]> <p>TenForce is a Belgian software company specialized in delivering pragmatic solutions for complex problems. TenForce has years of international experience in knowledge management combined with an in-depth expertise in emerging technologies. Besides designing, marketing and supporting their in-house product – a web-based management environment for project and operational activities – , they conduct several projects on European scale focusing on modelling complex systems. Delivering services in high-end semantic technology for industrial purposes is their core business: taxonomy management systems, generic portal technology for international publishers or the European Commission. Next to this TenForce has extensive experience in building, integrating and setting up corporate and web-based applications in several industries: telecom, services, banking, manufacturing. Already in 2001 TenForce developed a Thesaurus Management System for Wolters Kluwer Belgium that is still being fine-tuned and maintained today. Since 2007 TenForce has been building a multilingual multipurpose publishing solution for Wolters Kluwer Legal, Tax & Regulatory Europe – based on semantic technology (OWL, RDF). Using the same technologies, TenForce is building a Thesaurus Management System for the Office of Official Publications of the European Commission (OPOCE) since summer 2008. In this project the so-called EUROVOC-thesaurus is made available through an online portal, for which an extension to existing SKOS standards needed to be defined. Another TenForce project on a European scale - called EURES -, scopes to make similar sets of information available through SPARQL end-points and as Linked Open Data, besides the latter web services.</p> TenForce brings in LOD2: (1) thorough expertise in industrial implementation of taxonomies and metadata for automatic categorization and content management, (2) hands-on experience in conducting large-scale projects in this matter, such as portals for Wolters Kluwers Europe and the European Commission, (3) the capacity to deliver product quality thanks to years’ experience in engineering methodologies when building software products. 7 WP1 – Requirements, Design and LOD2 Stack Prototype Objectives of this work package are: (1) to develop use case specifications and to collect user requirements by consulting the communities of practice relevant for the LOD2 use cases and additional prospective application scenarios, (2) to identify technical constraints as well as standards, (3) to produce the architecture and the LOD2 Stack design and (4) to produce an early prototype of the LOD2 Stack in the first year. 1 WP6 – Interfaces, Component Integration & LOD2 Stack This work package will continue the prototyping activity under WP1/Task 1.4 by fully integrating the individual components developed in WP2-5 into a ready-to-use LOD2 Stack and associated APIs. The primary goal of the LOD2 Stack integration is to enable communities of practice to rapidly create domain specific Linked Data applications. Consequently, the LOD2 Stack will support the whole life cycle of Linked Data from creation over enrichment, interlinking, fusing to maintenance. The stack will be very versatile, for all functionality we will define clear interfaces, which enable the plugging in of alternative third-party implementations. We will also provide a stack configurator, which enables potential user to create their own personalized version of the LOD2 Stack, which contains only those functions relevant for their usage scenario. 6 WP7 – Use Case 1: LOD2 for Media and Publishing Enabling large-scale interoperability based on Linked Data is a necessary precondition in the media industry to profit from the benefits of distributed information sources on the Semantic Web. Hence, the media use case aims to improve access to high-quality, machine-readable data sets generated by publishing houses for their customers. 7 WP8 – Use Case 2: LOD2 for Enterprise Data Web This use case will be driven by Exalead, one of the leading enterprise search providers worldwide. We will deploy the LOD2 platform in a real corporate environment with high semantic information integration requirements and needs. Based on the authoring tools and semantic GUIs developed for the LOD2 Stack, we will implement a set of procedures for data input that integrate semantic features and annotations early in the ingestion process of data. We will also suggest a set of best practices for storing, managing, accessing and exchanging data. Moreover, a quality framework will be defined to measure the benefit of using LOD2 components in the corporate. This framework will consist of a set of quality measures to define the gain in precision, recall of searching and browsing the corporate data. Other measurements will be investigated like the impact of the LOD2 platform in the activity of the corporation (income, costs, efficiency, etc). 8 WP9 – Use Case 3: LOD2 for Citizen – GovData.eu The purpose of this GovData.eu use case is to increase public access to high-value, machine-readable data sets generated by the European, national as well as regional governments and public administrations. Although this effort will be similar to developments in other parts of the world, for the case of Europe it will be more challenging due to the larger organizational and linguistic diversity and thus represent an ideal application scenario for Linked Data technologies. 9 WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building, Fertilization The general aim of this work package is to establish a worldwide focal point for academic and industry parties interested in contributing to or taking advantage of the novel Linked Data methodologies and components, which will emerge in the project. 10 Realizing the vision of LOD2 together with the ones of the three use cases will have significant socio-economic impact. Standardization of such an architecture and exploitation of knowledge and technical results (and related IPR) is covered in this work package. 11 The project management will entail strategic, project-wide as well as day-to-day central management and coordination activities. The several different management boards which will be established in the consortium will be responsible for decisions and activities of different scope and level according to their function. 12 Partner and Business Development Manager D1.1 – Common requirements analysis and specification 2011-02-28 2011-12-31 D12.2.2 – Intermediate Project Reports D12.2.2 – IPR plan 2012-02-29 2013-04-30 D5.3.1 – Subscription and notification service 2013-08-31 D5.3.2 – Open-social API for LOD2 Stack 2014-02-28 D7.1.1 – First release of the news & media data sets 2012-04-30 D7.1.2 – Second release of news & media data sets 2013-08-31 D7.2.1 – First release of interlinked news and media metadata sets 2012-12-31 D7.2.2 – Second release of interlinked news and media metadata sets 2013-12-31 D8.2.2 – Best practices in semantic management of corporate information 2013-05-31 2011-02-28 D10.3.1 – Report on dissemination, community building and cross-fertilization 2011-08-31 2012-02-29 D10.3.2 – Report on dissemination, community building and cross-fertilization 2012-08-31 D6.2.1 – Initial Evaluation, Documentation, Tutorials 2012-12-31 2013-02-28 D10.3.3 – Report on dissemination, community building and cross-fertilization 2013-08-31 D6.3.2 – Iterative Evaluation, Documentation, Tutorials 2013-12-31 D6.3.3 – Final Evaluation, Documentation, Tutorials 2014-08-31 <p>Semantic Web Company (SWC), based in Vienna, is an SME, which offers consulting services in the fields of semantic web technologies, knowledge management systems and social software since 2005. Besides being one of the first European suppliers of consulting services in semantic web technologies and related topics, SWC is the founder of the I-SEMANTICS conference series, one of Europe’s largest industry outreach events in the field of semantic systems and knowledge management, which will take place for the 6th time in 2010. The mission of SWC is to narrow the gap between industry and academia R&D in semantic systems and to accelerate the time to market process of semantic web-technologies. By providing practice-oriented knowledge transfer SWC help companies and public organizations to integrate and apply semantic technologies for various purposes such as data integration, resource management and knowledge management. SWC communicates benefits and risks of semantic applications in corporate environments to developers and decision makers and serves organizations from the life sciences, insurance, energy and the media. SWC has built a special media focus over the last years specializing in business development aspects through semantic (web) technologies. SWC acts as a hub of a wide network of industry partners (software industry, end-user organizations), other Networks (Know Center Graz, Salzburg Research, Austrian Computer Society, W3C, PWM - Platform for Knowledge Management) and academic and research partners throughout Europe.</p> SWC adopt the tool Poolparty, a self-developed modeling tool for corporate thesauri, as a component for the LOD2 stack. SWC will provide its expertise in technology assessment and business development when it comes to evaluate the economic rationale, organisational effects and the commercial potential of semantic web technologies. SWC will investigate governance and regulatory issues such as competition, IPR issues and privacy thereby contributing to the use cases in WP 7, 8 & 9. Our expertise in communicating the principles, technologies and especially business needs for semantic web applications on the one hand and the „translation“ of practical problems into technological concepts on the other hand will help to disseminate the findings beyond the scope of the use cases. 6 <p>Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search markets. Exalead worldwide client base includes leading companies such as Price Waterhouse Cooper, Michelin, American Greetings and Sanofi Pasteur, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with a platform that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilized data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud. The system collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications. Exalead's technology provides users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location. Its patented Search by Serendipity® navigation system adapts to user habits. Exalead devotes substantial efforts in supporting research and innovation for helping customers succeed and to be in the forefront of emerging technology developments. Therefore, Exalead is engaged in European and French research projects with academic partners and some of the industry's top research organizations to forge new ground in the analysis, classification and usage of digital multimedia content, ranging from text, speech, and music to images and video.</p> Exalead will contribute and advance components of its search engine infrastructure, with emphasis on semantic linked data and search on linked data. Exalead search technology will be adapted and integrated as a component in the LOD2 Stack. An open search API will be developed to browse and access to the semantic linked data. As an (application) service provider in corporate environments, Exalead will lead the specification, setup and implementation of the enterprise use case (WP8). In addition to this, Exalead will provide a prominent channel for exploiting this use case and the outcomes of the LOD2 project as a whole. 8