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Call For Participation: BSBM 3.1 Benchmarks on the LISA Cluster

The LISA Cluster from SARA will be used for large-scale experiments on the new BSBM v3.1 BSBM V3.1 is being run on a large cluster — contact me if you want your system tested!   Enhancing significantly the performance of RDF systems is a goal of the LOD2 project, and one of the ways to foster … Continue reading

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Semantics & Media, Mainz – Linked Open Data (LOD) in media, for publishing- and the content industry

On 14th and 15th ofJuly 2011 the Semantics & Media Conference took place in Mainz, Germany at the Johannes Gutenberg University.  The LOD2 team was invited to present the project itsself as well as to hold several talks as follows. Sören Auer of University of Leipzig, Germany the project lead of LOD2, presented the LOD2 … Continue reading

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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

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OpenDataChallenge.org winners announced and PublicData.eu beta launched at Digital Agenda Assembly

Last week at the Digital Agenda Assembly the winners of the Open Data Challenge, Europe’s biggest open data competition to date, were announced by Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. There were 430 entries from 24 countries. You can see a full list of all the winners at OpenDataChallenge.org. We got lots of … Continue reading

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LOD2 Sponsors ESWC Conference 2011 + AKSW Report on Summer School and Conference

This year the STI – International organized an ESWC summer school for Master and PhD students in the area of the Semantic Web to come together to learn about the latest ongoings from some of the leading researchers in the area. Timofey Ermilov and Amrapali Zaveri from AKSW attended the summer school, which was held … Continue reading

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Indian-Summer School on Linked Data

ISSLOD takes place in late summer from Sep 12-18, 2011 in Leipzig with hopefully still a lot of Indian Summer (i.e. Altweibersommer / Бабье лето) sunshine rays. The Linked Data methodology is a light-weight approach to facilitate the transition from the document Web to the Web of Data and ultimately a Semantic Web. With a … Continue reading

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LOD2 infrastructure for public service information

On May the 10th and 11th I represented the LOD2 consortium on the share-psi.eu in Brussels. This conference was set up by ETSI and W3C in preparation of the Digital Agenda meeting in Brussels in mid June 2011. The audience was a mix of public services, private companies and non profit organizations. You can find … Continue reading

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LOD2 webinar series starts on 1 June 2011

The LOD2 project has a lot to offer – beside many other benefits – the linked (open) data software tools of the LOD2 partners. To showcase these tools to the interested public we have set up the LOD2 webinar series starting by 01 June 2011 with the following webinar:         When: June … Continue reading

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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

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Ideas on Semantic Web for Workers Mobility in EU

EC DG Employment invited me to come an explain the opportunities in semantic technologies (and linked open data). So that’s what I did on Wednesday, March the 16th 2011 in Brussels. The audience was a mix of Public Employment Service assistant directors and ICT liaison officers. Mrs. Wallis Goelen from DG Employment did the introduction. … Continue reading

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