Author Archives: Sören Auer

6th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2013)

LOD2 consortium members Chris Bizer, Michael Hausenblas and Sören Auer together with Tom Heath and Tim Berners-Lee are organizing this 6th edition of the classical Linked Data on the Web workshop. LDOW 2013 takes place 14 May 2013 in Rio de … Continue reading

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AKSW was winning COMPSAC 2012 Best Paper Award for article about RDFa Content Editor

Already some time ago, AKSW’s Ali Khalili was releasing an open-source version of the RDFa Content Editor (RDFaCE). RDFaCE is based on the Web HTML Editor TinyMCE and supports different views for semantic content authoring. It uses existing Semantic Web APIs to facilitate … Continue reading

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2 PhD and 1 PostDoc Position at Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences

For collaborative international research projects in the area of intelligent information management, the Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) in cooperation with research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig opens positions for: … Continue reading

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AKSW tools prominently featured in TÜBİTAK

Börtecin Ege wrote an article on the Semantic Web in the December issue of TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) prominently featuring DBpedia, Relfinder, LIMES, SPARQL Benchmark and other AKSW related research projects. See Semantik Web Tübitak … Continue reading

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DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark paper wins ISWC2011 best-paper award

The closing ceremony of ISWC2011 in Bonn is just over and we are excited to have won the best research paper award with our paper: Mohamed Morsey, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer, Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo: DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark – Performance … Continue reading

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Indian-Summer School on Linked Data

ISSLOD takes place in late summer from Sep 12-18, 2011 in Leipzig with hopefully still a lot of Indian Summer (i.e. Altweibersommer / Бабье лето) sunshine rays. The Linked Data methodology is a light-weight approach to facilitate the transition from … Continue reading

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May 4-5: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag 2011 and Local Media Conferenz

Like in the past two years, we again organize a Leipzig Semantic Web Day on May 5th at the marvelous Mediencampus Villa Ida. This year’s theme is “Linked Data  for the Masses”, particularly focusing on its use in enterprises. This … Continue reading

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JWS Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award for DBpedia paper

Together with the FU Berlin members of the DBpedia team Sebastian, Jens and Sören won the Journal of Web Semantics Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award for the paper: DBpedia – A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data. The paper … Continue reading

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AKSW Conference participation this spring: ESWC, ICWE, WIMS

Members of AKSW are actively participating in some key (Semantic) Web conferences this spring. AKSW was already involved in the organization of 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011 with Jens being one of the PC Chairs of the Linked Data … Continue reading

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AKSW and LOD2 at the Reasoning Web Summer School 2011

This years Reasoning Web Summer School is organized by LOD2 partner DERI and will take place in the last week of August (August 23-27) in Galway, Ireland. LOD2 is involved in this years edition of the renowned summer school with … Continue reading

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