Tuesday April the 24th was the last day of the Publishers Forum conference in Berlin, Germany. In an exquisite venue next to the American Embassy and quasi under the Brandenburger Tor an LOD2 threesome took up the challenge to introduce the Linked Open Data to the leaders of the German publishing industry. Sören Auer, University … Continue reading
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Workshop on Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb 11 – 13 June 2012 in Dublin
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
LOD2 webinar series: Linked Data and SKOS – D2R and Sparqlify
The LOD2 team is happy to announce 2 free Linked Open Data tool webinars for April 2012 as follows! You can find the recorded LOD2 webinars and respective slides here: http://lod2.eu/BlogPost/webinar-series Linked Data and SKOS, 18.04.2012, 05.00pm CET Knowledge organization systems like taxonomies or thesauri can benefit from linked data approaches and vice versa. In … Continue reading
LOD2 webinar series: LIMES – discovery of links across knowledge bases
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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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
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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 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
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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
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