http://blog.aksw.org The shared AKSW blog about our projects and the Semantic Web. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. The OpenLink team and the research group around Chris Bizer helped us ... http://blog.aksw.org/2008/dbpedia-31-breaks-100-million-triples-barrier/ After some weeks of silence, Sebastian asked for a pre-release meeting for the 0.2 release of xOperator which we held today. We updated the issue tracker and talked about future plans and ideas. For this, Jörg and Sebastian created presentations: We plan the xOperator 0.2 release for the last week of ... http://blog.aksw.org/2008/xoperator-02-pre-release-reunion/ We just released version 0.4 of the Triplify script. After the initial release several months ago we made quite some additions and bug fixes the most important of which are: Update log functionality added - allows Semantic Web crawlers to get incremental updates, see http://triplify.org/vocabulary/update linked data publication now also works without ... http://blog.aksw.org/2008/triplify-04/ Out of the submissions for the LOD Triplification Challenge we received eight were nominated to win one of the three prizes. The submissions and demos can be viewed on the challenge nominations page. The final decision about the winners of the challenge will be made by the organizing committee. The ... http://blog.aksw.org/2008/triplification-challenge-nominations/ This ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched by AKSW aims at developing and promoting the concept of stakeholder-driven research. Goals are to (1) develop a prediction market model for research funding, (2) implement a Web platform for organising this market and the participatory research process, (3) persuade research funding agencies to use this ... http://blog.aksw.org/2008/participatoryresearch-initiative-launched/