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Article about Cofundos in this years OpenSourceJahrbuch edition

March 28, 2008 - 1:28 pm by Sören Auer - No comments »

This years edition of the renowned German OpenSourceJahrbuch contains an overview article about Cofundos (in German).

Triplification with Google’s Summer of Code

March 25, 2008 - 4:22 pm by Sören Auer - No comments »

We did not participate as a mentor this year in Google’s Summer of Code program. However, there seem to be some Triplify related projects appearing. The PHP Content Management System Joomla! for example aims at integrating Triplify within a GSoC project:

http://docs.joomla.org/Code_04000

Also the Drupal community is actively discussing to integrated Semantic Web and Linked Data interfaces such as Triplify. Probably also a number of other PHP related projects would be excited to see a Triplify integration. If you as a student are interested in participating and earning $5000 during the summer, just suggest a corresponding project to one of the GSoC mentors. But hurry, the application deadline ends March 31st.
BTW: You will also be eligible to participate in the Triplification Challenge we are currently preparing with the chance to win an MacBook Air, an EeePC or an IPod Touch.

Triplify - expose semantics!

March 16, 2008 - 5:28 am by Sören Auer - 7 comments »

Triplify logo

After a first preview release a couple of weeks ago we worked hard to prepare a first public release of Triplify. We fixed a number of bugs and added several additional features, some example configurations for popular Web applications were created and the Web site was completely overhauled: Michael Haschke created the new Triplify logo as well as the design and most other visuals on the site. For those who missed the first Triplify announcement:

Triplify enables the effortless “semantification” of Web applications. Triplify is a small plugin for Web applications, which reveals the semantic structures encoded in relational databases by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data.

Triplify overview

Triplify is very light weight: It consists just of few files with less than 500 lines of code. For a typical Web application a configuration for Triplify can be created in less than one hour and if this Web application is deployed multiple times (as most open-source Web applications are) the configuration can be reused without modifications.

Triplify makes Web applications easier mashable and lays the foundation for next generation, semantics based Web searches.

More infos, the software release, some example configurations for OpenConf, Open Journal Systems, WackoWiki, WordPress and Drupal are available from: http://triplify.org