Category Archives: Announcements

New database-driven SPARQL engine for RAP

Posted on April 29, 2007 by Sebastian Tramp

Today our diploma student Christian Weiske finished the last bits of his RAP based database-driven SPARQL engine which implements most parts of the W3C recommendation now. Compared to the current memory-based SPARQL engine in RAP, SparqlEngineDb generates SQL queries to … Continue reading →

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DBpedia Hack Night in Copenhagen

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Sören Auer

Via Binary Relations Blog: If you are in the general vicinity of Copenhagen on the evening of the 24th of April (yep, that’s tomorrow), and remotely interested in RDF, SPARQL or DBpedia, stop by ITU, where we’ll be hacking away … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Knowledge Construction – The Challenge

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Sebastian Tramp

Next week starts the Knowledge Construction Challenge from the CKC2007, a Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge which is arranged in conjunction with the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada. The goal of … Continue reading →

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dbpedia is catching on

Posted on April 3, 2007 by Sören Auer

The dbpedia project started by AKSW (together with Chris Bizer from FU Berlin and OpenLink Software) is getting increasingly popular. No wonder, since the over 10 Mio. RDF triples extracted from the English Wikipedia allow the astonishing answering of previously … Continue reading →

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Conf. on Social Semantic Web

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Sören Auer

The AKSW workgroup co-hosts the conference on Social Semantic Web, September 26-28th in Leipzig, Germany. The well known entrepreneur and innovator Kingsley Idehen will give an invited talk on “Hello Data Web – Exposing the Data Web”. Submission deadline for … Continue reading →

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OntoWiki / Powl 0.95 released

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Sebastian Tramp

We’ve released Version 0.95 of our OntoWiki / Powl Semantic Web application suite. New features include an OntoWiki Command Line Interface (owcli), which is a PHP command line script for administration and remote control of OntoWiki models. Other changes are: … Continue reading →

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Query browser for Wikipedia extraction

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Sören Auer

The query browser and builder interface for our Wikipedia extraction is (re-)launched. You can build your own queries on the semantic database containing over 10 million facts extracted from the English Wikipedia at: http://wikipedia.aksw.org.

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Submissions open: 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Sören Auer

The submissions web-site is now open for the 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web. Scripting languages play a central role in the development of flexible, lightweight semantic web applications. Hence, the workshop aims to bring together developers of … Continue reading →

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AKSW is blogging . . .

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Sebastian Tramp

We’ve setup a WordPress based blog site at blog.aksw.org to publish the latest news about our projects and the Semantic Web in general. This blog is shared by all AKSW members.

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3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Sören Auer

Meet the Powl/OntoWiki developers at SFSW07 on June 6th in Innsbruck / Austria (collocated with ESWC). The workshop also includes a challenge for the most innovative Semantic Web mashup. More information at: semanticscripting.org