Chapter 6 Applications Grigoris Antoniou Frank van Harmelen 1 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer
1 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer Chapter 6 Applications Grigoris Antoniou Frank van Harmelen
Lecture Outline Horizontal Information Products at Elsevier 2. Data Integration at audi 3. Skill Finding at Swiss Life 4. Think Tank Portal at enersearch 5. E-Learning 6. Web services 7. Other Scenarios Chapter 6 A Semantic Web primer
2 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer Lecture Outline 1. Horizontal Information Products at Elsevier 2. Data Integration at Audi 3. Skill Finding at Swiss Life 4. Think Tank Portal at EnerSearch 5. E-Learning 6. Web Services 7. Other Scenarios
Elsevier- The Setting Elsevier is a leading scientific publisher o Its products are organized mainly along traditional lines. Subscriptions to journals o Online availability of these journals has until now not really changed the organisation of the productline Customers of Elsevier can take subscriptions to online content 3 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web primer
3 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer Elsevier – The Setting ⚫ Elsevier is a leading scientific publisher. ⚫ Its products are organized mainly along traditional lines: – Subscriptions to journals ⚫ Online availability of these journals has until now not really changed the organisation of the productline ⚫ Customers of Elsevier can take subscriptions to online content
Elsevier- The Problem Traditional journals are vertical products Division into separate sciences covered by distinct journals is no longer satisfactory Customers of elsevier are interested in covering certain topic areas that spread across the traditional disciplines/journals The demand is rather for horizontal products Chapter 6 A Semantic Web primer
4 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer Elsevier – The Problem ⚫ Traditional journals are vertical products ⚫ Division into separate sciences covered by distinct journals is no longer satisfactory ⚫ Customers of Elsevier are interested in covering certain topic areas that spread across the traditional disciplines/journals ⚫ The demand is rather for horizontal products
Elsevier -The Problem(2) Currently, it is difficult for large publishers to offer such horizontal products Barriers of physical and syntactic heterogeneity can be solved (with XML) The semantic problem remains unsolved We need a way to search the journals on a coherent set of concepts against which all of these journals are indexed 5 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web primer
5 Chapter 6 A Semantic Web Primer Elsevier – The Problem (2) ⚫ Currently, it is difficult for large publishers to offer such horizontal products – Barriers of physical and syntactic heterogeneity can be solved (with XML) – The semantic problem remains unsolved ⚫ We need a way to search the journals on a coherent set of concepts against which all of these journals are indexed