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The 'riese' awakes: We are happy being able to announce the alpha release of riese (RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort): http://riese.joanneum.at/ To the best of our knowledge this is the first approach deploying linked data with XHTML+RDFa. With 'riese' we aim at serving both humans (with a nice GUI) and machines (with RDF-based metadata) from a single source. Although we currently only serve some 5 million RDF triples, the goal is to have the entire Eurostat dataset (3 billion triples) online, along with millions of high-quality interlinks. The interlinking in 'riese' is hybrid: On the one hand we use standard template-based interlinking for, e.g. geonames interlinking, on the other hand we offer an interface to add semantic links in a Wiki manner, called User Contributed Interlinking (UCI). Regarding Semantic Web technologies, the following is an excerpt of what has been used to build 'riese': + linked data [1] + XHTML+RDFa [2] + SKOS [3] + SW crawling sitemap extension [4] Enjoy 'riese' and please contact us for feature requests or bug reports at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The riese-team, Wolfgang, Yves & Michael PS: In case you wonder what 'riese' means: it's a pun - 'riese' is the German word for giant ;) [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenD ata [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ [4] http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hausenblas, MSc. Institute of Information Systems & Information Management JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Steyrergasse 17, A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA <office> phone: +43-316-876-1193 (fax:-1191) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.joanneum.at/iis/ <private> mobile: +43-660-7621761 web: http://www.sw-app.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------
