Category Archives: Announcements

Triplification Challenge Winners

We are very pleased to announce that the winners of this years Triplification Challenge were awarded on September 5th at I-Semantics 2008. The winners are: 1st prize (Macbook Air): Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens http://www.linkedmdb.org 2nd … Continue reading

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DBpedia 3.1 breaks 100 million triples barrier

Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. The OpenLink … Continue reading

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xOperator 0.2 pre-release reunion

After some weeks of silence, Sebastian asked for a pre-release meeting for the 0.2 release of xOperator which we held today. We updated the issue tracker and talked about future plans and ideas. For this, Jörg and Sebastian created presentations: … Continue reading

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Triplification Challenge Nominations

Out of the submissions for the LOD Triplification Challenge we received eight were nominated to win one of the three prizes. The submissions and demos can be viewed on the challenge nominations page. The final decision about the winners of … Continue reading

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ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched

This ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched by AKSW aims at developing and promoting the concept of stakeholder-driven research. Goals are to (1) develop a prediction market model for research funding, (2) implement a Web platform for organising this market and the participatory … Continue reading

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CfP: International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content in the Social Semantic Web (IMC-SSW 2008)

Media sharing and social networking websites have attracted many millions of users resulting in vast collections of user generated content. The contents are typically poorly structured and spread over several platforms, each supporting specific media types. With the increasing growth … Continue reading

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OntoWiki 0.8.5 released

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce that OntoWiki 0.8.5 is now available for download. Changes in this release include A plug-in and event architecture A file / document manager Rest webservices for login / query / export databases … Continue reading

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ESWC / SFSW 2008

I will give a talk about our xOperator project at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) on Tenerife next Wednesday. The xOperator is an agent for xmpp / jabber network which queries and shares trusted resources (using RDF/SPARQL) for you … Continue reading

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AKSW presentation at LinkedDataPlanet in NYC

Sören will give a presentation “From DBpedia to OntoWiki – Emergent Data and Semantics from Social Collaboration” at this years LinkedDataPlaned Conference & Expo on June 18, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The presentation will cover … Continue reading

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LOD Triplification Challenge

Together with this years I-Semantics conference we are organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge. The challenge aims at expediting the process of revealing and exposing structured (relational) representations, which already back most of the existing Web sites, as well … Continue reading

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