1. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Intelligent Information
Management
Collaborative Project 2010-2014
in Information and Communication Technologies
Project No. 257943
Start Date 01/09/2010
http://lod2.eu
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2. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Why Linked Open Data?
Problem: Try to search for these things on the opaque to current Web search.
current Web:
• Apartments near German-Russian bilingual
childcare in Leipzig.
• ERP service providers with offices in Vienna
and London.
• Researchers working on multimedia topics in
Eastern Europe.
Information is available on the Web, but
Solution: complement text on Web pages with structured
linked open data & intelligently combine/integrate such
structured information from different sources:
Search
engine
HTML HTML
RDF
RDF
Web
Web
berlin.de server
Immobilienscout.de server
Has everything about Knows all about real
childcare in Berlin. DB
estate offers in Germany DB
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3. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
The
emerging
Web
of
Data
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4. Inter-­‐linking/
Fusing
Manual
Classifica7on/
revision/
Enrichment
authoring
Storage/
Linked Data
Lifecycle
Quality
Analysis
Querying
Challenges
Extrac7on
Evolu7on
/
Repair
Search/
Browsing/
Explora7on

5. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Use Cases
Objective of WP8:
Applying Linked Data technologies in an enterprise stack
to support Human Resources-related issues.
ENTERPRISE
APPLICATIONS
(Exalead)
Objective of WP7: MEDIA OPEN Objective of WP9:
Supporting content-related & GOVERNMENT Improving accessibility,
production workflows in the PUBLISHING DATA findability and reusability of
media & publishing industry. Open Government Data.
(Wolters (Open
Kluwer Knowledge
Germany) Foundation)
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6. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
PubLink – LOD2’s Linked Open Data Starter Service
• PubLink helps selected organizations with a focused consulting effort of 10-15 days
to publish and make use out of Linked Data
• PubLink helps to evaluate the LOD2 technologies and to increase the wealth of
Linked Data
• Yearly application deadline in Winter
• 2011 PubLink participants include:
1. Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria
2. Greater London Authority
3. Deutsch Bibliographie, Historische Kommission
4. The Parliament of Finland
5. City of Vienna
6. Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC)
• See: http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html
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7. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Publicdata.eu
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8. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
The LOD2 Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey 2010
http://survey.lod2.eu
Some results
‘Expected to have features' of a data catalogue:
Quality of data:
• providing raw datasets
• provenance/source of data
• information about versions of data sets
• format of data
• searching exploring, grouping, clustering of data sets
• completeness of meta data
‘Like to have features':
What users want to do with open government data
• crowd sourcing mechanisms
are:
• research / analysis • alerts on (regional) information
• analysis an visualisation tools
• visualisation
• simply consuming the data
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9. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
WP12: Fact Sheet
Project Means
§ Instrument: Large-scale Integrating Project
§ Objective: Intelligent Information Management § Total Budget: 8,58 M€
§ Call: FP7-ICT-2009-5 § Total Funding: 6,45 M€
§ Duration: 09/2010 – 08/2014 § Total Resources: 844 PM
Consortium
§ Universität Leipzig (Coordinator)
§ Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
§ National University of Ireland in Galway
§ Freie Universität Berlin
§ OpenLink Software
§ Semantic Web Company
§ TenForce
§ Exalead
§ Wolters Kluwer Deutschland 10 Partners from 7 European
§ Open Knowledge Foundation Countries
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10. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Contact
Address Coordinator
University of Leipzig Dr Sören Auer
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Scientific Project Leader
Institute of Computer Science Phone:+49 (341) 97-32367
Department of Business Information Systems
Fax: +49 (341) 97-32329
Postfach 100920 Email: auer@uni-leipzig.de
04009 Leipzig http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer
Germany
Nadine Jänicke
Project Manager
Phone:+49 (341) 97-32310
Fax: +49 (341) 97-32329
Email: jaenicke@uni-leipzig.de
http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/NadineJaenicke
Presenter
Bastiaan Deblieck
Semantic Technology Business Unit Manager
Phone:+32 475 95 49 32
Email: bastiaan.deblieck@tenforce.com
http://www.tenforce.com
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