Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)
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.
LOD2 Webinar Series: LIMES ? Discovery of Links across Knowledge Bases
The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of an LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image – additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack from scratch are available in the How-To-Start document. Born from the wish to make linking [...]
LOD2 Plenary Meeting: WebID and Authorization SIG
Today morning, we started the main LOD2 plenary meeting in Vienna. The first half day session the WebID special interest group discussed about WebID based single sign for the LDO2 stack and authorization. The challenge here is to provide a interoperable authorization layer which describe user, groups / roles and access to different parts of the stack as well as the managed knowledge bases. We agreed on the following short and long-time goals and activities: WebID registration service and stack internal authorization policy.
I-Semantics deadlines approaching (research/application papers and Linked Data Cup)
Several deadlines regarding the I-Semantics 2012 are approaching and we would like to give a gentle reminder to all who are thinking about a submission that now would be a good time to start writing The deadline for research and application papers (8 pages for full papers) is April 13th, 2012. Note that the abstract [...]
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 has launched 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-centred Requirements Engineering for evolutionary software development
- OntoWiki is a Semantic Data Wiki as well as an Application Framework providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios.
- DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web.
- DL-Learner tackles the problem of learning concepts / class expressions in Description Logics / OWL from examples.
Please look at the projects page for a comprehensive description of AKSW's funded as well as community and open source projects.
Demos
Please have a look at our demos:
DBpedia.org: Querying Wikipedia like a knowledge base.
LinkedGeoData.org: adding the spatial dimension to the Semantic Web.
Triplify.org: Make Web applications better mashable by exposing semantics.
xOperator: Interconnecting the Semantic Web with Instant Messaging Networks.
Wikipedia Query Builder: Query the over 10M facts extracted from Wikipedia
OntoWiki: Use social semantic collaboration to build comprehensive knowledge bases
DL-Learner: Earn class descriptions by semantically analysing objects
DBpedia Relationship Finder: Allows you to explore the DBpedia dataset to find relationships between two things
DBpedia Navigator: Search/browse in DBpedia and get recommendations on what you may be looking for
Information
Last Modification: 
2011-01-24 15:44:12 by Sebastian Dietzold