Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH and Viennese Semantic Web Company agree on cooperating on the development of innovative and highly efficient products for data, information and metadata management.
Cologne/Vienna (February 05, 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Deutschland (WKD), knowledge and information service provider located in Cologne and the Austrian Semantic Web Company (SWC) act in collusion with each other. The aim of this cooperation is to offer the sustainable creation and targeted usage of domain specific thesauri and enterprise taxonomies based on Linked Data technologies as a market-ready and ready to use product.
Whereas WKD with its core competences in law, business, tax, finance and health is covering the domain and methodological dimension of the cooperation, SWC is contributing the technological know-how. Main target is to fulfill concrete needs and requirements of customers in a highly efficient and practical way.“Our offering is addressing large national institutions like ministries, federal agencies and social insurances as well as banks. This includes also larger NGOs and administrations that have an international focus”, explains WKD content architect Christian Dirschl the direction of the cooperation. As with searching and finding the ‘proverbial needle in the data haystack’, we also address specialists like large law firms or smaller units in large enterprises, “who are specifically working on legal matters, making with their work an important contribution to the success of the company as a whole.” Especially knowledge domains like law, industry, tax and finance are getting more and more intransparent on global scale, Dirschl explains, “so that semantic technologies and Linked Data methods gain importance”.
Amongst others, the following services and products are offered, based on this cooperation:
- Metadata management and enterprise thesaurus management
- Semantic search and data integration
- Text mining and knowledge extraction
- Creation of knowledge networks and knowledge management systems
- Supporting the creation of Linked Data and Open Data infrastructures
We observed in the last 10 years “how search and linking of information have gained importance in certain domains and what competitive advantages can evolve from that,” stresses Andreas Blumauer, managing director of SWC. “Our customer base profits from this cooperation. We immediately guarantee state-of-the-art technologies paired with professional domain assistance, e.g. with the creation of domain taxonomies and thesauri, so that information resources can be used more efficiently”, Blumauer says.
About Wolters Kluwer Germany
Wolters Kluwer Germany is an information services company specializing in the legal, business and tax sectors. Wolters Kluwer provides pertinent information to professionals in the form of literature, software and services. Headquartered in Cologne, it has over 1,200 employees located at over 20 offices throughout Germany and has been conducting business on the German market for over 25 years.
Wolters Kluwer Germany is part of the leading international information services company, Wolters Kluwer n.v., located in Alphen aan den Rijn (The Netherlands). The core market segments, targeting an audience of professional users, are legal, business, tax, accounting, corporate and finance services, and healthcare. Its shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL), and are included in the AEX and the Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has annual sales of 3.4 billion Euros (2011), employs approx.19,000 people worldwide and has over 40 offices located throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific and in Latin America.
The creation of legal vocabularies is far from being a trivial thing and there are hardly any resources available in German language. By making these thesauri publicly available, we want to support especially administrations to classify and structure their internal data, in order to easily connect this data to relevant WKD legal resources afterwards (Interoperability of data). The Community on the other hand is very active in some domains, but unfortunately very reluctant when it comes to legal topics. Our aim here is to give initial support in order to create awareness, that also with this data it is possible to create highly interesting and relevant applications. In the end, all interested parties have to work together in a collaborative fashion, in order to bring transparency to the diversity and sheer amount of legal information – this is not possible within insular silos of applications and isolated approaches.
