1. Aquenergy Portal Elisabetta Zuanelli, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy E-Age 2014 Muscat 10-11 december

2. aquenergy zuanelli 20142 Aquenergy: preconditions current situation in the water and energy sectors: a high fragmentation of information a scattering of sources a lack of common criteria for sharing and monitoring in a cost-effective way

3. aquenergy zuanelli 20143 An ontology for the automatic treatment of related links The system supports a platform for targeted external users, with easy and ready-to-use access for different users: from public institutions to private enterprise from academics to students being itself a structured repository the search engine is designed for advanced queries (e.g. technological solutions, scientific outcomes, social frameworks, etc.) with pertinent answers and targeted links in a time/effective cost/effective approach

4. aquenergy zuanelli 20144 Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment site and relevant links acquisition management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain links cataloguing and correlation

5. aquenergy zuanelli 20145 Access, monitoring, sharing and evaluation of data and information: a knowledge architecture interaction via Web interface with the system managers, providing access to the targeted functions and link establishment site and relevant links acquisition management of relevant thesauri,ontologies,semantic dictionaries of concept equivalents in the water/energy domain links cataloguing and correlation

6. aquenergy zuanelli 20146 Activities a) analysis of sources, format and contents b) checking of the quality of sources and contents c) definition of categorial/relational schemes d) design of the overall system e) development of the domain ontology f) thematic-functional modelling and structure of the platform

7. aquenergy zuanelli 20147 A portal for thematic searches Minimalistic interface Three search types Categories Engines Sites

8. aquenergy zuanelli 20148 Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

9. aquenergy zuanelli 20149 Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

10. aquenergy zuanelli 201410 Data managed Institution / site Related data Activities Documents Events Search engine

11. aquenergy zuanelli 201411 Functionalities Search categories Search engines Professionals Institutions Thematic Seach sites

12. aquenergy zuanelli 201412 Why it is different Categories Subcategories Data Institution cards Related data Data belong to one or more categories Search on categories (not text)

13. aquenergy zuanelli 201413 Institution card...

14. aquenergy zuanelli 201414 … Institution card Institution / site informations Acronym Short description Long description Hyperlink Related data Activities Documents … Hyperlinks in related data

15. aquenergy zuanelli 201415 Activity card...

16. aquenergy zuanelli 201416 Activity card...

17. aquenergy zuanelli 201417 … Activity card Related data card (activity) Acronym Short description Long description Hyperlink Hyperlink to belonging institution

18. aquenergy zuanelli 201418 Technologies used Python Django PostgreSQL

19. aquenergy zuanelli 201419 OpenID: authentication of users to manage the private parts of the site. Value-added services can be offered to selected users Liferay: Content Management System (CMS) based on Java that allows for the management of multilingual content. This will allow research in different languages Norconex-collector: a crawler to gather and filter content from Internet Solr: a standard search platform used to store the crawled data forming the feed base for the Aquenergy engine MapServer: Server of geographic data that enables the generation of multi-layer maps to aggregate information of interest. For example, it may show a map representing information on power lines, roads and cities The additional technologies that could be integrated in later versions and their features

20. aquenergy zuanelli 201420 Next version New three stage architecture

21. aquenergy zuanelli 201421 Next version technologies Liferay Solr Norconex-collector

22. aquenergy zuanelli 201422 Next version technologies OpenID MapServer

23. aquenergy zuanelli 201423 Search companies Companies showcase and marketplace

24. aquenergy zuanelli 201424 Search by category Water activities Water use

25. aquenergy zuanelli 201425 Search companies Consultancies companies

26. aquenergy zuanelli 201426 Search companies Company card

27. aquenergy zuanelli 201427 Search companies Name – Abbreviation - URL

28. aquenergy zuanelli 201428 Search companies Companies by location

29. aquenergy zuanelli 201429 Conclusions Intelligent search category based Search on category definition not on the data text All data are categorized Organized data: institutions – related data Direct links: related data belong to an institution Reverse links: institution points to related data Every element has a hyperlink to the original data