Thesaurus Management Server Meta Data Management made easy

Martin Kaltenböck, CMC

An overview at the beginning

2

poolparty product family

Document Index

Search Services

Search Application

metadata

mapping

Using PoolParty – What can I do with it?

• Thesaurus- / Meta Data Management

• Easy to use & easy to learn modeller – build your corporate SKOS thesauri• Linked Data capability for thesaurus population/enrichment & LOD

publishing• SPARQL endpoint to enable ‚open data services‘ on your thesauri et al.• Build smart glossary services

• Semantic Annotation, Data Integration & Semantic Search

• Tag Recommendation / semi-automatic semantic annotation• Extraction Services: based on term frequency AND controlled vocabulary• Use thesauri for data integration (and thereby for vertical search et al)• Semantic Search: moderated– faceted– similarity Search

3

use cases & services

PoolParty modeller – easy to build & maintain thesauri

4

5

PoolParty Semantic Search (PPSS)

Make semantic search come true!

htt

p:/

/ww

w.f

lickr

.co

m/p

ho

tos/

tech

bu

rst/

27

96

42

12

48

/

PoolParty System Architecture

6

Search Services

Search Application

Collector<xml>

Semantic Indexer

Document Index

Cartridge

Indexing and Mapping with PoolParty

• Metadata Standards

– Rich metadata in a standardized, extensible format (SKOS / RDF)

– Document metadata is mapped to concepts in the thesaurus

• Cost efficient metadata management

– Thesaurus is managed with PoolParty´s easy-to-use Thesaurus Manager

– One central metadata repository

• Improved end-user experience

– Semantic information improves search experience7

PoolParty Search API & Standard GUI

8

• Available web services:• Search Service• Suggest Service• Similarity Service

• Supported formats:• JSON• XML• RSS

• Available web services:• Search Service• Suggest Service• Similarity Service

• Supported formats:• JSON• XML• RSS

http://bit.ly/semantic_search

PoolParty Semantic Search Demo – Background Info

99

Search Services

Search Application

CollectorSemantic Indexer

Document Index

Cartridge

Thesaurus

Projects DB

Web catalogueof actors

Actors DB

Data integration based on reegle thesaurus

10

<sector> Hydro Power small scale</sector>

Actors DB

<category> Micro Hydro</category>

Web catalogue

PoolParty Semantic Search Demo – Result

11

http://bit.ly/semantic_search

select properfacets

store querieswith search basket

facets supportstructured queries

find similar documents forrelevant results

specify your querywith categorisedauto-complete

Indexing and Mapping

12

Document Index

Search Services

Search Application

metadata

Language: EnglishLanguage: German

"Austria""Österreich"

localised metadata

Do controlled vocabularies matter?

Read all survey resultshttp://bit.ly/kum2sB/

13

.. why we use SKOS thesauri to optimise our services & system

Important Services

For what applications

Importance of SKOS

Can enterprises benefit of linked data

PoolParty in CMS context – a concrete use case

• Thesaurus based moderated search mechanisms (on top of Googe Search API)

• Smart Linked Open Data (LOD) enriched glossary on clean energy

• LOD enriched energy statistics and potentials

• LOD enriched energy country profiles & actor/stakeholder dossiers

• data.reegle.info – Open Data portal for developers (UK Open Gov Data License)

• Sites as e.g. OpenEI consume already data from data.reegle.info 14

.. Thesaurus and Linked Data for clean energy

www.reegle.infodata.reegle.info

ISESS2011 best paper award

PoolParty in CMS context – another concrete use case

15

.. Thesaurus for better search results & functionality

http://a1.net

CMS: Open Text / RedDotSearch: Know Miner (Infonova)Semantic Search: PoolParty

PoolParty System Integration

• PoolParty – Sharepoint Integration – Special Use Case implemented for a Customer

• PoolParty - Infonova ‚KnowMiner‘ Enterprise Search Integration – finalised

• PoolParty - Confluence Integration ‚WikiSame‘ – finalised (in publish mode)

• PoolParty – WordPress Integration, part I – finalised - http://bit.ly/l32Bzd

• PoolParty – KiWi Integration – finalised (http://kiwi-project.eu)

• PoolParty – WordPress Integration II – in Progress (Launch August 2011)

• PoolParty – Drupal 7 Integration – in Progress (Launch September 2011)

• PoolParty – Confluence Integration ‚SemTag‘ – in Progress (Launch Oct 2011)

• PoolParty – CKAN Integration – in Specification Phase 16

Do not replace existing technology / systems…but add a semantic layer!!!

Demos & Resources

• PoolParty Website (comprehensive information): http://www.poolparty.biz/

• PoolParty Demozone (all demos): http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone

• Demozone Extraction & Similarity: http://poolparty.punkt.at/demozone/reegle

• PoolParty Search Demo (energy domain): http://bit.ly/semantic_search

• Confluence Demo ‚WikiSame‘: http://demo.confluence.at/

• Get your modeller demo account: http://poolparty.punkt.at/de/try-it/

R&D ResourcesLOD2 – Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data – http://lod2.eu/SCMS – Semantic CMS for Knowledge Mngt. & News Mining: http://scms.eu/

17

Come and try…

Contact

Martin KaltenböckCFOm.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at+43-1-8974122-25

18

punkt. netServices GmbH

Semantic Web Company GmbH

Lerchenfelder Guertel 43A—1160 Vienna/ Austria

http://www.punkt.at/http://www.semantic-

web.at/ http://www.poolparty.biz/

http://twitter.com/PoolParty_Team@PoolParty_Team

These slides are published under: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0