Morpheus developed several enterprise intelligence tools in a first project for the Dutch Police to support analysts in their processes. In the first phase of the project the goal was mainly to get one overview on multiple systems with a Topic Maps approach and to improve the search functionalities of the system BlueView that is used nationwide. Although BlueView, a system that queries multiple systems for 25 regions, is a success one can’t search semantically and this is also why this pilot project is named TopicView.

In the project, legacy data from five different information systems have been converted to topic maps and merged with the core ontology. The main advantage is the integration of information that can be found in a lot of applications, all of them developed for a particular goal or domain. The web-applications have been developed with help of the Ontopia Knowledge Suite, first a general application has been developed to give the analyst one overview on multiple systems and later other applications amongst others one in which analysts could make statements about other statements.

After finalizing the first phase we needed to show the advantage of the application and this new approach in intelligence analysis. But the problem was that often it could not be demonstrated with the real live data. Therefore we started to work with the basis core ontology of TopicView in combination with open content and data that can be found on Wikipedia and in the Terrorist Ontology of the Mindswap project.

This way we could demonstrate the usefulness of Topic Maps but now on data that everyone knows. For example we mixed information around Al-Quada and the famous Dutch “Hofstadgroep” with the core ontology. In both the two projects of Wikipedia and in Mindswap we find information about Al-Quada. There is overlap between them but also complementary information and therefore also a typical example of the different systems at the Dutch Police.
In the presentation we will show the quick wins that we made in the first very short time span of TopicView and tell something about the ontology. Secondly we will compare this ontology in the TopicView topic map with the OWL terrorist Mindswap ontology.