1. Thesaurus Management and User-Friendliness: a contradiction? Helmut Nagy Semantic Web Company www.semantic-web.at www.poolparty.biz

2. 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 Analytics Recommender Systems Semantic Search Taxonomies Thesaurus Management SKOS Enterprise Data Integration Linked Data Social Tagging Business Intelligence Confluence Semantic Sharepoint

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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/

7. PoolParty Knowledge modeling process Combining the committee approach with the empirical approach when creating knowledge models.

8. Demo: Generate seed model 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:

9. Demo: Reference Corpus Analysis Create a reference corpus Upload documents Start corpus analyses Extend your thesaurus: work with free terms

10. 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

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12. Contact Helmut Nagy COO, Semantic Web Company +43 1 4021235 h.nagy@semantic-web.at www.semantic-web.at www.poolparty.biz Partner network: