PoolParty platform is a state-of-the-art technology to integrate semantics into enterprise solutions. See how organisations can benefit from semantic web technologies and how PoolParty could work for you!

1. Redefining information management
Andreas Blumauer
CEO, Semantic Web Company
www.semantic-web.at
www.poolparty.biz

2. About
 Semantic Web Company founded 2001 in Vienna, Austria
 20 experts in strategy, coding, consulting, research
 Product: PoolParty Suite (launched 2009)
 Serving global 500 companies
 EU- & US-based consulting services

3. Customers - extract
 World Bank  Pearson
 Roche Diagnostics  REEEP
 Credit Suisse  British Museum
 Wolters Kluwer  Education Services
Australia
 Biogen Idec
 Daimler
 Wood MacKenzie
 A1 Telekom

4. Provided Solutions
 extract knowledge from big data and text from within
organisations and/or from the web
 make information better accessible by using open data
standards
 improve communication between knowledge workers
by using social software and/or semantic technologies
business intelligence, customer support, semantic search,
recommender engines, information enrichment,
linked data integration, mash-ups,
knowledge management, text mining

5. Some Use Cases

6. The core: Knowledge models
Machines help to
identify meaning

7. How: PoolParty Suite

8. Demos
 Customer Support Systems >
 News Mining and
BI Dashboards >
 Semantic Content Editing >  Semantic Search >

9. Answers on some FAQs
 What is a thesaurus, what is the difference to a
taxonomy or an ontology?
 A thesaurus is expressive
enough to improve most
enterprise applications
significantly
 but it is not too complex
to create and maintain it
in a sustainable way

10. Answers on some FAQs
 Why does PoolParty make use of Semantic Web
technologies?
 the „Semantic Web“ is a stack
of standards developed by W3C
 it helps to extend a
local knowledge base with
other sources like with
a wealth of data from the web
 E.g. Freebase (Google),
E.U., U.S., BBC, BestBuy,
GeneOntology etc.

11. Answers on some FAQs
 Can I re-use my already existing taxonomies or thesauri
in other formats?
MARTIF
A-Klasse
 PoolParty provides
Fahrzeugmodelle
7754
6450 a lot of different data importers
Gebrauchtwagen
3220
Faszination
…
2900
……
 already existing taxonomies
can be transformed
Transform and consolidated within an
enterprise vocabulary

12. Answers on some FAQs
 Do we need specially trained thesaurus and Semantic
Web experts to use PoolParty?
 The SKOS model is an
intuitive way to express
knowledge about
a certain domain
 It can be learned
by subject-matter experts,
not only by mathematicians
 PoolParty GUI can be
learned within 4hrs.

13. Answers on some FAQs
 Which factors determine the cost of creating a
corporate thesaurus?
 application(s) to be improved by the thesaurus
 scope of domain and size of thesaurus
 dynamics and volatility of the addressed domain
 level of domain expertise and overall overview over domain of
thesaurus managers
 volume of existing taxonomies, lists, databases, ….

14. Answers on some FAQs
 Why should our company allocate resources to
compiling corporate thesauri?
 recommender systems
 controlled vocabularies
 semantic search engines
 Improved communication
 Reuse existing information
 Information in a new context

15. Learn more
PoolParty videos
 PoolParty Suite Overview
 PoolParty Thesaurus Manager 3.1
 Creating seed vocabularies with
SKOSsy
Demozone
 Knowledge discoverer
 PoolParty Search

16. Contact
Andreas Blumauer
CEO, Semantic Web Company
+43 1 4021235
a.blumauer@semantic-web.at
www.semantic-web.at
www.poolparty.biz
Partner network