COHSE was initially a joint project between the Manchester IMG and Southampton's Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia (IAM) group, world leaders in the field of Open Hypermedia.
The project is continuing in Manchester, funded by a grant from Sun Microsystems.
Hypermedia assists the user in navigating the available information space; this space is diverse and distributed, populated by multimedia objects which may be persistent, constantly updated, and perhaps dynamically generated. In a global information environment, where the number and size of potential information resources is huge, of variable quality and aimed at diverse audiences, the focused retrieval of pertinent information becomes a vital issue.
The aim of COHSE is to research into methods to improve significantly the quality, consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents). COHSE (Conceptual Open Hypermedia Services Environment) uses three leading-edge technologies:
COHSE's approach differs from many others in the Semantic Web field as the emphasis is on hypertext authoring. Much interest is currently focused on the process of resource discovery and search engine technology - less attention is then placed on issues relating to results presentation or how the use of metadata, reasoning and open architectures can help us in constructing hypertext structures. The Semantic Web is a Web - this point should not be lost or forgotten.
Further information on COHSE can be found at the project web site.
Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble. Towards Annotation using DAML+OIL. K-CAP 2001 workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation, Victoria B.C, October 2001. [PDF]
Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, Ian Horrocks, Sean Bechhofer. OILing the way to Machine Understandable Bioinformatics Resources. To appear in IEEE Information Technology in Biomedicine special issue on Bioinformatics.
Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, Ian Horrocks, Sean Bechhofer. Building a Bioinformatics Ontology Using OIL To appear in IEEE Information Technology in Biomedicine special issue on Bioinformatics.
Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble, Ian Horrocks. DAML+OIL is not enough. SWWS-1, Semantic Web working symposium, Stanford (CA), July 29th-August 1st, 2001. [PDF]
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens. OilEd: a Reason-able Ontology Editor for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of KI2001, Joint German/Austrian conference on Artificial Intelligence, September 19-21, Vienna, 2001. Springer-Verlag LNAI Vol. 2174. [Proceedings TOC]
Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens. OilEd: a Reason-able Ontology Editor for the Semantic Web. DL2001, 14th International Workshop on Description Logics, Stanford, USA, August 2001. [PDF]
Robert Stevens, Ian Horrocks, Carole Goble, Sean Bechhofer. Building a Reason-able Bioinformatics Ontology Using OIL. IJCAI'01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, Seattle, USA, pp. 81--90, August 2001. [PDF]
Leslie Carr, Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble, Wendy Hall. Conceptual Linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia. WWW10, Tenth World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, May 2001. [HTML]
Carole Goble, Sean Bechhofer, Leslie Carr, David De Roure, Wendy Hall. Conceptual Open Hypermedia = The Semantic Web?. SemWeb2001 The Second International Workshop on the Semantic Web, Hong Kong, May 2001. [PDF]
Sean Bechhofer, Carole Goble. Thesaurus Construction through Knowledge Representation. Data and Knowledge Engineering, 37(1) pp 25--45, 2001. [Journal TOC]
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Nick Drummond C A Goble. Supporting Public Browsing of an Art
Gallery Collections Database. Proceeedings of the 11th
International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert
Systems Applications DEXA 2000. September 4--8, 2000 London - Greenwich,
United Kingdom. Springer Verlag LNCS Vol. 1873. [Slides/Video]
Bullock J. (1999) Informed Navigation: Description Logic Based Hypermedia Linking PhD Thesis, University of Manchester.
Sean
Bechhofer, Robert Stevens, Gary Ng, Alex
Jacoby and Carole Goble. Guiding the User: An Ontology Driven
Interface. UIDIS, Workshop on User Interfaces to Data
Intensive Systems, Edinburgh, IEEE Computer Society, 158--161,
1999. [PDF] [Slides]
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Bechhofer, C A Goble, Delivering Terminological Services.
AI*IA Notizie, Periodico dell'Associazione Italiana per
l'intelligenza Artificiale.Vol.12, No.1, March 1999. [PDF]
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Bechhofer, C A Goble, Classification Based Navigation and
Retrieval for Picture Archives. IFIP WG2.6 Conference on Data
Semantics, DS8 , Rotorua, New Zealand, Jan 1999. [PDF] [Slides]
Bullock, J., and Goble, C. (1998). TourisT: The
Application of a Description Logic based Semantic Hypermedia
System for Tourism, In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Hypertext
Conference, Pittsburgh. ISBN 0-89791-972-6
Carr L., Hall, W., Hitchcock, S., (1998) Link Services or
Link Agents?, In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Hypertext
Conference. pp 113-122.
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Bechhofer, C A Goble, A.Rector, W.Solomon,
W.Nowlan.Terminologies and Terminology Servers for Information
Environments. Proceedings of STEP 97, 8th International
Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice, London,
1997. [PDF]
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Distributed Link Service: A Tool for Publishers, Authors and
Readers, World Wide Web Journal 1(1), 647-656, O'Reilly &
Associates.
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