News

ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched
This ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched by AKSW aims at developing and promoting the concept of stakeholder-driven research. Goals are to (1) develop a prediction market model for research funding, (2) implement a Web platform for organising this market and the participatory research process, (3) persuade research funding agencies to use this platform for managing a part [...]

CfP: International Workshop on Interacting with Multimedia Content in the Social Semantic Web (IMC-SSW 2008)
Media sharing and social networking websites have attracted many millions of users resulting in vast collections of user generated content. The contents are typically poorly structured and spread over several platforms, each supporting specific media types. With the increasing growth and diversity of these websites, new ways to access and manage the contents are required [...]

OntoWiki 0.8.5 released
The AKSW research group is pleased to announce that OntoWiki 0.8.5 is now available for download. Changes in this release include A plug-in and event architecture A file / document manager Rest webservices for login / query / export databases WebDAV support for browsing and exporting resources A new JSON exporter that uses the RDF JSON specification draft from talis New [...]

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.