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Open Government Data around the World
My colleague Thomas Thurner has put some Open Government Data initiatives on a map to get an overview what is happening around the world in this area. If you have
LOD2 Kick Off Meeting in Leipzig
From September 6 – 8, 2010 we kicked off the LOD2 project in Leipzig / Germany. LOD2 is funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement
The review in a car
Imagine the following: A car full of Semantic Web Experts is on it’s way back from Graz. They hand around an iPhone to record some first impressions about the just
Winners of Triplification Challenge 2010
On Friday, September 3, 2010 the winners and honorary mentions of the 3rd Triplification Challenge have been awarded at the I-SEMANTICS conference in Graz. This year’s challenge consisted of an
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
The Semantic Web journal – half a year later
The journal “Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability” – in short: the Semantic Web journal – was launched 7 months ago, sporting a transparent open review process. Pascal Hitzler is
What if the biggest web company bought one of the central semantic web players?
Well, exactly this happened yesterday: Google bought Metaweb – provider of Freebase. Freebase is an important hub in the linked data cloud providing 12 million entities with uniform resource identifiers
I-Semantics 2010: Relevance of semantic technologies for industry increases fast
I-Semantics will take place for the 6th time this year in September and it will be co-located again with I-Know in Graz/Austria. This year´s programme shows that Semantic Web and
Report on developments at the European Semantic Technology Market
The present state of development, future trends and expected market scenarios for Semantic Technologies are shown in the just published “Demand driven Mapping Report”. The report is part of the
Vienna 01.07.2010 – Panel discussion on the Future Internet
Within the last year the SWC’s team run the project called “ZukunftsWeb” (Future Internet). After ten month of in-deep discussion, expert panels, webinars and the becoming of a book on