Jesse Wang presented on the Microsoft Office Connector, which leverages Microsoft Office applications to bring semantic information to users from various sources. The connector allows users to navigate and interact with semantic data graphs within Office applications. It also includes an API for inputting and modifying semantic data. Wang demonstrated configuring semantic data sources like MediaWiki and databases, and using the connector to edit and access semantic information from within Office tools with no special formatting required. The goal is to provide relevant contextual information to Office users from linked semantic sources.

1. Semantify
Office
Empowering Microsoft Office Users
with Semantic Data
Jesse Wang
Vulcan Inc.
SemTechBiz SF 2012
June 4, 2012

2. About Me

3. Microsoft Office SUITE:: THE Most Successful
Productivity Tools
500m users worldwide
>90% market share
Users live in the
“suite”
Outlook always open
Potential for
Semantics

4. Microsoft Office Connector
 Leverage Microsoft Office
applications and technology
 Bring semantic info to office
applications on-demand
 Navigate data graphs
 On-object actions for properties
based on semantics
 API for data I/O: add and
modify semantic data
Jesse Wang | SemTech 2012

5. Semantic Sources
 Semantic MediaWiki – Best!
 MediaWiki
 Data Files
 Formats: CSV, Excel Spreadsheets, XML
 Locally or remotely located
 Database connections
 RDBMS connection
 SPARQL endpoints

6. Video Demo

7. Configure Semantic
MediaWiki Data Source

8. Configure a MediaWiki Data
Source

9. Database Connection
Configuration

10. Configure File Data Source

11. RDF and SPARQL Endpoints
Configuration

12. Edit and Create

13. Microsoft Office Connector
Features
• Bring you relevant, targeted • Let you consume data
information – Inside Microsoft Office
– In the tools you are already – From various sources
familiar with
– Writing into wiki without
– Along the context – better learning wiki markup syntax
relevance and productivity
– Without remembering where
– Only when you need it – no the content is
information overload
– Sharing semantic data
– With linked rich data– no
search overhead

14. Next Steps: Get Customers
Free trial 

15. Thank You!
Contact:
Jesse Wang
jessew@vulcan.com
Twitter: @aiwang
LinkedIn: jiaxinwang