Category Archives: Projects

OSM Linked Geo Data extraction, browser & editor

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Sören Auer

We were working in the last weeks on bringing geo data derived from the marvelous OpenStreetMap project to the data web. This work in progress is still far from being finished, however, we would like to share some first preliminary … Continue reading →

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Semantic-Web.at Interview on DBpedia and UMBEL

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Sören Auer

Semantic-Web.at published an interview titled “DBpedia, UMBEL & the Future Webâ€™s Ecology” with Sören Auer and Mike Bergman. Read more at: http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/11/10/umbel-dbpedia-futureweb-ecology-interview/

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DL-Learner Build 2008-10-13 released

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jens Lehmann

Today, we released DL-Learner Build 2008-10-13. DL-Learner is a tool for learning complex class descriptions from examples and background knowledge. It extends Inductive Logic Programming to Description Logics and the Semantic Web. Downloads are available at the sourceforge.net project page. … Continue reading →

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OntoWiki 0.8.6 released

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Sebastian Tramp

This is a bugfix release with minor enhancements. We fixed some issues from the user community. The most important enhancement is the support for HTTPS now. For a list of all issues, have a look at the Changelog.

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Triplification Challenge Winners

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Sören Auer

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

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Jens Lehmann

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

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Sebastian Tramp

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

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Sören Auer

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

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Sören Auer

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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OntoWiki 0.8.5 released

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Sebastian Tramp

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 →