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
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New in CKAN: integrated Linked Data output
The CKAN data portal software now has fully integrated output of metadata as RDF linked data, in XML or N3 format. To see it at work, simply add the appropriate prefix to the URL for a dataset. For example, here is a dataset on the DataHub (as it happens, part of the LODcloud). Would you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged CKAN, Linked Data, Linked Open Data, okf, OKFN, open data, open government, publicdata.eu, the data hub
Save the Date: the European Data Forum 2012 takes place 6-7 June 2012 in Copenhagen!
The European Data Forum 2012 (EDF2012) is a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus within the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Events Tagged Big Data, conference, data forum, data integration, data management, data warehouse, event, Linked Data, open linked data
LOD at Energy Related Information Systems – an interview with Jon Weers and Florian Bauer
NREL and REEEP co-operate using LOD principles and technologies to exchange and combine information & data on the two energy related information systems: OpenEI and reegle.info since months now! Martin Kaltenböck from LOD2 have had the chance to interview representatives from both institutions: Jon Weers and Florian Bauer. Question: What is the strategic approach of … Continue reading
LOD2 Webinar Series: SILK
This webinar in the course of the LOD2 webinar series will present use cases and live demos of the Free University of Berlin’ SILK. The Silk Link Discovery Framework is a tool for discovering relationships between data items within different Linked Data sources. The declarative Silk Link Specification Language (Silk-LSL) allows the user to specify … Continue reading
Posted in Events Tagged Free University of Berlin, Linked Data, LOD2, semantic web company, SILK
Advocats on transparency
Often the concept of Linked Open Data is hard to understand for “ordinary people”. The innovative power and the technological potential is somethimes hidden behind nerdy experts diction. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) works day-by-day to get a bridge between these tech-talk and the interestes and motivation of the target groups which are intended to … Continue reading
LOD2 webinar series: Virtuoso Universal Server for Linked Open Data (LOD)
After an interesting first webinar on components and services of the LOD2 Technology Stack we are preparing the next broadcast. On 20.12.2011, 04.00pm CET the LOD2 project will offer the next free one hour webinar on the Virtuoso Universal Server as the Linked Data ingestion, storage and retrieval component of the LOD2 Stack. About the … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, Events Tagged Linked Data, LOD2 Stack, Openlink, semantic web company, Virtuoso Universal Server, webinar
LOD2 webinar series: free webinar on the 1st release of the LOD2 Stack on 29.11.2011
The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of a LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image – additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack from scratch are available in the HOW TO Start document. The official release date of … Continue reading
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
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