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Newsletter 05/06/14

Dear Subscriber !

History of semantic technologies has taught us: Readiness for use in industry and simplicity of tools go hand in hand. The more common the handling and understanding of semantic web approaches becomes, the broader and diverse are its implementations. On the bottom line there is one principle: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

This focus on a sound approach to semantics has been the guiding principle for the newest release of PoolParty. With PoolParty 4.2 the support of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Systems) has become even more feature-rich and whilst still easy-to-be-used. By introducing ontologies and rules into PoolParty, one can start with simple knowledge graphs to enrich them step by step.

This approach may ease the first steps into semantic metadata management for a lot of new branches and industries, catalyzing new ideas and projects.

With best regards,
Thomas Thurner
 
 

New release: PoolParty 4.2 is now available

 
  4.2 sounds like a minor update. The fact is, however, that PoolParty has been upgraded to an ontology editor to complement its functionalities around taxonomy and thesaurus management with advanced schema management based on rules. 
 
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This Autumn: SEMANTiCS 2014 in Leipzig

 
  SEMANTiCS 2014 is the well known meeting place for industry and academic in the field of semantic web. For its 10th anniversary the conference got not only a redesign but also a new orientation: A renewed name (leaving the prefix "I" behind), a renewed consortium, presentation formats which are in the interest of both - the industry and research, and a broader spacial orientation. All this guarantees for an even more interesting and even more relevant conference for the sector. Subtitled with "Transfer // Engineering // Community" this year's SEMANTiCS is about a mature Semantic Web which draws the bow from research over engineering to best practices.
 
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Linked Data: new ontologies website at the BBC

 
  bbc.co.uk/ontologies is a human friendly view of the data models in the Linked Data Platform the BBC uses. This is provided for members of the public and anyone who wants to get a better understanding of the BBC's Linked Data.

Meet BBC's Data Architect Sofia Angeletou at this years .
 
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SKOS at the intersection of three disciplines

 
  With the Simple Knowledge Organization System W3C provides a core standard for the web of data: SKOS is at the intersection of three disciplines and their paradigms ...
 
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Energy Buildings Performance Scenarios as Linked Open Data

 
  GBPN launches a new interactive tool for identifying the best possible policy scenarios for saving energy in the building sector worldwide. Users can conduct own analysis and generate charts and tables by selecting parameters corresponding to your search needs. It is possible to download each of the data series. Data series are accessible via a SPARQL Endpoint (incl. a built-in query editor).
 
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Building and Construction Materials Database for the Semantic Web

 
  BauDataWeb exposes a dataset of the European building and construction materials market, thereby relying on the GoodRelations e-commerce vocabulary. The project provides a dataset of 1.5 million RDF files with material data instances; two ontologies; a demo application and a number of SPARQL endpoints. The project is leaded by Dr. Martin Hepp.
 
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Semantic Web, Linked Data and Visualisation

 
  The Semantics and Visualisation Blog is a place for presenting thoughts and ideas around visualisation of semantically rich or linked open data. This good resource for everybody who works on visualisation for Linked Open Data is run by Jan Polowinski of Technical University of Dresden.
 
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London King's College Archive goes LOD

 
  Accessibility is a core value for the archive at King's College London. The Archive saw LOD as an opportunity to boost accessibility to its catalogues, and to explore how best to mine its catalogues to connect up content from archive, library and museum collections.  
 
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HipHop artist has bigger vocabulary than Shakespeare

 
  Matt Daniels is a designer, coder, and data scientist at Undercurrent in New York City. He decided to examine the vocabulary of hip hop artists, and this is what he found.
 
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Recommended reading
 

Semantic Web revisited

Andreas Blumauer
DOK.magazin
13 years after Sir Tim Berners-Lee has introduced his concept of Semantic Web Agents we may look back on basic research, applied development, products and projects within the domain. The growth and development were not always linear - there were boom-phases and hang-overs. Join Andreas Blumauer in his recent reflections. (in German)
 
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EPAM Systems

EPAM employs over 10,000 IT professionals and serves clients worldwide utilizing its award-winning Central and Eastern European global delivery platform and its locations in 17 countries throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2013, EPAM was ranked by Forbes as #6 among America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies and #2 on the list of America’s Best Small Companies.
 
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Event Tip
 

SEMANTiCS 2014

September 4-5
Leipzig, Germany
The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics, and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the premiere event for Semantic Technologies.

Calls for Industry and Scientifc Presentations are open till June 16.
 
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Event Tip / Webinar
 

Semantic SharePoint

June 25, 4:30 PM CEST (10:30 AM EDT)
SharePoint is a frequently used carrier-system of enterprise content which offers some basic functionalities for semantic information management out-of-the-box. In this webinar, you will see how these features are usually used, e.g. SharePoint’s Term Store, and how those components can be extended by a set of additional functionalities provided by Semantic SP.
 
free registration
 
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International Semantic Web Conference

October 19-23
Riva del Garda, Italy
ISWC 2014 is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. Here, scientists, industry specialists, and practitioners meet to discuss the future of practical, scalable, user-friendly, and game changing solutions.

 

Meet our PoolParty Team there.
Semantic Web Company is also happy to support the conference as a sponsor.
 
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