In the recent years the LOD2 stack established a collection of applications developed in the context of the LOD2 project, presented as an unified environment. These applications are referred to as components although they can also be installed independently. However, having all these components in a single environment eases the access from one application to … Continue reading
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LOD2 Webinar 30.04.2013: Virtuoso Column Store
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present Virtuoso 7. Virtuoso Column Store, Adaptive Techniques for RDF Graph Databases. In this webinar we shall discuss the application of column store techniques to both graph (RDF) and relational data for mixed work-loads ranging from lookup to analytics. Virtuoso is an innovative … Continue reading
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European Data Forum 2013
The European Data Forum (EDF) 2013 takes place on April 9-10, 2013 in Dublin (Ireland). The EDF series is a joint activity of the EC FP7 projects BIG, LOD2, and PlanetData and is supported by the European Commission. Following a successful launch in 2012, this year’s edition of the European Data Forum will be addressing … Continue reading
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LOD2 Stack Poster
We have created a poster which visualizes the LOD2 life cycle as well as the LOD2 stack:
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Wolters Kluwer Deutschland is publishing 2 legal thesauri as Linked Open Data
Wolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH (WKD) publishes two legal thesauri as Linked Open Data for free re-use by public administrations, industry and the Open Data community (Munich, 12.07.2012, WKD) From today on, two thesauri (controlled vocabularies) covering juridical/legal topics are provided for free re-use as Linked Open Data: One thesaurus is covering topics around labor law … Continue reading
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LOD2 for German Publishers
Tuesday April the 24th was the last day of the Publishers Forum conference in Berlin, Germany. In an exquisite venue next to the American Embassy and quasi under the Brandenburger Tor an LOD2 threesome took up the challenge to introduce the Linked Open Data to the leaders of the German publishing industry. Sören Auer, University … Continue reading
Second LOD2 Webinar now on Youtube
Second LOD2-Webinar was a success and fun. 40 attendees followed Hugh William’s presentation on OpenLink Software’s Virtuoso Universal Server. Slideshare Questions and remarks are highly welcome. VIRTUOSO: Please write to Hugh Williams (hwilliams@openlinksw.com) or the Virtuoso Support Team (support@openlinksw.com) WEBINAR SERIES: Please write to Thomas Thurner (t.thurner@semantic-web.at) Do not forget to register for the next … Continue reading
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LOD2 organised Government Linked Data Workshop in Warsaw was big success
Last week on the 20th of October 2011 the LOD2 project organised a Government Linked Data (GLD) workshop in the course of the OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw, Poland together with the W3C GLD working group. In total the workshop offered 11 presentations (3 keynote talks and 8 lightning talks) from 10 different countries and … 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
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The hype, the hope and the LOD2
The pan-European Project LOD2 is one of the biggest projects dealing with linked data. Scientists, programmers and software architects in various European countries are working on the next generation of linked open data. In a series of interviews I’m presenting people working on and with LOD2. As a start, I had the chance to talk … Continue reading
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