Alfresco and the Semantic* Web
Ezequiel Foncubierta
Head of Technology at Zaizi
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• man • tic adj.—Of or relating to meaning in language
Agenda
• Introduction to Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies
• ECKM - Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management
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Language detection
Entities extraction
Semantic annotations
Intelligent search
Recommendations
• Q&A
The Semantic Web
Once upon a time...
The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or
machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other,
related, data.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelydixel/2713803038/
Evolution of World Wide Web
Richness of data connections
Semantic Web era
Rule Interchange
Linked Data
Personal Agents
WWW Database
Web 3.0
SPARQL
ATOM
RDF/OWL
2010-2020
Cloud computing & SaaS
AJAX/JSON
Social networks
SOAP
Blogs/Wikis
WWW era
Web 2.0
2000-2010
XML
Portals
OO/Java
Intranet
HTTP/HTML
Groupware
Web 1.0
1990-2000
PC era
Gopher
SQL
SGML
Databases
File servers
Desktop
Computing
FTP
1980-1990
File systems
Email
Richness of social connections
Linked Data
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't
previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data
currently linked using other methods
http://linkeddata.org/
Linked Data: The World Wide Web database
Describe your data
Semantic Web vs Semantic Technologies
Semantic Web
Semantic Technologies
Semantic Web Formats (RDF, OWL, etc.)
Natural-language processing
Query language (SPARQL)
Rules language (RIF)
Web pages marking language (RDFa)
Triple/Quad stores
Data mining/Machine learning
Artificial intelligence/Expert systems
Classification
Semantic search
IKS Project
6.58M co-funding by the EU
Collaboration between academia, industry
and open-source developers
Open Source licenses and best practices
Compliant with latest semantic standards
Zaizi represents Alfresco
http://www.iks-project.eu
http://stanbol.apache.org
http://viejs.org
ECKM
Uses Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies to add Knowledge
Management capabilities to Alfresco, so richer interfaces can be built
upon it to improve the user experience in Content Management.
• Language detection
• Entities extraction
• Semantic annotations
• Intelligent search
• Recommendations
ECKM: Demo
Future of ECKM
• First beta version in Q1/2013
• Backlog
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Topic detection
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Reasoning support in searches
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Thesaurus Management
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Classification of documents
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Support for RDFa and Microformat in Alfresco WCM/Quick Start
Ezequiel Foncubierta
Head of Technology
email: efoncubierta@zaizi.com
twitter: @efoncubierta
linkedin: efoncubierta
skype: efoncubiertaz
Thank you!
Rafael Haro
Head of R&D
email: rharo@zaizi.com
twitter: @rafa_haro
linkedin: rafaelharo
skype: rafaharo