Category Archives: Announcements

First Public Beta of SlideWiki.org

On the AKSW blog we occasionally announce pre-views of tools we develop and release widely later on. Now, we are excited to grant you a peek on our SlideWiki.org crowd-sourcing collaboration platform for educational content. Slidewiki is for educational content … 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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European Data Forum 2013 – Call for Contribution

The European Data Forum (EDF) is a regularly scheduled (yearly) meeting place for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. Our aim is to bring together all stakeholders involved … 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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LOD2 webinar series: 2nd release of the LOD2 stack

This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present the release 2.0 of the LOD2 stack, which contains updates to the components Ontowiki, Silk the assisting sparql editor SPARQLED (DERI), the LOD enabled Open Refine (previously Google … Continue reading

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BIG – Making Data Work for Us

The Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG) is a two years project co-funded by the European Commission within FP7 starting in September 2012. BIG aims to provide a platform for industry, research, policy makers and community initiatives to discuss the … Continue reading

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DBpedia Data Quality Evaluation Campaign

As we all know, DBpedia is an important dataset in Linked Data as it is not only connected to and from numerous other datasets, but it also is relied upon for useful information. However, quality problems are inherent in DBpedia … Continue reading

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European Data Forum 2013

The European Data Forum (EDF) 2013 takes place on April 9-10, 2013 in Dublin (Ireland). The EDF series is a joint activity of  the EC FP7 projects BIG, LOD2, and PlanetData and is supported by the European Commission. Following a successful launch in 2012, this year’s edition … Continue reading

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Open Innovation Conference, 28th-30th November 2012, Leipzig

The first Open Innovation Conference organized by the city of Leipzig brings together experts from the fields of the triple helix “university, industry, government” focusing on the exchange of experience in the field of open innovation in creative industries. One … Continue reading

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