Presentation about the 'The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Water Online Marketplace (http://www.eip-water.eu)' taking place on 09.02.2016 in the course of the EIP Water annual conference in Leeuwarden, The Nethetlands.

1. Welcome!
Martin Kaltenböck
Managing Partner & CFO
Semantic Web Company

2. About Semantic Web Company (SWC)
SWC was founded 2001, head-quartered in Vienna
30 experts in linked data technologies
Product: PoolParty Suite (launched 2009)
Serving customers from all over the world
EU- & US-based consulting services

3. Our Ecosystem: Customers & Partners
Finance / Automotive / Publisher / Health Care / Public Administration / Energy / Education
Some of our Customers
● Credit Suisse
● Boehringer Ingelheim
● Roche
● Wolters Kluwer
● BMJ Publishing Group
● Red Bull Media House
● Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
● Pearson
● Council of the EU
● DG Environment, EC
● Healthdirect Australia
● Ministry of Finance (Austria)
● World Bank Group
● Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
● International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
● Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE)
● Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency P.
(REEEP)
● Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN)
● American Physical Society
● Education Services Australia (ESA)
● Norwegian Directorate of Immigration
● Australian National Data Service
Selected Partners
● EBCONT
● EPAM Systems
● iQuest
● PwC
● Tenforce
● OpenLink Software
● Ontotext
● MarkLogic
● Gravity Zero
● Altotech
● Wolters Kluwer
● Taxonomy Strategies
● Digirati
● Fraunhofer (IAIS)
● University of Leipzig (INFAI)
● The Open Data Institute (ODI)
We all have one goal in mind: Make machines smart enough so that they can help us to
find those needles in the haystack, which are really relevant to us.

4. Our Core Business: Technology Services

5. The EIP Water
Objectives &
Structure

6. EIP Water
What is the EIP Water and its objectives?
1. EIP Water is an initiative within the “EU 2020 Innovation Union” -
the European Union strategy to create an innovation-friendly
environment that makes it easier for great ideas to be turned into
products and services that will bring our economy growth and jobs
2. EIP Water aims to identify, test, scale up, disseminate and
stimulate the uptake of innovative solutions by the market and
society for ten major water related challenges by 2020.
3. EIP Water supports the creation of market opportunities for these
innovations, both inside and outside of Europe. It also identifies
and addresses barriers and bottlenecks to water innovation.

7. EIP Water
Role in Innovation Chain

8. EIP Water
Water innovation sector conclusions
• Major challenges for society and economy.
• Paradigm shift from linear model to interconnected grid of
stakeholders.
• Bring all relevant stakeholder groups together in a forum to drive
innovation forward.
• Climb out of silos and link with other resource challenges (energy,
agro, chemical, land use) and society (eco-system services, green
economy, WFD).
• Strengthen interregional and international innovation (in-outside EU).

9. EIP Water
EIP Water Priorities

10. EIP Water
Water innovation barriers & bottlenecks
• Financing
• Procurement
• Partnerships
• Regulation
• Information, showcases, demo-sites

11. EIP Water
Organization and structure
Steering Group – Task Force – Expert Groups – Action Groups
Water policy recommendations
Addressing barriers & bottlenecks
Practice based
29 Action Groups, 11 FP7 INNO-DEMO + H2020 Projects:
• Development of innovative solutions involving the entire innovation value chain
• Application, implementation, commercialization and dissemination of innovative solutions
• Identification of barriers to innovation (practise based) translated into policy recommendations
• Support implementation of water policy
• Connect with relevant/adjacent initiatives

12. The EIP Water
Marketplace:
Idea &
Objectives

13. The Marketplace – Objectives & Requirements
• Single Point of Access for information on water innovation
in Europe & Worldwide
• News & Events
• People - Organisations – Projects – Products & Service
• Special articles & library of relevant info sources
• Aggregated information from news streams
• Meeting Point for the Community on water innovation (Europe /
Worldwide) for communication & collaboration
• Matchmaking between demand & supply on Water Innovation

14. The Marketplace – Objectives & Requirements

15. The EIP Water
Marketplace:
What is in for
YOU

16. Marketplace Innovation Directories
Browse, search & explore Innovation Directories providing 2.270+ People Profiles,
1.380+ Project Sheets & Information, 600+ Organisations and 210 Products & Services
along a standardised filter system (facetted search) and on the map (geo-browsing).

17. Marketplace: Matchmaking Assistant
Find People on top of
2.270+ active Users
by using filters as:
• Topic
• Country
• Sector
• Role in the Water
Life Cycle
AND: by the automatic
recommender system based on
your own profile (only logged in
users).

18. Marketplace: News Aggregator
Explore more than
5.400+ News Articles
by using filters as:
• Source
• Topic
• Country
• Sector
• Time Range
AND: see trends on water
innovation, AND: sentiments
AND: subscribe to your
personalised RSS Feed…

19. Marketplace: Water Innovation Glossary
Explore the EIP Water Smart
Glossary to learn more about
the Water Innovation
Terminology…
The Linked Open Data (LOD)
Thesaurus is modeled in W3C
Standard SKOS and based on
the GEMET Thesaurus of the
European Emvironmental
Agency (EEA).
The EIP Water Thesaurus will
be expanded in 2016!

20. Marketplace: Group Working Spaces
Become ACTIVE and join an
Action Group – the EIP Water
Working Group (WG) system
provides:
• WG Profile
• WG Events
• WG News
• WG Messaging
• WG Documents (int/ext)
• RSS Import
• WG Links
• WG Photos
• WP Projects

21. Marketplace: … and a lot more …
• Events
• Conference Info & Registration system
• Water Policy Information
• Funding Information
• Monthly Newsletter
• Social Media Streams
Number of Active Users 2270
Number of published nodes of content
type "Event"
231
Number of published nodes of content
type "Information Source"
140
Number of published nodes of content
type "Organisation"
600
Number of published nodes of content
type "Products and Services"
211
Number of published nodes of content
type "Project"
1382
Number of published nodes of content
type "Weblog"
230
Number of published nodes of content
type "Working Group"
34
Number of published nodes of content
type "Working Group Event"
59

22. The EIP Water
Marketplace:
See how it works

23. ‘Things’ but not strings:
Building a ‘semantic knowledge graph’
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24. The power of knowledge graphs:
Agility, flexibility, complexity
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Agility, flexibility, complexity
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Norway
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26. The power of knowledge graphs:
Agility, flexibility, complexity
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documents about
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about EU member
countries
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27. Norway France Austria Canada
The power of knowledge graphs:
Agility, flexibility, complexity
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documents about
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about EU member
countries
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The power of knowledge graphs:
Agility, flexibility, complexity
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Norway
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documents about
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documents about EU
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The power of knowledge graphs:
Agility, flexibility, complexity
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Metadata per
document
1. No or little network effects
2. No reuse of metadata
3. Metadata resides in silos
4. Data quality hard to measure
5. Not machine-readable
Knowledge about
metadata
1. Explicit knowledge models
2. Reusable and measurable
3. Metadata is machine-processable
4. Standards-based metadata
5. Linkable metadata opens silos

30. SKOS as a ‘backbone’ of knowledge graphs
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

31. PoolParty core components
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company based in Boston, MA.
Since inception it has invested in
hundreds of companies including
AMC Entertainment, Brookstone,
and Burger King. The company was
co-founded by Mitt Romney.

32. EIP Water - Technical Architecture
publish
enrich
Integrated view
& search index
mapping

33. The EIP Water
Marketplace:
An Outlook

34. EIP Water Marketplace: Connecting the Dots
Next Marketplace Release: ~ Mid 2016
• Better interconnecting all knowledge objects
• Persons | Organisations | Projects | Products & Services (+ intensively import content) |
Hubs | Action Groups | News & Events
• New Innovation Directory: Hubs
• ‚Ask an Expert‘ – Feature
• Expand the EIP Water News Aggregator
• Expand & Improve the Water Innovation Thesaurus
REGISTER NOW & JOIN IN: http://www.eip-water.eu | Q: marketplace@eip-water.eu

35. Five more reasons to get started with
PoolParty. Try it out now!
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36. Contact points & further information
Martin Kaltenböck, m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at
Semantic Web Company GmbH
Mariahilfer Strasse 70/8, A-1070 Vienna
+43-1-4021235
http://www.semantic-web.at
http://www.poolparty.biz
http://blog.semantic-web.at
Social Media Channels
http://slideshare.net/semwebcompany
http://youtube.com/semwebcompany
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4059165

37. More Details...

38. EIP Water MP - Technical Architecture

41. PoolParty at a glance - Technical Overview
user-friendly: create & maintain vocabularies
standards-based: based on W3C standards
graph-based: natively built on graph databases
embedded in ecosystem: use of linked (open) data
best-of-breed: text mining, taxonomies & ontologies
enterprise-ready: secure, simple to install
integrable: connectors for SharePoint, Drupal,
Confluence, WordPress, … your own CMS?

42. Benefit arguments
Cost effectiveness The systemic view
Operating
efficiency
Basic
argument
IT-Management /
Software Architect
Information &
Knowledge Management
Business Process
Management
Efficient
and agile
data model
Better reuse of
existing information
resources helps to save
costs
Better understanding of
relations between things
increases communication
skills
Unified views on
business objects
lead to better
decisions
Higher
information
quality
Efficient handling of
metadata
Increased transparency on
inconsistencies and
contradictions
Information flows
adapt to the needs
of the user
Improved
information
retrieval
Automatic structuring
of unstructured data
help to save costs
Consistent use of controlled
vocabularies triggers
additional network effects
BI-like, complex
queries become
possible