This document discusses common architectures for processing, aggregating, and presenting complex data and content. It provides examples of TenForce projects involving mobile multimedia content delivery, European Union publications, financial risk management, Linked Open Data, and open data support. The document recommends taking an agile approach, focusing on data and metadata quality, and mastering metadata standards.

1. EDP?
Architectures for
Data and Content Processing
Bastiaan Deblieck,TenForce Business Unit Manager Semantic Technology
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2. Message
IT architectures
for processing, aggregating
and presenting results
from complex, divers content
and data
share common features
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3. TenForce
• Founded in 2001, in Belgium
• 40 people
• Semantic TechnologySofware services for EC and B2B
Publisher
– Publishing, Knowledge Management Technology, Open Data, ...
• Platform for delivering multimedia content to mobile devices
• Software Product:
Quality Assurance, Audits, Safety, Health, Project Management,
Scrum
• International customer base:
Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, EC
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4. Customers
Belgium
HQ, Netherlands
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5. Sem Tech Training
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6. Tsunami of Data and Content
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7. History
Object Web- Linked
SGML XML
Orientation services Data
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8. Basic Architecture
Data/Content
Sources Processing Generic Layer Presentation
Model/Schema/Voc/Taxo
Corporate Feed
ERP web services
CRM
Accounting linked data
... Generic
Metadata SPARQL endpoint
Store
WWW Feed API
LOD/dataweb Portals
API Widgets
Generic Visualizations
Content/Data
CMS Feed Store
DMS
emails
Search
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9. Advantages
• Flexibility
– Modular approach
– Seperation of data/content & metadata (enrichment)
• Scalability
– Can grow on all levels
– When virtual, this is even easy
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10. Architecture Examples
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11. Mobile Multimedia Content
Newspaper
Magazines
Video
• Multimedia Content Management +
Business Processes +
Integration with Telecom Platform
• Payable & DRM
• Mainly open source components
• Mobile platform: iOS & Android
• Linux, hosted, redundant
• 9 months lead time
• Around 10 FTE
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12. EC Publications Office - Cellar
Common Portal
EU Portal
EUR-Lex TED CORDIS
Bookshop
Common search service
Index and
Search
Common indexes
Archive Common Metadata Content
Common Content Repository
Long term CELLAR
CELLAR Repository and
preservation
(CCR) (CMR) Metadata
MDR/
RECORD
Validation Metadata production Post-production
EUROVOC
Official General
pub-
Tendering
pub- CORDIS
External Production
documents sources
lications lications
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13. Financial Risk Management
Data/Content
Sources Processing Generic Layer Presentation
Model/Schema/Voc/Taxo
Corporate Feed
ERP web services
CRM
Accounting linked data
... Generic
Metadata SPARQL endpoint
Store
WWW Feed API
LOD/dataweb Portals
API Widgets
Generic Visualizations
Content/Data
CMS Feed Store
DMS
emails
Search
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14. LOD2
Data/Content
Sources Processing Generic Layer Presentation
Model/Schema/Voc/Taxo
Corporate Feed
ERP web services
CRM SILK
Accounting linked data
... Generic
Metadata SPARQL endpoint
Store
WWW Feed API
LOD/dataweb Portals
API Widgets
Generic Visualizations
Content/Data
CMS Feed Store
DMS
emails
Search
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15. Open Data Support
• 2013 – 2016
• Repository for Open Data
Existing Open
Data Portal
Pan-European
Data Portal ODIPP
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16. Method
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17. Projects: Recommendations
• Agile, Scrum
• Information analysis and design and software architecture
• Don’t forget the process
• Data, data, data or content, content content
– Assure internal consistency
– “Match” data/content and meta data
– Deal with classic problems
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18. Projects: Recommendations
• Master the metadata
– Foundation for linking, connecting, aggretating, understanding
– Meta data standards facilitate, but are no guarantee
– Has to be of high quality
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19. Future
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20. Hosted Services
?
• LOD2 stack?
• What part?
• To whom?
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21. EDP?
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