Collecting and aggregating corporate information from public and private sources, especially across borders and languages, is a tedious and very expensive task rendering many potential business models non-feasible. The onerousness of the task can be ascribed to the lack of a universal mark-up schema to annotate digital references to a company.
Collecting and aggregating corporate information from public and private sources, especially across borders and languages, is a tedious and very expensive task rendering many potential business models non-feasible. The onerousness of the task can be ascribed to the lack of a universal mark-up schema to annotate digital references to a company.
The European Union’s Horizon 2020 program funded the euBusinessGraph project to address the lack of a markup schema by setting the foundation for a knowledge graph of companies. To create a business knowledge graph, ontologies were used for aggregating, linking, provisioning, and analyzing company-related data. Furthermore, for enabling the creation of data-driven products and services, a prototype data marketplace was created on top of the provisioned knowledge graph. The euBusinessGraph ontology was developed by leveraging some of the best practices in ontology development. In addition, existing ontologies and vocabularies, and company data obtained by data providers from both official and unofficial sources were used in developing the ontology. A data-provisioning infrastructure was developed to onboard data received from various data providers. The infrastructure was used to process the data source files and map it to the euBusinessGraph ontology. There was also a set of data ingestion services and data preparation tools for data transformation, enrichment, interlinking, and metadata generation processes to publish the business knowledge graph data as Linked Data. Consequently, over 1.4 billion Linked Data triples are available in the business knowledge graph. The data marketplace prototype implemented on top of the knowledge graph includes functionality for full-text advanced search and detailed faceted search for exploration of the company knowledge graph. The market place also offers analytics services such as data aggregation and visualization search for company news articles, and company events. In sum, the euBusinessGraph project has set the foundations for a business knowledge graph of companies, and delivered a set of innovative data-driven business products and services dealing with company information. Click here to read the original article published by ERCIM News.
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