June 6, 2011
by Janus Boye
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Are semantic technologies ready to help organisations online?

Every single day we add new content and functionality to our many websites in a seemingly never-ending flow. Despite our best efforts, this has the unfortunate tendency over time to gradually deplete the overall value of our websites as your customers can no longer find their way through the chaos.

Behind the scenes a content management system (CMS) has become the de facto standard digital platform for managing websites, but just like websites are becoming chaotic, the underlying platform eventually deteriorates from being flexible and useable to being clunky and slow. Can the addition of semantic technologies to the underlying platform pave a new path to a fundamentally better digital future?

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May 31, 2011
by Schaffert
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Learn how to setup your own Linked Data Server in 15 minutes and why you need one @ IKS Paris Workshop

The Linked Media Framework is an easy-to-setup server application that bundles central Semantic Web technologies to offer advanced services. The Linked Media Framework consists of LMF Core and LMF Modules. It has been developed by Salzburg Research as another ingredient in our Semantic Technologies toolbox.

What the Linked Media Framework Offers?

In only 15 minutes you will have your very own Linked Data Server
Provides Enterprise integration at the content and metadata level
Makes Semantic Search easily configurable based on your domain needs

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May 31, 2011
by Angonga
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LInk discovery framework for MEtric Spaces @ IKS Paris Workshop

The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Chair of Business Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig as well as the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). It consists of the three subgroups Emergent Semantics, Machine Learning and Ontology Engineering, and Semantic Abstraction.

The Semantic Abstraction (SIMBA) Group’s focus lies on knowledge extraction, integration, linking and consumption for porting the document-oriented web to the Data Web. For this purpose, SIMBA develops novel and scalable approaches for RDF/OWL extraction, link discovery and graph analysis. In addition, SIMBA provides tools and frameworks that implement these approaches and allow for their swift integration into industry projects.

One of SIMBA’s core projects is LIMES, the Link discovery Framework for metric spaces.
The basic observation behind LIMES is that links between knowledge bases play a key role in important tasks such as answering complex business questions, large-scale inferences and semantic data integration. Given the size of the Web of Data and the rate at it grows, time-efficient Link Discovery frameworks are central to allow to address these tasks.

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May 24, 2011
by jpereira
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Pre-order IKS Book on Semantic Technologies in CMS

Semantic Technologies in Content Management Systems

Editors: Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany; Tobias Kowatsch, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Content Management Systems (CMSs) are used in almost every industry by millions of end-user organizations. In contrast to the 90s, they are no longer used as isolated applications in one organization but they support critical core operations in business ecosystems. Content management today is more interactive and more integrative: interactive because end-users are increasingly content creators themselves and integrative because content elements can be embedded into various other applications. The authors of this book investigate how Semantic Technologies can increase interactivity and integration capabilities of CMSs and discuss their business value to millions of end-user organizations. This book has therefore the objective, to reflect existing applications as well as to discuss and present new applications for CMSs that use Semantic Technologies. An evaluation of 27 CMSs concludes this book and provides a basis for IT executives that plan to adopt or replace a CMS in the near future.

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May 24, 2011
by jpereira
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Adopting Linked Media principles for Stanbol Entityhub

The Web is full of entities (and sites providing Entities). But what the hell are Entities? Glad you ask. When we say Entities we mean data structures that refer to “things” in the real world, like people. Here are some publicly available Entities (datasets) just to dazzle you. 3 million+ entries of wikipedia.org, 800,000 albums and 500,00 artists maintained by musicbrainz.org, 1,5 million titles and nearly 1 million actors available as Entities via imdb.com, 7 million GIS entries via geonames.org, 30 million defined paths with over 350 million nodes available from linkedGeoData.org and openstreetmap.org. If you want more numbers to impress your friends with then check out the Linked Data Cloud site. The most common Entities are concepts referring to Persons, Organizations, Places, Events, and Artifacts.

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