In this Webinar Michael Martin presents CubeViz – a facetted browser for statistical data utilizing the RDF Data Cube vocabulary which is the state-of-the-art in representing statistical data in RDF. This vocabulary is compatible with SDMX and increasingly being adopted. Based on the vocabulary and the encoded Data Cube, CubeViz is generating a facetted … Continue reading
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Open Data Conference in Seoul
Sören visited LOD2 partner KAIST and gave a lecture on Linking Enterprise Data in KAIST’s distinguished lecture series. On the second day of Sören’s short trip to Korea, we participated in the Open Data Conference of the Information Society Agency (NIA). NIA seems to be implementing a comprehensive Open Data strategy (also involving LinkedData). Looks … Continue reading
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To live in the Cloud
The EU-funded lighthouse project LOD2 is entering its critical phase. Many core developments will be more or less finalized in 2013. Therefore, the plenary meeting at the end of March, which was this time taking place in Amsterdam, was full of intense and partly controversial discussions between the partners. It became obvious that everybody wants … Continue reading
LOD2 Plenary taking place in March13 including a LOD side event in Amsterdam
In about 1 week from today the next LOD2 project plenary (first of 2 meetings in 2013) will take place hosted by CWI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. LOD2 plenaries are very special events as lot of Linked Open Data people from all 15 LOD2 partner organisations meet at one place to exchange their respective knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Events Tagged amsterdam, event, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2 plenary, meeting, meetup, netherlands, OKFN, open data, the waag, waag society
LOD2 Webinar 26.02.2013: DBpedia Spotlight
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present DBpedia Spotlight DBpedia Spotlight is a tool for automatically annotating mentions of DBpedia resources in text, providing a solution for linking unstructured information sources to the Linked Open Data cloud through DBpedia. DBpedia Spotlight recognizes that names of concepts or entities have … Continue reading
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Applying LOD to Public Procurement: PSI Group meeting 2013
On January 24, 2013, the PSI Group met on the premises of European Commission in Luxembourg for a discussion of the recent advancements in open data activities across the European Union. The PSI Group consists of representatives from all of the EU member states, most of whom were present at the meeting and reported on … Continue reading
6th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2013)
LOD2 consortium members Chris Bizer, Michael Hausenblas and Sören Auer together with Tom Heath and Tim Berners-Lee are organizing this 6th edition of the classical Linked Data on the Web workshop. LDOW 2013 takes place 14 May 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in conjunction with 22nd International World Wide Web Conference. The call for papers … Continue reading
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European Data Forum: Free Registration and Call for Contribution are open
Time to plan for the European Data Forum 2013 in Dublin. The yearly meeting place for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. Free Registration for the European Data Forum 2013 is now open. EDF also invites to submit proposials on to be held … Continue reading
Webinar: 29.01.2013 – Zemanta / Open Refine
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present Zemanta and its LODRefine – a LOD-enabled version of OpenRefine (previously Google Refine), which is a part of the LOD2 stack. LODRefine extends cleansing and linking functionalities of OpenRefine by providing means to reconcile and augment your data with DBpedia or any … Continue reading
Posted in Events, WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building Tagged Google Refine, Zemanta
LOD2 Webinar 12.12.2012: 2nd Release of LOD2 Stack
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present the release 2.0 of the LOD2 stack, which contains updates to the components Ontowiki, Silk, SigmaEE and Virtuoso. The lod2-stack also has new components since release 1.1: the assisting sparql editor SPARQLED (DERI), the LOD enabled Open Refine (previously Google Refine) (ZEMANTA), the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Software Project Release, WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building Tagged lod2stack, TenForce, webinar

