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Web Company - Newsletter 28/10/13 In recent months, trend scouts have perceived especially one topic forging ahead: Linked Data Quality. As the Semantic Web is no longer an academic-only playground and finds its way into business applications, questions of trust, provenance, quality and sustainability are getting more and more relevant. This issue of our newsletter is dedicated to this topic, with own developments (qSKOS as part of latest PoolParty release) and interesting findings and statements from others too. With best regards, Thomas Thurner A collaborative tool for market observers and trend scouts  Want a radar to know what happens in your domain or industry? SWC launched sOnr webMining, a tool based on Confluence which collects content that is automatically annotated, pre-categorized and linked to similar content. sOnr combines the power of semantic technologies with collaborative efforts of your team. watch the video read more  topAustrian Linked Open Data (LOD) Pilot  Based on already published open (government) data, a free-to-be-used Linked Open Data (LOD) infrastructure for Austria will be realised. In modelling and publishing relevant basic open data sets (geo, administrative, demographic) as Linked Open Data, the project fosters the use of Linked Data for the benefit of government and corporate entities and provides thereby an important part for a digital infrastructure for Austria.read more (German)topSKOS thesaurus quality management with qSKOS  With qSKOS it becomes possible to measure the quality of SKOS vocabularies and, most importantly, qSKOS supports thesaurus managers to achieve very high thesaurus quality. At the beginning of 2013 SWC started to integrate qSKOS into PoolParty Suite. Now the implementation is ready to be used.watch the video topConvert Freebase to industry-standard RDF  :BaseKB Now is an extract of Freebase data processed by the Infovore framework. Like other large RDF data sets, Freebase contains ill-formed, invalid, and repetitive triples. :BaseKB Now divides Freebase into a stream of rejected facts and 12 streams of accepted facts.read more topW3C on quality RDF Data  W3C published the final report of a Workshop on Quality RDF Data that was held 10-11 September 2013 in Cambridge. The goal of the Workshop was to identify use cases, requirements, and candidate technologies to address the need for interface definition and validation for RDF documents and messages.read the report topQuality in the core: The DBpedia Evaluation Campaign  Done with AKSW's TripleCheckMate, DBpedia has begun an Evaluation Campaign with the aim to assess and thereby improve the quality of DBpedia. The evaluation of triples is done by a crowd-sourcing project in using a tool developed by Jens Lehmann and others. read more  topProvenance in Linked Data  Data published on the Web has no inherent truth, yet its quality can often be assessed based on its provenance. A paper published by Vladimiro Sassone (and others) introduces a new approach to provenance for Linked Data.read more topOpen Data Census assesses the state of open government data  An increasing number of governments have now committed to open up data. But what kind of data is this and in which format? Which countries, regions and cities are the most advanced and which are lacking in relation to open data? The Open Data Census has been developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) to assist in answering these questions and assess the state of open data around the world.read more topOur new customer: Council of the European Union  SWC is happy to serve another customer from the government sector: The Council of the European Union is using PoolParty Suite for their knowledge management.top |
European Commission launched the Classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations as a downloadable SKOS Thesaurus. Recommended Assessing and Improving the Quality of SKOS Vocabularies  Assessment of vocabulary quality is important for determining the suitability of vocabularies for reuse in applications. The authors define 26 quality issues and propose a set of correction heuristics which has been used to automatically correct a significant proportion of the identified problems. read moreEvent Tip PoolParty 4 – From Text Mining to Linked Data  November 6, 2013 Free Webinar The latest PoolParty release 4 provides some ultimate features in order to create and maintain knowledge graphs at the lowest possible cost. We will also demonstrate how PoolParty Semantic Integrator helps to create mash-ups from various information sources. read moreEvent Tip  November 22-24 Vienna, Austria At University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, more than 300 attendees will gather for this regional conference to meet, attend sessions and talk about Drupal. The Semantic Web Company team will be on site to present and discuss Semantic Services for Drupal on top of enterprise taxonomies by PoolParty. read moreEvent Tip Semantic Web in Libraries  November 25-27 Hamburg, Germany The SWIB conference aims to provide substantial information on LOD developments relevant to the library world and to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners. read more |
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