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DR. DANIEL A. SMITH, SENIOR DEVELOPER, CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY

@DrDanielASmith
ODI SUMMIT
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ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS

FINANCIAL & RISK

LEGAL

Critical news, information & analytics,

enables transactions, and connects
trading, investing, financial and corporate
professionals.

Critical information, decision support tools,

software & services to legal, investigation,
business and government professionals.

TAX & ACCOUNTING

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SCIENCE

Comprehensive IP & scientific information,
decision support tools & services to enable
governments, academia, publishers,
corporations & law firms.

Integrated tax compliance and accounting

information, software & services for
professionals in accounting firms,
corporations,
law firms and government.
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REUTERS NEWS
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Powered by more than 2,800 journalists reporting in 20
languages from bureaux around the world, Reuters is
the worlds largest international news organisation.
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Due to growth by acqusition, we

are working with siloed data
Segregation of content by
business domain

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Benefits: Designed, content

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controlled, edited and published
by each business
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IDENTITY CHALLENGES
Entities can have multiple identifiers
e.g. Organisations have IDs all areas:
Finance and Risk
Tax and Accounting
Legal
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IP
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ORGANISATION IDENTIFIERS IN FINANCE AND RISK

MXID
NDGSymbol
DBSTicker
SDCCusip
SDCID
SEDARIssuer
EdCoID
VEFirmID
VentureEconomicsID
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RegistrationNumber
DunsNumber
SinotrustNumber
DatastreamFiId
RegulatoryId
Cusip6
TaxId
RcpId
EfxId
EjvExchangeCode
Lei
DataStreamId
AllCode
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CONTENT MARKETPLACE
Thomson Reuters addressed the problem by introducing an information
governance framework, which:
- Created authorities to maintain common reference points of identity for major objects
(organisations, people, instruments, quotes etc...)
- Used PermIDs as a common method for identity

Our customers have the same problems, as does the open data community
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- Introducing rules is not practical. Instead, offer a compelling solution that each group or
organisation
can
make
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PermID
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- Grow a network effect an ecosystem around this de-facto standard
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PERMID AS A USEFUL COMMON REFERENCE POINT

Specifically maintained for identity reference & not as a side-effect
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Use / context independent focus is on getting community support & network mass
Unambiguous, consistent interface, doesnt need interpretation
Well-described & maintained relative to the real world
Stable meaning, persistent, temporal
Coverage & granularity reflect community needs
Dependable support over time

Everyone knows that everyone else can freely access and use it

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- Open licensed
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- Known quantity to plan against
- Creates a network effect

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TECHNOLOGY STACK
Content Marketplace
Data Item Registry (i.e., ISO/IEC 11179)
XML
Knowledge Graph
Semantic Web
RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SPIN, Jena, Sesame
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BUILDING THE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH

The Content Marketplace work gave us the linkage through PermIDs
Semantic Web and Big Data technologies give a strong starting point to building a
knowledge graph
Take those technologies and scale them to:
Query
or manipulate
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Provide lots of data and lots of perspectives on data
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Build a minimal set of tools to put and get data into the graph
Determine the minimum viable set of data to bootstrap the graph
Retain federation of data internally
Data authorities keep editorial and publishing control as before

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If we can prove out a knowledge graph of federated data internally, we can use the
same approach to link to customers data and open data

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THOMSON REUTERS KNOWLEDGE GRAPH STATS

Knowledge Graph: 2.35B triples
- Metadata, Organisations, People: 2.27B triples
- Inferred Data, generated with SPIN rules [reverse predicates etc.]: 78.3M triples

Compared to other large open data sets:

- Wikidata: 367M triples
DBPedia:
474M
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- Freebase: 2B triples
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- UniProt: 17B triples
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KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS PROVIDE

MANY VIEWS TO ANSWER MANY QUESTIONS
Gives us the ability to provide many lenses over the graph
Query for absolute facts
Patents issued by a company, litigation history, market capitalisation history

Also make inferred and abstract connections

Sort
litigation
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within an industry sector weighted by market capitalisation

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Combine absolute facts with inferred/abstract connections

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KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS PROVIDE

MANY VIEWS TO ANSWER MANY QUESTIONS
Iterate and build layers of queries of increasing sophisticated/complexity to infer
new facts
Handle relative truth of facts and data - according to their source
Ability to utilise the facts relevant to your product or question
Adding additional perspectives as relevant
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@DrDanielASmith

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