The main objective for the IDT-UAB for the next three years is to consolidate the Hub of Knowledge that we already had in mind in SGR 1564 (2017-2021). According to our results, we do believe that this Research Centre is already leading the Law and Technology field in Spain. Our SGR 1564 held 10 European projects, 4 national, and 6 international (Australia), awarded in competitive calls. The European consortia have obtained a total of 28.4M euros, of which 2M (approximately 7%) went to IDT-UAB. If we take into account this income and put it in context with the n. of SGR members, the outcome is that each researcher contributed to the group approximately € 53,000 per year (5 years: 268,000 per researcher approx.) within the period 2017-2021.
Building a Hub of Knowledge would increase the visibility and research impact of IDT. A Hub of Knowledge consists of a unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge. It is a knowledge-attractor, able to globally gather, feed, link, and serve specific structured data. This means the creation of a legal eco-system at the interface between machine information processing and all possible users. This strategy is based on the (updated annually about technology product categories) IDC Black Book, and initiatives like FIRE2 and the NGIHUB for the New Generation Internet3 and the Internet of Things. The eco-system exists digitally in the infrastructure provided by the Legal Hub of Knowledge Software. The NGIHUB is focusing on several main areas: (i) edge computing, (ii) trust and security, (iii) Artificial Intelligence, (iv) Internet of Things, (v) Networks, (vi) Open, Linked, and Big Data, (vii) Blockchain/Distributed ledgers, (viii) Ontologies and Semantic Discovery Tools, (ix) Augmented / Virtual reality