In June 2013, I visited the Publications Office of the European Union and gave there a presentation about our results in the area of public procurement achieved in LOD2 project. The visit was organized by LOD2 project officer Stefano Bertolo and Luca Martinelli, Assistant to the Director General of the Publications Office of the European Union. … Continue reading
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Scaling curation of public sector data: The Big Clean, November 3rd 2012, Prague
Public sector bodies record and store facts about themselves, their actions and the settings in which they operate. Unfortunately, the way these public institutions collect such vast amounts of data often does not result in big data: it results in a big, unusable mess instead. The methods of maintenance of information assets established in the … Continue reading
Serbian statistical data as Linked Open Data
National statistical offices across the world already possess an abundance of structured data, both in their databases and files in various formats, but lack the means for exposing, sharing, and interlinking this data on the Semantic Web. Statistical data underpins many of the mash-ups and visualizations we see on the Web, as well as being … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, WP9 – LOD2 for Citizen – PublicData.eu Tagged open government data, Serbia, statistical data
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 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
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
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
A stable content environment for the dynamic media market
That Linked Open Data will act as a future technologie for media companies is a well known thesis. But Wolters Kluwer demonstrates the very real praxis of that. I had the chance to talk to Christian Dirschl, Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer in munich. Thomas Thurner: Wolters Kluwer has recently appeared as a strong supporter … Continue reading
Posted in Interview Tagged Linked Data, open government data, publishing, Wolters Kluwer
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
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