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Added value of linking data (Polish economy data)

Recently I2G has been working on publishing Polish economy data in a paradigm of linked data. One of the datasets concerns import and export of Poland (INSIGOS HZ/GEO). The geographical dimension lists 210 countries. Standardization of this vocabulary was also part of the publication effort, and it consisted of linking to DBpedia, and assigning two- … Continue reading

Posted on 2013/02/25 by KrzysztofWecel

Posted in Misc, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu | Tagged , , ,

The end of Google Refine (LODGrefine) as we know it?

A few days ago David Huynh announced the future of Google Refine: it will no longer be actively developed by Google, but given over to the community instead — hence they suggested rebranding into “OpenRefine”. One of the reasons behind this decision seems to be that there is no easy way of getting Google Refine (currently … Continue reading

Posted on 2012/10/09 by Mateja Verlic

Posted in Misc, WP4 – Reuse, Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion | Tagged , , ,

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

Posted on 2012/04/25 by Mateja Verlic

Posted in Announcement, Misc, WP4 – Reuse, Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion

Winner of the Yahoo Semantic Search Challenge 2011

The DERI Sindice Team is the winner of the Yahoo Semantic Search Challenge 2011. The Semantic Search Challenge, now in its second edition, called for participants to answer keyword queries describing “entities” and return results from “web databases” having a very heterogeneous nature. The results have been discussed at the 4th International Workshop on Semantic … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/08/03 by Nadine Jänicke

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The Science in LOD2

The Linked Data principle is a very simple best practice for publishing and interlinking data on the Web. You might now ask, so what is the LOD2 project all about. Do they perform any research? In fact, although the LOD principles are so simple, the publishing of large amounts of data on the Web reveals … Continue reading

Posted on 2010/10/08 by SoerenAuer

Posted in Misc

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