October 10, 2012
by wziegler
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Enriching Drupal’s content with Apache Stanbol

Drupal is one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems. It already has good tradition of being an early adopter of Semantic Web technologies, such as RDFa which has been added to Drupal core with the release of Drupal 7 in January 2011; or the SPARQL Views module – a graphical tool for querying and displaying data fetched from SPARQL endpoints. Also, there have been already Drupal related IKS early adopter projects which have successfully shown how powerful the combination of Drupal and semantic technologies can be, e.g. test this demo of the Aloha Editor, Apache Stanbol and Drupal 7. Continue Reading →

October 10, 2012
by Lisa
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Semantic Technology for Global SEO

Using Stanbol for Global SEO

MarkTheGlobe is a Global Search Engine Optimization (SEO) start up that develops technology to manage multilingual SEO campaigns. One important aspect of SEO is keyword research to identify phrases that are searched frequently and have the potential to drive relevant traffic to a website.

The existing technology currently used in our Global SEO platform Satural already uses several syntactic and statistical approaches to generate keyword proposals. The integration with Stanbol should provide additional keyword candidates through semantic search. These keyword ideas will be used as input to our platform Satural to further enrich them with SEO specific metrics like search volume and competition. Another use case is to group keywords. Existing keywords should be classified into different topics using Stanbol to improve reporting for large campaigns. Continue Reading →

October 4, 2012
by Russo
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Using Stanbol’s Entityhub to create a semantic city guide

Is it possible to create a city guide that works everywhere? Yes it is, thanks to the web of data and to Apache Stanbol. Imagine all the knowledge that Wikipedia has about a city: ancient buildings, museums, great squares, churches, people who live there, albums recorded in the city and so on. Well, this is what LocalMe, our Android application developed in our Knowledge Management course taught by Valentina Presutti, brings on your mobile phone. Thanks to Apache Stanbol and its Entitythub it is possible to manage a network of datasets (in our case DBpedia, Linkedgeodata and Factforge) in which you can find all the information you need to create your own semantic city guide. Continue Reading →

October 2, 2012
by Avolpini
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Is Europe Better Poised than the US to Commercialise Semantic Tech?

This is going to be a summary after two hectic days spent in Leipzig with the cleverest minds of the European Semantic Web community and it’s also my personal answer to an interesting post that appeared on semanticweb.com a few weeks ago (the post written by Jennifer Zaino was titled: “On What Shores Will Semantic Tech Be Better Commercialized?“) – before getting into the answer…what did we learn? Continue Reading →

September 27, 2012
by Rüdiger Kurz
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Positive feedback for IKS at OpenCms Days 2012

OpenCms 8 – Experiences, Possibilities, Potentials
September 24 to 25, 2012 – Cologne, Germany

Joining Alkacon at the end of 2008 and being the third time speaker on OpenCms Days, I’m still impressed by the huge impact OpenCms has around the world what becomes visible to you when visiting OpenCms Days. For example dispatch.com presented their OpenCms application running on Amazon Web Services. Another personal highlight was the second day’s keynote made by Dr. Tilman Becker from DFKI a member of IKS. He introduced the visitors to the complex world of semantics in an easy-understandable way, what results in an amazing feedback. For me this event was a great congress and a big benefit for the whole OpenCms Community. Continue Reading →