Author Archives: Sören Auer

CSSW started today

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Sören Auer

The Conference on Social Semantic Web, which is co-organized by AKSW started today with a keynote by Kingsley Idehen. We look forward to two days of paper presentations, demos, discussions and hands-on-work. More information about the program can be found … Continue reading →

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CSSW programme online

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Sören Auer

The schedule for the conference on Social Semantic Web is available. CSSW is co-organized by AKSW and is part of the multi-conference on Software, Agents, and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences (SABRE) Highlights include Kingsley Idehen’s keynote, many paper … Continue reading →

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OntoWiki downloads skyrocketing

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Sören Auer

Within the last year monthly Powl/OntoWiki downloads were skyrocketing. Check out OntoWiki’s Sourceforge statistics page, do get more details. They effectively quadrupled within the last year, reached now a level of 400-500 monthly downloads and we expect even higher increases … Continue reading →

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The Scripting for the Semantic Web workshop is over

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Sören Auer

We had 39 registered participants, and a great selection of papers and scripting challenge entries. There are some some photos of the workshop available, and the proceedings are now published as CEUR-WS Vol. 248. The Winner of the Semantic Scripting … Continue reading →

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DBpedia Hack Night in Copenhagen

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Sören Auer

Via Binary Relations Blog: If you are in the general vicinity of Copenhagen on the evening of the 24th of April (yep, that’s tomorrow), and remotely interested in RDF, SPARQL or DBpedia, stop by ITU, where we’ll be hacking away … Continue reading →

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dbpedia is catching on

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Sören Auer

The dbpedia project started by AKSW (together with Chris Bizer from FU Berlin and OpenLink Software) is getting increasingly popular. No wonder, since the over 10 Mio. RDF triples extracted from the English Wikipedia allow the astonishing answering of previously … Continue reading →

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Conf. on Social Semantic Web

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Sören Auer

The AKSW workgroup co-hosts the conference on Social Semantic Web, September 26-28th in Leipzig, Germany. The well known entrepreneur and innovator Kingsley Idehen will give an invited talk on “Hello Data Web – Exposing the Data Web”. Submission deadline for … Continue reading →

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Query browser for Wikipedia extraction

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Sören Auer

The query browser and builder interface for our Wikipedia extraction is (re-)launched. You can build your own queries on the semantic database containing over 10 million facts extracted from the English Wikipedia at: http://wikipedia.aksw.org.

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Submissions open: 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Sören Auer

The submissions web-site is now open for the 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web. Scripting languages play a central role in the development of flexible, lightweight semantic web applications. Hence, the workshop aims to bring together developers of … Continue reading →

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3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Sören Auer

Meet the Powl/OntoWiki developers at SFSW07 on June 6th in Innsbruck / Austria (collocated with ESWC). The workshop also includes a challenge for the most innovative Semantic Web mashup. More information at: semanticscripting.org

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