Alfresco and the Semantic* Web

Ezequiel FoncubiertaHead of Technology at Zaizi

* se • man • tic adj.—Of or relating to meaning in language

Agenda

• Introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies

• ECKM - Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management

• Language detection• Entities extraction• Semantic annotations• Intelligent search• Recommendations

• Q&A

The Semantic WebOnce upon a time...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelydixel/2713803038/

The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other,

related, data.

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Richness of social connections

DesktopComputing

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Web 3.0

Evolution of World Wide Web

1980-1990

1990-2000

2000-2010

2010-2020

Email

FTP File systems

SGML

SQL

Gopher

Databases

HTTP/HTML Groupware

PortalsIntranet

XMLOO/Java

SOAPSocial networks

Blogs/Wikis

Cloud computing & SaaSATOM RDF/OWL

SPARQL

Linked Data

Rule InterchangePersonal Agents

WWW Database

File servers

AJAX/JSON

PC era

WWW era

Semantic Web era

Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to

linking data currently linked using other methods

Linked Data

http://linkeddata.org/

Linked Data: The World Wide Web database

Describe your data

Semantic Web vs Semantic Technologies

Semantic Technologies

Natural-language processing

Data mining/Machine learning

Artificial intelligence/Expert systems

Classification

Semantic search

Semantic Web

Semantic Web Formats (RDF, OWL, etc.)

Query language (SPARQL) Rules language (RIF)

Web pages marking language (RDFa)

Triple/Quad stores

IKS Project

6.58M co-funding by the EU

Collaboration between academia, industry and open-source developers

Open Source licenses and best practices

Compliant with latest semantic standards

Zaizi represents Alfresco

http://www.iks-project.eu

http://stanbol.apache.org

http://viejs.org

ECKM

Uses Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies to add Knowledge Management capabilities to Alfresco, so richer interfaces can be built upon it to improve the user experience in Content Management.

•Language detection

•Entities extraction

•Semantic annotations

•Intelligent search

•Recommendations

ECKM: Demo

Future of ECKM

• First beta version in Q1/2013

• Backlog

• Topic detection

• Reasoning support in searches

• Thesaurus Management

• Classification of documents

• Support for RDFa and Microformat in Alfresco WCM/Quick Start

Thank you!

Ezequiel FoncubiertaHead of Technology

email: efoncubierta@zaizi.comtwitter: @efoncubiertalinkedin: efoncubiertaskype: efoncubiertaz

Rafael HaroHead of R&D

email: rharo@zaizi.comtwitter: @rafa_harolinkedin: rafaelharoskype: rafaharo