Author Archives: Sören Auer

Doctoral and PostDoc positions available at AKSW

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Sören Auer

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 UniversitÃ¤t Leipzig opens positions for one postdoctoral researcher and 2 doctoral students. The complete job … Continue reading →

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Adaptive SPARQL Query Cache

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Sören Auer

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 … Continue reading →

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LESS – Content Syndication based on Linked Data

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Sören Auer

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 … Continue reading →

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Open Knowledge Conference 2010

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Sören Auer

OKCon, now in its fifth year, is the interdisciplinary conference that brings together individuals from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of presentations and workshops. Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of … Continue reading →

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DBpedia in ReadWriteWeb's Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Sören Auer

The new year is slowly approaching and people start compiling their top x lists of 2009, with x usually ranging between 10 and 365. 😉 The popular Web technology blog ReadWriteWeb has chosen x with value 10 and picked DBpedia … Continue reading →

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ESWC 2010 Semantic Web in Use Track

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Sören Auer

Some AKSW members are involved in next year’s Semantic Web in Use Track of the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2010. Yes, its called “Extended”, instead of formerly “European”, in order to reflect the broadening of the topics of interest. Next … Continue reading →

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Semantic Data Wiki Talk on 25th November in Darmstadt

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Sören Auer

We will present our semantic data wiki OntoWiki as well as its role in the emerging data web at a workshop in Darmstadt on 25th November. The aim of the workshop is to give practitioners insight into recent developments in … Continue reading →

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Triplification Challenge 2009 Winners

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Sören Auer

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: … Continue reading →

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LinkedGeoData official launch

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Sören Auer

We are pleased to announce the first public version of the LinkedGeoData.org datasets and services. LinkedGeoData is a comprehensive dataset derived from the OpenStreetMap database covering RDF descriptions of more than 350 million spatial features (i.e. nodes, ways, relations). LinkedGeoData … Continue reading →

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Master studies Content- and Media Engineering at Leipzig School of Media