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OKCon 2011 Presentation and Speaker Preview

OKCon 2011 Conference Site Although the list of keynote speakers and presentations is not set in granite yet, it is crystallizing and the names are already carved on a wooden tablet. We are so exited that we just had to … Continue reading

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May 4-5: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag 2011 and Local Media Conferenz

Like in the past two years, we again organize a Leipzig Semantic Web Day on May 5th at the marvelous Mediencampus Villa Ida. This year’s theme is “Linked Data  for the Masses”, particularly focusing on its use in enterprises. This … Continue reading

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AKSW adventures to Sächsische Schweiz !!

On the 3rd of April 2011, a beautiful sunny day in Saxony, the AKSW members decided to visit the beautiful Sächsische Schweiz along with their respective children and spouses ! In all, we were 14 adults plus 7 kids, out … Continue reading

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JWS Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award for DBpedia paper

Together with the FU Berlin members of the DBpedia team Sebastian, Jens and Sören won the Journal of Web Semantics Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award for the paper: DBpedia – A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data. The paper … Continue reading

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AKSW Conference participation this spring: ESWC, ICWE, WIMS

Members of AKSW are actively participating in some key (Semantic) Web conferences this spring. AKSW was already involved in the organization of 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011 with Jens being one of the PC Chairs of the Linked Data … Continue reading

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AKSW and LOD2 at the Reasoning Web Summer School 2011

This years Reasoning Web Summer School is organized by LOD2 partner DERI and will take place in the last week of August (August 23-27) in Galway, Ireland. LOD2 is involved in this years edition of the renowned summer school with … Continue reading

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Philipp Cimiano and colleagues visit AKSW

On Jan 21st, Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger and John McCrae from the Semantic Computing Group at CITEC at the University of Bielefeld visited AKSW. After each one briefly introduced themselves, Sören gave an overview of the activities and projects that … Continue reading

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Andraz Tori from Zemanta visits AKSW

On 13th January, Andraz Tori visited Leipzig to speak to the AKSW group about Zemanta. He first briefed us about the history of Zemanta and it’s developers, who built an API that displays relevant tags, links and pictures from unstructured … Continue reading

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Navigational Knowledge Engineering (NKE) and HANNE

Over the last year, we have worked on a methodology called Navigational Knowledge Engineering – in short NKE. We have amounted a good deal of documents, a web demo (HANNE) , source code and images, which we publish and link … Continue reading

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AKSW takes part in EU-funded LATC project

The AKSW group is member of the recently started LATC (Linked Open Data Around-The-Clock) project funded by the European Union. LATC aims to improve quality and quantity of Linked Data on the Web, e.g. by developing a 24/7 interlinking engine. … Continue reading

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