Semantic Skin: from Flat Textual Content to Interconnected Repositories of Semantic Data

One approach to re-balancing the Digital Divide tends to favor the production of informative content in flat formats, which are easy to distribute and consume. At the same time this approach forbids to deliver the core knowledge pertinent within the content; i.e. it increases the Knowledge Divide. In some international organizations, informative content distribution to groups in Latin America happens by manually collecting text-based content, then disseminating it via standard mailing lists, or databases copies sent out regularly. Our demo showcases the use of Semantic Skin a technology that after semantifying the content submitted in flat formats, provides access to the information via a knowledge layer, which is, however, transparent to the end users. In this context Semantic Skin seeks to reduce the Knowledge Divide by bringing in also the pertinent not just surface knowledge to bear.