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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LOD2 PUBLINK Consultancy Winners Call2011 announcement
Introduction The LOD2 PUBLINK consultancy service is one of the major LOD2 dissemination and training activities that helps to reach an interested audience in Linked Open Data technology and to provide training in this field as well as consultancy to solve concrete problems on the side of the PUBLINK applicants. The PUBLINK service follows a … Continue reading
Posted in Publink Tagged call 2011, consultancy, consulting projects, Linked Open Data, LOD, open data, publink, winners
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
LOD2 speaks at Accelerate Low – Carbon Development Workshop in Abu Dhabi
In the course of the World Energy Future Summit from 17. – 19.01. 2012 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the side event ‘Linking Open Data to Accelerate Low-Carbon Development – A workshop for decision makers in clean energy organisations’ took place on Wednesday the 18th of January 2012 in Masdar Institute at Masdar City … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Publication Tagged abu dhabi, clean energy, climate change development, event, Linked Open Data, LOD, open data, open government
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
Join in and participate: Government Linked Data Workshop – OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw
Today, on the Linked Open Data Cloud, there are hundreds of data sets comprised of over 25 billion statements with hundreds of millions of links between them. These data sets don’t share a single schema. They cooperate without needing to coordinate and interlink by using the same fundamental mechanism that allows the World Wide Web … 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
Posted in Events, Uncategorized Tagged Belgium, enlargement, event, leuven, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, meeting, open data, open government data, partners, presentations, project meeting

