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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
Tim Berners-Lee: “We need data on the Web to work better together”
Today, the 18th WWW conference started in Madrid, Spain. In his opening talk, Tim Berners-Lee outlined the status quo of the current Web and focused on areas for ongoing research.
Tim Berners-Lee: "We need data on the Web to work better together"
Today, the 18th WWW conference started in Madrid, Spain. In his opening talk, Tim Berners-Lee outlined the status quo of the current Web and focused on areas for ongoing research.
Last Call for OWL 2
OWL 2 is in the final stages of becoming a W3C recommendation – as announced today. This means that the revision 2 of the Web Ontology Language should basically be
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
loomp supports structured annotation in corporate settings
Markus Luczak-Rösch and his team from FU Berlin have published loomp, a WYSIWYG annotation tool especially designed for inhouse use. loomp is aiming at the Corporate Semantic Web market, providing
Chris Bizer talks about the commercial opportunities of linked data
In a recent interview Prof. Chris Bizer from FU Berlin gave some insights into the commercial opportunities of linked data. In the short run he predicts three application areas: I
Now available: Results of the Semantic Web Awareness Barometer 2009
Between November 1, 2008 and January 22, 2009 the Semantic Web Company in cooperation with the Know Center Graz and the Corporate Semantic Web Working Group of Freie Universität Berlin
BBC Music relaunch: Linked Data goes Business?
Since SWC is involved in a couple of semantic web projects in the media industry, I was watching for the BBC Music relaunch. Now the new platform is online –