Category Archives: Projects

AKSW presents four papers at ISWC in Shanghai and wins Best Paper award

The AKSW research group is represented in the main ISWC conference programme this year with four papers. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Erfurt, OntoWiki, ORE, Papers | Leave a comment

AKSW coordinates EU-funded research project LOD2 aiming to take the Web of Linked Data to the next level

All wealth of information is already widely available on the Internet or in company-wide Intranets. In many situations, however, we tend perceive this plethora of information as an information overload, since it is still rarely possible to answer search queries … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Projects | Leave a comment

Triplification Challenge Winners

Today we announced the winners of this year’s Triplification Challenge, which have been selected from 23 submissions. Open Government Data Track Winner: Richard Cyganiak, Fadi Maali and Vassilios Peristeras, “Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks” Honorary Mention: Christoph … Continue reading

Posted in Triplify | Leave a comment

DL-Learner Build 2010-08-07 released

We are happy to announce the next release of DL-Learner, a tool for learning OWL class expressions from examples and background knowledge. It extends Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to Description Logics and the Semantic Web. The tool has matured over … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, DL-Learner, Projects, Software Releases | Leave a comment

Triplify 0.8 Released

We just released version 0.8 of the Triplify script, which includes the following feature enhancements and fixes: Triplify now supports the Semantic Pingback mechanism: It exposes a X-Pingback HTTP header field, it contains a XML-RPC service (also usable by conventional … Continue reading

Posted in Xturtle | Leave a comment

ORE 0.2 Released

Today, we released version 0.2 of the ontology repair and enrichment (ORE) tool. It is a tool for knowledge engineers to improve an OWL ontology through a wizard like repair process and uses state-of-the-art ontology debugging methods. The main feature … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, DL-Learner, ORE, Projects, Software Releases | Leave a comment

OntoWiki 0.9.5 Available

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce that OntoWiki 0.9.5 is now available for download. OntoWiki is a web-application enabling the collaborative creation and (linked data) publication of RDF knowledge bases. More information about OntoWiki can be found at … Continue reading

Posted in DSSN, OntoWiki, Software Releases | Leave a comment

Semantic Web Journal launched

A short while ago the Semantic Web Journal was launched. Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz are editors-in-chief and AKSW’s Sören Auer serves on the editorial board. The journal published by IOS Press differs from other journals, in particular, since it … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Cofundos, dbpedia, DL-Learner, Linked Geo Data, SoftWiki, Triplify | Leave a comment

GoodRelations and LESS

Martin Hepp just published a short tutorial on using the GoodRelations vocabulary for product, price, and company data together with LESS. Martin explains, how a public SPARQL endpoint holding GoodRelations data can be accessed and results displayed using LESS. The … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, LESS | Leave a comment

Dedicated Virtual LinkedGeoData Server

Due to the rising interest in our LinkedGeoData project and the growth of the underlying OpenStreetMap database, we expanded the AKSW server infrastructure. LinkedGeoData will gradually move to a new server running Debian within the next weeks. This server runs … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements, Linked Geo Data, Projects | Leave a comment