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LOD2 webinar series: Linked Data and SKOS – D2R and Sparqlify

The LOD2 team is happy to announce 2 free Linked Open Data tool webinars for April 2012 as follows! You can find the recorded LOD2 webinars and respective slides here: http://lod2.eu/BlogPost/webinar-series Linked Data and SKOS, 18.04.2012, 05.00pm CET Knowledge organization systems like taxonomies or thesauri can benefit from linked data approaches and vice versa. In … Continue reading

Posted on 2012/04/06 by Martin Kaltenboeck

Posted in Announcement, Events, WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair | Tagged , , , , , , ,

LOD2 Vienna Plenary Meeting 21 – 23 March 2012

From 21 to 23 March 2012 the bi-annual plenary meeting of the LOD2 project took place with about 35 participants from all 14 partners of the LOD2 consortium – this time in Vienna, Austria hosted by the local LOD2 partner Semantic Web Company. In the course of this 3 days meeting the following activities took … Continue reading

Posted on 2012/03/23 by Martin Kaltenboeck

Posted in Events, Workpackages, WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building, WP11 – Standardization, Exploitation, WP12 – Project Management, WP2 – Storing and Querying, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair, WP4 – Reuse, Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion, WP5 – Visualization, Browsing and Authoring, WP6 – LOD2 Stack, WP7 – LOD2 for Media and Publishing, WP8 – LOD2 for Enterprise Data Web, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu | Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

WebDataCommons.org launched – Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites

We are happy to announce WebDataCommons.org, a joined effort of the PlanetData and the LOD2 projects to extract all Microformat, Microdata and RDFa data from the Common Crawl web corpus, the largest and most up-to-data web corpus that is currently available to the public. WebDataCommons.org provides the extracted data for download in the form of … Continue reading

Posted on 2012/03/23 by ChrisBizer

Posted in Announcement, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair | Tagged , , ,

LODStats – Real-time Data Web Statistics

We are happy to announce the first public release of LODStats. LODStats is a statement-stream-based approach for gathering comprehensive statistics about datasets adhering to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). LODStats was implemented in Python and integrated into the CKAN dataset metadata registry. Thus it helps to obtain a comprehensive picture of the current state of … Continue reading

Posted on 2012/02/09 by SoerenAuer

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu

NLP Interchange Format (NIF) 1.0 released

LOD2  is proud to  announce the release of the Natural Language Processing Interchange Format (NIF). The format was developed to be able to convert Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool output to RDF, thus enabling the integration into the LOD2 stack. The  LOD2 consortium members will begin implementing  wrappers for their NLP tools now and thus convert … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/11/28 by Sebastian Hellmann

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair

First release of the LOD2 Stack

The LOD2 consortium is happy to announce the first release of the LOD2 stack available at: http://stack.lod2.eu. The LOD2 stack is an integrated distribution of aligned tools which support the life-cycle of Linked Data from extraction, authoring/creation over enrichment, interlinking, fusing to visualization and maintenance. The stack comprises new and substantially extended existing tools from … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/10/03 by Lambda Verdonckt

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP1 – Requirements, Design and LOD2 Stack Prototype, WP2 – Storing and Querying, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair, WP4 – Reuse, Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion, WP5 – Visualization, Browsing and Authoring, WP6 – LOD2 Stack, WP7 – LOD2 for Media and Publishing, WP8 – LOD2 for Enterprise Data Web, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu | Tagged

Official DBpedia Live Release

The AKSW group is pleased to announce the official release of DBpedia Live. The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, DBpedia is the Semantic Web mirror of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users constantly revise Wikipedia articles with … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/06/24 by JensLehmann

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair

LinkedGeoData Release 2

The AKSW research group is happy to announce a new release of LinkedGeoData! The aim of the LinkedGeoData (LGD) project is to make the OpenStreetMap (OSM) datasets easily available as RDF. As such the main target audience is the Semantic Web community, however it may turn out to be useful to a much larger audience. … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/04/27 by JensLehmann

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair | Tagged , , ,

DBpedia Spotlight released

We are happy to announce a first release of DBpedia Spotlight – Shedding Light on the Web of Documents. The amount of data in the Linked Open Data cloud is steadily increasing. Interlinking text documents with this data enables the Web of Data to be used as background knowledge within document-oriented applications such as search … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/02/15 by ChrisBizer

Posted in WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair

DBpedia Version 3.6 released.

We are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.6. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from October/November 2010. The new DBpedia dataset describes more than 3.5 million things, of which 1.67 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 364,000 persons, 462,000 places, 99,000 music albums, 54,000 films, 16,500 video games, … Continue reading

Posted on 2011/01/17 by ChrisBizer

Posted in WP3 – Creation, Enrichment and Repair

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