LOD2 Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

How a business-related application that exploits open-data may look like is presented to the Semantic Web Challenge 2012 by Amar-Djalil Mezaour, Julien Law-To, Robert Isele, Thomas SchandlThomas Schandl studied business administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, where he was also employed at the Dept. for Advertising and Marketing Research. In the course of his studies, he specialised in Business Informatics, writing his diploma thesis on ... and Gerd Zechmeister. The paper describes a prototypic linked data application for the Online Hiring Market.

”Active Hiring” is a search based application providing analytics on on-line job posts. This application uses services from the LOD cloud to disambiguate, geotag and interlink data entities acquired from on-line job boards web sites and provides a demonstration of the usefulness of linked open data in business setting.

from Active Hiring a Use Case Study, Paper, 2012

The search based application that combines semantic technologies and services to produce Human Resources (HR) analytics and highlight major trends on online hiring market. So Active Hiring is a demonstration of the benefit of combining open data sets and services with semantic tools as a support technology for increasing the accuracy of business applications. The Active Hiring demonstrator has been developed within the activities of the European project LOD2EU-funded (FP7) research project aiming to take the Web of Linked Data to the next level. Main research challenges: improve coherence and quality of data published on the Web, close the performance gap between relational and RDF data management, establish trust on the Linked Data Web and ....

Full paper: Revealing Trends and Insights in Online Hiring Market Using Linking Open Data Cloud: Active Hiring a Use Case Study (PDF)