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Linked Data and SKOS. Connecting the dots.
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
Do Controlled Vocabularies Matter?
The results of our survey about controlled vocabularies are published on Issuu. The most interesting part of the results for me in a few words: In August 2009 the W3C consortium announced the new SKOS standard – developed by the SWDWG – for bridging between the world of knowledge organization systems and the linked data … Continue reading
SKOS Thesaurus Management & Linked Data: Join the upcoming PoolParty Demo Session
The new PoolParty Release 2.8 is available now and offers many new features and improvements: Import and export subtrees and concept schemes Create sub-properties for relations Add notes to concepts (Change/Editorial/History notes) To get an overview on all changes made in Release 2.8 you can read the Release Notes. The brand-new Quick Start Guide to … Continue reading
Using SKOS as an interface to the Linked Data Cloud
PoolParty 2.7 offers new and comfortable ways to enrich any SKOS thesaurus with additional facts from the semantic web (see: LOD cloud). This functionality (which was extended significantly with version 2.7 in June 2010) supports any thesaurus manager to generate much richer knowledge models (ontologies) around specific domains than ever before (without facing high extra … Continue reading
Semantic Puzzle
- Re-vamped PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer has been releasedPoolParty team has released a brandnew version of its knowledge discoverer to showcase the power of knowledge models in combination with linked data and text mining. First of all: PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer is more about collecting context information about documents … Continue reading →
- Has Google hi-jacked the Semantic Web?Just recently Google has launched the ‘Knowledge Graph‘ (GKG) which “understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings.” Has Google hi-jacked the idea of the ‘Semantic Web’ or at least its vocabulary? Sean Golliher has compared … Continue reading →
- PoolParty PowerTagging – bringing semantics to enterprisesPoolParty PowerTagging (PPP) is on its way: By extending Confluence´s label management, new application scenarios which make use of content recommendation and semantic indexing will be supported soon. PPP will be published at this year´s Atlassian Summit and at SemTechBiz … Continue reading →
- Exploiting Big Data: Linked Data and SKOSYesterday I gave a webinar covering the question which role SKOS plays in the linked data game. Just the day before I discovered an interesting white paper published by Fujitsu which clearly states that linked data and SKOS are excellent … Continue reading →
- reegle.info – linked (open) energy data cloudAccess to the latest high quality information on renewables, energy efficiency and climate change is fundamental to the acceleration of the clean energy marketplace, facilitating investments, promoting new legislation and regulations and broadening interest and knowledge in the sector. reegle.info … Continue reading →
- LOD2 Plenary Vienna (March 2012) – 3rd day – afternoon sessionPromising title. After two and a half day (well for almost all of us) we entered the final phase of the plenary. So two and a half days of intense and interesting discussions catching up with all that has been … Continue reading →
