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Author: Andreas Blumauer
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.2: Brno University of Technology
“My expectations for KIWI are actually very high”, says Pavel Smrz. “From the very begining, even from the project preparation phase, it has been obvious that Kiwi could be an
KIWI Project Partners, Pt.1: LMU
“My expectations for this project are that we are going to acquire experience in system development, learn more about social software, deepen our knowledge of information extraction and gain more
Sparkling SPARQL: Scripting the Semantic Web
Just a few weeks after der W3C has published the official SPARQL-recommendation the U.S. technology company TopQuadrant releases a (potentially) disruptive scripting app for Sparql queries. Seeing it in action
The KIWI Vision (with a funny twist)
Confession: No, we did not create the KIWI Vision Video below – but collaborative environments are pretty good at identifying emergent ideas, and this Youtube video does a great job
Kicking off the KiWi
Today I am in Salzburg, finding myself in amidst a discussion of possibly global impact: The Knowledge In a Wiki (KiWi) project is about to kick off! Andreas Blumauer, Matthias
Sharing Friend of a Friend Data (FOAF) across Social Networks (Blogtalk Presentation)
One of the many interesting presentations (from what I can gather from a distance;-) at this year’s Blogtalk was Uldis Bojars‘ “FOAF for Social Network Portability“. FOAF is a “machine-readable
SPARQLmotion: Developing Skills For Everyone
Yesterday TopQuadrant announced the delivery of the first visual scripting language for the semantic web, promising in their press release that “for the first time, end users can integrate data
Proudly Introducing: A New Strategic Partnership
We have more good news: In January already we teamed up with Know-Center Graz, Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management, to form a strategic partnership. It’s a pleasure to see
Semantic for the Zend Framework with OpenCalais
Semantic Blogging: Prototype of a Rich Text Editor with some semantic content flavour. This example demonstrates how to use the Yahoo! YUI Editor and OpenCalais API as Zend Framework Service
What is Driving User-Generated Content?
Whether you are using Google Earth, NASA World Wind or MS Virtual Earth: I think we have all had our few mesmerized moments when first playing with one of these