Apache Stanbol provides different features that facilitate working with linked data, in the netlabs.org early adopter proposal I wanted to try features which were not much used before, like the Ontology Manager and the Rules component. The way I wanted to use them were not necessary the ways the Stanbol team was thinking of it in the first place but nevertheless I saw that it might solve some problems I have. Continue Reading →
Performance Benchmark for Semantic CMS
The IKS community is asked to participate in an IKS online survey called the
IKS Performance Benchmark for Semantic CMS.
Apache Stanbol in 2013
After graduating from the Apache Incubator in 2012 the Apache Stanbol project has established as a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Time to have a glimpse at the plans for 2013.
Create.js in 2013
It is now 2013, and the IKS project, started back in 2009 to improve content management systems through semantic technologies, has ended. Alongside Apache Stanbol and VIE.js, the Create.js inline editing toolkit was one of the major outcomes of this European Union funded effort.
This post outlines the current state of Create, and some of the things that will be happening around it in 2013.
Increased CMS adoption
Thanks to being picked up by major CMSs like Drupal 8, TYPO3 Neos, Midgard, Symfony CMF and OpenCms for their inline editing needs, Create.js is experiencing very strong adoption. Many of these CMSs will be shipping a new major version during 2013.
These releases will bring Create.js into millions of sites out there, giving users a friendlier and faster way to edit the web. By being built on the semantic interaction framework of VIE, this also means a significant expansion of the RDFa Linked Data base.
This amount of new users will be staggering, meaning that we will need to put a lot of focus into stability and ease-of-use of the toolkit. To make life for new integrators and contributors easier, we will also need to improve the documentation and test coverage. All of this is shown also by the fact that Create.js on GitHub has climbed from few hundred watchers a year ago to nearly 1400 today.
Twistory: a Twitter Control Room powered by Apache Stanbol
We are very happy to announce today our public showcase of the integration of Apache Stanbol into our Social Media Monitoring Tool Twistory. Continue Reading →


