Dear Subscriber !
The question, whether there is a sustainable and solid business model beneath Linked Data and the Semantic Web is key for further investments in this technology stack. In previous editions of this newsletter we have reported about good examples and bad practices, too.
As Linked (Open) Data matures over the years, the clearer the picture has become how to establish a solid economic basis for the Semantic Web. In this newsletter you will read about some insightful thoughts on Semantic Web's business values and you'll get some flash-lights on how a specific domain is conquering the LOD stage: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (aka GLAM).
With best regards,
Thomas Thurner
Partnerships in a world of Linked Data
On the technical side, Semantic Web Company has become partner with OpenLink Software (US) to get enhanced performance for mature enterprise data integration. To roll out linked data projects for media and publishing, the partnership with Digirati (UK) is focused on Dynamic Semantic Publishing (DSP).
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There’s Money in Linked Data
Linked (open) data is more than yet another technology stack. Linked data is most of all a set of principles how to organize information in agile organizations that are embedded in fast moving and dynamic environments. And from this perspective there is a huge amount of money in it.
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Getty boosts LOD-GLAM
At LODLAM Summmit 2013 in Montreal, Getty (J. Paul Getty Museum) announced the publication of their vocabularies as Linked Open Data. The four thesauri for Art & Architecture, Geographic Names, Artist Names and Cultural Objects count in total 1.200.000 records with 2.600.000 terms.
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2nd generation Linked Data at Ordnance Survey
Great Britain's national mapping authority - Ordnance Survey - was a driving force in establishing Linked Open Data within the Open Government Data movement. In June 2013 they announced their next iteration of Linked Data services. More granular data, SPARQL 1.1 compliant endpoints, support for geography-based queries and other improvements give people an excellent service to build their applications on top.
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I-SEMANTICS 2013
How linked open data revolutionize industry
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I-Praxis track of this year's I-SEMANTICS will present a lot of interesting enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and projects based on linked data. Talks from:
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Moises Martinez-Ablanedo (Airbus)
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Quentin Reul (Wolters Kluwer)
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Andreas Koller & Helmut Nagy (Semantic Web Company)
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Kai Holzweißig (Daimler AG)
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Michael Aleythe (Fink & Partner Media Services)
Obtain a cost-reduced ticket and register until July 31, 2013!
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Linked Data for the Environmental Sector
Organizations 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 data and tool providers for their respective communities.
In June SWC's webinar introduces several good practice examples achieving data governance in using the linked open data paradigms for this sector.
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Public review open
DCAT Application profile for data portals
DCAT-AP is a specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) to enable cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors.
On 13 May 2013, the final draft of DCAT-AP was released for public review. The comment period will close on 15 July 2013 (extended deadline). Members of the public are invited post their comments.
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