July 19, 2011
by jpereira
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Find out in 30 seconds whether IKS is worth your while (… and would you like a 6000 Euro grant to try it out?)

You are a CMS Provider? – Technology Provider or Integrator? – And your technology works just like a treat?

In particular, your search mechanism is often praised by your customers.
It just takes minutes for your developers to create effective user interfaces.
When customers want better SEO you know exactly which buttons in your system to twiddle
It’s totally easy for you to build smart applications where you extract names, locations or organisations from customer content
you know all about eGovernment, linked open data and you are experts in combining enterprise data with web data

If you said an emphatic yes to all of these, then we would like to come to YOUR next workshop, and learn from you.

If you said “ho-hum” to some of these points above, looking sadly at your software, then maybe you want to come to IKS, and work with us on open source, permissive license solutions to your problems.

The IKS development community has already developed answers to some of these issues, and you could receive a grant of up to 6000 Euro to try it out and become our next early adopter.

Just contact me, John Pereira, the friendly IKS community manager, to get involved.

July 18, 2011
by Wernher
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Afterthoughts – IKS workshop in Paris and the changing commercial landscape of semantics in the Web

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So, IKS did it again – and managed to bring together some 90 people in Paris to present to each other, how they were already using IKS and other semantic technologies. Add to this a bunch of “from the lab” demos showing what “IKS and friends” are brewing up next, and add to it, half a dozen wise men and women sharing their knowledge about the semantics and CMS market. Present the whole thing in a culturally open and diverse setting such as the FIAP Jean Monnet Centre – with young artists, technologists and language learners floating around and you have two days of being refreshed by open minds and spirits. Paris reciprocated with summery temperatures and good wine.

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July 15, 2011
by Andreas Gruber
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IKS Paris Workshop Wrap-up

The fifth IKS community workshop took place last week in Paris. More than 90 participants, representing a diverse group of stakeholders came together to learn how semantic technologies can extend current content management experiences.

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June 16, 2011
by SBayliss
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Stanbol well received at Open Repositories 2011

We (Stephen Bayliss and Martin Dow) attended the 6th Annual Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) last week in Austin, Texas. The conference is an international gathering of those involved with digital repositories and libraries, including developers and managers.

We’ve been doing some work recently on integrating thesauri with the Fedora Commons repository platform (the Fedora repository platform is extensively used in the institutional sector for various digital media management tasks: transforming, archiving, curating and making available digital content and metadata).

As part of our presentation on using Semantic Web technologies for this integration we introduced the work we are doing with KReS to provide a semantically-integrated view of resource metadata, thesauri and Fedora’s digital object model.

The Stanbol platform is of particular interest to us in the work we do with Fedora – although Fedora includes some basic semantic capabilities out-of-the-box, there’s no established “plug-and-play” integration models for more capable semantic technologies such as those that KReS offers. Fedora’s not capable of processing ontologies and performing inferencing, and we’ve witnessed a growing demand for such capabilities.

The presentation was well received and we were approached by a number of interested folks after the session. Our chosen integration pattern of using JMS also seems to fit well with bus and messaging patterns that others want to use for integrating Fedora with external services.

June 14, 2011
by scroisier
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From Semantic Platforms to Semantic Applications

Last decade was focused on building the underlying semantic foundations required to turn the semantic utopia into a reality. The rapid commoditization of those technologies is now happening and we should help to get a new generation of semantically-enriched tools and applications out to end-users. The time is right and everything is in place: The Deep Web is today ubiquitous, Structured and unstructured data are available in quantities never seen before, Growth perspectives are exponential. And we all start to be impacted be it as consumer or worker by this tsunami of information. With this information overload, the lack of proper filters and the absence of smarter content are becoming real problems and users now expect to see the arrival of new concrete and effective solutions.

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