Carole Goble awarded a CBE for services to science

Congratulations to Professor Carole Goble who has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to science in the 2014 New Year's Honours List.

Professor Goble helped found the Journal of Web Semantics in 2003 and was an Editor in Chief and managed its editorial office from 2003 to 2008.

She is currently a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester, UK, where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. 

New preprint: Ztreamy: a Middleware for Publishing Semantic Streams on the Web

A new preprint is available on the JWS preprint server.

Jesus Arias Fisteus, Norberto Fernandez Garcia, Luis Sanchez Fernandez and Damaris Fuentes-Lorenzo, Ztreamy: a Middleware for Publishing Semantic Streams on the Web, Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, to appear, 2014.

Abstract: In order to make the semantic sensor Web a reality, middleware for efficiently publishing semantically-annotated data streams on the Web is needed. Such middleware should be designed to allow third parties to reuse and mash-up data coming from streams.

These third parties should even be able to publish their own value-added streams derived from other streams and static data. In this work we present Ztreamy, a scalable middleware platform for the distribution of semantic data streams through HTTP. The platform provides an API for both publishing and consuming streams, as well as built-in filtering services based on data semantics. A key contribution of our proposal with respect to other related systems in the state of the art is its scalability. Our experiments with Ztreamy show that a single server is able, in some configurations, to publish a real-time stream to up to 40000 simultaneous clients with delivery delays of just a few seconds, largely outperforming other systems in the state of the art.