The first Workshop on Data Mining from Linked Data, DMoLD’13, was held on September 23, 2013, in Prague, in collocation with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2013), a prime scientific event in the data mining field. The workshop was co-organized by LOD2 researchers from … Continue reading
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LOD2 presentation at the Publications Office of the European Union
In June 2013, I visited the Publications Office of the European Union and gave there a presentation about our results in the area of public procurement achieved in LOD2 project. The visit was organized by LOD2 project officer Stefano Bertolo and Luca Martinelli, Assistant to the Director General of the Publications Office of the European Union. … Continue reading
Applying LOD to Public Procurement: PSI Group meeting 2013
On January 24, 2013, the PSI Group met on the premises of European Commission in Luxembourg for a discussion of the recent advancements in open data activities across the European Union. The PSI Group consists of representatives from all of the EU member states, most of whom were present at the meeting and reported on … Continue reading
Scaling curation of public sector data: The Big Clean, November 3rd 2012, Prague
Public sector bodies record and store facts about themselves, their actions and the settings in which they operate. Unfortunately, the way these public institutions collect such vast amounts of data often does not result in big data: it results in a big, unusable mess instead. The methods of maintenance of information assets established in the … Continue reading
European Data Forum 2012: 6-7 June 2012 in Copenhagen
On 6-7th June 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the forum for the European data economy will be launched, discussing issues along the data value chain, open data and big data! Organised by the European Commission and four EU-co-funded projects, the European Data Forum 2012 will be established as an annual conference discussing relevant data topics for … Continue reading
Modelling public procurement for the Linked Open Data Cloud: release of the Public Contracts Ontology
In the course of exploring the potential of linked open data for public procurement in the work package LOD2 for a Distributed Marketplace for Public Sector Contracts we have created the Public Contracts Ontology providing means of expression for describing public contracts in RDF to enable seamless exchange of semantically annotated data across distributed data … Continue reading
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