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AKSW@SWIB13

From November 25 to 27 the members of the ERM project (electronic resource management for libraries) attended the SWIB13 (Semantic Web in Libraries) in Hamburg. We, that is Andreas, Natanael, Norman and Thomas, went to Hamburg where the conference was … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Asynchronous Jobs with Gearmand

To be ready for use-cases where time-consuming jobs need to be done in the background, the eccenca dev team added support for the gearmand job server: Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or … Continue reading

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New DBpedia Overview Article

We are pleased to announce that a new overview article for DBpedia is available. The article covers several aspects of the DBpedia community project: The DBpedia extraction framework. The mappings wiki as the central structure for maintaining the community-curated DBpedia … Continue reading

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BIG at LSWT 2013 – From BIG Data to Smart Data

The 5th Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT2013) was organized as a meeting point for german as well as international Linked Data experts. Under the motto: From Big Data to Smart Data sophisticated methods that enable handling large amounts of data … Continue reading

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SlideWiki is now Open Source

We are pleased to announce that we have just released the SlideWiki.org source code under the permissive Apache open-source license. It is now available for download from the AKSW Github repository at: https://github.com/AKSW/SlideWiki The SlideWiki database dumps are also available … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: LOV Integration

This weeks presented feature is the new integration interface of the Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) repository. LOV is a hand crafted repository of linked RDF/OWL vocabularies with well managed vocabulary meta data. We added a Vocabulary Selection module in order … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Document Management

This weeks presented feature is the files extension available at https://github.com/AKSW/files.ontowiki An not so often requested feature of OntoWiki is the ability to not just talk about resources such as PDF documents and MP3 files, but also to manage these … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: API Documentation

This week we would like to present the revised API reference documentation, hostet at http://api.ontowiki.net/. The documentation collects informationen about classes of OntoWiki and the Erfurt library while leaving out other libraries (like Zend Framework etc.) to stay compact. Next … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Enhanced Model Creation

Dear OntoWiki Users, This weeks feature hooks into the knowledge base/model creation and add data process. You can create a new knowledge base from the “Knowledge Bases” module’s menu with “Edit > Create Knowledge Base”. The title and the URI … Continue reading

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OntoWiki Feature of the Week: Enhanced Query Shell

Dear OntoWiki Users, today we start a feature of the week series to announce some recent features of OntoWiki or of some of OntoWiki extensions. This weeks feature is visible in OntoWiki’s query shell result table. Each result resource can … Continue reading

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