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BIG at LSWT 2013 – From BIG Data to Smart Data

The 5th Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT2013) was organized as a meeting point for german as well as international Linked Data experts. Under the motto: From Big Data to Smart Data sophisticated methods that enable handling large amounts of data … Continue reading

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Der Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT)

Der Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT) bietet seit 2009 Unternehmen und Organisationen die Möglichkeit, sich zu Themen im Bereich semantischer Technologien auszutauschen. In den letzten Jahren wurden Semantic Web Technologien von vielen Firmen in größerem Umfang eingesetzt. Insbesondere das Linked … Continue reading

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Special Issue on Web Data Quality in IJSWIS

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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Google's spiritus rector Eric Schmidt visited AKSW

Today Google’s spiritus rector Eric Schmidt visited AKSW to learn about the newest Linked Data technology and figuring out how to replace the Google’s proprietary knowledge graph with open DBpedia. Joke aside: Together his co-author Jared Cohen he  visited University of Leipzig … Continue reading

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Open Data Conference in Seoul

On the second day of Sören’s short trip to Korea, we participated in the Open Data Conference of the Information Society Agency (NIA). NIA seems to be implementing a comprehensive Open Data strategy (also involving LinkedData). Looks like South Korea … Continue reading

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SlideWiki webinar tutorial during Open Education Week (March 15, 15:00 GMT)

We will perform a Webinar introducing SlideWiki and its features in the course of Open Education Week on March 15 at 15:00 GMT. While many Learning Content Management Systems are available, the collaborative, community-based creation of rich e-learning content is … Continue reading

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Two AKSW Papers at ESWC

Greetings World. We are happy to announce that the AKSW papers “COALA – Correlation-Aware Active Learning of Link Specifications” and “When to Reach for the Cloud: Using Parallel Hardware for Link Discovery” were selected for presentation at ESWC 2013. Each … Continue reading

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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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Call for Papers – IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 2013

In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. The IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013 (IEEE BigData 2013) provides a leading forum … Continue reading

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AKSW @ ISWC 2012

The 11th edition of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) took place in Boston this year and AKSW was very active with 5 of our researchers participating in the conference. ISWC is one of the key conferences for presenting the … Continue reading

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