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Semantic Web Meetup Vienna is alive!
Over the past few months we have seen an impressive increase in Semantic Web Meetups all over the world. More and more afficionados enjoy this informal and decentralized way of
KiWi flys again!
During the closing session of ESWC 2009 which was held in Crete, KiWi was awarded as Best Demo of the Year amongst 23 other participants. See the showcase here and
One more week of SIOC wishes
The SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) team recently solicited feedback about what the semantic web community wants or needs in regards to the SIOC ontology and project. This brainstorming phase is
Triplification Challenge 2009 – Call for Participation
The yearly organized Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge awards prizes to the most promising triplifications of existing Web applications, Websites and data sets. Chaired by Michael Hausenblas (DERI) and patroned by Tim Berners-Lee the challenge is open to anyone
Using Triplify to expose the semantics of a site
Recently the SWC took a thorough look at Triplify, a tool for mapping the contents of a relational DB to RDF, in the course of which we could convince ourselves
AI Mashup Challenge 2009
The Annual (German) AI Conference goes semantic: In 2009 there’s an “Ontologies & Semantic Web” track, Franz Baader and Frank van Harmelen are invited speakers, and there’s a tutorial on
I-Semantics 2009 — Call for Papers
From September 2 – 4, 2009 the 5th edition of I-SEMANTICS, the International Conference on Semantic Systems, will take place in Graz / Austria. I-SEMANTICS 2009 will be the host
Web Awareness Barometer – please participate!
This year, which is already beginning to draw to a close, has seen many exciting developments on the Semantic Web, in particular in the area of Linked Data. But, as
Congratulations to the Winners of the Triplification Challenge!
Sören Auer just announced the winners of the LOD Triplification Challenge at TRIPLE-I: Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens (MacBook Air or € 1.000 ) DBTune by
Boards.ie SIOC Semantic Data Competition starts September 1st
Ireland’s largest online community boards.ie is offering a massive amount of data for download. It contains all the data from 10 years of discussions with topics ranging from banter through