On Friday the winners of this year’s Triplification Challenge were announced at I-Semantics 2009 in Graz. The winners are:

• 1st prize: Anja Jentzsch, Jun Zhao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Matthias Samwald, Bo Andersson with Linking Open Drug Data
• 2nd prize: Bernhard Schandl with TripFS: Exposing File Systems as Linked Data
• 3rd prize: Matthias Quasthoff, Sebastian Hellmann, Konrad Höffner with Standardized Multilingual Language Resources for the Web of Data: http://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/rdf

We received a number of very high-quality submissions and decided to award two honorable mentions to:

• Danh Le Phuoc with SensorMasher: publishing and building mashup of sensor data
• Andreas Koller with SKOS Thesaurus Management based on Linked Data with Poolparty

The presentation we gave last month on Triplify at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference in Madrid is available at: http://videolectures.net/www09_auer_tlwldp/.

We just released a new improved version of Triplify, which allows to map regular expression URL patterns on sets of SQL queries. Former Triplify releases only included support for simple path patterns. This version is also used to publish the 160GB of geo-data collected by the OpenStreetMap project at http://linkedgeodata.org. The following presentation of a research paper on Triplify was given on April 24th at WWW2009 in Madrid at the Semantic Data Web track:

After the great sucess of last years Triplification Challenge we decided to organize a challenge this year again. Michael Hausenblas chairs the challenge this year. Submission deadline is Mai 30th, 2009. The prizes will be awarded at Triple-I conference 2009 in Graz. All further information can be found at this years Triplification Challenge homepage at: http://triplify.org/Challenge/2009.

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.