In the context of our recently started BmBF funded WK-Potential project LE4SW we organize a Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT) in order to get more in touch with enterprises from Saxony and to raise awareness about the opportunities Semantic Web technologies offer for small and medium sized companies. The day will take place at the marvelous Mediencampus Villa Ida and will comprise talks about fundamental Semantic Data Web technology pillars as well as presentations from an application and user perspective. More information about the LSWT can be found (in German) at: http://aksw.org/Events/2009/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay.

We currently feature a live extraction of DBpedia on one of our servers. The live extraction is aimed at bringing Wikipedia and DBpedia closer together. Errors in DBpedia can soon be corrected directly by editing the corresponding Wikipedia article.
We created a test page on Wikipedia for observing the effects of the live extraction on the endpoint at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DBpedia

Our further plans regarding the live extraction are:

• Changing the current Virtuoso version to 6.0, which will come out soon (counting the days…)
  Note: since Virtuoso has a Wikipedia page with an Infobox, you could tell your personal semantic agent to notify you, as soon as the 6.0 release is out, as it can now be queried with SPARQL on DBpedia-Live. See the Wikipedia page, DBpedia and DBpedia-Live (Addition: Kidehen just contacted us and installed a DBpedia vad on our DBpedia mirror and now the data is accessible via LinkedData also. See http://db0.aksw.org:8890/resource/Virtuoso_Universal_Server. Note the owl:sameAs link to the original DBpedia.)
• Getting all extractors online (some are deactivated right now)
• Gathering feedback from the community, as DBpedia is a vital resource of the Semantic Web.
• Deploy the Live-Extraction on the public DBpedia endpoint.
• Deploy an OntoWiki on our DBpedia-Live mirror.

As we are in the phase of active developments, we are looking forward to receive your feedback and comments on the live extraction and our further ideas (described below).
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Our paper “Triplify - Light-weight Linked Data Publication from Relational Databases” was accepted for the Semantic Data Web track at this years World Wide Web Conference. In the paper we discuss the motivation, workings of Triplify as well as its spatial and update log extensions. WWW 2009 will take place from April 20th to 24th in Madrid. Besides paper presentations WWW 2009 also includes a workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009).