Author Archives: Sören Auer

Triplification Challenge Winners

We are very pleased to announce that the winners of this years Triplification Challenge were awarded on September 5th at I-Semantics 2008. The winners are: 1st prize (Macbook Air): Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens http://www.linkedmdb.org 2nd … Continue reading

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Triplification Challenge Nominations

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 … Continue reading

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ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched

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 … Continue reading

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AKSW presentation at LinkedDataPlanet in NYC

Sören will give a presentation “From DBpedia to OntoWiki – Emergent Data and Semantics from Social Collaboration” at this years LinkedDataPlaned Conference & Expo on June 18, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The presentation will cover … Continue reading

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Joomla! triplification starts as Google Summer of Code project

Danh Le Phouc (a computer science PhD student from DERI Galway) is starting the Google Summer of Code project “Joomla! semantification – expose Joomla data as RDF and Linked Data”. Danh already created a first guess for a Joomla! Triplify … Continue reading

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LOD Triplification Challenge

Together with this years I-Semantics conference we are organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge. The challenge aims at expediting the process of revealing and exposing structured (relational) representations, which already back most of the existing Web sites, as well … Continue reading

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Triplify 0.3 released

We just release a new version of our Web application plugin Triplify, which exposes structured data from relational databases as Linked Date, RDF, and JSON. This release contains a number of bugfixes and impovements. Most notable the compatibility with PHP4 … Continue reading

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Article about Cofundos in this years OpenSourceJahrbuch edition

This years edition of the renowned German OpenSourceJahrbuch contains an overview article about Cofundos (in German).

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Triplification with Google's Summer of Code

We did not participate as a mentor this year in Google’s Summer of Code program. However, there seem to be some Triplify related projects appearing. The PHP Content Management System Joomla! for example aims at integrating Triplify within a GSoC … Continue reading

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Triplify – expose semantics!

After a first preview release a couple of weeks ago we worked hard to prepare a first public release of Triplify. We fixed a number of bugs and added several additional features, some example configurations for popular Web applications were … Continue reading

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