Facilitating Data-Flows at a Global Publisher using the LOD2 Stack
Christian Dirschl, Katja Eck, Jens Lehmann, Lorenz Bühmann, Sören Auer · 2013
The publishing industry is at the verge of an era, wherein particular professional customers of publishing products are not so much interested in comprehensive books and journals, i.e. traditional publishing products, anymore as they now are interested in possibly structured information pieces delivered just-in-time as a certain information need arises. This requires a transformation of the publishing workflows towards the production of much richer meta-data for fine-grained and highly interlinked pieces of content. Linked Data can play a crucial role in this transition. The LOD2 Stack is an integrated distribution of aligned tools which support the whole lifecycle of Linked Data from extraction, authoring/creation via enrichment, interlinking, fusing to maintenance. In this application paper, we describe a real-world usage scenario of the LOD2 stack at a global publishing company. We give an overview over the LOD2 Stack and the underlying life-cycle of Linked Data, describe data-flows and usage scenarios at a publisher and then show how the stack supports those scenarios.