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 HOWTO Start document. Born from the wish to make … Continue reading
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LOD at Energy Related Information Systems – an interview with Jon Weers and Florian Bauer
NREL and REEEP co-operate using LOD principles and technologies to exchange and combine information & data on the two energy related information systems: OpenEI and reegle.info since months now! Martin Kaltenböck from LOD2 have had the chance to interview representatives from both institutions: Jon Weers and Florian Bauer. Question: What is the strategic approach of … Continue reading
LOD2 Webinar Series: SILK
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present use cases and live demos of the Free University of Berlin’ SILK. The Silk Link Discovery Framework is a tool for discovering relationships between data items within different Linked Data sources. The declarative Silk Link Specification Language (Silk-LSL) allows the user to specify … Continue reading
Posted in Events Tagged Free University of Berlin, Linked Data, LOD2, semantic web company, SILK
Advocats on transparency
Often the concept of Linked Open Data is hard to understand for “ordinary people”. The innovative power and the technological potential is somethimes hidden behind nerdy experts diction. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) works day-by-day to get a bridge between these tech-talk and the interestes and motivation of the target groups which are intended to … Continue reading
LOD2 webinar series: OntoWiki for Linked Open Data (LOD)
This webinar will introduce OntoWiki as a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWYG for … Continue reading
Second LOD2 Webinar now on Youtube
Second LOD2-Webinar was a success and fun. 40 attendees followed Hugh William’s presentation on OpenLink Software’s Virtuoso Universal Server. Slideshare Questions and remarks are highly welcome. VIRTUOSO: Please write to Hugh Williams (hwilliams@openlinksw.com) or the Virtuoso Support Team (support@openlinksw.com) WEBINAR SERIES: Please write to Thomas Thurner (t.thurner@semantic-web.at) Do not forget to register for the next … Continue reading
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LOD2 webinar series: Virtuoso Universal Server for Linked Open Data (LOD)
After an interesting first webinar on components and services of the LOD2 Technology Stack we are preparing the next broadcast. On 20.12.2011, 04.00pm CET the LOD2 project will offer the next free one hour webinar on the Virtuoso Universal Server as the Linked Data ingestion, storage and retrieval component of the LOD2 Stack. About the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Events Tagged Linked Data, LOD2 Stack, Openlink, semantic web company, Virtuoso Universal Server, webinar
Join in and participate: Government Linked Data Workshop – OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw
Today, on the Linked Open Data Cloud, there are hundreds of data sets comprised of over 25 billion statements with hundreds of millions of links between them. These data sets don’t share a single schema. They cooperate without needing to coordinate and interlink by using the same fundamental mechanism that allows the World Wide Web … Continue reading
Search using the power of the cloud
Linked Open Data Technologies are under the engine hood of more and more applications and services. Search engines development was a field were lots of pioneer work was done, in recent years, and were now powerful products came and will come to market. I have had the chance to talk to Amar-Djalil Meazour about the … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, WP8 – LOD2 for Enterprise Data Web Tagged Enterprise search, Exalead, Linked Data, semantic web
A stable content environment for the dynamic media market
That Linked Open Data will act as a future technologie for media companies is a well known thesis. But Wolters Kluwer demonstrates the very real praxis of that. I had the chance to talk to Christian Dirschl, Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer in munich. Thomas Thurner: Wolters Kluwer has recently appeared as a strong supporter … Continue reading
Posted in Interview Tagged Linked Data, open government data, publishing, Wolters Kluwer

