Galaxy: IBM Ontological Network Miner

Abstract

Many applications of the semantic web and Web 2.0 aim to empower the knowledge worker. These applications however, do not allow the user to combine all of his/her social and semantic information into a single resource which allows data to be processed, managed and enhanced automatically. In our demo we will present a number of demo applications based on Galaxy, IBM’s ontological network miner, which was designed to work with such resources to enhance the capabilities of a number of applications in social semantic computing. Galaxy is a highly efficient, scalable system which can be easily built into an application and can be optimised to suit a user’s preferences or to take into account the needs of a particular task or application.