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The Power of Linked Data
Just recently European Commission has published a comprehensive case study on how Linked Data is transforming eGovernment. One of the three “Further readings” which are mentioned in this publication is “Linked Open Data: The Essentials” in which I wrote an article about “The Power of Linked Data - Understanding World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) vision of a new … Continue reading
Big Data for NPOs & NGOs – linked, not stirred!
NPOs and NGOs are acting more-and-more as open data providers for various stakeholders like citizens, enterprises and communities. Linked open data becomes a key concept to meet several demands of information professionals, for instance interoperability and accessibility of data, multilinguality and harmonisation of metadata. The open data value chain is about to change from a … Continue reading
Open Data for Enterprises
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
The Power of Linked Open Data
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
Open Data for Enterprises? – My short review of OKCon 2011, Berlin
I went to Berlin last week to attend Open Knowledge Conference 2011 (OKCon). The event was nice – I met great people and “Kalkscheune” is a location which is typical for new media events nowadays: It´s a place where “old industry” took place in former days, “conquered” by digital citizens today. But OKCon is not … Continue reading
Open Data Thesaurus
I’m happy to announce the start of the first “Open Data Thesaurus“. The Open Data Thesaurus is a collection of key concepts and entities, their definitions and semantic links. Following the principle of “eat your own dog food” this thesaurus is available in machine-readable form based on open W3C standards and under a Creative Commons … Continue reading
I-Semantics, September 2010, Graz/Austria
Call for Papers I-Semantics 2010: 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 1 – 3 September 2010 http://www.i-semantics.at Call for Submission 3rd Triplification Challenge Scope I-SEMANTICS 2010 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 6th conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and provides a forum for academic and industrial research & development that focuses on semantic technologies and the … Continue reading
Why the term “Linking Open Data” might be misleading
A lot of activities around Linking Open Data (“LOD”) and the associated data sets which are nicely visualised as a “cloud” are going on for quite a while now. It is exciting to see how the rather academic “Semantic Web” and all the work which is associated with this disruptive technology can be transformed now … Continue reading
Linked Data for Enterprises – a one way scenario?
Since the Linked Data paradigm is attracting a lot of attention – also in a lot of different industries which aren´t used to internet driven business processes, I am wondering, which are the best cases for them to build parts of their information management strategy on top of the “Web of Data”. It´s quite obvious … Continue reading
It´s a web of data, stupid!
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- The LOD cloud is dead, long live the trusted LOD cloudThe ongoing debate around the question whether ‘there is money in linked data or not’ has now been formulated more poignantly by Prateek Jain (one of the authors of the original article) recently: He is asking, ‘why linked open data hasn’t been used … Continue reading →
- There’s Money in Linked DataI believe that the ongoing debate whether there ‘is money in linked (open) data or not’ is a bit misleading. ‘Linked (open) data’ is not only the data itself. It’s much more, even more than yet another technology stack. Linked … Continue reading →
- Free Webinar: Linked Data for the Environmental Sector – Use Cases and OpportunitiesOrganizations working in the environmental sector most often act as intermediates between politics, economy and citizens. They are growing out of their role as plain content providers. To service the demands of their stakeholders they have to act also as … Continue reading →
- 17 Video Tutorials are available now: Learn how to use PoolParty – step by step!Learn how to make use of PoolParty, step by step! Each video is about a specific feature or functionality of PoolParty Thesaurus Server or PoolParty Extractor. By walking through all the modules you learn how to use PoolParty for your … Continue reading →
- Linked (Open) Data has reached the European Publishing Industry – but is it the ‘Real Linked Data’ – a short review on the Publishers’ Forum 2013Invited by Helmut von Berg, Director at Klopotek & Partner (Klopotek is THE European vendor for publishing production software) I had the chance to participate and speak at this years Publishers’ Forum 2013 at the Concorde Hotel in Berlin on 22nd … Continue reading →
- PoolParty: SKOS is the basis for Enterprise Knowledge GraphsIn its core, PoolParty is built upon SKOS, W3C’s standard to define controlled vocabularies like taxonomies or thesauri. However, the latest release 3.2.2 of the well known Thesaurus Software offers a highly flexible RDF schema editor to introduce either widely … Continue reading →
