A short while ago the Semantic Web Journal was launched. Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz are editors-in-chief and AKSW’s Sören Auer serves on the editorial board. The journal published by IOS Press differs from other journals, in particular, since it follows an open and transparent peer-review process, which engages a wider community besides expert reviews. Supported by its young and agile editorial board, the SWJ can be expected to bring a lot of fresh wind to an already aging Semantic Web community. Since SWJ just started, it is right now a perfect time to submit an article to SWJ or propose a special issue. Please check out: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net.

Martin Hepp just published a short tutorial on using the GoodRelations vocabulary for product, price, and company data together with LESS. Martin explains, how a public SPARQL endpoint holding GoodRelations data can be accessed and results displayed using LESS. The tutorial is available at:

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsAndLESS

Due to the rising interest in our LinkedGeoData project and the growth of the underlying OpenStreetMap database, we expanded the AKSW server infrastructure. LinkedGeoData will gradually move to a new server running Debian within the next weeks. This server runs on a virtual machine inside a new cluster at the University of Leipzig. Resources (memory, CPU, hard disk) can be allocated dynamically (of course limited by financial restrictions) such that we hope to keep up with the growth of the project. The first LinkedGeoData applications to move on the new server will be the Linked Data interface and the LGD Browser.

We’ve released the third version of our OntoWiki Command Line Interface (owcli). owcli is a php-based command line tool to administrate and manipulate OntoWiki Knowledge Bases. The release is a complete remake as an JSON/RPC client in order are save for future extensions at the OntoWiki RPC server base. owcli can be downloaded at the google code download page and is featured in detail at this wiki page.

From this summer term onwards the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University provides structured information about academia such aslectures, tutors, rooms and timetables as Linked Open Data. The platform http://od.fmi.uni-leipzig.de, which is based on the OntoWiki framework, provides a vocabulary and an ontology. Apart from the possibility of the direct linking of resources in the semantic web, this platformn offers a SPARQL endpoint. The accessible information provides a basis for the integration into E-Learning platforms or personal knowledge management applications.