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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From messy data to linked data: LOD-enabled Google Refine
Some of you are probably already familiar with Google Refine (GR), a simple yet very powerful tool for working with messy data. GR is a web application, based on a modular web application framework, which makes it an interesting blend of versatility, performance, portability, simplicity and extendability. GR has no database, all data is in … Continue reading
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
New in CKAN: integrated Linked Data output
The CKAN data portal software now has fully integrated output of metadata as RDF linked data, in XML or N3 format. To see it at work, simply add the appropriate prefix to the URL for a dataset. For example, here is a dataset on the DataHub (as it happens, part of the LODcloud). Would you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged CKAN, Linked Data, Linked Open Data, okf, OKFN, open data, open government, publicdata.eu, the data hub
Modelling public procurement for the Linked Open Data Cloud: release of the Public Contracts Ontology
In the course of exploring the potential of linked open data for public procurement in the work package LOD2 for a Distributed Marketplace for Public Sector Contracts we have created the Public Contracts Ontology providing means of expression for describing public contracts in RDF to enable seamless exchange of semantically annotated data across distributed data … Continue reading
WebDataCommons.org launched – Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites
We are happy to announce WebDataCommons.org, a joined effort of the PlanetData and the LOD2 projects to extract all Microformat, Microdata and RDFa data from the Common Crawl web corpus, the largest and most up-to-data web corpus that is currently available to the public. WebDataCommons.org provides the extracted data for download in the form of … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair Tagged Extraction, Microdata, Microformats, RDFa
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
Serbian statistical data as Linked Open Data
National statistical offices across the world already possess an abundance of structured data, both in their databases and files in various formats, but lack the means for exposing, sharing, and interlinking this data on the Semantic Web. Statistical data underpins many of the mash-ups and visualizations we see on the Web, as well as being … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged open government data, Serbia, statistical data
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