Wolters Kluwer Deutschland (WKD) is an information service provider for legal and tax professionals in Germany. It has several subsidiary companies that produce software, publications, and services for lawyers, tax consultants, businesses, and government agencies. WKD is part of the larger Wolters Kluwer group, which has over 19,000 employees worldwide focused on legal, tax, accounting, and compliance information. The presentation discusses WKD's content and software development processes and its participation in the ALIGNED EU research project to improve semantic search and linking of content.

1. Enabling innovative workflow applications
by aligning content and software
development lifecycles
Scientific Publishing Innovation Day London
Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect

2. WKD Tax & Accounting
 Companies/Brands
Akademische Arbeits-
gemeinschaft Verlag
- Addison Group
- Schleupen Tax
- Wago Curadata
 Products (Examples)
- Tax Software for Consumers
- Software for Tax Consultants
- Software for SMEs with a focus
on controlling and accounting
WKD Legal & Regulatory
 Companies/Brands
- Carl Heymanns Verlag
- Luchterhand
- Werner Verlag
- Carl Link
- CW Haarfeld
- Deutscher
Wirtschaftsdienst
- Jurion
- AnNoText
- Trigon Data
 Products (Examples)
- Intellectual Property Law,
Administrative Law, Civil Law,
Family Law, Construction Law
- Products for Schools and
Nurseries
- Health Insurance
- Magazine „Personalwirtschaft“
(HR Management)
- Software for Lawyers and
Notaries
WKD is a Part of Wolters Kluwer n.v.
 Global Focus
- Europe
- North America
- Asia/Pacific
 Economic Success
- Revenue: € 3,66 million
(2014)
- ~19,000 Employees
- Listed Amsterdam SE
 Target Groups
Lawyers
- Tax Consultants
- Companies
- Financial Institutions
- Health Sector
- Authorities
Wolters Kluwer Deutschland at a Glance
An Information Service Provider for Legal Professional Information

3. JURION Navigator Labor Law

4. WK Health application
Find us at 7F10

5. 4/15/20155
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644055.
ALIGNED project overview

6. ALIGNED matrix

7. Content and semantic search architecture WK Germany - Initiatives
PCI
Meta
data
External
meta data
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
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2
3
4
5
6
Other content/
semantic topics
 Automatic law
consolication
 ALIGNED,
WDAqua,
DBPedia, open
data
 …

8. Christian Dirschl cdirschl@wolterskluwer.de
www.wolterskluwer.com
JURION www.jurion.de
ALIGNED http://aligned-project.eu/