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
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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
Semantics & Media, Mainz – Linked Open Data (LOD) in media, for publishing- and the content industry
On 14th and 15th ofJuly 2011 the Semantics & Media Conference took place in Mainz, Germany at the Johannes Gutenberg University. The LOD2 team was invited to present the project itsself as well as to hold several talks as follows. Sören Auer of University of Leipzig, Germany the project lead of LOD2, presented the LOD2 … Continue reading
OKCon2011 Berlin- Linked Open Data (LOD) has reached the Open Knowledge Community
The OKCon2011 – the Open Knowledge Conference 2011 – took place in Berlin this year on the 30th of June and the 1st of July 2011. The first time the main event of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) took place in a different place then London. There were about 400 participants in a very interesting … Continue reading

