Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj0Uh0x4yos How to build smart applications based on linked data and semantic technologies

1. Webinar: Semantic Web for Developers
March 20, 2013
Jürgen Jakobitsch
Florian Huber
Andreas Blumauer
Semantic Web Company
www.semantic-web.at
www.poolparty.biz

2. Andreas Blumauer: Introduction
Jürgen Jakobitsch: PoolParty API
Florian Huber: Apps and Examples
Q&A

3. About
Solving the
Semantic Puzzle
§ Semantic Web Company was founded
2001 in Vienna, Austria
§ 20 experts in information management,
semantic web, text mining, coding,
consulting & research
§ Product: PoolParty Suite (launched 2009)
§ Serving global 500 companies
§ EU- & US-based consulting services

4. Customers
§ World Bank § Pearson
§ Roche Diagnostics § REEEP
§ Credit Suisse § British Museum
§ Wolters Kluwer § Education Services
§ Biogen Idec Australia
§ Wood MacKenzie § Daimler

5. Solutions we o!er

6. The core: Knowledge models
Teach machines to
extract meaning
from data

7. Thesaurus Editor

8. Usage of open semantic standards
Let your knowledge grow!
3. Align with § the „Semantic Web“ is a stack of
enterprise data standards developed
by W3C
§ extend local knowledge bases
with a wealth of data from
the web
2. Enrich graph
with linked data § E.g. Freebase (Google), E.U.,
U.S., BBC, BestBuy,
GeneOntology etc.
1. Create
a knowledge § use standards also for
graph internal data integration

9. Technologies
§100% Java
§Application server and operating systems: Tomcat (Linux or Windows Server)
§Database: Sesame RDF Triple Store (shipped together with PoolParty)
§Programming Language (Client): Browser-based (Javascript/AJAX: YUI and ExtJS)
§Thesaurus Server provides:
§Web-based thesaurus editor (back end)
§Web-based linked data front end
§Wiki for collaborative vocabulary management
§SPARQL endpoint per thesaurus
§Thesaurus API (RESTful services for CRUD methods)
§Admin dashboard (manage rollback mechanisms)
§PoolParty Extractor and PoolParty Search are based on Apache Solr

10. Andreas Blumauer: Introduction
Jürgen Jakobitsch: PoolParty API
Florian Huber: Apps and Examples
Q&A

11. PoolParty: APIs at a glance
§ Dereference § JNDI
§ MimeTypes § Bindable Local Repository
§ URI formats Manager
§ PPTSystem
§ SPARQL 1.1 § RepositoryConnections
§ ASK, SELECT, CONSTRUCT
§ Aggregate functions § PPX
§ Property Path § Extraction Service
§ Custom SPARQL functions § Mapping Service
§ Suggest Service
§ PPT - API
§ Project Services § PPS
§ List Services § Search Service
§ Thesaurus Services § Similarity Service
§ Suggest Service

12. customized
semantic
applications
end-user
cms
E X TR AC TOR
wiki / browser
Wiki/PP Browser RDF Graph Store
content manager PPT, PPX, PPS API (REST)
SPARQL endpoint
Linked data front end developer
thesaurus editor admin dashboard
thesaurus manager
THESAURUS
SERVER

13. Try it out!
http://developer.poolparty.biz/

14. Andreas Blumauer: Introduction
Jürgen Jakobitsch: PoolParty API
Florian Huber: Apps and Examples
Q&A

15. Integration & Solutions
● GBPN:
http://www.gbpn.org/
● reegle API:
http://api.reegle.info/
● PoolParty Semantic Search:
http://pilot7.poolparty.biz/search/
● Concept Drift:
http://pilot7.poolparty.biz/conceptDrift/

16. Global Buildings Performance Network
Knowledge platform using Semantic Technologies and
Linked Open Data
“… aims to help the building sector e!ectively reduce its impact on
climate change.”
Built on Drupal CMS
Consistent Tagging of Blog entries and RSS feeds:
LOD GBPN Taxonomy
Provide a common terminology and facilitate
international research collaboration

17. GBPN Thesaurus
Connected to PoolParty Server to use
Semantic Technologies and LOD
● Thesaurus development and
management
● Synchronization over SPARQL
endpoint and RDF/XML

18. GBPN.org based on Drupal
PoolParty Thesaurus Manager Drupal taxonomy
RDF/XML

19. reegle API: goals
Provides an API for Automatic Tag Extraction and a
Content Pool in the "eld of clean energy and climate
relevant resources.
Consistently tagged documents make information more
accessible.
Tagged documents can be stored in a common semantic
index, the reegle API content pool.

20. reegle API: core functions
Automatic Tag Extraction
Content Pool

21. reegle API users
Use Cases & Examples
OpenEI
Provides a widget to suggest related articles
to their readers.
Eldis
Uses the reegle API to o!er their users a
“what do we mean by” info box that includes
de"nitions and synonyms.
weAdapt
A knowledge sharing and collaboration
platform which uses the reegle API for
consistent tagging, ensuring consistency of
message.

22. reegle API services
API Documentation
● Extract Service
● Content Pool Push Service
● Similar Documents Service*
● Recommended Documents Service*
* with Request Builder

23. reegle API dashboard
Dashboard

24. reegle API request builder
Request Builder

25. reegle API statistics
Statistics – Extraction & Content Pool

26. Learn more
PoolParty videos
§ PoolParty Suite Overview
§ PoolParty Thesaurus Manager 3.1
§ Creating seed vocabularies with
SKOSsy
Documentation
Demozone
§ Knowledge discoverer FAQs
§ PoolParty Search

27. Contact
Andreas Blumauer
CEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH
Neubaugasse 1/8
A-1070 Vienna
+43 1 4021235
a.blumauer@semantic-web.at
www.semantic-web.at
www.poolparty.biz
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