1. Linked Open Data in
the Publishing
Industry (at WKD)
Christian Dirschl, WKG
München, 06. March 20122006
Vienna, 22nd Dezember

2. Agenda
 Company Wolters Kluwer Deutschland (WKG)
 Current Content Supply Chain
 Business Opportunities with Linked Open Data
 Summary

3. Wolters Kluwer Deutschland Company Profile
WKG Legal & Regulatory
 Companies/Brands  Products (Examples)
- Carl Heymanns Verlag - IP, Administrative Law
- Luchterhand - Civil, Family, Labor Law
- Werner Verlag - Construction Law
- Carl Link - Publications for Schools/KiTas
- CW Haarfeld - Public Health Insurance WKG is part of Wolters Kluwer n.v.
- Deutscher - Magazin „Personalwirtschaft“
Wirtschaftsdienst (HR Management)
- AnNoText - SW for Lawyers and Notaries
- Customer - Worldwide reach
- Trigon Data orientation - Europe
- Lawyers - North America
- Tax Accountants - Asia/Pacific
- Corporations and
SMEs  Economic success
WKG Tax & Accounting - Fincancial institutions - Revenue 2010: EUR 3,6 bln
 Companies/Brands  Products (Examples)
- Health Providers - 19.000 Employees
- Akademische Arbeits- - Tax SW for Consumers - Public Sector - Listed Amsterdam SE
gemeinschaft Verlag - SW for Tax Accountants
- Addison Group - SW for SMEs with focus
- Schleupen Tax Controlling and Accounting
- Wago Curadata

4. Current Content Supply Chain
Content Supply Chain of WKG
Content Content Composing Publishing Customer
Sales Customer
Acquisition Enrichment Bundling Interfacing Service
Content Acquisition Content Enrichment Publishing Sales
Composing/Bundling Interfacing Customer
Service
 Manually collecting  Using internal  Publishing mainly in  Online libraries as
data from different taxonomies and the context of a isolated applications
sources thesauri distinct product  Hardly any
 Most information is  Mainly manual  Publishing of texts, integration with Web
publicly not available enrichment not information content
 Linking of WK  Only first steps in
content only integration of client
software and content

5. Content Acquisition of Governmental Data

6. Content Enrichment with Open Data
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7. Publishing of Open Data
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8. Open Data and Sales Opportunities
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9. Summary
 Our customers want more Open Governmental Data
 Our customers want external data more and more
integrated in their professional environment
 Our customers want real federated access using their
internal vocabularies and processes both for external and
internal data
 Our customers want to use content in any format and on
any device
 Our customers want to leverage our knowledge about
structuring and enriching content and data for their own
purposes
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10. Contact
Author
Christian Dirschl
cdirschl@wolterskluwer.de
www.wolterskluwer.de
Project LOD2
http://lod2.eu
Publink
http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html