Author Archives: AmrapaliZaveri

Estimating the value of Linked Open Data

Posted on July 3, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

With its increased rate of adoption, Linked Data is becoming a valuable commodity in numerous domains across the web. But, how valuable is Linked Data after all? How much did it cost to create and publish a dataset as RDF? What is … Continue reading →

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Special Issue on Web Data Quality in IJSWIS

Posted on June 14, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

Call for papers Special Issue on Web Data Quality International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems Scope: The standardization and adoption of Semantic Web technologies has resulted in an unprecedented volume of data being published as Linked Open Data (LOD). … Continue reading →

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AKSW @ ISWC

Posted on March 29, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

We are happy to announce that this year seven papers from AKSW were accepted at the ISWC in different tracks and covering a wide range of topics as listed below: ISWC Research track: TITLE: DAW: Duplicate-AWare Federated Query Processing over the … Continue reading →

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Indian PhD Student in Tatort !!!

Posted on February 14, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

In a wonderful coincidence, an Indian PhD student from our group Amrapali Zaveri is going to appear in one of the episodes of Tatort. Now for those of you who do not know, Tatort (English title: Crime Scene) is a … Continue reading →

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DBpedia Data Quality Evaluation Campaign

Posted on November 16, 2012 by AmrapaliZaveri

As we all know, DBpedia is an important dataset in Linked Data as it is not only connected to and from numerous other datasets, but it also is relied upon for useful information. However, quality problems are inherent in DBpedia … Continue reading →

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ISSLOD 2011, a great success!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

20 students from about 10 different countries were in Leipzig last week, from 12 – 18 September, to attend the Indian-Summer School on Linked Data. Right from the basics of Linked Data, introduced by Chris Bizer and Sören Auer, they … Continue reading →

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AKSW @ Zingst

Posted on July 5, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

Last week, from June 26 to 30, all AKSW members were at Zingst for an internal group meeting. With the university villa located right by the sea, it seemed to be a perfect getaway and an awesome location for a … Continue reading →

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AKSW at ESWC Summer School and Conference 2011

Posted on June 9, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

This year the STI – International organized an ESWC summer school for Master and PhD students in the area of the Semantic Web to come together to learn about the latest ongoings from some of the leading researchers in the … Continue reading →

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AKSW adventures to Sächsische Schweiz !!

Posted on April 9, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

On the 3rd of April 2011, a beautiful sunny day in Saxony, the AKSW members decided to visit the beautiful Sächsische Schweiz along with their respective children and spouses ! In all, we were 14 adults plus 7 kids, out … Continue reading →

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Philipp Cimiano and colleagues visit AKSW

Posted on February 8, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

On Jan 21st, Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger and John McCrae from the Semantic Computing Group at CITEC at the University of Bielefeld visited AKSW. After each one briefly introduced themselves, Sören gave an overview of the activities and projects that … Continue reading →

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