Webcast: European patent information as Linked Open Data

In this webcast Martin Kracker from the European Patent Office (EPO) highlights the business value of patent information and present this new, free data set based an emerging technology.

Patent information contains business, technical and legal information and is used by many organisations for a wide range of purposes. EPO has created a new data set which contains bibliographic data of European Patents in Linked Data format (a.k.a. Semantic Web). This format greatly facilitates the combined retrieval with other patent or non-patent data sets also available as Linked Data.

Martin Kracker works at the European Patent Office (EPO) as project manager in the department of patent information dissemination. He is responsible for implementing and maintaining publicly available databases of European and worldwide patent information. Their main users are international organisations, academic institutions, patent offices and large and medium enterprises.
He holds a PhD and a master in computer science. Before joining the EPO, he was a scientist and consultant in public and private organisations.