Linked Open Data Triplification Challenge: Nominees are up, voting tool is online

The nominees for the LOD Triplification Challenge are up! The challenge was organized as part of the preparations for the I-SEMANTICS 2008 conference and asked for submissions in the form of applications of Linked Open Data tools, RDF and Linked Data exporters, adoptions of configurations of Triplify for standard web applications, portings of the triplify script into other languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, ASP) and for applications showcasing the benefits of Linked Data to end-users.

Triplify itself is a small web application plugin – its crucial parts consisting of roughly 200 lines of code – currently only implemented in PHP. It is based on the definition of relational database queries for a specific web application in order to retrieve valuable information and to convert the results of these queries into RDF, JSON and Linked Data. More information about Triplify can be found here.

On to the nominees: Eight of the submissions were nominated and can now be voted on using the poll widget on the nominations page. The nominees are:

1. Automatic Generation of a Content Management System from an OWL ontology and RDF import and export by Alastair Burt, Brigitte Jörg.
   URL: www.lt-world.org/triplify
2. Integrating Triplify into the Django web application framework and discover some math by Martin Czygan.
   URL: pcai042.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:9103
3. Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens.
   URL: www.linkedmdb.org
4. Interlinking Multimedia Data by Michael Hausenblas, Wolfgang Halb.
   URL: sw.joanneum.at/CaMiCatzee
5. Showcases of light-weight RDF syndication in Joomla! by Danh Le Phuoc, Nur Aini Rakhmawati.
   URL: swm.deri.org/jsyndication
6. Semantic Web Pipes Demo by Danh Le Phuoc.
   URL: pipes.deri.org
7. DBTune by Yves Raimond.
   URL: dbtune.org
8. Triplification of the Open-Source Online Shop System osCommerce by Elias Theodorou.
   URL: triplify.org/vocabulary/oscommerce

Detailed information can be found in PDF outlines on the nomination page – and don’t forget to vote! The final decision about the winners of the challenge will be made by the organizing committee.

The prizes will be awarded at I-SEMANTICS 2008, 3–5 September 2008, Graz, Austria, which is part of TRIPLE-I, a joint venture of three conferences (I-SEMANTICS, I-KNOW, I-MEDIA).

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