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AKSW presentation at LinkedDataPlanet in NYC
Sören will give a presentation “From DBpedia to OntoWiki - Emergent Data and Semantics from Social Collaboration” at this years LinkedDataPlaned Conference & Expo on June 18, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The presentation will cover AKSW’s current work regarding social semantic collaboration (i.e. DBpedia and OntoWiki) and light-weight [...]

Joomla! triplification starts as Google Summer of Code project
Danh Le Phouc (a computer science PhD student from DERI Galway) is starting the Google Summer of Code project “Joomla! semantification - expose Joomla data as RDF and Linked Data”. Danh already created a first guess for a Joomla! Triplify configuration (available at http://triplify.org/Configuration/Joomla)). Work of the project will focus on tighter integrating Triplify into [...]

LOD Triplification Challenge
Together with this years I-Semantics conference we are organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge. The challenge aims at expediting the process of revealing and exposing structured (relational) representations, which already back most of the existing Web sites, as well as raising awareness in the Web Developer community and showcasing best practices. The challenge awards attractive prices [...]

Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)

The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Department for Business-oriented Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig.

Goals

Development of methods, tools and applications for adaptive Knowledge Engineering in the context of the Semantic Web
Research of underlying Semantic Web technologies and development of fundamental Semantic Web tools and applications
Maturation of strategies for fruitfully combining the Social Web paradigms with semantic knowledge representation techniques

AKSW is committed to the open source, open access and open knowledge movements.

Projects

AKSW started a number of high impact R&D projects:

Triplify tackles the chicken-and-egg problem of the Semantic Web by providing a building block for the “semantification” of Web applications.
SoftWiki – Distributed, end-user centered Requirements Engineering for evolutionary software development
Cofundos.org – is a platform for community innovation and funding of open-source software: many individual donations and contributions are pooled together in order to realize bright software ideas.
Powl – our Semantic Web application development platform, OntoWiki is an adaptive semantic collaboration tool based on Powl implementing the Web 2.0 idea of an architecture of participation.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.
DL-Learner tackles the problem of learning concept/class definitions in Description Logics / OWL from examples
xOperator – A semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network which finds and shares content about resources (using RDF/SPARQL) for you and your jabber friends.
Semantic data integration: R2D2 – a PHP tool and API component for mapping relational database content to RDF based ontologies. Sematic LDAP – bridges the gap between LDAP and the Semantic Web.