From 21 to 23 March 2012 the bi-annual plenary meeting of the LOD2 project took place with about 35 participants from all 14 partners of the LOD2 consortium – this time in Vienna, Austria hosted by the local LOD2 partner Semantic Web Company. In the course of this 3 days meeting the following activities took … Continue reading
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Save the Date: the European Data Forum 2012 takes place 6-7 June 2012 in Copenhagen!
The European Data Forum 2012 (EDF2012) is a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus within the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Events Tagged Big Data, conference, data forum, data integration, data management, data warehouse, event, Linked Data, open linked data
Announcement of Intermediate LOD2 Stack Release, March 2012
The LOD2 consortium proudly announces the release 1.1 of the LOD2 Technology Stack available at: http://stack.lod2.eu. The LOD2 stack is an integrated distribution of aligned tools which support the life-cycle of Linked (Open) Data from extraction, authoring/creation over enrichment, interlinking, fusing to visualization and maintenance. The stack comprises tools from the LOD2 partners and third … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP6 – LOD2 Stack Tagged announcement, LOD2 Stack, release, software release, stack
Open Data and Public Sector: applying Austrian experience in Czech Republic
Availability of public sector information and transparency of public sector have been discussed in the Czech Republic for some time now. Although public sector organisations provide various datasets to the public they are often difficult to find and due to the lack of data formats standardisation attempts to reuse these datasets in useful applications may … Continue reading
Posted in Events, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged Austria, czech republic, ogd, open data, prague
LOD2 speaks at Accelerate Low – Carbon Development Workshop in Abu Dhabi
In the course of the World Energy Future Summit from 17. – 19.01. 2012 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the side event ‘Linking Open Data to Accelerate Low-Carbon Development – A workshop for decision makers in clean energy organisations’ took place on Wednesday the 18th of January 2012 in Masdar Institute at Masdar City … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Publication Tagged abu dhabi, clean energy, climate change development, event, Linked Open Data, LOD, open data, open government
LOD2 webinar series: free webinar on the 1st release of the LOD2 Stack on 29.11.2011
The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of a LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image – additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack from scratch are available in the HOW TO Start document. The official release date of … Continue reading
LOD2 organised Government Linked Data Workshop in Warsaw was big success
Last week on the 20th of October 2011 the LOD2 project organised a Government Linked Data (GLD) workshop in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland together with the W3C GLD working group. In total the workshop offered 11 presentations (3 keynote talks and 8 lightning talks) from 10 different countries and … Continue reading
LOD2 organises Government Linked Data workshop in Poland
Together with the Government Linked Data (GLD) working group of W3C the LOD2 project co-ordinates a Government Linked Data workshop on the 20th of October in the afternoon in the course of the Open Government Data Camp 2011 (OGD Camp 2011) in Warsaw, Poland, taking place from 20. – 21. of October 2011. The workshop … Continue reading
LOD2 Plenary Meeting in Leuven, Belgium with new LOD2 partners
From Monday, 19.09. 2011 until Wednesday, 21.09. 2011 the 2nd LOD2 plenary meeting took place in Leuven, Belgium hosted by LOD2 partner TenForce. It was the main face to face meeting after the 1st project year – and this meeting was also special because it was the first meeting since the LOD2 expansion with 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Uncategorized Tagged Belgium, enlargement, event, leuven, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, meeting, open data, open government data, partners, presentations, project meeting

