Author Archives: ThomasRiechert

Deutsche Biographie becomes part of the LOD cloud

During a workshop on June 27th at the Historical College in Munich, the AKSW group and the group of the New German Biography at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities presented their results of the LOD2-supported PUBLINK project. Within … Continue reading

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LinkedGeoData Release 2

The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData! The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic … Continue reading

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Media reports about the university history knowledge base "Catalogus Professorum"

The Catalogus Professorum is a project by historians and AKSW research group from Universität Leipzig to enlighten the academic history in Germany by representing information about professors, their professional, familiar and societal context in a comprehensive, semantically structured knowledge base. … Continue reading

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Linked Opend Data Project of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University

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, … Continue reading

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AKSW Publications on this Year's Leipzig Book Fair

At this year’s book fair in Leipzig (18/03 – 21/03) two books resulting from current project work of the AKSW research group [1,2] are displayed within the scope of scientific publications from the University of Leipzig. One of the editors, … Continue reading

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Meet us at the GC (Halle 5 / E44)

Members of the AKSW group are presenting the SoftWiki research projects at this year’s Games Convention from 23rd to 26th of August in Leipzig. Especially for this event we installed OntoWiki and ATUIN to collect ideas for new electronic games. … Continue reading

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