Industry

The amount of data available and produced every day is exploding – data has become an important raw material that is of high importance in nearly every industry sector worldwide.

Starting in 2015 ds9 has been developing a large SEARCHCORPUS of companies in the Bio Sciences market for Boehringer Ingelheim. This Biotech Companies SEARCHCORPUS is optimized on an ongoing base to allow data scientists to quickly find licensing opportunities, acquisition targets and new technological developments of competitors.

DNV GL and Openlaws are in the business of helping organisations to be compliant with regulations, rules, standards and best practices (DNV GL in the energy sector, and Openlaws by providing tools for legal knowledge management).

In the context of the IoT one of the current hypes of the (German) machine industry is to provide the content of technical documentation using so called content delivery portals to their customers and service technicians. Goal is to provide detailed, order-specific information directly to electronic devices.

PoolParty Semantic Suite is Semantic Web Company’s platform for enterprise information integration based on Linked Data principles. PoolParty consists of several components that process and manage RDF based data sets. These components have consistency requirements towards the data they work on. Also, users have requirements towards the quality of the data they manage.

“STIP Compass” the EC-OECD international Database of Science, Technology and Innovation was launched 26 April 2018. It is a joint effort between both the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which provides information on over 7000 policy initiatives from more than 50 countries, collected  through the EC-OECD STI Policy Survey.

Springer Nature SciGraph is a scholarly linked data repository hosting more than one billion triples about publications, grants, conferences, organizations and many other objects that are linked to the publishing activities of Springer Nature.

We have witnessed a fundamental shift in the last few years as public search engines such as Google, Bing and Yandex have enhanced their services with web-scale knowledge graphs and massive extraction of semantically rich structured data from public websites.

A core activity of the RCE is to make cultural heritage information available. Currently this is inefficient in both resources and people. Information products are not available, usable and (legally) consistent. Information is also not offered in conjunction and not easy to combine. This is not something you want to offer to your internal and external customers.  
 

There is a tremendous push to introduce autonomous vehicles. Politicians are offering trials on public roads, companies announce activities in this area in order not to be seen as backwards.