Keynote at DBpedia Association Meeting in Dublin in February 2015 about the Linked Data strategy of Wolters Kluwer and DBpedia's role in it.

1. DBpedia
and Wolters Kluwer’s
Linked Data Strategy
Dublin, February 2015

2. 2
WKD Tax & Accounting
 Companies/Brands
- ADDISON
- Akademische Arbeits-
gemeinschaft Verlag
(AAV)
 Products (Examples)
- Tax SW for Consumers
- SW for Tax Accountants
- SW for SMEs with focus
Controlling and Accounting
WKD Legal & Regulatory
 Companies/Brands
- AnNoText
- Carl Heymanns
- Carl Link
- CW Haarfeld
- JURION
- Luchterhand
- MBO
- Personalwirtschaft
- TriNotar
- Werner
 Products (Examples)
- IP, Administrative Law
- Civil, Family, Labor Law
- Construction Law
- Publications for Schools/KiTas
- Public Health Insurance
- Magazin „Personalwirtschaft“
(HR Management)
- SW for Lawyers and Notaries
WKD is part of Wolters Kluwer n.v.
 Global Reach
- Europe
- North America
- Asia/Pacific
 Economic Success
- Revenue 2013: €3.5 Bln
- 19.000 Employees
- Listet at Amsterdam SE
 Target groups
- Lawyers
- Accountants
- Companies
- Financial Institutions
- Health Sector
- Administrations
Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH
An Information Service Provider for Legal Information

3. Wolters Kluwer – An Information Service Provider
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Data Analytics
There are opportunities to
extract value from the
massive amounts of data
generated as a byproduct
of providing professional
services. Harnessed in a
responsible way and
analyzed intelligently, this
data provides valuable
analytics and insights to
help professionals make
the right decisions and stay
competitive.
This is an important focus
for us today and a basis for
future growth
opportunities.
Source: http://www.wolterskluwer.com/About-Us/Strategy/Pages/default.aspx

4. New data-driven products and services
4
ServicesWorkflow
Print Digital

5. … by connecting and integrating
Social
Media
CRM/Big
Data
Web Content
Customer
Content
5
Mobility
Print
Digital
Workflow
ActualityIntegration
Productivity
Services

6. 6
Using the Web of Data

7. PCI
Meta
data
External
meta data
Architecture: Content pipeline and Semantic Search
7
Sources
Crawler;
Importer
XML
Metadata extraction
and enrichment
Linking/
pattern
recogn.
XML CMS
Meta
Data DB
Meta
Data
editor
Thesaurus
Manager
PCI
Indexer
Index
User
query
System
query
Search
Raw
result
Result
analysis
Search
result
Search
feedback
Query
analyzer
Linguistic
Auto
suggest
Content Mgmt.
Retrieval/Search
Other content/
semantic topics
 Automatic law
consolication
 (LOD2 project),
open data
 ALIGNED
 WDAqua

8. PCI
Meta
data
External
meta data
Initiatives: Content pipeline und Semantic Search
8
Sources
Crawler;
Importer
XML
Metadata extraction
and enrichment
Linking/
pattern
recogn.
XML CMS
Meta
Data DB
Meta
Data
editor
Thesaurus
Manager
PCI
Indexer
Index
User
query
System
query
Search
Raw
result
Result
analysis
Search
result
Search
feedback
Query
analyzer
Linguistic
Auto
suggest
Content Mgmt.
Retrieval/Search
1
2
3
4
5
6
Other content/
semantic topics
 Automatic law
consolication
 (LOD2
project),
open data
 ALIGNED
 WDAqua

9. 3D Manipulation techniques
9

10. Use Cases for Semantic Search: contextualization using background
knowledge
10
Suche nach „Straßenbau Bürgerbegehren“

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Suche nach „Zwangsvollstreckung“
In Familiensachen?
Zwangsvoll
-streckung
§§ 86 – 96a
FamFG
Familienrecht
In Nachlasssachen?
Zwangsvoll-
streckung
§ 747
ZPO
Verfahren
In Arbeitssachen?
Vollstreckung
§ 62
ArbGG
Arbeitsgerichts
-barkeit
In Mietsachen?
Räumungs-
zwangsvoll
-streckung
§ 885
ZPO
Verfahren
Im Hinblick auf:
Arten
Kosten
Rechts-
behelfeWirkungen
Vereitelungen
Verjährung
Use Cases for Semantic Search: Disambiguation of general terms

12. 12
Adding relevance by taking onto account work place of professional
Use Cases for Semantic Search: contextualization using Geo data

13. 13
Suche nach „Mindestlohn“
„Mindestlohn“
salario mínimo
Mindestlohn
Wucher
§ 291 StGB
Niedriglohn
D
E
Minimum Pay
OLG Düsseldorf
VI-Kart 25/02 (V)
ES
TRABAJO Y
EMPLEO
Lohndumping
Use Cases for Semantic Search: contextualization using multilinguality

14. 14
Suche nach „Arbeitsverhältnis Kündigungsfrist Insolvenz “
Use Cases for Semantic Search: Direct Usage of Domain Knowledge

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Improved hit list – Contextualization of legal paragraphs

16. 16
Improved hit list – Contextualization of Court decisions

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Requirements from Wolters Kluwer
Dbpedia data is currently not ready for professional usage
Data issues
- Quality
- Homogeneity
- Coverage
- „Linked“ Data
Documentation issues
- Information about sources
- Governance
- Licensing
Support issues
- SLAs
- Stability
- Accessibility
- Collaboration

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Contributions from Wolters Kluwer
DBpedia is about information. We can contribute our comprehensive
knowledge about the legal and tax domain with local offices in more than 20
European countries!
We are willing to collaborate with groups within the DBpedia association as
well as with users, both from a research as well as operational point of view!
We can attend and sponsor events that help solving the issues mentioned!
We can offer a real industrial usage scenario!
Tutorial at ESWC: http://eldscid2015.semantic-web.at

19. Contact
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Christian Dirschl
cdirschl@wolterskluwer.de
www.wolterskluwer.de
http://solutions.wolterskluwer.com/blog/author/christian-dirschl/
LOD2 project
http://lod2.eu
Jurion platform
http://www.jurion.de
ALIGNED project
http://www.aligned-project.eu/