Category Archives: Announcements

OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Document Management

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Sebastian Tramp

This weeks presented feature is the files extension available at https://github.com/AKSW/files.ontowiki An not so often requested feature of OntoWiki is the ability to not just talk about resources such as PDF documents and MP3 files, but also to manage these … Continue reading →

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: API Documentation

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Christian Würker

This week we would like to present the revised API reference documentation, hostet at http://api.ontowiki.net/. The documentation collects informationen about classes of OntoWiki and the Erfurt library while leaving out other libraries (like Zend Framework etc.) to stay compact. Next … Continue reading →

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AKSW wins I-Semantics' I-CHALLENGE 2013

Posted on August 26, 2013 by AxelNgonga

We are very happy to announce that AKSW researchers won this year’s I-CHALLENGE with the paper “Linked Cancer Genome Atlas Database”, which was written by Muhammad Saleem, Shanmukha Sampath Padmanabhuni, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Jonas S. Almeida, Stefan Decker and Helena … Continue reading →

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Enhanced Model Creation

Posted on August 20, 2013 by NatanaelArndt

Dear OntoWiki Users, This weeks feature hooks into the knowledge base/model creation and add data process. You can create a new knowledge base from the “Knowledge Bases” module’s menu with “Edit > Create Knowledge Base”. The title and the URI … Continue reading →

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Estimating the value of Linked Open Data

Posted on July 3, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

With its increased rate of adoption, Linked Data is becoming a valuable commodity in numerous domains across the web. But, how valuable is Linked Data after all? How much did it cost to create and publish a dataset as RDF? What is … Continue reading →

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Der Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT)

Posted on June 20, 2013 by MohamedSherif

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

Posted on June 14, 2013 by AmrapaliZaveri

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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AKSW wins best paper award at ESWC 2013

Posted on June 3, 2013 by AxelNgonga

Our paper “When to Reach for the Cloud” was awarded the best paper award at ESWC. The idea behind the paper was to provide implementations of the HR3  algorithm (the first reduction-ratio-optimal algorithm for link discovery) for parallel hardware and … Continue reading →

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Google's spiritus rector Eric Schmidt visited AKSW

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Sören Auer

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

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Sören Auer

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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