LOD2 Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

The first Open Innovation Conference organized by the city of Leipzig brings together experts from the fields of the triple helix “university, industry, government” focusing on the exchange of experience in the field of open innovation in creative industries.

One session at the conference is dedicated to Open Data, which will be discussed  from two different but complementary perspectives: the Linked Open Data research perspective and the perspective on Open Data from the community, grassroots and NGO perspective.The session will comprise two talks, give room to short stand-up presentations by the participants and aim at spinning a discussion around Open Data challenges.

• Dr. Sören Auer, University of LeipzigThe University of Leipzig, located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. Famous alumni include Goethe, Wagner, Nietzsche, Angela Merkel and multiple Nobel ..., will give a presentation on ‘DBpediaDBpedia is a project aiming to extract structured information from the information created as part of the Wikipedia project. This structured information is then made available on the World Wide Web. DBpedia allows users to query relationships and properties associated with Wikipedia resources, ...’ and the emerging Web of Data .
• Daniel Dietrich, chairman of  Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, will present some crucial Open Data projects, such as ‘Offener Haushalt’, ‘TheDataHub’ and ‘FrankfurtFrankfurt am Main, commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2009 population of 672,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,295,000 in 2010. The city is at the centre of the larger ... Gestalten’.

The conference takes place within the framework of the EU-project Creative Cities (January 2010 to May 2013) final convention. Eleven partners from Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, and Italy joined together in 2010 within the project to form a transnational network of the creative industries in the participating cities. The final convention brings together representatives of the project partners, the creative industries, administration, economy, and politics in order to evaluate results, exchange experiences, and define future fields of work.

The conference language is English and participation is free.

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