Information Workbench Features
Pursuing the goal to lower the entry barrier into the world of Linked Data and to leverage its benefits, we have developped the Information Workbench™ as a platform for Linked Data application development. Designed as a self-service platform, it provides you with all the tools and features you need to quickly build your personal Linked Data applications.
Key Features
Collaboration
Collaborative Knowledge Management
- Capture structured and unstructured knowledge
- Annotate resources semantically using Semantic MediaWiki syntax or add free-text documentation
- Employ user management to identify and control the state of users logged in
Semantic Wiki
- Use Semantic Wiki technology to easily annotate resources, establish relationships, or add free-text documentation
- Access an extensible pool of predefined widgets and templates
Semantic Authoring
- Integrate editorial workflows for improved efficiency and automation
- Support change management and revision to enable standardized and efficient processes
- Use template-based authoring to create and fill in templates
- Use PDF export functionality and convert any page of interest, chart or report in PDF
- Implement and enjoy full benefits of auto suggestion
Integration
Data Integration
- Integrate external sources, via providers and Google Refine
- Integrate different types of data sources with the extensible provider concept (the Information Workbench comes with a selection of predefined provider types)
- Integrate Linked Open Data sources and other data markets from the Web
- Integrate data based ontologies
Metadata Management
- Consolidation and integration of metadata
- Manage data from different sources
- Unified view on metadata resources and their relationships
Linked Open Data Standards
- Access to Linked Open Data Cloud
- Management of very large amounts of information on the Data Web
Application Development
- Use standardized APIs and SDKs to implement your own widgets and mash-ups
- Standards support (RDF, SPARQL, SMW syntax, Void, DCAT, Linked Data publishing)
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Customizable, widget-based User Interface
- Customize the user interface according to your preferences
- Extend the predefined set of widgets
- Choose from a wide variety of existing widget based on semantics of the data
Charting and Reporting
- Create user-defined dashboards and reports
- Access queries and charts that are directly embedded into Semantic Wiki pages
- Manage historical data and create user-defined charts over historical data
Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
- Analyze texts, titles, posts and blogs and predict future probabilities and trends
- Extract patterns from large data sets
Interactive Visualization
- Explore and navigate through your data using graphs, tables, and PivotViewer
- Choose from a selection of supported/documented widgets to visualize your data
Semantic Search
- Use the power and preciseness of structured queries on unstructured data and exploit the following search methods: Keyword Search, SPARQL, Pivot-based Search, Hybrid Search, Faceted Search
Social Analytics
- Listen to social conversations and monitor brand or product mentions in the web
- Mine data for brand insight
Please contact our sales team for more information on the Information Workbench Enterprise Edition or download the Community Edition to get a first impression.
