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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Leuven Open Data
At this event we show what new technologies can do to improve local governments, without talking about technology or IT. For all those who are fed up with hearing IT say “what you ask, is not possible”, we present to you: “Open Data”! What event is this? The Leuven Open Data event on September 20th … Continue reading
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
Winners of the 2010/2011 LOD2 PUBLINK consultancy service
When the LOD2 project came into being in September 2010, the LOD2 consortium decided to offer a free Linked Open Data consultancy service to interested organisations and institutions to showcase what the potentials and benefits of linked open data (LOD) principles and technologies are – the LOD2 PUBLINK consultancy service – see also PUBLINK page. … Continue reading
Posted in Publink, WP10 – Training, Dissemination, Community Building Tagged Austria, Canary Islands, City of Vienna, Deutsche Bibliographie, Finland, GLA, Greater London Authority, Historische Kommission, ISTAC, LATC, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, Parliament of Finland, publink, publishing, training, UK, Umweltbundesamt, Vienna, workshops
Semantic CKAN – Revisited
A year ago or more the service http://semantic.ckan.net/ was established as a side-project to provide a Linked Data version of the CKAN dataset registry. It was a very simple Python script that used the CKAN API to generate the linked data version in flat files on the disk which were then served by a web … Continue reading
Posted in WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged API, CKAN, DCat, INSPIRE, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, semantic, VoiD
LOD2 plenary meeting Paris: 24. – 25.03. 2011
These days the LOD2 plenary meeting takes place in Paris at Exalead / Dassault Systems on the 24th and 25th of March 2011. About 20 members of the consortium participate in this meeting (representatives per consortium member, WP leaders and technical researchers) to present the state of play of the work in LOD2 after 6 … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workpackages Tagged Dassault Systems, DDEEES, Exalead, France, Linked Open Data, LOD, LOD2, ogd, open data, open government data, Paris, plenary meeting
Ideas on Semantic Web for Workers Mobility in EU
EC DG Employment invited me to come an explain the opportunities in semantic technologies (and linked open data). So that’s what I did on Wednesday, March the 16th 2011 in Brussels. The audience was a mix of Public Employment Service assistant directors and ICT liaison officers. Mrs. Wallis Goelen from DG Employment did the introduction. … Continue reading
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