TEMIS: Luxid Community

Stefan Geißler

TEMIS Chief Innovation Officer,

Managing Director TEMIS Deutschland

The Luxid® Community – An Online

Platform for Collaborative Semantics

APE – Academic Publishing in Europe, Berlin Jan 29-30, 2013

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Let‘s meet Andy

� Andy is working for a large

publishing organisation

� His responsibility: Provide high-

quality and up-to-date information

to his company‘s client

� His problem: Document numbers

exploding, demands from clients

get more ambitious, budgets

shrinking

� Missing: Support for doing his daily

job. „I can‘t do all this alone!“


This is Julie

� Julie is the academic expert on

<insert your favorite scientific

subject>

� Over the years of working in the

field she has collected and

structured the vocabulary of her

field in a sophisticated thesaurus

� Her problem: This is known by a

few other experts but not outside.

� And the last thing she can imagine

is trying to find options for

industrial use of her knowledge


Introducing Thierry

� Thierry is working as Business

Developer for a company building

software for text analytics

� Clients are telling him: „Your

system is great. But do you have a

plugin also for our domain?“

� Thierry‘s company is rushing to

cover various domains. But there

are so many!

� Problem: How can Thierry make his

platform more attractive to new

clients with the limited resources

his company has?


Seems they all have a problem

� Andy (publishing): „With the proper support for my domain, I

could well benefit from this software … but it seems they

currently just don‘t offer the respective components.

� Julie (academic expert): „I wouldn‘t mind seeing my thesaurus

being used more widely (and perhaps even generating

revenues) … but I don‘t have time to do ‚sales‘.

� Thierry: It was quite a bit of work to offer appropriate analysis

for sector A and B … redoing that also for C, D, E and F is out of

question. We‘d need to cooperate here …


Broad use of TEMIS in Publishing ….… resulting in many diverse domains to work on


COLLABORATION!


Collaboration creates added value for all

stakeholders

Users, Vendors and Application Developers

benefit from broader offerings, easier and

standardized deployments and increasing

adoption


Luxid® Community Building, using, exchanging resources for Semantic Content Enrichment

Platform

Partners

Domain

expertise

Complementary

components

Service

Partners

Functional

expertise

Project

execution

efficiency

Academic

PartnersFundamental

expertise

ClientsPains Gains


• Topical Discussions

• Service offers / RFPs

• Documentation

• Trainings

• Personal Pages

• Institutional Pages

• Suggest new features

• Influence the roadmap• Software Updates

• Contribute

• Download

• Test



Arbeitsrecht

(labor law)?


Collaboration!

Vocabulary /

Thesaurus ProviderFundamental

expertise

You?Pains Gains

Wolters Kluwer vocabulary

under CC BY 3.0

Wolters Kluwer vocabulary

on labor law, published

under CC BY 3.0

Corresponding Skill

on maternity leave

Corresponding Skill

Cartridge applied on a text

on maternity leave


Linking?




Example: (real-world, in production!)

� BASF: Needs to automatically annotate scientific literature with proteins

and genes (but has no inclination to develop this on their own)

� Fraunhofer Institute SCAI: Had been working on protein name recognition

for a while (but less interested to build up the infrastructure to market, sell

and support this)

� TEMIS: Cooperates with BASF in semantic enrichment of scientific literature

(but is not a protein expert)

� Win-Win-Win situation: Protein-specific plugin from Fraunhofer on the

TEMIS platform Luxid deployed at BASF!


The Community Effect

Chemistry Skill Cartridge®

Component Contribution : More Examples

Domain-specific Taxonomies

(IT, Oil&Gas, Manufacturing, Mining, …

Skill Cartridge® based on TEMA®

engineering thesaurus

Proteins & Genes Skill Cartridge®

Skill Cartridge® based on DBPedia

thesaurus (finance, computer science, …)

Skill Cartridge® based on STW

economics thesaurus


High level outline: Platform TEMIS Luxid

Luxid®

Content Enrichment

Plattform API

Original text

content

Annotated,

semantically

enriched content

Luxid® Analysis Engines

Luxid® Development Env.One genericOne generic

software

platform

Many domainMany domain

specific analysis

components


Commercial and Legal Frameworks

� Platform Partner incentive package

• Free access to the tools

• License for component development

• Discounts on training

• Services delivery requires Service Partner Agreement

� Model for commercial components

• Partner retains 70% of Marketplace sale

• Direct sales also possible

• Licensing terms are up to the Platform Partner

� Model for community components

• Open source licencing (Creative Commons CC-BY or similar)

� Partner retains the IP of the submitted resources!

• Internals of a compiled Skill Cartridge cannot be inspected/exported

Marketplace and Platform Partners


The Community Effect

� Clients / Luxid users

• Collaborate with other Luxid® users

• Easily find trained and experimented experts and service providers

• Contribute to and access a large range of complementary technologies

� Partners (service and platform)

• Acquire more visibility

• Detect project opportunities

• Monetize your expertise via components

� Scholars

• Train students on a leading platform in the industry

• Acquire more visibility. Access to a market for your assets?

• Establish collaborations

Synergies for ….


Take home messages

� Take a look at David Worlocks

report on Collaboration in the

Publishing industry

• Available for free at

http://temis.com/together

� Interested in joining? Drop us a

line at

• [email protected], « Luxid

Community »

� Share your ideas, your

requirements, your assets … and

benefit from other members’

contributions

Let’s start to collaborate

Paris Feb 13th

London Feb 14th

New York Jan 29th

BerlinJan 30th

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