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InterTwino project were presented during the annual GATE forum “Up to GATE. Technology, Big Data & Beyond. Open Up for Innovation”. International experts and business leaders participated in the two-day event, including representatives of the Ministry of Innovation and growth, Big Data Value Association, Chalmers University of Technology, European Observatory for Digital Media. The forum included visionary sessions, and different thematic panels, as well as demonstrations and poster sessions that reveal the results of GATE’s work on various projects.

During the third project meeting in Sofia, the partners from the University of Milano-Bicocca conducted an educational seminar for GATE researchers on Semantic data enrichment: applications and challenges. During the seminar, a semantic approach to the enrichment of tabular and textual data, where the original data are interlinked while enriched was presented. Since the quality of the enriched data must fit for use in the downstream applications, a native human-in-the-loop perspective that enables users to control the outcome of the enrichment and, eventually, improve their quality was described. In this perspective, algorithms for interpreting, annotating, and extracting information from tabular and textual data must be coupled with interactive user interfaces and algorithms to manage the feedback loop. In the seminar, the application of this paradigm to tabular data was explored, including applications to different industry sectors. The seminar included an introduction to basic concepts related to semantics to make it open to a general audience.В В В 

For the second year, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, in collaboration with the GATE Institute, organized a Data Science International Summer School in Predeal, Romania, 20 -28 July, 2023. International scientists from prestigious universities and research institutions in the USA, Austria, Slovenia, Norway, the Netherlands, UK, Bulgaria, and Romania delivered sessions on data-related topics including data analytics, machine learning, graph analysis, tome series, etc. The sessions involved both theory and practical exercises. Dr. Wiktor Sowinski-Mydlarz and Dr. Pawel Gasiorowski from GATE Institute and London Metropolitan University presented two sessions on operationalizing machine learning pipelines and deep learning with neural networks. Nikolay Nikolov from SINTEF conducted a session on data enrichment including presentation of use cases and application examples.

The Advisory Board of the project met live for the first time to discuss current challenges, as well as promising research directions and projects. The Advisory board members – Anna Fensel, Ahmet Soylu and Evgeny Kharlamov, are experts in the field of artificial intelligence and data compatibility, as well as digital transformation and innovation. The board members shared their suggestions on perspective research directions within the InterTwino working groups, possibilities for future collaboration and discussed the innovation potential of data spaces and interoperability within and between data spaces.
During the project meeting, a number of workshops covering different topics in the three working groups – smart cities, platform and education, were held. New research directions in the field of semantic interoperability for data spaces, extensions of CityGML model, as well as tools integration for definition of enrichment pipelines were discussed. Planning capacity-building activities were also a part of the agenda.