Industry

Understanding the techniques of artists is an essential part of studying art and art history. Artivity is an RDF-based platform which can document the creation process of digital artwork along with the research method.

Archive Catalogs are not as valuable as they could be as they lack connections with the Web of Data. aLOD enables archival institutions to easily provide a high value catalogue as Linked Open Data, by providing open source software to interlink their catalog with other datasets as well as web based applications to easily access the catalog data.

In 2015 Kuehne + Nagel started the evaluation of semantic web based on a concrete use case from contract logistics. The project results were presented at The Open Group London Event and Member Meeting, from 25-28 April 2016.

The presentation will focus on the EU Project openlaws.eu, co-funded by the European Commission (DG Justice). The aim of the project is to create a vision of what „Big Open Legal Data“ can do in the future and to develop a prototype of a platform that links multiple legal open data sources. 

The talk will be based on tasks executed within the ALIGNED Project. In this phase, we collected requirements based on real world use cases like better data curation capabilities. The talk will present the project scope and the objectives of Wolters Kluwer as one of the industry use case partners.

While the term 'Semantic search' has become a buzzword on the search market, the concepts behind it remain unclear for most end-users. We want to present a rating system which helps to better understand and to classify the different forms of semantic search.

As well known, Semantic Web technologies make available a set of facilities for enabling interoperability among software agents in the Web, providing a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across applications. From the other hand, the related data formats (as XML and RDF) constitute a suitable mean to represent in a machine understandable way the knowledge connected to the great amount of semi-structured or unstructured documents accessible by the Web itself. Following the Semantic Web vision, the last generation of Content Management System (CMS) focuses their attention on data (information embedded in a document) rather than content (the document itself), thus shifting from a “content centric” approach to a “data centric” one. To this goal, they incorporate semantic annotation modules in order to derive useful information from the managed contents and deal with their semantics, leveraging the Linked Data paradigm to relate extracted concepts with the available external knowledge (often coded in the shape of vocabularies, taxonomies or ontologies) depending on the considered application scenario. In this presentation we describe the design and development of a novel Semantic Content Management System, representing our solution to the content management processing problem. In particular, we provide a CMS combined with a fully featured semantic metadata repository with reasoning capabilities, based on reusing different Open Source solutions (Apache Stanbol, Apache SOLR, Openlink Virtuoso...).

The implementation of IT service catalogs at public organizations can be considered as an effective first step towards IT service management. Latter becomes more and more inevitable due to growing financial, business and security threats faced by public organizations. Traditional IT service catalog implementations are mostly based on common Content Management Systems. A small number of pubic organizations uses document-based catalogs or stick to Configuration Management Databases, which provide a rather technical type of service catalog. None of the implementation types met all of the valid requirements against an IT service catalog. That’s why the development and implementation of a semantic catalog was initiated. A vertical prototype is now implemented and tested and can be presented at the conference.

In the mobility industry collaborative processes are often described in natural language and stored in Word and PDF handbooks and logbooks. This unstructured information is complemented by emails and meeting minutes resulting from the communication between project stakeholders (customers, managers, engineers). Execution logs of past processes also contribute to this unstructured repository of process information. In the railway domain, non-functional requirements, such as safety, reliability, certifiability, and standard compliance of both the systems and the business processes used in creating them are key to the success of products and projects. As the fulfillment of these non-functional requirements is extremely costly and time-consuming, the automation and optimization of business processes for developing railway systems are constantly sought after in large business organizations.

To enable automation and optimization of a business process for configuring railway interlocking systems, a BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) workflow was implemented using the Camunda Suite, which supports visual semantics and executable code generation from BPMN models. In the proposed solution, semantic technologies are used to infer semantic process models, which refine existing models at runtime. The proposed solution helps reduce the process execution time and costs through process automation and optimization. This is facilitated by semantic technologies and a strict separation of concerns using a 3-process approach: (1) a productive process monitored by (2) a mining process and dynamically refined by (3) an adaptation process.

In my talk, I would like to introduce 2 pilot projects we ran as part COMSODE EU FP7 project with Slovak Environment Agency (SEA) and Czech Trade Inspection Authority (CTIA). The goal of these pilot projects was to help these organisations to transform and publish their selected datasets as (linked) open data. I will also demonstrate UnifiedViews, an ETL for RDF data, and detail its role in Open Data Node, the publication platform prepared in COMSODE project.