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Semantify Office

Empowering Microsoft Office Users with Semantic Data

Jesse WangVulcan Inc.

SemTechBiz SF 2012June 4, 2012

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Computing Complexity

Information

Processing

Artificial Intelligence

Pattern RecognitionPersonal Information Management

Information Retrieval

Social Semantic Web

Cognitive Science

Machine Translation Productivity Tools

Knowledge Systems

Microsoft Office SUITE:: THE Most Successful Productivity Tools

500m users worldwide

>90% market share

Users live in the “suite”

Outlook always open

Potential for Semantics

Microsoft Office Connector

Jesse Wang | SemTech 2012

API

API

Leverage Microsoft Office applications and technology

Bring semantic info to office applications on-demand

Navigate data graphs

On-object actions for properties based on semantics

API for data I/O: add and modify semantic data

Semantic Sources

Semantic MediaWiki – Best! MediaWiki

Data Files Formats: CSV, Excel Spreadsheets,

XML Locally or remotely located

Database connections RDBMS connection SPARQL endpoints

Video Demo

Configure Semantic MediaWiki Data Source

Configure a MediaWiki Data Source

Database Connection Configuration

Configure File Data Source

RDF and SPARQL Endpoints Configuration

Edit and Create

Microsoft Office Connector Features

• Bring you relevant, targeted information

– In the tools you are already familiar with

– Along the context – better relevance and productivity

– Only when you need it – no information overload

–With linked rich data– no search overhead

• Let you consume data

– Inside Microsoft Office

– From various sources

–Writing into wiki without learning wiki markup syntax

–Without remembering where the content is

– Sharing semantic data

Next Steps: Get Customers Free trial

Thank You!

Paul Allen

Mark Greaves

Project Halo

K.I.T.

Semantic MediaWiki+ Team

Ning Hu

Justin Zhang

MOCCAT

Contact:Jesse Wang jessew@vulcan.com Twitter: @aiwangLinkedIn: jiaxinwang