In about 1 week from today the next LOD2 project plenary (first of 2 meetings in 2013) will take place hosted by CWI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. LOD2 plenaries are very special events as lot of Linked Open Data people from all 15 LOD2 partner organisations meet at one place to exchange their respective knowledge … Continue reading
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Neelie Kroes, EC Commissioner for the Digital Agenda mentions LOD2 project in OKFestival opening speech
Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda in Europe gave this week an opening speech to the OKFestival 2012 in Helsinki, Finland – organised by the LOD2 partner Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN). Excerpt from the respective OKFN blog post: ‘Today Neelie gave a virtual address for participants at … Continue reading
Posted in Events Tagged EC, euopean commission, Linked Open Data, Neelie Kroes, okfestival, OKFN, open data
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
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 organises Government Linked Data workshop in Poland
Together with the Government Linked Data (GLD) working group of W3C the LOD2 project co-ordinates a Government Linked Data workshop on the 20th of October in the afternoon in the course of the Open Government Data Camp 2011 (OGD Camp 2011) in Warsaw, Poland, taking place from 20. – 21. of October 2011. The workshop … Continue reading
OpenDataChallenge.org winners announced and PublicData.eu beta launched at Digital Agenda Assembly
Last week at the Digital Agenda Assembly the winners of the Open Data Challenge, Europe’s biggest open data competition to date, were announced by Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. There were 430 entries from 24 countries. You can see a full list of all the winners at OpenDataChallenge.org. We got lots of … Continue reading
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