Part of the commercial projects, carried out within Ontotext, are connected to pharmacies. In this respect, the developed prototype in bio-medical and pharmaceutical domains will be employed directly in the workflow processes.
Related markets: Administration, government, science, businesses
SWOT Analysis:
Strengths: The usage of patents is a common and necessary activity in industry. Thus, the created structure model for handling patents in one specific domain would be applicable to patents in other domans, too. Retrieval services in a strongly cross-lingual context would be also very attractive features for exploitation.
Weaknesses: If the MOLTO modules are used in another domain of patents (for example science) some adaptation will be needed, although the patent structure itself would be stable beyond specific domains.
Opportunities: The usage of the patent service would facilitate and speed up the process of managing Pharma policies with respect with new development in healthcare.
Threats: The patent service might not cover all the query requirements of the users due to the limitations of the controlled language or the incompleteness of the corpus.
There are many stakeholders in this area, since lately the related initiatives have grown considerably. Here we have in mind the specific ones: Europeana, British Museum, ConservationSpace and CLARIN.
Europeana already provides search facilities. However, they cover only metadata and are not connected to ontologies. Also, the translation from one language to another is done via machine translation(MT) only, without any grammatical formalism behind it. British museum is a partner which would try the MOLTO services, profiled specially for museum objects. They already use Ontotext’s semantic repository OWLIM. This service supports semantic search, semantic RDF data sources, Web Publication. MOLTO will add to the better search functionality as well as to the multilingual information extraction. Similar projects are: Gothenburg City Museum (Sweden); Polish Digital National Museum; Yale Center for British Art (USA): Linked Open Data publishing of museum collection. ConservationSpace project is managed by the National Gallery of Art (USA) and 7 other institutional partners from the USA, UK and Denmark. It handles the data management. MOLTO services might also contribute to the better preservation of the documents through adopting the GF formalism as a mediator between the users' queries and SPARQL queries. Similar projects are: FP7 CHARISMA: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration; FP7 3D-COFORM: 3D documentation and collection formation of tangible cultural heritage; CLARIN is a pan-European initiative, which aims at elaborating also a globally shared service, among other services, for exploration of cultural artefacts. Ontotext is a participant in this initiative. It might provide the same facility to the consortium as in the above opportunity. Similar projects: FP7 V-MUST: Virtual Museum Transnational Network, a Network of Excellence.
Related markets: tourism, education
SWOT Analysis:
Strengths: coverage of many languages with language specific mediated filtering (through GF formalism); high precision of the retrieved content due to the controlled language; easy adaptability to other areas of cultural artefacts and languages.
Weaknesses: Since one of the use cases in MOLTO considers museums, the application to other subdomains of Cultural heritage might need adaptation of the grammars and ontologies.
Opportunities: The service can be adopted by various virtual cultural databases and adapted to them.
Threats: There might not be available resources for certain languages or language variants; language generation might not be efficient enough for all languages.