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The hype, the hope and the LOD2: Sören Auer engaged in the next generation LOD
The paneuropean Project LOD2 is one of the biggest projects dealing with linked data. Scientists, programmers and software architects in various european countries are working on the next generation of
Linked data based thesaurus management in collaborative settings
The creation and management of controlled vocabularies in companies often takes place in a distributed manner. Different departments in different branch offices often rather create their own vocabularies, than have
Florian Bauer: I like to view “linked data” as a “single worldwide API”
Florian Bauer is REEEP’s Operations and IT Director, responsible for the overall operational management of the organisation, the product management of reegle (the search engine for renewable energy and energy
Hjalmar Gislason: “What I call the emerging field of Data Market.”
Open Government Data, and Open Data provided by the corporate sector, stimulate an upcoming market segment: Commercial Open Data Services. The islandic StartUp datamarket.com is on of the emerging companies
Hjalmar Gislason: "What I call the emerging field of Data Market."
Open Government Data, and Open Data provided by the corporate sector, stimulate an upcoming market segment: Commercial Open Data Services. The islandic StartUp datamarket.com is on of the emerging companies
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
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)