Category Archives: Announcements

LOD2 Webinar Series: SILK – Link Discovery Framework

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Nadine Jaenicke

This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present use cases and live demos of the Free University of Berlin’ SILK. The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form … Continue reading →

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2 PhD and 1 PostDoc Position at Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Sören Auer

For collaborative international research projects in the area of intelligent information management, the Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) in cooperation with research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig opens positions for: … Continue reading →

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NLP Interchange Format (NIF) 1.0 Spec, Demo and Reference Implementation

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Sebastian Hellmann

The NLP Interchange Format (NIF) is an RDF/OWL-based format that aims to achieve interoperability between Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, language resources and annotations. The core of NIF consists of a vocabulary, which can represent Strings as RDF resources. A … Continue reading →

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DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark paper wins ISWC2011 best-paper award

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Sören Auer

The closing ceremony of ISWC2011 in Bonn is just over and we are excited to have won the best research paper award with our paper: Mohamed Morsey, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer, Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo: DBpedia SPARQL Benchmark – Performance … Continue reading →

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ISSLOD 2011, a great success!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by AmrapaliZaveri

20 students from about 10 different countries were in Leipzig last week, from 12 – 18 September, to attend the Indian-Summer School on Linked Data. Right from the basics of Linked Data, introduced by Chris Bizer and Sören Auer, they … Continue reading →

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Finally … Assisted Link Discovery

Posted on September 10, 2011 by AxelNgonga

Hello world, We are happy to announce that LIMES has been extended with an interface that will make linking easier than ever before. The COLANUT (Complex Linking in a NUTshell) interface implements time-efficient schema matching algorithms that allow LIMES to … Continue reading →

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Assisted Linked Data Consumption

Posted on August 10, 2011 by AxelNgonga

Yet another project for improving the access to Linked Data! It is our pleasure to announce the first version of the Assisted Linked Data Consumption Engine (ALOE). The aim of ALOE project is to assist users during the consumption from … Continue reading →

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Semantics and Media

Posted on July 16, 2011 by AxelNgonga

We partook in the organization of the Semantics and Media Workshop at the University of Mainz, where Axel is a Research Fellow. The aim of the workshop was to bring practitioners and research all around media and semantics together and … Continue reading →

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RDFaCE: Put a Smile on the Face of Semantic Content Authoring

Posted on July 8, 2011 by AliKhalili

We are happy to announce the beta release of RDFaCE (RDFa Content Editor). RDFaCE is an online text editor based on TinyMCE. It supports authoring of RDFa content. In addition to two classical views for text authoring (WYSIWYG and HTML … Continue reading →

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LIMES 0.5RC1

Posted on July 6, 2011 by AxelNgonga

We could not resist the pleasure of making the demo of the new release candidate of LIMES (0.5RC1) available for all. LIMES 0.5 comes fitted with a new grammar for complex metric specification and fully novel algorithms. The new version … Continue reading →

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