Alexandre Passant has published a new Semantic Web Case Study, as part of the SWEO Collection. It describes a system deployed at the R&D department of Electricité de France (EDF), and shows how to integrate enterprise level social software (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) into a coherent user tool using Semantic Web technologies.
One of the interesting points is that, although this is an “intranet” application, the system makes also use of the various open datasets that the Linking Open Data project has made available for the Semantic Web, like Geonames; it also links, internally, to DBPedia. Ie, the system is a bona fide application of the LOD project for real users, in a real environment…
About Ivan Herman
Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
