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Web Company - Newsletter 20/12/13 The old year started with an augury coming from Gartner "Semantic Technologies and NoSQL Will Play Key Roles in 2013" and ended with terrible news on struggling NoSQL solutions serving ObamaCare's website. But beside such sensational headlines the normal life brought a solid development in the sector: More mature tools, more solid thesauri, more trusted links and more quality data were released. In fact it seems, that 2013 was a year of an arriving normality with the semantic web, with less overdrawn expectations and a realistic view on the development paths. In short, a healthy year for the the semantic web and linked data. Read more about it in this newsletter. With best regards, Thomas Thurner PoolParty 4.1 comes with improved Text Corpus Analysis  Working with Text Corpus Analysis helps to extend and enrich thesauri. This feature has become more comfortable than ever before: A blacklist has been added to PoolParty’s corpus management feature. Read what's new in PoolParty 4.1. read more  top
University Basel starts a Register of Thesauri, Ontologies and Classifications  BARTOC collects metadata and controlled vocabularies and provides a search interface in 20 languages. The metadata will be enriched with numbers of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) down to the third level and key words from the EUROVOC thesaurus. BARTOC currently contains about 600 records in 65 languages.read more top
SWC Developer awarded  SWC Developer Harald Beck recently was honored with the "Distinguished Young Alumnus-Award" from the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology. Harald's Diploma Thesis in Computational Intelligence titles: "Inconsistency Management for Traffic Regulations". Congratulations!read more (German)topMake use of linked data to provide means for complex queries  Linked data graphs can be used to annotate and categorize documents. By transforming text into RDF graphs and linking them with LOD like DBpedia, Geonames, MeSH etc. completely new ways to make queries over large document repositories become reality.read more top
Survey on private sector business turning government data into profits  Which business impact comes with opening up data? the GovLab has initiated the first comprehensive study of U.S. companies that use open government data to generate new business and develop new products and services. And it seems there are already running and vital businesses out there building on open data, as a first resulting list shows.read more top
Two W3C recommendations which matters for linked data architects  On 17 December W3C announced the publication of the base specification of Data Cube Vocabulary and DCAT as W3C Proposed Recommendation. read more  top
Semantic Knowledge Base for SharePoint now available!  Semantic Knowledge Base for SharePoint is now available for SP2010 and SP2013. Based on standards-compliant knowledge graphs (SKOS, RDF, OWL), knowledge bases can be browsed within SharePoint. User-interface is highly configurable on SharePoint-level.read more top
Semantic PowerTagging now available for FirstSpirit CMS  BridgingIT GmbH, in cooperation with Semantic Web Company GmbH, offers a solution that allows editors to automatically categorize and apply keywords to FirstSpirit content based on available thesauri. The product is available at e-Spririt's marketplace under the name: Semantic Auto Taggerread more top
LOD2 Demonstrator Survey 2013  LOD2 Project issued a survey that was online from April to August 2013 aimed on getting feedback, primarily from users who already have been working with the LOD2stack and the separate components. The survey showed that most of the people tend to install the stack locally (38%) or install individual tools from the stack (35%) and that most users installed / used the stack to just try it out (40%) but at least 20% already to accomplish a specific use case like: "Conversion of specific data to linked open data" or "Publishing statistical data".read more top
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Updated with relevant concepts and better interlinked with the W3C Linked Data Glossary you may find our Social Semantic Web Thesaurus as an ideal resource representing more than 2000 concepts out of the domain. Event Tip Semantisches Informations-management in der Öff. Verwaltung  January 24, 2014 Free Meetup In recent years, standardization efforts of semantic technologies used in public administration have had opened up new opportunities for a more networked eGovernment in Europe. This meetup invites high level experts from Austria and abroad to discuss the development path on semantic technologies in public administration. Mixed in German and English language read more
Event Tip PiLOD2 - Amsterdam  January 29, 2014 Amsterdam, NL The Network Institute at the Free University in Amsterdam. Frank van Harmelen, Professor of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at Free University in Amsterdam, will welcome you to a conference on the PiLOD2 project - the Dutch LOD basic infrastructure. Meet also SWC's Martin Kaltenböck there. read more
Event Tip European Data Forum  March 19-20, 2014 Athens, Greece The EDF is the annual meeting-place for data practitioners from industry, research, the public-sector and community initiatives, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the emerging Data Economy in Europe. read more
Event Tip  May, 27-28, 2013 Krems, Austria "Knowledge changes" - this year's theme relates to frequent dynamics in knowledge management. In addition to the classical task of preserving and sharing existing knowledge, it is usually also about changing and promoting innovation, to all levels, from personal knowledge management across projects and groups to the entire company. read more
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