Refinder - Where things come together

RefinderWhere things come togetherRefinder is the intelligent online collaboration tool for teams to collect and share information. Work together with colleagues, partners and customers.

www.getrefinder.com

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100% of people use email as social software

Alex, Claudia@example.com, Mike@othercompany.com, … .. .

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Dear Team members,

Attached is the latest version (including Mike‘s second changes after Claudia‘s comments) of the minutes from the third project meeting.

Claudia, did you have this question on Clean Energy in Finland? I found www.reegle.info, its ….

45% of time spent managing information

Dear Team members,

Attached is the latest version (including Mike‘s second changes after Claudia‘s comments) of the minutes from the third project meeting.

Claudia, did you have this question on Clean Energy in Finland? I found www.reegle.info, its ….

16% spent on facebook

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The Refinder Vision

Intelligent online collaboration to collect and share information

Take Existing SoftwareExisting ProcessesInformation Silos

Collaborative Processes

Individual NeedsRelevant

Information

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Enterprise Social Software

Meets Semantic Web

9.11.2011Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

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Refinder TechnologySaaS in the Cloud, API, Connectors, RDF, Connectors

Recommenderfinds relevant data connects to LOD

Web interfacecollaborate and organize

API interfaceextend and connect

RDF Data Modelsemantic data storeSocial Semantic Desktop

Software as a Servicewww.getrefinder.com

9.11.2011Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

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Recommendations to find relevant data

Input:

“I need information on Renewable Energy Sources applicable in Finland for Finpower”.

• Refinder is able to find

• Finpower … internal Project known to you;

• Renewable Energy … corporate topic within group;

• Finland … publicly know country covered in snow and skiers.

Using Semantic Technologies Renewable Energy Information can be retrieved from Reegle.info using integration with Poolparty.semantic-web.at.

Refinder helps you to find relevant data for your current task

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Our vision

• Freedom to collaborate

• from many applications,

• on many topics,

• with many people

• Semantics find the relevant

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• within my organisation

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Build intelligent collaboration tool where things come together

Our vision

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Thanks,questions!

@Refinderwww.getrefinder.com

CEO CTOLeo.Sauermann Bernhard.Schandl@gnowsis.com@gnowsis.com

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here be dragons!…backup slides

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More about the Features

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Refinder is an online tool

Go to www.getrefinder.com

Accessible from desktop and mobile devices.

For coworkers and external partners

• Register

To start with Refinder, create an account

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Create a collection to invite teams

Create a collectionFor a project, topic, meeting….

Invite Team membersCan read/write into a collection

Receive notifications on updates

Internal coworkers or external partners

Collections are the collaborative workspaces in Refinder

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Where your things come togetherCollect information from different sources in one place. Connect people with data.

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Collect Things With RefinderSharing information must be intuitive, easy, and beneficial.

1 Collect bookmarks Collect websites from your browser

Connectors delicious.com or sciencedirect.com, more to come…

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Collect and Share Citations Citations are not isolated but related to project tasks and goals

1 Search on SciverseSearch results are analyzed and collections recommended

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Collect Things With RefinderSharing information must be intuitive, easy, and beneficial.

1 Collect desktop dataMicrosoft® Office Outlook®Import contacts, events, emails, …

Other desktop connectors available on request.

Support existing workprocesses, integrateexisting data easily.

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Comment, Relate, Like, Export

• Rate attention and feedback

• Commentsdescribe context

• Recommendations create relations

• Source connects to linked data

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Simple semantic annotations let you add the relevant data

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use cases

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Use Case: Collaborative Research

Consulting Agencies

Teams: 11people, 17people

Task: stay on top on energy-saving technologies, public grants, .

• File-Share, Emails, Web

• External Freelancers

Distribute knowledge work in a team

Topic: buidlingsolar

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Use Case: Partners and Projects

Collecting information for a project in a collection.

Meeting: Slides, hotel, participants, open questions, minutes.

Share it with the project participants.

Document decisions wtih external contractors, cooperation projects with partners

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