Semantic Search Tool on Alfresco

Benjamin Chevallereau

Why Alfresco ?

Alfresco
... is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM); ... can manage all the contents within your enterprise (documents, images, records...) : structured and unstructured les; ... allows you to manage easily and quickly a big quantity of documents using : metadata, versioning, tagging, commenting...

Source: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management - Gartner - 13/10/2011

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Our User Story

Our solution is to provide a semantic search tool allowing users to use a number of searching techniques.

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Source: AIIM - Content Analytics: Research Tools for Unstructured Content and Rich Media - Mar 25, 2010

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72% of companies thinks that its harder to nd information owned by their organization than information not owned by them i.e, on the Web.

Our User Story

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To build a semantic search tool within Alfresco ECM to carry out effective collaborative research.

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A large collection of documents and digital assets (images, videos, audio, etc.) All the assets in the CMS have been :
Semantically enriched, Mapped to an ontology and Stored in the integrated RDF store within the CMS.

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This technique allows searching using ontology and taxonomy terms. Not limited to a specic ontology. Must adapt to the underlying ontology. Full cross data ontological searching across the repository.

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Our User Story

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Suggest different avenues of exploration by showing related results using different categories. Connection may be an indirect relationship.
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Our User Story

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Data Relationships

To concentrate on searching material on a particular object or subject and therefore narrow down the potential results from the outset. To view related material outside the particular sphere to provide a view providing contextual information.

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Our User Story

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Relationships to be discovered should extend to data sources outside the CMS content, including DBpedia. The system should allow for the expansion of these different data sources which can be chosen within the search tool including web sites that use the RDFa standard.

Scoped searching

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Report 2009-2010.pdf Book.pdf Analysis DRAFT.doc

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Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Winning Strategies in Economic Development Marketing Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

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Our User Story

Saved Searches
Once a user built a search query that returns the required set of results, they should be able to save the search query. They should be able to re-run the search and view the results at a later date. Manage a list of saved searches. They should be able to share the saved searches with other CMS users.
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Our Proposal Demo System

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Cape Town

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Results
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Name Report 2009-2010.pdf Book.pdf Analysis DRAFT.doc

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Description Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Winning Strategies in Economic Development Marketing Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Action(s) Search on London

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Big picture

E-mail clients
SharePoint

CIFS

REST IMAP

Semantic Search Tool

Community

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How to deliver it ?
External Resources

Semantic Search Tool

RDF Store

Semantic Services

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Thank You

Benjamin Chevallereau