Data and Knowledge Group

DBOnto: Bridging Databases and Ontologies

An ISG project

Description

DBOnto is an EPSRC platform grant, i.e., "a flexible mechanism of providing underpinning funding to well established, world leading research groups".

Platform funding will be used to provide stability and continuity for the existing PDRA team, and would help us to continue to attract and retain the most talented young researchers from around the world. It will also be used to develop new intra- and inter-disciplinary collaborations via support for research visits and short exploratory research projects, and to pursue new approaches to interaction with industry, building on and extending our established collaborations. The latter will include, e.g., the longer term embedding of PDRAs in industry, extending our research efforts beyond the traditional research prototype, specialising our tools for particular industries, and using them to test our research hypotheses in realistic industrial environments. Finally, platform funding will support extended outreach activities, including the development and delivery of tutorials, short courses, and a summer school.

Platform funding will thus enable us both to tackle a strategically important problem requiring a large team with a wide range of expertise, and to develop the careers of the next generation of research leaders.

Support

DBOnto is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).