SEMANTiCS – Fits with FIZ

In this blog post, Leni Helmes, member of the management board and Senior VP of SEMANTiCS 2019 Premium Sponsor FIZ Karlsruhe talks about the mission of this institution how it is carried out in initiatives such as PatentSemTech, an initiative to build and grow the community around patent data and semantic technologies. FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH is one of the large non-university infrastructure institutions in Germany and member of the Leibniz Association. Our public mission is „…to provide scientific information to scientists and researchers, to develop appropriate products and services and to make them publicly accessible." In this context we understand information infrastructure as the entirety of content, technologies and services that enable knowledge to be generated, disseminated and maintained. Information infrastructure is part of the whole scholarly research infrastructure and is becoming increasingly important in the course of the digital transformation.