les portails sémantiques répondant aux besoins métiers de nos clients. Les utilisateurs finaux (experts ou novices) se connectent à ces interfaces pour accéder tant à la connaissance qu’aux contenus documentaires gérés par l’application cible. Vous aurez la charge de concevoir ces interfaces en binôme avec la graphiste designer de Mondeca, combinant des accès au back-office de notre logiciel ITM, à des moteurs de recherche, à des widgets graphiques… tout en respectant les besoins fonctionnels et graphiques des clients. Les composants graphiques étant ensuite développés par une société externe partenaire, vous aurez également la responsabilité de la bonne intégration de ces composants graphiques avec nos outils logiciels et du pilotage des développeurs de la société partenaire.

Description du stage
 Durée : 6 mois.
 Environnement technique : Java/J2EE, Eclipse, Maven, Spring, EJBs, GWT et standards sémantiques (OWL, RDF, SPARQL).
 Lieu de travail : Paris 18.
 Rémunération : indemnités de stage.
 Petite équipe jeune et dynamique (21 personnes, 6 personnes dans l’équipe de dev)

Compétences / Qualités
 Profil : Bonnes compétences techniques, envie de développer, autonome, méthodologique et créatif.
 Expérience et maîtrise de Java, du développement Web, de XML et si possible de GWT et RDF/OWL.
 Connaissance souhaitée des outils de développement libres (Eclipse, Maven, SVN) ;
 Anglais courant obligatoire : nécessité d’interagir en anglais tous les jours, à l’oral et à l’écrit..

Contact
Florence Amardeilh
Directrice R&D
Téléphone : 01 44 92 35 01
Email : florence.amardeilh@mondeca.com

Mondeca helps to bring Electronic Patient Record to reality

Data interoperability is one of the key issues in assembling unified Electronic Patient Records, both within and across healthcare providers. ASIP Santé, the French national healthcare agency responsible for implementing nation-wide healthcare management systems, has been charged to ensure such interoperability for the French national healthcare.

The task is a daunting one since most healthcare providers use their own custom terminologies and medical codes. This is due to a number of issues with standard terminologies: 1) standard terminologies take too long to be updated with the latest terms; 2) significant internal data, systems, and expertise rely on the usage of legacy custom terminologies; and 3) a part of the business domain is not covered by a standard terminology.

The only way forward was to align the local custom terminologies and codes with the standard ones. This way local data can be automatically converted into the standard representation, which will in turn allow to integrate it with the data coming from other healthcare providers.

To do this, the agency started with a smaller project of aligning one standard terminology, LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), with the related terminology used at all the hospitals of Paris.  The project relies on Mondeca’s ITM to support complex organizational and technological processes, including 1) setup of a collaborative space with the appropriate roles and access rights, 2) terminology import, modification, and management, including versioning and traceability, 3) establishing an alignment between the local and standard terminologies, 4) processes for terminology and alignment updates and quality control, and 5) terminology export to external software.

Linked Data : the future of digital libraries

Linked Data is a quickly growing initiative for interlinking heterogeneous data and metadata in order to make it easier to access and search in a unified way. Linked Data appears to be the perfect paradigm to approach the problems faced by librarians. It addresses the issues of data interoperability, interconnecting data silos, and unified data access.

Libraries have been experimenting with Linked Data from the very start of the initiative. Below are some links that document this experience:

1. Linked Data at the Library of Congress: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/about.html
2. Linked Data at the National Library of Sweden: http://code4lib.org/files/LIBRIS_code4lib.pdf
3. Use cases compiled by the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/UseCases

An important aspect of getting Linked Data is to use reference vocabularies, such as taxonomies, thesauri, and other related flavors. Reference vocabularies provide the magic glue that keeps the data together, by helping to: 1) standardize terminology across data sets, 2) link terms from related data sets, and 3) map query terms to the relevant terms in the Linked Data.

Mondeca is now a member of the SLA (Special Libraries Association) and will be exhibiting at the SLA 2011 conference in Philadelphia (June 12-15, 2011): http://sla2011.tornado1.com .

Smarter content

What is “Smart Content”?

Smart Content, also referred to as Intelligent Content, has been a growing trend in the content-rich industries. The fact that many prominent publishers, including such market leaders as Elsevier, are making smart content the cornerstone of their business strategy shows that smart content is here to stay. As a  CEO of a prominent publishing house eloquently put, “there will be companies that get smart content, and the others will die”.

The term “smart content” is a marketing concept, which comes after the products behind it have been successfully adopted by the market, although there still remains much work to be done. Its purpose is to embody the technological evolution that has been taking place. However, like other successful but vague marketing concepts (e.g., Web 2.0), it makes intuitive sense but needs further clarification. The cornerstone of the smart content phenomenon seems to be a greater degree of structure, formalism, and optimization infused into the various processes of the content lifecycle. However, it would be an insult to the content to imply that it is not already intelligent to some degree. Thus, a more accurate term for the ongoing progress would be Smarter Content.

How to make content smarter?

Since smart content principles affect most aspects of the content lifecycle, probably the largest challenge in making content smarter is to choose what part of the lifecycle to focus on first. The optimal technological solution will clearly depend on that decision. In an ideal scenario, a detailed comparison of strategic value and ROI for the various possibilities would need to be carried out. For this to happen, however, organizations need to gain an in-depth understanding of the technological solutions, in order to find out the amount of the potential investment as well as the degree of the potential return. This, in itself, is a major undertaking, given the complexity of both the content lifecycle and the smart content technology.

In such a situation, it is important to make small steps in each promissing direction in order to obtain accurate ROI estimates. This means rapid prototyping and small-scale pilots. It also helps a lot, when relevant, to start from the user interface, in order to get feedback and buy-in from all the stakeholders as soon as possible.

From that point of view, a new product from Microsoft called PivotViewer offers a good opportunity. PivotViewer is a “smarter” way to navigate and discover content that is visually appealing, technologically innovative, easy to integrate, and free. It also allows to quickly prototype and visualize various behind-the-scenes “smart” improvements to the content processing workflow.

Intelligent Content 2011

I will present PivotViewer as well as Mondeca‘s smarter content technology at the Intelligent Content 2011 conference, where I will talk about improving content contextualization, personalization, and discovery.

Upcoming Mondeca events

There are three upcoming events to announce:

1. Mondeca is exhibiting and presenting at Online Information 2010 in London (30 Nov – 2 Dec)

Mondeca – stand 653

Grand Hall, Olympia, London

http://www.online-information.co.uk

2. Mondeca is chairing and presenting at the 1st French Semantic Web conference (17-18 January, 2011)

http://www.semweb.pro

3. Mondeca is presenting at the Intelligent Content 2011 conference (February 16-18, Palm Springs, California, USA)

http://intelligentcontent2011.com

Talk at the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)

Bernard Vatant from Mondeca was invited to speak at the Linked Open Data ISKO conference in London (September 14th, 2010) on the topic of “Porting terminologies to the Semantic Web”. Below is the abstract of his talk:

Terminologies have been developed for years in the closed world of enterprises, targeting the specific technical needs or specific communities of users. Their aim is to ease semantic interoperability across resources and systems dealing with well-defined, vertical domains. On the other hand, Semantic Web technologies and the growing Linked Data Cloud are deploying in a global scope, using a unified system of identifiers (URI), a generic data model (RDF) and the universal HTTP protocol to identify and exchange description of resources.

The glue between the terminology world and the Semantic Web will be ensured by nothing but vocabularies published in RDF, and currently SKOS is the favourite language for such publication. But SKOS has been built on a concept-centric model, leveraging mainly the thesaurus world, standards and best practices. In SKOS, concepts and their semantic relationships are defined independently of the terms used to name them (labels). SKOS is quickly becoming the lingua franca to migrate legacy vocabularies to the Semantic Web across the librarian community.

The SKOS-XL extension makes provision for description of terms themselves, considering them as first-order citizens, allowing the description of more specific relationships to concepts than just “preferred” and “alternative”, as well as other fine-grained information such as context of use, translation, acronyms, lexical variants. But does this (non-normative) extension meet the requirements of terminologists? Does it meet the requirements of terminology standards such as developed by ISO/TC 37? How is the terminology community involved in this process?

As approaches to this issue, we’ll first quickly present the model underlying the new management system for EUROVOC, a vocabulary presenting itself as a thesaurus, but with extensions of expressivity at the terminological level. We’ll also look at the lexvo.org initiative, which proposes a semiotic approach to terminology in the Semantic Web framework.

Presentation slides are available here: http://www.slideshare.net/event/linked-data-the-future-of-knowledge-organization-on-the-web
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Web et Philosophie : colloque samedi 16 octobre

Amis du web (sémantique) et de la philosophie, ce samedi aura lieu PhiloWeb 2010, le “premier symposium international du web et de la philosophie”, à Paris; derrière ce titre un tantinet pompeux se cache un univers de réflexion extrêmement intéressant, qui explore l’articulation entre ces deux univers que l’on jugerait trop facilement disjoints; comment la philosophie peut-elle éduquer notre regard sur le web ? comment le web modifie-t-il les pratiques philosophiques ? Si vous aimez comme moi nourrir une activité technique, d’ingénierie, avec des réflexions de fond, ou appuyer une réflexion de fond sur l’actualité de la technique, ce colloque est fait pour vous.

Des vidéos d’interview sont déjà disponibles. Je vous en conseille deux :