]> WKD will primarily work on adapting and evaluating the LOD2 Stack for media and publishing, as well as contribute to the PublicData.eu use case, due to the experience as a publisher with governmental information. Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH (WKD) is part of Wolters Kluwer n.v., a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues (2008) of €3.4 billion, employs approximately 18,400 people worldwide and maintains operations in 20 European countries, North America and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. WKD is involved in LOD2 with its dedicated “Business development and Strategy” department. This department is e.g. responsible for strategic product development and innovation. It analyzes trends in the IT and publishing market as well as in the professional environment of the customers and investigates important trends and how they will influence the future of WKD. WKD is a legal publisher, aiming at legal and financial professionals. Main target groups are lawyers, tax advisers, companies (e.g. HR departments), social and health insurances, public administrations and schools. In addition, one business unit is dealing with B2C customers, mainly offering software for income tax return. The media portfolio spreads from traditional paper books, magazines and loose-leafs to mere software solutions, including also offline, online and intranet solutions. Main brands are “Carl Heymanns Verlag”, “Luchterhand”, “Addison Software”, “CW Haarfeld”, “Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst” and “Carl Link”. International Subject Matter Expert (SME) teams like the “European Content Core Team” or the global “SME team on Associative Retrieval” use e.g. collaboration tools and video presentations on a regular basis in order to transfer best practices and know-how into all WK branches. The project members are also part of a number of these teams and will thus disseminate LOD2 results to all WK branches worldwide. Dedicated interest in LOD2 was e.g. already signalled e.g. from Wolters Kluwer Spain. 9 2013-12-31 D7.3.1 – Prototype of User Interface of interlinked data sets 2013-08-31 D7.4.1 – Guide and best practices to licensing interlinked data 2014-08-31 D7.5.1 – Asset creation & commercialization of interlinked data 2011-08-31 2012-08-31 D8.1.2 – Initial release of an adapted LOD2 Stack for large enterprises 2013-08-31 D8.1.3 – Final release of an adapted LOD2 Stack for large enterprises 2013-02-28 D8.3.1 – Initial LOD2 Enterprise Stack deployment and evaluation report 2014-06-30 D8.3.2 – Final LOD2 Enterprise Stack deployment and evaluation report 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. 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. 8 Adaptation of the LOD2 Stack for PublicData.eu Support with legal mechanisms for knowledge sharing and with open standards. Research and consultation with end-user communities. Dissemination and communication with relevant knowledge users and providers. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a European leader in this field and prominent on the international stage. The Foundation has pioneered work in developing robust legal mechanisms for sharing data - and has taken a central role in helping to develop standards for openness in knowledge and services. It also works on the infrastructure for open data users and producers. This includes CKAN, a community driven resource for open data, which is currently being used by the UK Government for its Data.gov.uk project, and KForge, a suite of tools for knowledge development being used by academic researchers and civic software developers. Finally it hosts a number of open data and content projects, from a web application to represent UK public finance using best of breed visualization technologies to project to a database of artistic works that have fallen into the public domain. Crucially the Foundation acts as a hub, drawing together representatives from across the knowledge society - from academics, public servants and entrepreneurs to data experts, archivists and web developers. Forums, workshops and an annual conference serve to strengthen this network. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a European leader in this field and prominent on the international stage. The Foundation has pioneered work in developing robust legal mechanisms for sharing data - and has taken a central role in helping to develop standards for openness in knowledge and services. It also works on the infrastructure for open data users and producers. This includes CKAN, a community driven resource for open data, which is currently being used by the UK Government for its Data.gov.uk project, and KForge, a suite of tools for knowledge development being used by academic researchers and civic software developers. Finally it hosts a number of open data and content projects, from a web application to represent UK public finance using best of breed visualization technologies to project to a database of artistic works that have fallen into the public domain. Crucially the Foundation acts as a hub, drawing together representatives from across the knowledge society - from academics, public servants and entrepreneurs to data experts, archivists and web developers. Forums, workshops and an annual conference serve to strengthen this network. 10 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 WP1 – Requirements, Design and LOD2 Stack Prototype 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 WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building, Fertilization 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 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 WP6 – Interfaces, Component Integration & LOD2 Stack 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. 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. 48 48 6 6 7 7 WP7 – Use Case 1: LOD2 for Media and Publishing WP7 – Use Case 1: LOD2 for Media and Publishing 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 WP8 – Use Case 2: LOD2 for Enterprise Data Web The purpose of this PublicData.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 WP9 – Use Case 3: LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu