Initialise ideas page for GSoC 2021

[sameshl]

I have just created a bare-bones ideas page by duplicating the ideas page from last year.

We can keep updating the ideas page through code review on this PR and I will make those changes.

[Mec-iS]

I refactored the page with major changes. Please take a look.

Still to be added: references to starting material for idea number 1

[open-risk]

Here are additional references for the open risk idea (with some further explanatory comments)

The starting point is an NPL (non-performing loan) ontology that descibes logical relations and data properties of a realistic bank loan portfolio. The ontology has around 8 major classes of data and 400+ fields. In json-ld format, the ontology is available here (there are more Open Risk ontologies and taxonomies but this one is the most relevant for the current stage of the project and GSOC21) :

• NPL Ontology as json-ld

Using a web browser we can take a look at the ontology here.

• Human readable version

The wiki description of all the data fields allows to continously update the descriptions and link with the usage of the data in practical operations and risk management documented in other parts of the wiki

• Wiki description of the EBA NPL data domain

The ontology is part of a broader toolkit / open source ecosystem for risk management tools, some background reading and further links are in this blog post and links therein

• Introductory Blog post

One thing that could be useful (or not) but I want to mention is that we already have an open source REST implementation of the NPL data (as a django DRF project). So this can be used by students to get a feel for what we are after. But it is still incomplete and in any case it does not provide hateoas which I think is the really powerful promise of hydra and the hydrus project. Because of the complexity and frequent changing nature of such loan databases providing "smart" tools that can make people's life a bit easier. The link to that project is here.

• Django based simple REST API of openNPL

[Mec-iS]

I am not sure if these details should go in the ideas page or if we should keep them for the proposals phase, when students will start asking for more material. I think that adding them now will make the idea too thick and too long to read.

what do you think?

[open-risk]

I am not sure if these details should go in the ideas page or if we should keep them for the proposals phase, when students will start asking for more material. I think that adding them now will make the idea too thick and too long to read.

what do you think?

Makes sense if the idea is clear already. There could also be a "further reading" section at the end.

[Mec-iS]

I am going to merge so we can see the initial version on the website and iterate. please double-check.