Semantic Web News
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7 questions to Kingsley Idehen: "By declaring its context, Linked Data can be made more easily reusable by others" 15.06.2010 Kingsley Idehen is CEO of OpenLink Software and probably one of the most profound experts on integration issues. In business for more than 20 years he has observed the evolution... |
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Lyndon Nixon: "With the hundreds of TV channels available, content selection becomes a significant challenge for users." 07.06.2010 From June 9 - 11, 2010 the EuroITV Conference discusses latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. Tassilo... |
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Open Government Data 19.05.2010 Die Semantic Web Company ist gestaltend bei Gründung und den ersten Schritten der sektorübergreifenden (Verwaltung, Politik, Industrie, Forschung)... |
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Eric A. Franzon: "Semantic Technologies are becoming mainstream." 19.05.2010 Started in 2005 the Semantic Technology Conference has become one of the international community hot spots for the commercial application of and trend scouting in semantic... |
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Adrian Pohl: "We believe the Semantic Web plays an important role for the future of libraries." 27.04.2010 A group of Cologne-based libraries has taken a big step towards open data. In an concerted action they have relased their catalogue data for reuse on the web. Project manager... |
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Sören Auer: "Establishing a network effect around linked data is the most important R&D goal for the near future." 13.04.2010 Leipzig is one of Germany's Semantic Web hotspots. From May 5-6, 2010 the annual Semantic Web Day provides the opportunity to catch up with latest developments especially... |
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Juan Sequeda: "I believe Linked Data will enable new killer apps that are only possible thanks to Linked Data." 12.04.2010 Juan Sequeda, co-chair of the Triplification Challenge 2010 and one of the core figures in the Linked Data movement, gives us his view how the Semantic Web might evolve. His... |
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3.000 € prize money for the most promising Linked Data applications 31.03.2010 Wolters Kluwer Germany and Semantic Universe sponsor Triplification Challenge 2010 |
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Georgi Kobilarov: "I believe that data publishing must happen in a distributed style." 26.03.2010 Uberblic.org connects structured data from the web. The Berlin-based inventor Georgi Kobilarov gives a brief insight into the mashup service and talks about the challenges when... |
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Marco Neumann: "It's definitely an exciting time to be on the Semantic Web!" 25.03.2010 Marco Neumann is an Information Scientist and CEO of KONA a consulting and technology service company based in New York City. The Semantic Web activist is an invited expert to... |
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Christof Peltason: "Enhanced processing of user profiles seems to be a first step towards commercially interesting Linked Data applications." 15.02.2010 The Berlin based IT company Condat has recently started to experiment with Semantic Web and Linked Data in electronic program guides. Artificial Intelligence expert and Condat... |
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Bernhard Haslhofer: "Linked Data is an attempt to continue the well-established information organization tools known in libraries." 04.01.2010 Libraries have long been suspicious about the Semantic Web but latest developments show that Linked Data paves the way for the adoption of Semantic Web standards in the library... |
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Jordan S. Hatcher: "Why we can't use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software." 10.12.2009 Legal certainty is crucial when it comes to build business around new technologies. The Open Knowledge Foundation has started to tackle this problem with respect to Linked Data.... |
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George Anadiotis: "Linked Data brings value by offering an alternative approach to lightweight data integration and mashups." 09.12.2009 Before George Anadiotis took the position as R&D Director at the Greek technology company IMC in February 2009, he worked as a senior researcher in artificial intelligence at... |
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Lyndon Nixon (STI): “Clear guidelines on how to best make use of Linked Open Data by enterprises is needed” 26.11.2009 The European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 will take place in Vienna at the beginning of December 2009. Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) talked with Lyndon Nixon... |
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Graham Moore: "Topic Maps fits in very well with Web 3.0 and Linked Data." 04.11.2009 Graham Moore, CEO of Networked Planet, will be one of the main speakers at this year's TMRA 2009, the 5th International Conference on Topic Maps from November 11 - 13 in... |
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Lutz Maicher: "With the vision of the web of data Topic Maps and the Semantic Web move closer over time." 16.10.2009 Topic Maps have made big leaps towards the web. From November 11 - 13, 2009 this will be one of the big issues at the 5th International Conference on Topic maps taking place in... |
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Werner Bailer: "A picture is worth a thousand words." 07.10.2009 From December 2 - 4, 2009 the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT) will take place in Graz/Austria. Tassilo Pellegrini talked to Werner... |
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Herwig Rollet: "Xohana helps people better articulate what they really want." 21.09.2009 Knowing the intentions of your customers is a crucial asset in rapidly evolving markets. Xohana, a recently launched intentaion platform, uses semantics to help customers better... |
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Corinna Bath: "Every technology is socially and culturally shaped." 28.08.2009 Dr. Corinna Bath, researcher at the Humboldt-University Berlin, investigates into gender-specific issues of the Semantic Web. The central question is how to handle (and... |
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ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data and beyond 28.07.2009 Richard MacManus, Editor in Chief of ReadWriteWeb, cordially allowed us to republish his interview with Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data, Search Engines, User Interfaces for Data,... |
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1st Vienna Semantic Web Meetup 06.07.2009 The 1st Vienna Semantic Web Meetup will take place on July 16, 2009 hosted by the Austrian Press Agency (APA). |
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David Huynh: “The user interface design must inform the back-end design” 13.05.2009 Linked Data is evolving fast. A huge amount of RDF data is available and ready for exciting new applications. Unfortunately, the bottleneck is still the availability of Semantic... |
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Markus Luczak-Rösch: "loomp can help journalists to manage their notes, interview logs, references, addresses, etc." 20.04.2009 Searching for a killer application for the Semantic Web a young research team from FU Berlin developed loomp, a multifacetted annotation tool for various information types,... |
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Online Survey reveals: Semantic Web technology has high corporate relevance 17.04.2009 A recent online survey on experiences with and expectations towards Social Software and the Semantic Web, indicates that Semantic Web technologies are maturing and transcending... |
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Chris Bizer: "Within the corporate market, there is interest in using Linked Data as a lightweight, pay-as-you-go data integration technology." 17.04.2009 So far little awareness exists about the commercial opportunities of linked data. Andreas Blumauer (SWC) talked to Chris Bizer, mastermind behind the DB-Pedia project and... |
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Enterprise Search goes Open Source 19.02.2009 The Open Source Initiative, SMILA "SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture", was mutually launched at the end of 2007 by empolis, the German Research Center for... |
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Interviewing Brian Donnelly: "We solve the problem of letting business users ask questions of their data."¯ 30.01.2009 Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) talked with Brian Donnelly about a new system on the market called "Semantic Discovery System"¯, which helps to do... |
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Adrian Paschke: "Corporate Semantic Web also addresses the pragmatic aspects of using Semantic Web technologies." 26.01.2009 Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) deals with the application of Semantic Web technologies within enterprise settings. Prof. Adrian Paschke, head of the CSW Working Group at the Free... |
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Web Awareness Barometer 2008 - Cordial thanks for participation! 24.01.2009 Will the Semantic Web ever hit the market? What is missing to make it a reality? More than 500 partcipants contributed to our current survey, the Web Awareness Barometer 2008. |
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Book now! Knowledge on semantics for your company. 15.01.2009 Our open workshops on basics and practices in semantic web technologies are free to book in single or combined. |
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DBpedia, UMBEL & the Future Web’s Ecology 12.11.2008 INTERVIEW: The Linked Open Data infrastructure is in a rapid process of maturing - the recent release of UMBEL’s webservice and DBpedia's incorporation of UMBEL classes are... |
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Science Award for Austrian Intelligent Knowledge Management application for e-Government DYONIPOS 07.11.2008 In September 2008, the Austrian research project 'DYONIPOS Use case BMF' won in the category Science Award – Most Innovative E-Government Application which was part of... |
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Bo Hu: "Semantic Web technologies can help save lives." 03.11.2008 Bo Hu is a researcher with a focus on applications of Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies in e-learning and e-healthcare. In this interview, he talks about the potential of... |
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"Towards a personal, decentralised web" 28.10.2008 INTERVIEW: Matthias Samwald and Thomas Schandl talk about their vision and contributions towards a future on the Semantic Web. With backgrounds in neuroscience and business... |
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"The Semantic Web is the path of least resistance" 02.10.2008 WOD-PD keynote speaker Danny Ayers talks about the odds that might prevent the Web from becoming what it should be. As a Semantic Web evangelist and community manager for the... |
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Finding vegetarian music: What B.B. King and the Beastie Boys have in common 03.09.2008 Yves Raimond, a keynote speaker at the Web of Data Practitioners Days, talks about new ways of music retrieval within the web of music-related data. Yves is a researcher at... |
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“A growing data commons from meaningful bits and pieces” 19.08.2008 Richard Cyganiak, a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Galway, talks about the benefits of semantic web indices, data dictionaries and the... |
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Zembly: “Niche applications help solve very specific problems.” 04.08.2008 Ryan Kennedy and Jiri Kopsa from zembly talk about their new 'Wiki for Code' where users can share, clone and modify widgets and applications for Facebook, Meebo,... |
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"All Animals are equal": Gender research - a fruitful inspiration for building semantic technologies? 28.07.2008 Corinna Bath, a researcher and lecturer, is concerned with gender studies in computer science and working on a thesis “Towards a De-Gendered Design of Information Technologies”.... |
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UMBEL: A new fixed star in the global knowledge space! 17.07.2008 EXCLUSIVE: UMBEL, a new vocabulary for the Semantic Web released in July 2008 by Zitgist and parters, servse as a coherent reference structure of subject concept classes for a... |
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TRIPLE-I - Innovations Conference in Graz 11.07.2008 TRIPLE-I, a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-SEMANTICS and I-MEDIA, explores current trends like Enterprise 2.0, SOA, and Web Services. 550 participants from more than... |
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SCOT: Let's share tags! 30.06.2008 Recent changes in the SCOT (Social Semantic Cloud Of Tags) ontology model include several new properties to describe tagging activities and changes in property names. |
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KiWi and more: Semantic Wiki Workshop at ESWC08 16.06.2008 Three members of the KiWi-project team, including SWC's Matthias Samwald on the programme committee, participated in the Semantic Wiki workshop that took place at the... |
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Open Social and the Rules of Social Objects 13.06.2008 "Not another social network!" - Patrick Chanezon explained the rules of social objects and the benefits of OpenSocial at the Google I/O developer gathering which took... |
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LinkedData 2008 Vision Competition - the results are in! 20.05.2008 The Semantic Web Company is a partner of this year's conference in June in New York. Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen, Ian Davis, Anant Jhingran and Atanas Kiryakov... |
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Semantic Web – a 'humanizer' for computer-aided work. 20.05.2008 INTERVIEW: Martin Hochmeister aims to create a new discipline of „human-software architecture“ within the next generation web. The expert talks about future developments in an... |
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"Any open data strategy needs goals, but also policies and governance structures for information sharing" 05.05.2008 INTERVIEW: Ken North, member of the LinkedData Planet conference faculty, believes EU privacy laws can be thought leading on ethical issues related to publishing open data. |
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"The web must be a web, not a series of isolated data islands" 28.04.2008 INTERVIEW: Tom Heath from Talis and an active member of the Linked Data Community discusses the growth and future of the Web of Data with SWC's Andreas Blumauer. |
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The Semantic Web – none of Public Relations' business? 14.04.2008 INTERVIEW: In order to get the PR industry on the Semantic Web bandwagon, says Markus Pirchner, one needs to squeeze the fuzziness of relationships into an ontology. Marion... |
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Triplify 0.3 released 09.04.2008 A new version of AKSW's web application plugin Triplify, which exposes structured data from relational databases, was released in early April, 2008. Triplify 0.3 features... |
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Graham Moore: "Context is King!" 10.03.2008 From April 2 - 4, 2008 the Topic Maps 2008 conference will take place in Oslo, Norway taking a look at current developments and future prospects. Tassilo Pellegrini (SWC) talked... |
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TopQuadrant Delivers SPARQLMotion™: First Visual Scripting Language for the Semantic Web 04.03.2008 The latest release by TopQuadrant allows non-programmers to create semantic web applications. Now end users can integrate data sources and create information mash-ups themselves. |
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SWC forms partnership with Know-Center Graz 28.02.2008 Strategic partnership is aimed at the implementation of recent knowledge management and semantic technologies in the industry. |
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Arno Scharl: "Geographic platforms drive mash-ups and user-generated content" 26.02.2008 Arno Scharl heads the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. Andreas Blumauer (SWC) talked to him about the Geospatial Web, the US Election Monitor and... |
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TRIPLE-I 2008: Call for Papers 12.02.2008 From September 3 - 5, 2008 TRIPLE-I 2008 will take place in Graz. TRIPLE-I is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS covering the topics Knowledge... |
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Werner Buhre: "The Social Web should be like a knowledge net, not like a spy net" 07.02.2008 Werner Buhre is Communications Manager at Austria´s largest Telco. He is well renowned as one of the Web 2.0 forethinkers in his community. Andreas Blumauer talked with him... |
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New W3C Standard for opening up data on the Semantic Web 16.01.2008 W3C announced today the publication of SPARQL, the key standard for opening up data on the Semantic Web. With SPARQL query technology, pronounced "sparkle," people can... |
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Matthias Samwald: "We need to achieve some basic ethics of creating Semantic Web content… Life science communities might be able to pave the way…" 11.01.2008 On the occasion of Matthias Samwald´s new engagement for the Semantic Web Company Marion Fugléwicz-Bren (SWC) talked with the biomedical research expert about some important key... |
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Sören Auer: "Cofundos is based on the vision that the whole is more than the sum of its parts." 07.01.2008 Despite of impressive efforts and innovativeness of the open source community little attention has so far been paid to alternative financing models of software development.... |
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Roy Lachica: "Topic Maps is very applicable in collaborative solutions because they resemble the way users think." 02.10.2007 In the craze of Web 2.0 Topic Maps gain momentum as an integration tool for collaboration and community management. Roy Lachica, founder of Hyposoft and provider of the social... |
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Jeen Broekstra: "The importance of SPARQL can not be overestimated" 19.09.2007 Jeen Broekstra is one of the lead designers of the Sesame RDF framework. Sesame is an open source RDF database with support for RDF Schema inferencing and querying and will... |
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Peter Mika: "Social tagging and ontologies will co-exist" 19.09.2007 Peter Mika is one of the most remarkable scientists in the field of the Semantic Web: He has not only won the "Best Paper Award" at the 4th International Semantic Web... |
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José Esteban: “Semantic technologies help preventing and mitigating environmental risks.” 19.09.2007 The prevention of environmental risks and mitigation of desasters is a major public policy issue in the European Union. The project ORCHESTRA aims to design and implement an... |
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Bob DuCharme: "People learn that data is more valuable than applications or hardware." 22.08.2007 From June 17 - 18, 2008 international experts will gather at the Linked Data Planet conference in New York to discuss latest trends and future prospects in the commercialization... |
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Dave McComb : What will it take to build the Semantic Technology industry? 02.05.2007 Dave McComb, CEO of asemantics and co-chair of this year's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose / USA, does not believe in killer applications when it comes to... |
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Nova Spivack : "Web 3.0 will combine the Semantic Web with social media, enabling a new generation of richer, more shareable, mashable content." 02.05.2007 Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks and inventor of the term Web 3.0, gives a micro-interview to Tassilo Pellegrini on the logic of versioning the internet, popularizing the... |