Category Archives: Announcements

LOD2 webinar series: LOD2 in information and publishing industry

This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present the implications of Linked Open Data and Semantic Web Technologies on the information and publishing industry. The publishing industry is struggling with too much information on the one … Continue reading

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Accepted Papers of AKSW Members @ JIST

JIST recently promoted the submission of original research papers on Semantic Web and other semantic technologies, as well as papers on applications of semantic technologies for participation at the 2nd Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST2012). Several members of the … Continue reading

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The Big Clean

The Big Clean is a free, 1-day conference that addresses the challenges associated with reuse of public sector data. The event rises to the occasion of teaching the members of public how to recycle public data and reuse it in … Continue reading

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Article in Buchreport Magazin

Christian Dirschl and Sören Auer were interviewed by “Buchreport Magazin” about LOD2 and its relevance for the media -and publishing industry. The article revolves around LOD2’s potential solutions and future prospect by offering new publishing strategies. article Buchreport SöA

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AKSW was winning COMPSAC 2012 Best Paper Award for article about RDFa Content Editor

Already some time ago, AKSW’s Ali Khalili was releasing an open-source version of the RDFa Content Editor (RDFaCE). RDFaCE is based on the Web HTML Editor TinyMCE and supports different views for semantic content authoring. It uses existing Semantic Web APIs to facilitate … Continue reading

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Can we create better links by playing games?

Most of you will agree that links are an important element of the Web of Data. There exist a number of tools, such as LIMES or SILK, which are able to create a high number of such links by using … Continue reading

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Sorry, I don’t speak SPARQL – A Survey

Many Semantic Web applications are currently based on SPARQL. In particular, an increasing number of systems, such as question answering systems, keyword search or search by example internally construct SPARQL queries. However, lay users do not understand this language, so … Continue reading

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LOD2 Webinar Series: LIMES – Discovery of Links across Knowledge Bases

The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of an LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image – additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack … Continue reading

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I-Semantics deadlines approaching (research/application papers and Linked Data Cup)

Several deadlines regarding the I-Semantics 2012 are approaching and we would like to give a gentle reminder to all who are thinking about a submission that now would be a good time to start writing 😉 The deadline for research … Continue reading

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RDFaCE-Lite: a WordPress plugin for WYSIWYM content authoring

We are happy to announce the beta release of RDFaCE-Lite. RDFaCE-Lite is simplified version of RDFaCE (RDFa Content Editor) and is published as a WordPress plugin. RDFaCE-Lite extends the TinyMCE rich text editor to facilitate the authoring of semantic documents. … Continue reading

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