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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

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

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

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DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 localized Editions

The LOD2 team is very happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.7. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from late July 2011. The new DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons, 526,000 places, 106,000 music albums, … Continue reading

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LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of the initial version of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework today. LDIF is a software component for building Linked Data applications which translates heterogeneous Linked Data from the Web into a clean, local target representation while keeping track of data provenance. Applications that consume Linked Data from the … Continue reading

Posted in Announcement, Software Project Release, WP4 – Reuse, Interlinking and Knowledge Fusion


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