blog.aksw.org http://blog.aksw.org The shared AKSW blog about our projects and the Semantic Web. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:07:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en 2nd Leipzig Semantic Web Day on 6th May http://blog.aksw.org/2010/2nd-leipzig-semantic-web-day-on-6th-of-may/ http://blog.aksw.org/2010/2nd-leipzig-semantic-web-day-on-6th-of-may/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:50:40 +0000 Sören Auer EventsLSWT http://blog.aksw.org/2010/2nd-leipzig-semantic-web-day-on-6th-of-may/ After the great success of the first Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT) in 2009 AKSW is organizing another installment of this event on 6th May. In addition to demonstrating the benefits of semantic technologies to enterprises, this year’s LSWT focuses on Open Data in science and E-government. A particular highlight will be the festive announcement of the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. More information on the LSWT can be found (in German) at: http://aksw.org/Events/2010/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay.

]]> http://blog.aksw.org/2010/2nd-leipzig-semantic-web-day-on-6th-of-may/feed/ Doctoral and PostDoc positions available at AKSW http://blog.aksw.org/2010/doctoral-and-postdoc-positions-available-at-aksw/ http://blog.aksw.org/2010/doctoral-and-postdoc-positions-available-at-aksw/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:03:44 +0000 Sören Auer Announcements http://blog.aksw.org/2010/doctoral-and-postdoc-positions-available-at-aksw/ For collaborative research projects in the area of Linked Data technologies and Semantic Web the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig opens positions for one postdoctoral researcher and 2 doctoral students. The complete job offers are available at: http://aksw.org/Jobs

]]> http://blog.aksw.org/2010/doctoral-and-postdoc-positions-available-at-aksw/feed/ Adaptive SPARQL Query Cache http://blog.aksw.org/2010/adaptive-sparql-query-cache/ http://blog.aksw.org/2010/adaptive-sparql-query-cache/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:34:21 +0000 Sören Auer Software Releases OntoWiki Erfurt http://blog.aksw.org/2010/adaptive-sparql-query-cache/ AKSW is pleased to announce the first availability of our Adaptive SPARQL Query Cache, a light-weight SPARQL proxy for caching query results and selectively invalidating stored results upon updates. SPARQL-backed applications can be accelerated by simply routing all SPARQL and SPARUL queries through the proxy. In scenarios with recurring query patterns the caching increases responsiveness and overall performance as we validated with an adapted version of the BSBM benchmark. The caching and invalidation was implemented in Java and in PHP and is available together with additional documentation from:

http://aksw.org/Projects/QueryCache

]]> http://blog.aksw.org/2010/adaptive-sparql-query-cache/feed/ LESS - Content Syndication based on Linked Data http://blog.aksw.org/2010/less-content-syndication-based-on-linked-data/ http://blog.aksw.org/2010/less-content-syndication-based-on-linked-data/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:16:26 +0000 Sören Auer Announcements OntoWiki dbpedia Triplify Linked Geo Data http://blog.aksw.org/2010/less-content-syndication-based-on-linked-data/ We’ve announced LESS today - an end-to-end approach for the syndication and use of linked data based on the definition of visualization templates for linked data resources and SPARQL query results.

Such syndication templates are edited, published and shared by using LESS’ collaborative Web platform. Templates for common types of entities can then be combined with specific, linked data resources or SPARQL query results and integrated into a wide range of applications, such as personal homepages, blogs/wikis, mobile widgets etc.

LESS and further information and documentation can be found at:

http://less.aksw.org

Particular thanks go to Raphael Doering (Netresearch) who performed most of the development work and to Sebastian Dietzold (AKSW) for contributing in various ways.

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Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of areas from governance to science, from culture to technology. Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and reuse; improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing societal welfare.

In addition to high-profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, in the last year, many governments across the world began to open up their data.

And it doesn’t stop there. In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore, this gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and driver of massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how can we interlink it, how can we use it to collaborate and share our work?

  • where: London, UK
  • when: Saturday 24th April, 2010
  • www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
  • cfp: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ (deadline: Jan 31st 2010)
  • hashtag: #okcon2010
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