The project MultilingualWeb-LT (driven by W3C, DFKI and the Dublin-based language technology cluster) is organising a workshop in Dublin 11-13 June. The theme of the first day (11 June) is “Linked open data and Natural language processing”. The call for participation is available at http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dublin-cfp
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European Data Forum 2012: 6-7 June 2012 in Copenhagen
On 6-7th June 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the forum for the European data economy will be launched, discussing issues along the data value chain, open data and big data! Organised by the European Commission and four EU-co-funded projects, the European Data Forum 2012 will be established as an annual conference discussing relevant data topics for … Continue reading
LODStats – Real-time Data Web Statistics
We are happy to announce the first public release of LODStats. LODStats is a statement-stream-based approach for gathering comprehensive statistics about datasets adhering to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). LODStats was implemented in Python and integrated into the CKAN dataset metadata registry. Thus it helps to obtain a comprehensive picture of the current state of … Continue reading
2nd PUBLINK Linked Data publishing and tooling support action
After the successful completion of the first PUBLINK iteration, we are now launching a second round, which also includes specific support for Linked Data tool developers, who want to integrate their tool with the Debian-based LOD2 Stack. In order to lower the entrance barrier for potential data publishers and to improve the integration and interoperation … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Publink, WP6 – LOD2 Stack
Indian-summer school on Linked Data started
Today we started in Leipzig the Indian-summer school on Linked Data. More than 30 participants are attending the summer school. We have lined up a seasoned crew of lecturers from the LOD2 consortium and beyond, including Chris Bizer and Robert Isele from LOD2 partner FUB, Jens Lehmann, Axel Ngonga and Sebastian Tramp from AKSW, Vojtech … Continue reading
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PUBLINK: Deutsche Biographie becomes part of the LOD cloud
During a workshop on June, 27th at the Historical College in Munich, the AKSW group and the group of the New German Biographie at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities presented their results of the LOD2 supported PUBLINK project. Within this project meta-data about 46,000 biographies, 42,000 people and 12,000 locations have been made … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Publink
Indian-Summer School on Linked Data
ISSLOD takes place in late summer from Sep 12-18, 2011 in Leipzig with hopefully still a lot of Indian Summer (i.e. Altweibersommer / Бабье лето) sunshine rays. The Linked Data methodology is a light-weight approach to facilitate the transition from the document Web to the Web of Data and ultimately a Semantic Web. With a … Continue reading
LOD2 plenary assembly 24th and 25th of March in Paris
The next LOD2 plenary assembly will take place on 24th and 25th of March in Paris at Exalead. We will discuss the current progress of the project and the research and development targets for the next year. A particular focus will be the integration of tools and components into the LOD2 stack. Although this is … Continue reading
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LOD2 supports the Reasoning Web Summer School 2011
This years Reasoning Web Summer School is organized by LOD2 partner DERI and will take place in the last week of August (August 23-27) in Galway, Ireland. LOD2 is involved in this years edition of the renowned summer school with a lecture by Sören giving an introduction and overview on Linked Data approaches. Prospective students … Continue reading
The Science in LOD2
The Linked Data principle is a very simple best practice for publishing and interlinking data on the Web. You might now ask, so what is the LOD2 project all about. Do they perform any research? In fact, although the LOD principles are so simple, the publishing of large amounts of data on the Web reveals … Continue reading
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