OntoWiki

On June 8, I (Jens) visited the process control engineering research group (PLT) of Leon Urbas at the Dresden University of Technology. We first met on the Leipziger Semantic Web Day where Leon Urbas presented interactive Linked Data applications and decided to have a longer meeting later on. I first gave a talk on the [...]

As already in the last years, we organize this year again on 5th of May a Leipzig Semantic Web Day in the marvelous Mediencampus Villa Ida. The theme this year is “Linked Data  for the Masses”, particularly focusing on its use in enterprises. This event will not only give you the opportunity to discuss current  [...]

Members of AKSW are actively participating in some key (Semantic) Web conferences this spring. AKSW was already involved in the organization of 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011 with Jens being one of the PC Chairs of the Linked Data track and a number of other AKSW researchers serving as members of the PC of [...]

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce the first prototype of OntoWiki Mobile, which allows users to collect instance data and refine structured knowledge bases on-the-go. The development of OntoWiki Mobile was triggered by users aiming to ... [More] gather data in field conditions (e.g. bio-diversity surveys). It allows accessing OntoWiki on a mobile device, even [...] [Less]

Currently, the historical online database about professors of the University of Leipzig - Catalogus Professorum Lipsienses - has been reported in the local media. First it was mentioned by Leipzig’s university radio station Mephisto 97,6 and also the leading local daily newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote about the catalog last week.

The AKSW research group is represented in the main ISWC conference programme this year with four papers. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all ... [More] aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. Acceptance rates for the main conference programme were this year 20% [...] [Less]

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce that OntoWiki 0.9.5 is now available for download. OntoWiki is a web-application enabling the collaborative creation and (linked data) publication of RDF knowledge bases. More information about OntoWiki ... [More] can be found at http://ontowiki.net. You can download OntoWiki in our google code file section. Enhancements in this release include: Support for Semantic [...] [Less]

A short while ago the Semantic Web Journal was launched. Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz are editors-in-chief and AKSW’s Sören Auer serves on the editorial board. The journal published by IOS Press differs from other journals, in particular ... [More] , since it follows an open and transparent peer-review process, which engages a wider community besides expert reviews. [...] [Less]

We’ve released the third version of our OntoWiki Command Line Interface (owcli). owcli is a php-based command line tool to administrate and manipulate OntoWiki Knowledge Bases. The release is a complete remake as an JSON/RPC client in order are save for future extensions at the OntoWiki RPC server base. owcli can be downloaded at the [...]

From this summer term onwards the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University provides structured information about academia such aslectures, tutors, rooms and timetables as Linked Open Data. The platform ... [More] http://od.fmi.uni-leipzig.de, which is based on the OntoWiki framework, provides a vocabulary and an ontology. Apart from the possibility of the direct linking of [...] [Less]