Dr Enrico Daga

Senior Research Fellow

enrico.daga@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Enrico Daga has carried out R&D on Web Semantics first at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and then at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University in the UK. He has a PhD in Computer Science and is currently Research Fellow at the OU Knowledge Media Institute.

After playing key roles in projects developing intelligent systems for Ontology Engineering (NeOn) and Smart Cities (MK:Smart), his current research is exploring novel methods for data curation (policies and process knowledge) and the application of Knowledge Graphs in the humanities.

He is currently engaged in the EU-funded projects MultiPod and ClimateSense. Before, he was engaged in two EU-funded projects: SPICE -- as co-investigator, and Polifonia -- as Technical Director and Principal Investigator for the OU.

He is the Technical Director of the OU Open Knowledge Graph and the MK Data Hub, a Smart City Data Infrastructure supporting research (SciRoc—robots in Smart Cities) and innovation (CityLABS project). Passionate about AI and its relevance for Humanities research, Enrico is the founder of the WHiSe Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web and the Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) DARIAH WG.

Research interests

Enrico’s research is exploring novel methods for knowledge acquisition and curation and the application of Knowledge Graphs in domains such as Smart Cities and Cultural Heritage.

Current research interests include:

Knowledge graphs construction and applications
Hybrid methods for Knowledge Extraction
AI-supported Scholarship in the Humanities
Computational Policies (Licences, Digital Rights)
Privacy-aware Intelligent Systems
Heterogeneous data management infrastructures

Projects

Climate Misinformation Surveillance with Multidimensional GIS

This research project aims to tackle the pressing issue of misinformation, especially concerning climate change, by leveraging the powers of GIS. Despite numerous efforts to combat misinformation, its prevalence continues to rise, influencing public perceptions and derailing climate policy debates and decisions. This proposal identifies and addresses several key challenges: the absence of effective tools for geospatial mapping and analyses of climate misinformation alongside climate data, the limited understanding of how climate misinformation spreads geographically, and the lack of effective tools to visualise the interplay of geospatial, temporal, and topical patterns of climate misinformation. To address these challenges, we propose the development of a Multidimensional Geographic Information System (GIS). This GIS will integrate climate data (temperature, precipitation, wind, carbon emission), climate misinformation data from fact-checkers and traditional and social media platforms, analyse its correlations with geographical and climate information, and enhance our predictive capabilities to counter the spread of misinformation effectively and proactively. The next three Conference Of the Parties (COP) will be used as use cases to train and evaluate our research and outcomes. This project, ClimateSense, aims to maximise the capabilities of GIS, enabling it to significantly influence societal understanding and policymaking in the face of climate change and misinformation.

Dr Enrico Daga

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