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Introducing the Linked Data Business Cube
With the increasing availability of semantic data on the World Wide Web and its reutilization for commercial purposes, questions arise about the economic value of interlinked data and business models that can be built on top of it. The Linked Data Busi …
SEMANTiCS – the emergence of a European Marketplace for the Semantic Web
SEMANTiCS conference celebrated its 10th anniversary this September in Leipzig. And this year’s venue has been capable of opening a new age for the Semantic Web in Europe – a marketplace for the next generation of semantic technologies was born. As Phi …
From Taxonomies over Ontologies to Knowledge Graphs
With the rise of linked data and the semantic web, concepts and terms like ‘ontology’, ‘vocabulary’, ‘thesaurus’ or ‘taxonomy’ are being picked up frequently by information managers, search engine specialists or data engineers to describe ‘knowledge mo …
Energy Buildings Performance Scenarios as Linked Open Data
The reduction of green house gas emissions is one of the big global challenges for the next decades. (Linked) Open Data on this multi-domain challenge is key for addressing the issues in policy, construction, energy efficiency, production a like. Today …
Linked Data in the Content Value Chain or Why Dynamic Semantic Publishing makes sense …
In 2012 Jem Rayfield released an insightful post about the BBC’s Linked Data strategy during the Olympic Games 2012. In this post he coined the term “Dynamic Semantic Publishing”, referring to “the technology strategy the BBC Future Media department is …
Linked Data at the BBC: Connecting Content around the Things that matter to Audiences
This year SEMANTiCS conference presents some brilliant speakers. As there is Sofia Angeletou with her keynote on the 2nd generation Linked Data Strategy at the BBC. Quote: “The vision of semantic publishing in the BBC has shifted from supporting high p …
American Physical Society Taxonomy – Case Study
Joseph A Busch Taxonomy Strategies has been working with the American Physical Society (APS) to develop a new faceted classification scheme. The proposed scheme includes several discrete sets of categories called facets whose values can be combined to …
Why SKOS should be a focal point of your linked data strategy
The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) has become one of the ‘sweet spots’ in the linked data ecosystem in recent years. Especially when semantic web technologies are being adapted for the requirements of enterprises or public administration, …
SEMANTiCS 2014: Call for Industry Presentations
SEMANTiCS 2014 will take place in Leipzig (Germany) this year from September 4-5. The International Conference on Semantic Systems will be co-located with several workshops and other meetings, e.g. the 2nd DBpedia community meeting. SEMANTiCS conferenc …
Online checker for SKOS vocabularies now available
Create better SKOS vocabularies PoolParty team likes to announce the availability of the new online vocabulary quality checker for SKOS vocabularies. It finds over 20 kinds of potential quality problems in controlled vocabularies that are expressed usi …