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EU-FP7 LOD2 Project Overview . 11.05.2010 . http://lod2.eu

Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

http://lod2.eu

Intelligent Information Management

Collaborative Project 2010-2014

in Information and Communication Technologies Project No. 257943 Start Date 01/09/2010



Web server

Web server

Problem: Try to search for these things on the current Web: • Apartments near German-Russian bilingual childcare in Leipzig. • ERP service providers with offices in Vienna and London. • Researchers working on multimedia topics in Eastern Europe. Information is available on the Web, but

opaque to current Web search.

Why Linked Open Data?

berlin.de Has everything about childcare in Berlin.

Immobilienscout.de Knows all about real estate offers in Germany DB

Web server

DB

Web server

Search engine HTML HTML

RDF RDF

Solution: complement text on Web pages with structured linked open data & intelligently combine/integrate such structured information from different sources:



The emerging Web of Data

Inter-‐linking/ Fusing

Classifica7on/ Enrichment

Quality Analysis

Evolu7on / Repair

Search/ Browsing/ Explora7on

Extrac7on

Storage/ Querying

Manual revision/ authoring

Linked Data Lifecycle

Challenges



Use Cases

Objective of WP8: Applying Linked Data technologies in an enterprise stack

to support Human Resources-related issues.

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

(Exalead)

MEDIA

& PUBLISHING

(Wolters Kluwer

Germany)

OPEN

GOVERNMENT DATA

(Open

Knowledge Foundation)

Objective of WP9: Improving accessibility, findability and reusability of Open Government Data.

Objective of WP7: Supporting content-related production workflows in the media & publishing industry.



PubLink – LOD2’s Linked Open Data Starter Service

•  PubLink helps selected organizations with a focused consulting effort of 10-15 days to publish and make use out of Linked Data

•  PubLink helps to evaluate the LOD2 technologies and to increase the wealth of Linked Data

•  Yearly application deadline in Winter

•  2011 PubLink participants include:

1.  Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria 2.  Greater London Authority 3.  Deutsch Bibliographie, Historische Kommission 4.  The Parliament of Finland 5.  City of Vienna 6.  Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC)

•  See: http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html



Publicdata.eu



http://survey.lod2.eu

Some results Quality of data: • provenance/source of data • format of data • completeness of meta data What users want to do with open government data are: • research / analysis • visualisation • simply consuming the data

‘Expected to have features' of a data catalogue: • providing raw datasets • information about versions of data sets • searching exploring, grouping, clustering of data sets ‘Like to have features': • crowd sourcing mechanisms • alerts on (regional) information • analysis an visualisation tools

The LOD2 Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey 2010



Means §  Total Budget: 8,58 M€ §  Total Funding: 6,45 M€ §  Total Resources: 844 PM

WP12: Fact Sheet

Consortium §  Universität Leipzig (Coordinator) §  Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica §  National University of Ireland in Galway §  Freie Universität Berlin §  OpenLink Software §  Semantic Web Company §  TenForce §  Exalead §  Wolters Kluwer Deutschland §  Open Knowledge Foundation

Project §  Instrument: Large-scale Integrating Project §  Objective: Intelligent Information Management §  Call: FP7-ICT-2009-5 §  Duration: 09/2010 – 08/2014

10 Partners from 7 European Countries

LOD2 Title . 02.09.2010 . http://lod2.eu


Address University of Leipzig Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Institute of Computer Science Department of Business Information Systems

Postfach 100920 04009 Leipzig Germany

Coordinator

Thanks for your attention! http://lod2.eu

Contact

Dr Sören Auer Scientific Project Leader Phone: +49 (341) 97-32367 Fax: +49 (341) 97-32329 Email: [email protected] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer Nadine Jänicke Project Manager Phone: +49 (341) 97-32310 Fax: +49 (341) 97-32329 Email: [email protected] http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/NadineJaenicke Presenter Bastiaan Deblieck Semantic Technology Business Unit Manager Phone: +32 475 95 49 32 Email: [email protected] http://www.tenforce.com