the european innovation partnership on water online marketplace
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Welcome!
Martin KaltenböckManaging Partner & CFOSemantic Web Company
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
Our Ecosystem: Customers & PartnersFinance / Automotive / Publisher / Health Care / Public Administration / Energy / EducationSome 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.
Our Core Business: Technology Services
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.
EIP Water
Role in Innovation Chain
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).
EIP Water
EIP Water Priorities
EIP Water Water innovation barriers &
bottlenecks
• Financing• Procurement• Partnerships• Regulation• Information, showcases, demo-sites
EIP Water
Organization and structureSteering 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
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
The Marketplace – Objectives & Requirements
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).
Marketplace: Matchmaking Assistant
Find People on top of 2.270+ active Usersby 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).
Marketplace: News Aggregator
Explore more than 5.400+ News Articlesby using filters as:
• Source• Topic• Country• Sector• Time Range
AND: see trends on water innovation, AND: sentiments
AND: subscribe to your personalised RSS Feed…
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!
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
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
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2. No reuse of metadata3. Metadata resides in silos4. Data quality hard to
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Knowledge about metadata
1. Explicit knowledge models2. Reusable and measurable3. Metadata is machine-
processable4. Standards-based metadata5. Linkable metadata opens silos
SKOS as a ‘backbone’ of knowledge graphs
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PoolParty core components
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EIP Water - Technical Architecture
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The EIP Water Marketplace: An Outlook
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: [email protected]
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Contact points & further information
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EIP Water MP - Technical Architecture
PoolParty at a glance - Technical Overview
user-friendly: create & maintain vocabulariesstandards-based: based on W3C standardsgraph-based: natively built on graph databasesembedded in ecosystem: use of linked (open)
databest-of-breed: text mining, taxonomies &
ontologiesenterprise-ready: secure, simple to installintegrable: connectors for SharePoint, Drupal,
Confluence, WordPress, … your own CMS?
Benefit argumentsCost 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 informati
on 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