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Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine
Looking for high quality enterprise vocabularies we recently turned our attention to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), which is an industry taxonomy designed to categorize any private company. It
Drupal and the Semantic Web – Interview with Stéphane Corlosquet
Stéphane Corlosquet has been the main driving force in incorporating Semantic Web capabilities into Drupal. In the recent release of Drupal 7, Semantic Web technologies became part of the core
EU-Report on the requirements for a paneuropean Open Government Data Portal
The recently published report on a hearing of an experts in Luxembourg this November, provides a snap-shoot on the discussion if a central open data infrastructure may make sense. The
Open Intranet
The following blog post was used by Andreas Blumauer as a basis for a talk at TEDxVienna on Monday, November 29, 2010: Open Data, Open Government, Open Source, Open Innovation
Les Kneebone: “Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia”
Les Kneebone is Project Manager at Education Services Australia Ltd. Among other projects he is responsible for Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). PoolParty Team asked Les a couple of questions about
Paneuropean Open Government Data Survey – join now!
LOD2 project is currently circulating a survey aimed at people interested in open government data. If you are interested in government information (whether as a publisher, producer, reuser or consumer)
Open World Assumption revisited – What have the Semantic Web and Document Management in common?
Just recently I visited DMS Expo in Stuttgart/Germany which claims to be “Europe’s leading trade fair and conference for enterprise content, output and document management”. It was a large trade
KiWi Software Package Released – Call for KiWi Snow Camp
The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of the semantic collaborative
Marrying ARML with Linked Data
First of all, since ARML (augmented reality markup language) is based on KML and KML uses „Placemarks“ (which all have corresponding identifiers) as basic entities, these could be identified quite
Why SKOS thesauri matter – the next generation of semantic technologies
As a matter of fact still a lot of “semantic technologies” are around which do nothing else than pure statistical analysis of text. Sure, this is better than simple full