Utilizing, creating and publishing Linked Open Data with the Thesaurus Management Tool PoolParty

Abstract. We introduce the Thesaurus Management Tool (TMT) PoolParty based on Semantic Web standards that reduces the effort to create and maintain thesauri by utilizing Linked Open Data (LOD), text-analysis and easy-to-use GUIs. PoolParty’s aim is to lower the access barriers to managing thesauri, so domain experts can contribute to thesaurus creation without needing knowledge about the Semantic Web. A central feature of PoolParty is the enriching of a thesaurus with relevant information from LOD sources. It is also possible to import and update thesauri from remote LOD sources. Going a step further we present a Personal Information Management tool built on top of PoolParty which relies on Open Data to assist the user in the creation of thesauri by suggesting categories and individuals retrieved from LOD sources. Additionally PoolParty has natural language processing capabilities enabling it to analyse documents in order to glean new concepts for a thesaurus and several GUIs for managing thesauri varying in their complexity. Thesauri created with PoolParty can be published as Open Knowledge according to LOD best practices