Category Archives: Projects

AKSW at TU Dresden PLT

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Jens Lehmann

On June 8, I (Jens) visited the process control engineering research group (PLT) of Leon Urbas at the Dresden University of Technology. We first met on the Leipziger Semantic Web Day where Leon Urbas presented interactive Linked Data applications and … Continue reading →

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LIMES at IKS Workshop

Posted on June 6, 2011 by AxelNgonga

LIMES will be presented at the IKS workshop in Paris on July 6th. The upcoming version of LIMES (version 0.5) is up to 6 orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art software and offers tons of new functionality. More info here. … Continue reading →

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LinkedGeoData Release 2

Posted on April 27, 2011 by ThomasRiechert

The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData! The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Sören Auer

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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JWS Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award for DBpedia paper

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Sören Auer

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

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Sören Auer

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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OntoWiki Mobile – knowledge management in your pocket

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Timofey Ermilov

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce the first prototype of OntoWiki Mobile, which allows users to collect instance data and refine structured knowledge bases on-the-go. The development of OntoWiki Mobile was triggered by users aiming to gather data … Continue reading →

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Media reports about the university history knowledge base "Catalogus Professorum"

Posted on December 21, 2010 by ThomasRiechert

The Catalogus Professorum is a project by historians and AKSW research group from Universität Leipzig to enlighten the academic history in Germany by representing information about professors, their professional, familiar and societal context in a comprehensive, semantically structured knowledge base. … Continue reading →

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AKSW takes part in EU-funded LATC project

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jens Lehmann

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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Software release: LIMES – Link Discovery Framework for Metric Spaces

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Sören Auer

The first public release of the LIMES framework (Link Discovery Framework for Metric Spaces) is available for download at: http://limes.sf.net LIMES implements time-efficient and lossless approaches for large-scale link discovery based on the characteristics of metric spaces. It is typically … Continue reading →

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