LOD2 Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

Today we started in Leipzig the Indian-summer school on Linked Data. More than 30 participants are attending the summer school. We have lined up a seasoned crew of lecturers from the LOD2EU-funded (FP7) research project aiming to take the Web of Linked Data to the next level. Main research challenges: improve coherence and quality of data published on the Web, close the performance gap between relational and RDF data management, establish trust on the Linked Data Web and ... consortium and beyond, including Chris Bizer and Robert Isele from LOD2 partner FUB, Jens Lehmann, Axel Ngonga and Sebastian Tramp from AKSW, Vojtech Svatek and Key-Sun Choi from the new LOD2 partners UEP and KAIST respectively, Olaf Hartig from HU BerlinThe Humboldt University of Berlin (German Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly ... as well as Harald Sack from HPI Potsdam.

In addition to lectures, we also planned student projects, a poster session as well as a number of social events and small excursions.