TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a strategic agreement with CABI, an inter-governmental, not-for-profit organisation providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
CABI has scientific research, international development, knowledge management and publishing at its core. By generating and increasing access to scientific knowledge, and delivering change through development projects, CABI works to improve crop yields, combat agricultural pests and microbial diseases, protect biodiversity and safeguard the environment, which enables the world's poorest communities to feed themselves.
Two key trends that CABI faces as a major publisher of scientific information are the exponential growth rate of the volume of published articles on one hand, and on the other the emergence of the 'Web of Data', which is shaping a demand for more structured data products in addition to traditional information products based on content.
To address these trends, CABI has decided to optimise its content indexing which was previously primarily manual, by integrating TEMIS's Luxid Content Enrichment Platform in its content management workflow. CABI's first objective is to make efficiency gains through automation and reduce indexing costs associated with the increase of content volumes while ensuring high levels of metadata quality. The rich semantic metadata extracted from its content will enable more sophisticated search, navigation and discovery tools on CABI's online portals, promoting greater user engagement. Luxid's semantic enrichment pipeline will furthermore enable the extraction from text of structured information as well as semantic relationships, enabling CABI to create linked data products connected to the larger Web of Data.
Based on patented and award-winning Natural Language Processing technologies, Luxid exploits off-the-shelf extractors called Skill Cartridges to extract targeted information from unstructured content and semantically enrich it with domain-specific metadata. Luxid also includes Content Enrichment Studio, a suite of productivity tools that enables end-users to customize Skill Cartridges or develop their own. This will enable CABI to embed its own thesaurus within a dedicated Skill Cartridge and consistently align its metadata across its product line with its thesaurus.
