Collaboration Proposal

Call for research projects 2012: UPV/EHU-UPPA

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Brief description of the call for projects UPV/EHU –UPPA 2012

Rare Ocean Species Collector

Challenges

Brief description of the call for projects UPV/EHU –UPPA 2012

Call for projects UPV/EHU -UPPA

Aim of the callInitiate and finance common projects in order to setup, in near future, bigger and more ambitious (multidisciplinary) projects: European funding Framework Program, POCTEFA, FEDER, …

Grant Period1 year

Maximum Budget6K euros

Main expensesTravels, technical assistance, …

Deadline10th October 2012

Possible partnersMarine Biology• LRHA/IFREMER(France)

• AZTI (Basque Country)

Computer Science• LIUPPA (France)• UPV Teams (Basque Country)

Rare Ocean Species Collector

Project ContextCollecting information (location, species, etc.) related to the capture of rare* fishes and invertebrates in the ocean is done by several institutes (IFREMER, AZTI, Museum of Natural History, La Rochelle University, etc.) mainly thanks to the help of fishermen

ProblemsNo common methodologyNo data sharingNo information indexing/retrievalNo data analysis (since input data are only few)

* Never/occasionally captured previously

Project AimSetup an easy-to-use solution able to

Standardize information representationReduce fishermen effortsIncrease and speed up data input Provide collective knowledge and data analysis

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Rare Ocean Species Collector

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

Project Framework

How it works?

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Rare Ocean Species Collector

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

When observing a captured rare fish, a fisherman can take a snapshot on his boat using his cellular phone and upload it into

the provided application

Rare Ocean Species Collector

How it works?

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

A user can look for rare fishes using his/her smartphone. The retreival is based on:

photo, keywords, or hybrid

Rare Ocean Species Collector

How it works?

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

A user can look for rare fishes using his/her smartphone. The retreival is based on:

photo, keywords, or hybrid

A user can annotate (send feedback, enrich description and photos, etc.) rare fishes.

Rare Ocean Species Collector

How it works?

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

An expert approves the inclusion into the knowledge base if input

data concern rare fishes.

Rare Ocean Species Collector

How it works?

Fish Photo

Collective knowledge

fisherman

Expert

Insert (photo+Meta) Approve + Analysis

MMI OntologyUser

Search(Text+Photo)

MetaData

Annotate(Text+Photo)

An expert approves the inclusion into the knowledge base if input

data concern rare fishes.

An expert can use the collective knowledge to anaylse the location

of specific rare fishes, trace its spatio-temporal migration, etc.

Challenges

Challenges Acquisition

How to define and easy-to-use and quality input acquisition protocol?How to assist the expert in his/her decision when no enough/relevant data is provided?

Challenges Storage

How to define a standard representation able to consider different semantics and meanings?How to reconstruct geographical information (action, subject, time, 3D space, anaphoric resolution) from existing non structured documents?

Famille Centrolophidae – Centrolophe noir (Centrolophus niger Gmelin, 1788)1

1 Espèce déjà capturée en janvier 1999 devant Tarnos par 15m de fond

GeographicalInformation

subject

action

time

3D localization

specie

capturer

janvier 1999

Tarnos par 15m de profondeur

Centrolophe noir

Anaphore

Challenges Storage

How to enrich/link data with external sources (Web, PreviMer, SHOM, etc.)?

Building multimedia oriented crawlers/wrappers?Building ontologies from structured and non structured sources?Measuring information quality

Challenges Retrieval

How to provide multi-criteria query (photo and text)?How to adapt user/expert/fisherman interface (vocabulary, screens, services)?How to identify good services and how to compose new ones?

Mashup based approach

Challenges Applications

How to generate on-the-fly applications (for mining, for annotating, etc.) ?

Mashup based approach

PromotionHow to attract people to use “Rare Ocean Species Collector” application(s)?

Towards Game Theory?