Category Archives: Projects

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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LOD2 Plenary Meeting: WebID and Authorization SIG

Today morning, we started the main LOD2 plenary meeting in Vienna. The first half day session the WebID special interest group discussed about WebID based single sign for the LDO2 stack and authorization. The challenge here is to provide a interoperable authorization layer which describe user, groups / roles and access to different parts of the stack as well as the managed knowledge bases. We agreed on the following short and long-time goals and activities: WebID registration service and stack internal authorization policy. 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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AKSW tools prominently featured in TÜBİTAK

Börtecin Ege wrote an article on the Semantic Web in the December issue of TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) prominently featuring DBpedia, Relfinder, LIMES, SPARQL Benchmark and other AKSW related research projects. See Semantik Web Tübitak … Continue reading

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

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

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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