I gave a short talk at yesterday´s “Open Governemt Data BusinessDay” in Vienna. I was talking about “Open Data for Enterprises” pointing out the different needs enterprises have than typical “app-makers”. Open data is obviously socio-politically relevant and helps to reduce administrative costs. It is kind of an infrastructure which is „invisible“ for the business … Continue reading
And here is a short overview over my talk I will give this June in San Francisco at this year´s SemTechBiz: Knowledge organization systems like taxonomies or thesauri can benefit from linked data approaches and vice versa. In recent years SKOS became very popular in various industries due to its simplicity, not only for information … Continue reading
It was my pleasure to contribute to “Linked Open Data: The Essentials – a quick start guide for decision makers” which has been published recently by Semantic Web Company and REEEP. Here is an excerpt of my article, please find a link to download the publication in full as PDF at the bottom of this … Continue reading
In recent years, we have constantly discussed the application of thesauri and other knowledge models to improve search. Many people understand that thesaurus based search is in many cases better than search algorithms purely based on statistics. Of course the big contra always was, “the costs are too high to establish a good-enough thesaurus or … Continue reading