Together with the Government Linked Data (GLD) working group of W3C the LOD2 project co-ordinates a Government Linked Data workshop on the 20th of October in the afternoon in the course of the Open Government Data Camp 2011 (OGD Camp 2011) in Warsaw, Poland, taking place from 20. – 21. of October 2011. The workshop … Continue reading
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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
LOD2 Plenary Meeting in Leuven, Belgium with new LOD2 partners
From Monday, 19.09. 2011 until Wednesday, 21.09. 2011 the 2nd LOD2 plenary meeting took place in Leuven, Belgium hosted by LOD2 partner TenForce. It was the main face to face meeting after the 1st project year – and this meeting was also special because it was the first meeting since the LOD2 expansion with 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Uncategorized Tagged Belgium, enlargement, event, leuven, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, meeting, open data, open government data, partners, presentations, project meeting
Leuven Open Data
At this event we show what new technologies can do to improve local governments, without talking about technology or IT. For all those who are fed up with hearing IT say “what you ask, is not possible”, we present to you: “Open Data”! What event is this? The Leuven Open Data event on September 20th … Continue reading
OKCon2011 Berlin- Linked Open Data (LOD) has reached the Open Knowledge Community
The OKCon2011 – the Open Knowledge Conference 2011 – took place in Berlin this year on the 30th of June and the 1st of July 2011. The first time the main event of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) took place in a different place then London. There were about 400 participants in a very interesting … Continue reading
LinkedGeoData Release 2
The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData! The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic Web community, however it may turn out to be useful to a much larger audience. … Continue reading
LOD2 plenary meeting Paris: 24. – 25.03. 2011
These days the LOD2 plenary meeting takes place in Paris at Exalead / Dassault Systems on the 24th and 25th of March 2011. About 20 members of the consortium participate in this meeting (representatives per consortium member, WP leaders and technical researchers) to present the state of play of the work in LOD2 after 6 … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workpackages Tagged Dassault Systems, DDEEES, Exalead, France, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, ogd, open data, open government data, Paris, plenary meeting
Last call for participation in LOD2 Open Data Stakeholder Survey
The Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey for the LOD2 Use Case Open Government Data is coming to an end this Friday 17th December 2010. Please support the LOD2 project in filling in this survey – it takes only about 10 minutes. Tell us your requirements on Open Data as well as your ideas on a … Continue reading
Posted in WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, open data, open government data, Survey

