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Thesaurus Management and User-Friendliness: a contradiction? . Helmut Nagy Semantic Web Company www.semantic-web.at www.poolparty.biz. Welcome!. COO of Semantic Web Company Master's degree in communication science (University of Vienna)
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Thesaurus Management and User-Friendliness: a contradiction? Helmut Nagy Semantic Web Company www.semantic-web.at www.poolparty.biz
Welcome! • COO of Semantic Web Company • Master's degree in communication science (University of Vienna) • Experienced consultant in the areas of knowledge management systems, linked data, data analytics and semantic technologies • Product management of PoolParty Semantic Suite Semantic Web Knowledge Management Text Analytics Data AnalyticsRecommender Systems Semantic SearchTaxonomies Thesaurus ManagementSKOS Enterprise Data Integration Linked Data Social TaggingBusiness IntelligenceConfluence Semantic Sharepoint
About this talk When we speak with our customer we learn: • Usability is an important factor in choosing thesaurus management tools • (Semi-)automated support in the knowledge model creation process • Creating knowledge models is considered to be a complex task • What is considered to be complex is considered to be expensive
About this talk Thus, PoolParty Suite is focused on: • Usability • Browser-based • Autocomplete • Drag & Drop • Reuse of existing data • Use of interoperable semantic web standards • Create seed thesauri from knowledge bases e.g. DBpedia • Make it easy to import from existing sources e.g. Excel, VDEX, Multithes • Automate • Corpus Analysis • Extensive Quality Management
The Semantic Web Company • Semantic Web Company founded 2001 Based in Vienna, Austria • 20 experts in strategy, coding, consulting, research • Product: PoolParty Suite (launched 2009) • Serving global 500 companies, GOs, NPOs and NGOs
PoolParty Suite: Flashlights • Standards based (W3C): Interoperability & Linked Data Management • High scalability, performance & security:Enterprise-readiness • Integration with content & search platforms:APIs and SPARQL endpoints http://www.poolparty.biz/products/
PoolParty Knowledge modeling process Combining the committee approach with the empirical approach when creating knowledge models.
Demo: Generateseedmodel • Generation of seed thesauri from DBpedia • Generation of concepts via autocomplete from DBpedia • Import of Excel taxonomies • Re-use of high-quality taxonomies from our partners:
Demo: Reference Corpus Analysis • Create a reference corpus • Upload documents • Start corpus analyses • Extend your thesaurus: work with free terms
Visit us at ISKO UK 2013 • Christian Mader • Presentation: Tomorrow 12:30 • qSKOS – integrated quality management for SKOS thesauri • Visit us at our booth • And talk to me, Christian or John Baker from our UK partner digirati
Contact Helmut Nagy COO, Semantic Web Company +43 1 4021235 h.nagy@semantic-web.at www.semantic-web.at www.poolparty.biz Partner network: