Building and maintaining thesauri are complex and laborious tasks. PoolParty is a Thesaurus Management Tool (TMT) for the Semantic Web, which aims to support the creation and maintenance of thesauri by utilizing Linked Open Data (LOD), text-analysis and easy-to-use GUIs, so thesauri can be managed and utilized by domain experts without needing knowledge about the semantic web. Some aspects of thesaurus management, like the editing of labels, can be done via a wiki-style interface, allowing for lowest possible access barriers to contribution.

1. PoolParty Thesaurus Management Semantic Search Linked Data ISKO UK, London September 14, 2010 Andreas Blumauer

6. SKOS Thesauri + Linked Data

10. Semantic Enterprise Wikis ERP DMS

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14. Semantic Web approach: Concepts & Relations instead of simple text Apple is in the process of launching an application to allow iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to purchase Apple merchandise straight from their devices. http://my.com/Apple Apple Apple Inc. http://my.com/iPhone http://my.com/iPhone3G iPhone iPhone 3GS iPhone 3G http://my.com/smartphone

15. Comparison of approaches Traditional approach Semantic Web approach Indexing paradigm Text & phrases Concepts & named entities Background knowledge Not available Thesauri, Linked Data Semantic search Statistical approaches Statistical approaches & methods based on knowledge models Similarity search Based on clustering and vector models Based on clustering & vector models enriched with background knowledge Application scenarios Out-of-the-box applications, SME´s Large enterprises, domain-specific search engines

17. PoolParty GUI

18. Full compatibility with SKOS/RDF

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24. Integrate with CMS/DMS – Example: emteba.at

25. Advanced Features

26. Multilinguality

29. Introduce individual relations between concepts Create your own individual inverse or symmetric relations between concepts!

33. Visual browsing

34. Use your favourite theme!

36. Linked data frontend