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OntoWiki 0.7 released

OntoWiki 0.7 is now available for download. Changes in this release include Access Control at Model and Action level Enhancements in System Ontology http://ns.ontowiki.net/SysOnt/ User Data is now FOAF compatible and managed as RDF Knowledge Base New SPARQL Query Shell … Continue reading

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OntoWiki downloads skyrocketing

Within the last year monthly Powl/OntoWiki downloads were skyrocketing. Check out OntoWiki’s Sourceforge statistics page, do get more details. They effectively quadrupled within the last year, reached now a level of 400-500 monthly downloads and we expect even higher increases … Continue reading

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SPARQLer's choice: SparqlEngineDb

Christian Weiske, one of our diploma students, has ran some benchmarks to compare his new PHP SparqlEngineDb to some other implementations (Jena, ARC, Redland). The results are surprising – in most cases, his new SPARQL Engine is faster then all … Continue reading

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LDAP 2 SPARQL: Accessing RDF Knowledge Bases via LDAP Clients

In order to exploit the client support of LDAP directories with the semantic expressivity of RDF knowledge bases, we aim at integrating RDF knowledge bases into LDAP directory services. LDAP 2 SPARQL is a Backend to the widely used OpenLDAP … Continue reading

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DBpedia Relationship Finder released

Release of the DBpedia Relationship Finder. The relationship finder explores the DBpedia dataset two find out which relations exist between two things. It can answer questions like “How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?“.

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OntoWiki 0.6 released

We’ve released the version 0.6 of our distributed knowledge engineering tool OntoWiki. We re-engineered most part of it to support a more flexible architecture with themes and plugins. OntoWiki is based now on the Zend Framework and requires PHP 5.2 … Continue reading

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New database-driven SPARQL engine for RAP

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

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

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

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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