Tuesday April the 24th was the last day of the Publishers Forum conference in Berlin, Germany. In an exquisite venue next to the American Embassy and quasi under the Brandenburger Tor an LOD2 threesome took up the challenge to introduce the Linked Open Data to the leaders of the German publishing industry. Sören Auer, University … Continue reading
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Modelling public procurement for the Linked Open Data Cloud: release of the Public Contracts Ontology
In the course of exploring the potential of linked open data for public procurement in the work package LOD2 for a Distributed Marketplace for Public Sector Contracts we have created the Public Contracts Ontology providing means of expression for describing public contracts in RDF to enable seamless exchange of semantically annotated data across distributed data … 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
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

