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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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