Engineer Yolanda Aucapiña, representative of the University of Cuenca, participant of TICAL 2017 Costa Rica, tells us about her investigative work and her experience being the only woman, and one of the three winners of Youth for Innovation, being her first participation. in the TICAL 2017 edition.
I am proud to represent the University of Cuenca, I also want to emphasize that the project is not only mine, it is also my colleague Carlos Plaza's, I am proud to present it at TICAL 2017, the project to present is our degree work, in coordination With Engineer Victor Saquicela as director, the subject of the research is a semantic search engine that aims to facilitate the search for information in existing data sources at a university.
As there are not many specialists in materials characterization, and new materials are generated every day in university chemistry laboratories, we saw it as important to create a working group of people dedicated to material characterization and research on this topic. , since today, the economy is directed to products with added value and not to raw materials.
RDF stands for Research Description Framework, it is a language that allows terms to be modeled, it is based on triplets, that is, three terms that are the subject, predicate and the object, it is modeled with these three elements, it allows to describe in a simple way the terms and go downloading; Inference relationships can be defined, so that the computer is able to infer knowledge, it is not the same as a database, which is looking for something with which it is related, you can do reverse searches, that is, perform related searches that integrate everything in a single model.
Our work began when we graduated in February, the work began in March, we were in a research stage that is needed to obtain the status and the bases for the start, at this moment we are in the ontology modeling part, prior to To this, a requirements survey must be carried out, which is a complex part, competence questions must be prepared, accordingly, vocabularies must be drawn to be able to search for resources that already exist, the anthology design is essentially based on reuse, that is , do not create everything from scratch but look for parts that can be reused.
At this moment we are looking for what can be reused, we find different vocabularies that can be joined by each part and thus build the organizational ontology of the university.
Make them interested, make them find something useful, send them the solution and then continue working and show an implemented solution, showing the result and feasibility in a visual way.
We found out about TICAL precisely through the Director of Technologies, Victor Saquicela, who informed us that the proposal could be sent.
I know that CEDIA is an institution that helps research projects, which it finances, I know of research projects and university colleagues who have worked with CEDIA and I know that it is an institution that has greatly supported this area.
Of course! It would be excellent, because the project is extensible, many more things can be done, and if CEDIA gives us its support it would be excellent!
Thank CEDIA for the management, my sincere thanks to Engineer Juan Pablo Carvallo, he is a great person, a magnificent teacher, I have had the pleasure of being his student several times and a sincere thank you to you.
