DBpedia 3.8 released, including enlarged Ontology and additional localized Versions

://lod2.eu/, improvements to the extraction framework) and LATC - LOD Around the Clock (http://latc-project.eu/, creation of external RDF links). More information about DBpedia is found at http://dbpedia.org/About Have fun with the new DBpedia release! Cheers, Chris Bizer

Open Positions: 1 Postdoc Researcher and 2 PhD Students at Web-based Systems Group / University of Mannheim

Hi all, I'm looking for a postdoc researcher and two PhD students to join the Web-based Systems Group at the University of Mannheim. Please find the job postings below as well as at http://wifo5.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/de/lehrstuhl/offene-stellen The Web-based Systems Group is part of the new

Re: ANN: WebDataCommons.org - Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites

useful service to the community in addition to >> criticizing other people's work. > > Criticizing other people's work is the daily business of scientific advancement and > while maybe unpleasant to the recipient indeed a useful service to the community. > But I think

Re: ANN: WebDataCommons.org - Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites

ting data. This would be a really useful service to the community in addition to criticizing other people's work. Cheers, Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martin Hepp [mailto:martin.h...@unibw.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2012 15:26 An: public-voc...@w3.org Vocabu

ANN: WebDataCommons.org - Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites

Hi all, we are happy to announce WebDataCommons.org, a joined project of Freie Universität Berlin and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to extract all Microformat, Microdata and RDFa data from the Common Crawl web corpus, the largest and most up-to-data web corpus that is currently availabl

ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework Version 0.4 Scale-Out released.

Hi all, the Web-based Systems Group and our industry partner mes |semantics are happy to announce the release of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework Version 0.4 Scale-Out. LDIF can be used within Linked Data applications to translate heterogeneous data from the Web of Linked Data i

2nd CFP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012) Workshop at WWW2012

= Call for Papers: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012) Workshop at WWW2012 http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/ = 16 April, 2012 Lyon, France = Obj

2nd CfP: Semantic Web Challenge 2011 (Open Track and Billion Triples Track)

Hi all, there are less than 2 months left until the submission deadline of the Semantic Web Challenge 2011 and we thus recirculate the Call for Participation. The Semantic Web Challenge is the premier event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic We

Re: ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released.

standards, but just decided that for complex mappings that require structural transformations and value transformation functions we prefer a graph pattern based syntax. Best, Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Ruben Verborgh [mailto:ruben.verbo...@ugent.be] Gesendet: Freitag, 1. Juli 2

Re: ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released.

t RDF sources, does not use common vocabularies to express well-known relationships. Cheers, Ruben [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/cwm.html [2] http://eulersharp.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/CwmBuiltins [4] http://eulersharp.sourceforge.net/2003/03swap/dtb-2010.txt

Re: ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released.

Nachricht- Von: Ruben Verborgh [mailto:ruben.verbo...@ugent.be] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011 10:04 An: Chris Bizer Cc: 'public-lod'; 'Semantic Web'; semantic...@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released. Hi Chris, I've

ANN: LDIF - Linked Data Integration Framework V0.1 released.

Hi all, we are happy to announce the initial release of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework today. LDIF is a software component for building Linked Data applications which translates heterogeneous Linked Data from the Web into a clean, local target representation while keeping tr

Re: Semantic Web Challenge 2011 CfP and Billion Triple Challenge 2011 Data Set published.

Giovanni Tummarello Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Juni 2011 13:35 An: Chris Bizer Cc: Semantic Web; public-lod; semantic...@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: Semantic Web Challenge 2011 CfP and Billion Triple Challenge 2011 Data Set published. This year, the Billion Triple Challenge data set consists of 2

Semantic Web Challenge 2011 CfP and Billion Triple Challenge 2011 Data Set published.

Hi all, we are happy to announce that the Billion Triples Challenge 2011 Data Set has been published yesterday. We thus circulate the Call for Participation for the 9th Semantic Web Challenge 2011 again. This year, the Billion Triple Challenge data set consists of 2 billion triples. T

ANN: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark Version 3 and Benchmarking Results

dge out of Linked Data project (http://lod2.eu/). More information about the Berlin SPARQL Benchmark is found at http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/BerlinSPARQLBenchmark/ Cheers, Andreas Schultz and Chris Bizer -- Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer Web-based Systems Group Freie U

ANN: New book about Linked Data published

Hi all, Tom Heath and I have been working on a book about Linked Data over the last months. We are very happy to announce today that the PDF version of the book is available from Morgan & Claypool Publishers. The book gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of

AW: ANN: DBpedia 3.6 released

richt- > Von: public-lod-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-requ...@w3.org] Im > Auftrag von Antoine Zimmermann > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 16:49 > An: Chris Bizer > Cc: dbpedia-announceme...@lists.sourceforge.net; dbpedia- > discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net; 'Semanti

2nd CfP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2011) Workshop at WWW2011

is now available at: <http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2011/> http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2011/ Please find below the CfP and we are looking forward to see you at LDOW2011! Cheers, Chris Bizer Tom Heath Tim Berners-Lee Michael Haus

ANN: DBpedia 3.6 released

ves that change and improve the way we live, learn, do business (http://www.vulcan.com/). More information about DBpedia is found at http://dbpedia.org/About Have fun with the new dataset! The whole DBpedia team also congratulates Wikipedia to its 10th Birthday which was this weekend! C

Re: Quality Criteria for Linked Data sources

Dear Annika, great work and a really nice fusion of the classic data quality criteria that one finds in the literature from databases with Linked Data specific aspects. Three comments: 1. Your criteria seam to focus mainly on the publication of instance data and do not say too much about the s

Re: Schema Mappings (was Re: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices)

Hi Leigh and Enrico, > Hi, > > On 22 October 2010 09:35, Chris Bizer wrote: >>> Anja has pointed to a wealth of openly >>> available numbers (no pun intended), that have not been discussed at all. >> For >>> example, only 7.5% of the data source provid

Re: Low Quality Data (was before Re: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices)

Hi Juan, Martin and all, Can somebody point me to papers or maybe give their definition of low quality data when it comes to LOD. What is the criteria for data to be considered low quality. An overview about the literature on data quality can be found in my PhD, including the differe

AW: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices

Hi Martin, > The fact that there is obviously a lot of low quality data on the > current Web should not encourage us to publish masses of low-quality > data and then celebrate ourselves for having achieved a lot. The > current Web tolerates buggy markup, broken links, and questionable > content of

AW: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices

least would find that an > interesting topic. Same with me. Shanghai was also the reason for the timing of the post. Cheers, Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: semantic-web-requ...@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web- > requ...@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Denny Vrandecic > Ges

AW: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices

ale way better. Thus: Could please somebody start a crawler and build such a catalog? As long as nobody does this, I will keep on using CKAN. Cheers, Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: semantic-web-requ...@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web- > requ...@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Kingsl

Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC2010 (Submission deadline reminder)

most exciting events at ISWC. Best regards, Diana Maynard and Chris Bizer -- Call for Participation for the 8th Semantic Web Challenge at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2010 Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010

New LOD ESW wikipage about Data Licensing

Hi all, as the Web of Linked Data is moving towards more serious applications, putting published data under a proper license is becoming more and more important. If no license is specified, people cannot use published data within any serious applications. Thus, I have stated a new LOD ESW wiki pa

AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

gents on the World Wide Web, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2008.02.005 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Alan Ruttenberg [mailto:alanruttenb...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Samstag, 4. September 2010 22:20 An: Chris Bizer Cc: Anja Jentzsch; public-lod@w

AW: AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

on Tim Finin Gesendet: Samstag, 4. September 2010 22:19 An: public-lod@w3.org Betreff: Re: AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included. On 9/4/10 4:01 PM, Chris Bizer wrote: > But I guess there are also limits to the meta-data that people c

AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

Hi Dan, > > This is great! Glad to see this being updated :) > > One thing I would love in the next revision is for FOAF to also be > presented as a vocabulary, rather than as if it were itself a distinct > dataset. While there are databases that expose as FOAF (LiveJournal > etc.), and also a re

AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

Im Auftrag von Alan Ruttenberg Gesendet: Samstag, 4. September 2010 18:47 An: Anja Jentzsch Cc: public-lod@w3.org; Leigh Dodds; Chris Bizer; Jonathan Gray Betreff: Re: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Anja Je

AW: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

Hi Leigh, In theory, the list is automatically updated with data from CKAN. But as the CKAN server is overloaded today, the list is currently corrupted and only shows a fraction of the datasets. We hope that the issue is solved in the next hours! Cheers, Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht

Re: New LOD Cloud Updates

ugh color for this when drawing the cloud. Otherwise or if they are not used, we will merge categories again . Cheers, Chris Von: Kingsley Idehen [mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 3. September 2010 14:06 An: Chris Bizer Cc: bio2...@googlegroups.com; public-lod@w3.

Re: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

Hi Ted, > But please ... this time, will there be any effort to make visible > the clustering within the LOD Cloud? This seems to me one of the > best ways to encourage data set publishers to link out -- and that > *is* important to grow the utility of the *overall* data set. Hmm yes, maybe we s

AW: New LOD Cloud Updates

Hi Egon, > How are data sets divided over the various categories? We are tagging the datasets with the following tags on CKAN in order to assign them the categories: * media * geographic * lifesciences * publications * government * usergeneratedcon

2nd CfP: Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2010

Dear all, this is a reminder that the submission deadline for the Semantic Web Challenge 2010 is slowly approaching. The submission deadline is October 1st, 2010, 12 a.m. (midnight) CET The Semantic Web Challenge 2010 is collocated with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) in

Open Position: Semantic Web Developer (JAVA, PHP, JS, 6 months fulltime in Berlin, m/f)

Hi all, The MediaEvent Services GmbH, one of our spin-offs, is looking for a Semantic Web Developer (m/f) in Berlin for a joint project with the Web-based Systems Group at Freie Unviersität Berlin and ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe, within the scope of Vulcan Inc.'s Project Halo. The SMW-LDE project e

ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework Version 2.0 released.

://www.vulcan.com/) which enabled us to do this work by sponsoring Silk as part of its Project Halo (www.projecthalo.com). Happy linking, Chris Bizer, Robert Isele and Anja Jentzsch -- Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer Web-based Systems Group Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 55509 http://www.bizer.de

Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2010 - Call for Participation

Dear all, we are happy to announce the Semantic Web Challenge 2010! The Semantic Web Challenge 2010 is collocated with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) in Shanghai, China. As last year, the challenge consists of two tacks: The Open Track and the Billion Triples Track, whic

Please report bugs to be fixed for the DBpedia 3.5.1 release

Hi all, > Great stuff, this is also why we are going to leave the current DBpedia > 3.5 instance to stew for a while (until end of this week or a little later). > > DBpedia users: > Now is the time to identify problems with the DBpedia 3.5 dataset dumps. > We don't want to continue reloading DBpe

ANN: DBpedia 3.5 released

delivers an unrivaled platform for Data Access, Integration and Management. More information about DBpedia is found at http://dbpedia.org/About Have fun with the new DBpedia knowledge base! Cheers, Chris Bizer -- Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer Web-based Systems Group Freie Universität Berlin +49

OPEN POSITION: Move to Berlin, work on DBpedia (1 year full-time contract)

, chances are high that you will be able to choose between longer-term positions at Freie Universität Berlin and at neofonie GmbH. Please contact Chris Bizer via email (ch...@bizer.de) until 15 April 2010 for additional details and include information about your skills and experience. The whole

Invitation to contribute to DBpedia by improving the infobox mappings + New Scala-based Extraction Framework

Hi all, in order to extract high quality data from Wikipedia, the DBpedia extraction framework relies on infobox to ontology mappings which define how Wikipedia infobox templates are mapped to classes of the DBpedia ontology. Up to now, these mappings were defined only by the DBpedia team and as

CfP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) Workshop at WWW2010

far and what will be the most important topics for the year to come. The LDOW2010 website is found at http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/ The Call for Papers is found below. We are looking forward to see you in Raleigh. Cheers, Chris Bizer Tom Heath Tim Berners-Lee Michael

Re: RDF Update Feeds + URI time travel on HTTP-level

Hi Michael, Georgi and all, just to complete the list of proposals, here another one from Herbert Van de Sompel from the Open Archives Initiative. Memento: Time Travel for the Web http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112 The idea of Memento is to use HTTP content negotiation in the datetime dimension. By

ANN: DBpedia 3.4 released

Have fun with the new data set! Cheers Chris Bizer -- Chris Bizer Web-based Systems Group Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 55509 http://www.bizer.de ch...@bizer.de

AW: Linked Data Gathering at ISWC2009?

Hi Juan, Tom and I have been overly busy with writing EC grants over the last weeks, so the ISWC linked data gathering somehow slipped though. It would be great if you and Olaf would organize the gathering. The poster session on Tuesday goes until late and there will be a lot of Linked Data rela

Semantic Web Challenge 2009: Submission deadline approaching!

://challenge.semanticweb.org/ If you have any questions concerning the challenge, please let us know. We are looking forward to your submissions and to showcase the current state-of-the-art in Semantic Web applications through the Semantic Web Challenge! Kind regards, Peter Mika and Chris Bizer

AW: [Dbpedia-discussion] Fwd: Your message to Dbpedia-discussion awaits moderator approval

> von Kingsley Idehen > Gesendet: Montag, 10. August 2009 23:29 > An: Kavitha Srinivas > Cc: Tim Finin; Anja Jentzsch; public-lod@w3.org; dbpedia- > discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net; Chris Bizer > Betreff: Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Fwd: Your message to Dbpedia-discussion > awaits

AW: "How to Publish Linked Data" vs "Dereferencing HTTP URIs"

Hi Christopher, > Q1) Should HtPLDotW be updated to remove references to > "Dereferencing HTTP URIs" in favor of "Cool URIs for the > Semantic Web" Yes. The HtPLDotW document is from 2007 and urgently needs updating. We are planning to do this during the summer, so expect a new version in fall.

Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

Hi all, I’m regularly following Alon Halevy blog as I really like his thoughts on dataspaces [1]. Today, I discovered this post about Google Fusion Tables http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/2009/06/fusio

AW: Wikipedia relicensed: consequences for DBpedia and downstream?

Hi Dan, we will dual-license the next DBpedia release under CC-BY-SA and GFDL. We would even be willing go for a more liberal license (for instance CC-BY), I anybody with a legal background would assure us that we are allowed to do so under US and European law. Cheers, Chris -Ursprünglich

AW: Chronicling America and Linked Data

Hi Ed, sounds like a great new source of live Linked Data which is directly served by the organization producing the data and not by university projects or engaged individuals as it is still the case with many data sources in the cloud. Things are moving :-) and I'm looking forward to the first

AW: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

requ...@w3.org] Im > Auftrag von Peter Ansell > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009 13:35 > An: Chris Bizer > Cc: public-lod@w3.org > Betreff: Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets' > > Unlike Yahoo SearchMonkey, Google has chosen to mock up their own > on

fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

Very nice. After Yahoo SearchMonkey has been around for a while, things are now also moving at Google. See: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets .html And Ivan's com

CfP: 7th Semantic Web Challenge - Open Track and Billion Triples Track

ganizers reserve the right to merge the two tracks of the competition. IMPORTANT DATES - - October 1, 2009: Submissions due October 25-29, 2009: ISWC 2009 Technical Program SWC Co-Chairs - Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Contact:

Madrid/WWW2009 Linked Data Community Gathering

Hi all, there will be again a Linked Data Community Gathering at WWW2009 in Madrid on 20th April 2009, after the LDOW2009 workshop http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2009/. The gathering will take place in a nearby restaurant/pub and will include a mixture of beer, food and lightning talks.

AW: sanity checking the LOD Cloud statistics - Please add the statistics for your dataset to the Wiki

Hi Ted, good that you raise this topic. The statistics were added to the wiki by Anja and reflect her knowledge/guesses about the size of the datasets and the numbers of links between them. And of course, some of her guesses might be wrong. In an ideal world, these statistics would be provide

Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) workshop papers online.

o the authors and lots of thanks to the members of the LDOW program committee for all their tough reviewing work! We are looking forward to see you in Madrid. Cheers, Chris Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen (LDOW 2009 Organizing Committee)

New LOD Cloud

Not for forget the new colored-by-topic version of the diagram at http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05_colored.pn g Cheers Chris > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: public-lod-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-requ...@w3.org] Im > Auftrag von Anja Jentzsch >

AW: ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

, 2. März 2009 18:58 An: Chris Bizer Cc: public-lod@w3.org; Semantic Web; dbpedia-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released. Chris, I welcome this initiative. Could you explain how your approach differs from the VoiD

ANN: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released.

Hi all, we are happy to announce the initial public release of Silk, a link discovery framework for the Web of Data. The Web of Data is built upon two simple ideas: Employ the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web and to set explicit RDF links between entities within differen

AW: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

Hi Kingsley, > You have MySpace and Flickr Wrappers but still don't include all the > Virtuoso Sponger Cartridges (which are wrappers) to the Cloud [1] ? The last time I checked the cartridges, I had the impression that they were not very much interlinked with the rest of the LOD cloud and about

ANN: D2R Server and D2RQ V0.6 released.

supporting the user community on the D2RQ mailing list for the last 2 years. Please send feedback about the new release to the D2RQ and D2R Server mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/d2rq-map-devel Have fun with D2RQ and D2R Server! Cheers, Chris -- Chris Bizer Web-based

CFP: 5th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW09), co-located with ESWC09

WORKSHOP CHAIRS -- * Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany * Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany -- Additi

2nd CfP: Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2009) at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain

--- CALL FOR PAPERS --- LINKED DATA ON THE WEB (LDOW2009) Workshop at WWW2009, April 2009, Madrid, Spain Submission Deadline: February 7th 2009 http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2009/ OVERVIEW The Web is increasi

IJSWIS Special Issue on Linked Data - Deadline Extension

Committee -- + Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) + Tom Heath (Talis Information Ltd, United Kingdom) + Martin Hepp (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany) References --- [1] Berners-Lee, Tim (2006) Design Issues: Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedDat

2nd CfP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Linked Data

ubmission deadline + February 7, 2009: Notification of acceptance + March 7, 2009: Camera-ready papers due + Second quarter of 2009: Publication Special Issue Organizing Committee -- + Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) + Tom Heath (Talis Inform

AW: Domain and range are useful Re: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

Hi Dan and all, it looks to me as we try to solve a variety of different use cases with a single solution and thus run into problems here. There are three separate use cases that people participating in the discussion seem to have in mind: 1. Visualization of the data 2. Consistency checking 3.

AW: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

Hi Hugh and Richard, interesting discussion indeed. I think that the basic idea of the Semantic Web is that you reuse existing terms or at least provide mappings from your terms to existing ones. As DBpedia is often used as an interlinking hub between different datasets on the Web, it should i

AW: ANN: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

cht- > Von: Andreas Harth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 17. November 2008 16:55 > An: Chris Bizer > Cc: public-lod@w3.org; 'Semantic Web'; dbpedia- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dbpedia- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: ANN: DBpedia 3.2 release, including D

ANN: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia version 3.2. The new knowledge base has been extracted from the October 2008 Wikipedia dumps. Compared to the last release, the new knowledge base provides three mayor improvements: 1. DBpedia Ontology DBpedia now features a shallow, c

OPEN POSITION: Move to Berlin, work on DBpedia

, please contact me via email for additional details (including information about your skills and experience). Cheers, Chris -- Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 54057 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bizer.de

Open Archives Initiative has released OAI-ORE specification based on Linked Data principles

Hi all, great news from the library and preprint server world: The Open Archives Initiative (OAI, http://www.openarchives.org/) has released its new Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specification for describing aggregations of Web resources. Such aggregations can for instance be different ve

CfP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Linked Data

ebruary 7, 2009: Notification of acceptance + March 7, 2009: Camera-ready papers due + Second quarter of 2009: Publication Special Issue Organizing Committee -- Editor in Chief: + Amit Sheth (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Guest Editors: + Ch

Role of RDF on the Web and within enterprise applications. was: AW: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

Hi Orri, > It is my feeling that RDF has a dual role: > 1. interchange format: This is like what XML does, except that RDF has more semantics and expressivity. > 2: Database storage format for cases where data must be integrated and is too heterogenous to easily > fall into one relational

AW: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

Hi Kingsley and Paul, Yes, I completely agree with you that different storage solutions fit different use cases and that one of the main strengths of the RDF data model is its flexibility and the possibility to mix different schemata. Nevertheless, it think it is useful to give application devel

Berlin SPARQL Benchmark V2 - Results for Sesame, Virtuoso, Jena TDB, D2R Server, and MySQL

benchmark experiment. Without all your help it would not been possible to conduct this experiment. We highly welcome feedback on the benchmark design and the results of the experiment. Cheers, Chris Bizer and Andreas Schultz -- Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30

AW: Linking heuristics

Hi Daniel, some material about linking heuristics and their application is collected at http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/Equival enceMining If you or anybody else from the list knows about more, it would be great if you could add it to the wikipage

AW: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

ember 2008 17:12 An: Chris Bizer Cc: public-lod@w3.org; Anja Jentzsch Betreff: Re: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources Chris Bizer wrote: > Hi all, > > Anja and I are currently updating the LOD cloud for the ESW wikipage. > Draft attached. > > Up till n

Re: List Policy for Job Advertisments

Hi Ian, I would say: Sure, no problem as long as the jobs are Linked Data related. Cheers Chris -- Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 55509 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bizer.de - Original Message - From: "Ian Davis" <[EMAIL PR

Re: BSBM With Triples and Mapped Relational Data in Virtuoso

Hi Orri and Ivan, Consequently, we need to show that mapping can outperform an RDF warehouse, which is what we'll do here. Yes. I was already guessing for a while that SPARQL against RDF-mapped relational DBs should be faster than SPARQL against triple stores. With D2R Server it turned out

Re: Linked Movie DataBase

s and Juan, I'm also very interested to hear more about ODDLinker. Cheers Chris -- Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 55509 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bizer.de - Original Message - From: "Oktie Hassanzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFC: Berlin SPARQL Benchmark

are looking forward to your feedback :-) Cheers Chris and Andreas -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 55509 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bizer.de

Re: Southampton Pub data as linked open data

he Semantic Web to Web developers that have understood the the benefits and limitations of microformats and now look for a better way to publish structured data on the Web. Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de - Original Mess

Re: Vapour 2.0, a Linked Data and RDF vocabularies validator

inked Data" tutorial. http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/#testing Cheers Chris -- Prof. Dr. Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 55509 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bizer.de - Original Message - From: "Diego Berrueta" <[EMA

Re: UMBEL Publicly Released

Hi Mike and Fred, UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1] is a lightweight ontology for relating Web content and data to a standard set of 20,000 subject concepts. Based on OpenCyc [2], these subject concepts have defined relationships between them, and can act as semantic bindin

UK Government moves forward with Data Sharing, APIs and Mashup Contest

? Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de

Re: Linked Data re Non-Profits and NGO's. Have data, need vocabulary.

know what happend to the site? As an alternative you could also think about reusing the terms that are currently used within DBpedia to describe organizations. Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de - Original Message

7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) - Call for Posters and Demonstrations

r all accepted papers. Details will be sent with notifications of acceptance. Further Information -- For further information and for any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters and Demonstration co-chairs Chris Bizer and Anupam Joshi. Po

Re: More ESWC 2008 Linked Data Playground

iscussions over and over. Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de - Original Message - From: "Aldo Bucchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Huynh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, June 09, 2

BlogPost: How to extract useful OWL from Freebase

Hi, there seams to be some progress around getting RDF out of Freebase. See: http://clockwerx.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-extract-useful-owl-from-freebase.html Maybe a good starting point for a Freebase Linked Data wrapper Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30

Re: ESWC 2008 Linked Data Playground

set RDF links from the ESWC 2008 to this data. Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de - Original Message - From: "David Huynh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 29

ESWC 2008 Linked Data Playground

please let me know so that we can add them to the webpage. Have fun playing with the data! Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de

Open Library provides API to access 13.4 million books

-books/ Does anybody know if they are also working on a Linked Data interface to their catalog? If not, this API really cries for a Linked Data wrapper :-) Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] linking conceptnet to Dbpedia, Yago

Hi Akshay, Conceptnet is a commonsense database in form of a large semantic network containing 150,000 concepts and 700,000 assertions. http://conceptnet.media.mit.edu/ The concepts are linked to each other by 23 predicates. ( eg. Dog isa pet ) currently i am trying to bring this dataset ( cr

Linked Data talks at XTech in Dublin (6th-9th May)

. 'That's not what you said yesterday!' - evolving your Web API (Ian Davis, Talis) http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/550 and a complete track on Open Data http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/23 Great program. Too bad that I can not be there :-( Cheers Chris --

Good tutorial giving an Introduction into the Web of Data held by Metaweb at the Web 2.0 Summit

use simple, hands-on examples to expose participants to semantic techniques that are possible today. The tutorial will culminate by working through the development of a semantic widget for movie reviews that makes use of the techniques described. Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität

Re: Linking non-open data

Hi Peter, reading your "ramblings", they actually make a lot of sence to me and I think I even like them better than my own initial ideas on the problem as your approach nicely avoids the owl:sameAs. Anybody else further ideas? Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Ber

Re: Linking non-open data

the protected data, for instance: http://mydomain//resource/myResource foaf:interest http://yourDomain/resource/ProtectedDataAboutObjectX What do you think? Cheers Chris -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bizer.de - Original Message ----- From

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