Alistair Russell

NITELIGHT: A Graphical Editor for SPARQL Queries (2009)

Alistair Russell, Paul R Smart

Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...

Semantically Exposing Existing Knowledge Repositories: ACase Study in Cultural Heritage (2009)

Denis Pitzalis, Patrick Sinclair, Christian Lahanier, Matthew Addis, Richard Lowe, Shahbaz Hafeez, ...

Abstract — In this paper we describe the practical implications of semantically exposing a cultural heritage multimedia collection system (EROS) through a Search and Retrieve Web Service (SRW)....

Using Windmill Expansion for Document Retrieval (2009)

Liang, Shao, Smart, Paul, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel

SEMIOTIKS aims to utilise online information to support the crucial decision–making of those military and civilian agencies involved in the humanitarian removal of landmines in areas of conflict...

Using Semantic Technologies to Improve Information Exploitation in Military and Civilian Application Contexts (2009)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Liang, Shao, Shadbolt, Nigel R, Booth, Chris, Briscombe, Neil, ...

Military and civilian agencies confront a number of challenges in harnessing the power of modern large-scale information networks. These challenges include the need to identify relevant information...

Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2008)

Daniel Alex, Er Smith, Alisdair Owens, Mc Schraefel, Patrick Sinclair, Max L. Wilson, ...

Abstract. We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research...

NITELIGHT: A Graphical Editor for SPARQL Queries (2008)

Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul

Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...

A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer (2008)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Braines, Dave, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Bao, Jie, Shadbolt, Nigel

Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...

Using Semantic Web technologies to support information processing and coalition decision making (2008)

Braines, Dave, Smart, Paul, Bao, Jie, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel, Handler, James

This paper outlines three techniques and tools which have recently arisen from Semantic Web research in the International Technology Alliance. The rst of these techniques is POAF (Portable Ontology...

doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxm067 AKTiveSA: A Technical Demonstrator System For Enhanced Situation Awareness (2008)

Paul R. Smart, Alistair Russell, Nigel R. Shadbolt, M. C. Shraefel, Leslie A. Carr

The issue of improved situation awareness is a key concern for military agencies, promising to deliver strategic advantages in a variety of conflict and non-conflict scenarios. Improved situation...

1 Centre de Recherche et Restauration des Musèes de France, (2008)

Denis Pitzalis, Patrick Sinclair, Christian Lahanier, Matthew Addis, Richard Lowe, Shahbaz Hafeez, ...

Abstract. In this paper we describe the practical implications of semantically exposing a collection management system (EROS [1][2][3][4]) for large cultural heritage multimedia repositories. This is...

NITELIGHT: A Graphical Tool for Semantic Query Construction (2008)

Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul R., Braines, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel R.

Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...

NITELIGHT: A Graphical Tool for Semantic Query Construction (2008)

Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul R., Braines, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel R.

Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...

Semantic Web meets Web 2.0 (and vice versa): The Value of the Mundane for the Semantic Web (2008)

Mc Schraefel, Daniel Alex, Er Smith, Alistair Russell, Max Wilson

Abstract. Web 2.0, not the Semantic Web, has become the face of “the next generation Web ” among the tech-literate set, and even among many in the various research communities involved in the...

doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxm067 AKTiveSA: A Technical Demonstrator System For Enhanced Situation Awareness (2008)

Paul R. Smart, Alistair Russell, Nigel R. Shadbolt

The issue of improved situation awareness is a key concern for military agencies, promising to deliver strategic advantages in a variety of conflict and non-conflict scenarios. Improved situation...

Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research challenges...

Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research challenges...

AKTiveSA: A Technical Demonstrator System For Enhanced Situation Awareness (2007)

Smart, Paul R., Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R., Shraefel, M. C., Carr, Leslie A.

The issue of improved situation awareness is a key concern for military agencies, promising to deliver strategic advantages in a variety of conflict and non-conflict scenarios. Improved situation...

AKTiveSA: A Technical Demonstrator System for Enhanced Situation Awareness in Military Operations Other Than War (2007)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R, Schraefel, Monica C, Carr, Leslie A

The issue of improved situation awareness is a key concern for military agencies, promising to deliver strategic advantages in a variety of conflict and non-conflict scenarios. Improved situation...

AKTiveSA: A Technical Demonstrator System for Enhanced Situation Awareness (2007)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R, Schraefel, Monica C, Carr, Leslie A

The issue of improved situation awareness is a key concern for military agencies, promising to deliver strategic advantages in a variety of conflict and non-conflict scenarios. Improved situation...

Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)

André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...

AKTiveSA: Supporting Civil-Military Information Integration in Military Operations Other than War (2007)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R

The ability to integrate information from a variety of sources is a key ingredient of enhanced situation awareness in both conflict and non-conflict situations. Information integration is...

Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...

Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)

André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...

AKTiveSA: Supporting Civil-Military Information Integration in Military Operations Other than War (2007)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R

The ability to integrate information from a variety of sources is a key ingredient of enhanced situation awareness in both conflict and non-conflict situations. Information integration is...

Reflections on Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...

Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale (2007)

André, Paul, Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Temporal events, while often discrete, also have interesting relationships within and across times: larger events are often collections of smaller more discrete events (battles within wars; artists'...

AKTiveSA: Supporting Civil-Military Information Integration in Military Operations Other than War (2007)

Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel R

The ability to integrate information from a variety of sources is a key ingredient of enhanced situation awareness in both conflict and non-conflict situations. Information integration is...

Reflections on Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...

Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Situational Awareness: User Interaction Model (2006)

Smart, Paul R., Russell, Alistair

This document describes the technological infrastructure of the AKTiveSA TDS, developed in the context of DIF DTC project 8.14, with a specific emphasis on the opportunities for...

Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Situational Awareness: User Interaction Model (2006)

Smart, Paul R., Russell, Alistair

This document describes the technological infrastructure of the AKTiveSA TDS, developed in the context of DIF DTC project 8.14, with a specific emphasis on the opportunities for...

mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)

Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander

Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...

mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)

Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander

Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...

mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search (2006)

Schraefel, M.c., Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel Alexander

Overview of mSpace interaction approach for presenting exploratory search particularly in the audio domain by using slices, preview cues, and user-determined organization of information from...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we compare two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting location discovery tasks on mobile devices while stationary and while on the move. While...

mSpace Mobile: a UI Gestalt to Support On-the-Go Info-Interaction (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Smith, Daniel A., Russell, Alistair, Schraefel, M.c.

mSpace Mobile Interaction presents a UI gestalt of 7 techniques for mobile/on-the-move information retrieval and assessment that enables multiple views of the information within a persistent...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we present a formative study comparing two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting Web-based location discovery tasks on mobile devices while...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we compare two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting location discovery tasks on mobile devices while stationary and while on the move. While...

mSpace Mobile: a UI Gestalt to Support On-the-Go Info-Interaction (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Smith, Daniel A., Russell, Alistair, Schraefel, M.c.

mSpace Mobile Interaction presents a UI gestalt of 7 techniques for mobile/on-the-move information retrieval and assessment that enables multiple views of the information within a persistent...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we present a formative study comparing two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting Web-based location discovery tasks on mobile devices while...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we compare two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting location discovery tasks on mobile devices while stationary and while on the move. While...

mSpace Mobile: a UI Gestalt to Support On-the-Go Info-Interaction (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Smith, Daniel A., Russell, Alistair, Schraefel, M.c.

mSpace Mobile Interaction presents a UI gestalt of 7 techniques for mobile/on-the-move information retrieval and assessment that enables multiple views of the information within a persistent...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (2006)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Schraefel, M.c.

In the following paper we present a formative study comparing two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting Web-based location discovery tasks on mobile devices while...

mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks. submitted to Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI06 (2006)

Max Wilson, Alistair Russell, Daniel A. Smith, M. C. Schraefel

In the following paper we present a formative study comparing two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting location discovery tasks on mobile devices while stationary...

The evolving mSpace platform: leveraging the Semantic Web on the Trail of the Memex (2005)

Schraefel, M.c., Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Russell, Alistair, Harris, Craig, Wilson, Max L.

Vannevar Bush proposed the memex as a means to support building knowledge in the way he says the human brain works: by association. Achieving this vision has been a core motivation for hypertext...

mSpace Mobile: A Mobile Application for the Semantic Web (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Abstract. mSpace Mobile is an application that provides access to locationbased information while on the move. Especially applicable to those unfamiliar with their surroundings, the application...

Using Semantic Web Technologies to Support Enhanced Situation Awareness (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul R., Shadbolt, Nigel, Carr, Leslie, Schraefel, M.c.

The AKTiveSA project is using Semantic Web technologies to support information fusion and en-hanced situational awareness in a simulated hu-manitarian relief scenario. We have developed an...

The evolving mSpace platform: leveraging the Semantic Web on the Trail of the Memex (2005)

Schraefel, M.c., Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Russell, Alistair, Harris, Craig, Wilson, Max L.

Vannevar Bush proposed the memex as a means to support building knowledge in the way he says the human brain works: by association. Achieving this vision has been a core motivation for hypertext...

mSpace Mobile: A Mobile Application for the Semantic Web (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Abstract. mSpace Mobile is an application that provides access to locationbased information while on the move. Especially applicable to those unfamiliar with their surroundings, the application...

Using Semantic Web Technologies to Support Enhanced Situation Awareness (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul R., Shadbolt, Nigel, Carr, Leslie, Schraefel, M.c.

The AKTiveSA project is using Semantic Web technologies to support information fusion and en-hanced situational awareness in a simulated hu-manitarian relief scenario. We have developed an...

The evolving mSpace platform: leveraging the Semantic Web on the Trail of the Memex (2005)

Schraefel, M.c., Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Russell, Alistair, Harris, Craig, Wilson, Max L.

Vannevar Bush proposed the memex as a means to support building knowledge in the way he says the human brain works: by association. Achieving this vision has been a core motivation for hypertext...

mSpace Mobile: A Mobile Application for the Semantic Web (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, M.c.

Abstract. mSpace Mobile is an application that provides access to locationbased information while on the move. Especially applicable to those unfamiliar with their surroundings, the application...

Using Semantic Web Technologies to Support Enhanced Situation Awareness (2005)

Wilson, Max L., Russell, Alistair, Smart, Paul R., Shadbolt, Nigel, Carr, Leslie, Schraefel, M.c.

The AKTiveSA project is using Semantic Web technologies to support information fusion and en-hanced situational awareness in a simulated hu-manitarian relief scenario. We have developed an...

The evolving mSpace platform: leveraging the Semantic Web on the Trail of the Memex (2005)

Mc Schraefel, Daniel A. Smith, Alisdair Owens, Alistair Russell, Craig Harris, Max Wilson

“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them ” – V. Bush

mSpace Mobile: A Mobile Application for the Semantic Web (2005)

Max Wilson, Alistair Russell, Daniel A. Smith, Alisdair Owens, M. C. Schraefel

Abstract. mSpace Mobile is an application that provides access to locationbased information while on the move. Especially applicable to those unfamiliar with their surroundings, the application...