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).

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 free software, open source, open access and open knowledge movements.

Projects

AKSW has launched a number of high-impact R&D projects. Please look at the projects page for a comprehensive description of AKSW's funded as well as community, open source and past projects.

Demos

Please have a look at our demos:

  • AutoSPARQL allows you to create queries for over RDF knowledge bases with low effort

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  • Boa is a tool for pattern-based knowledge extraction.

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  • CubeViz The RDF DataCube Visualization Tool

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  • DeFacto is an algorithm for validating statements by finding confirming sources for it on the web.

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  • Fox is a Federated Knowledge Extraction Framework

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  • HANNE Holistic Application for Navigational Knowledge Engineering

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  • LGD Browser / Editor is a javascript-based fullscreen browser and editor for geo-spatial data.

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  • LIMES is a tool for discovering links in the Web of data

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  • LOD2 Stack is an integrated demonstrator application for the tools of the LOD2 project.

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  • LODStats collected statistics from all LOD datasets registered on the OKFN datahub.

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  • OntoWiki is a semantic data wiki for publishing and consuming Linked Data in agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios.

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  • RDFaCE is an RDFa Content Editor based on TinyMCE

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  • SlideWiki is a collaboration platform which enables communities to build, share and play online presentations

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  • Stanford Core NIF implementation.

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News

SlideWiki at CSEDU2013 Conference ( 2013-05-10T12:21:14+02:00 by Ali Khalili)

2013-05-10T12:21:14+02:00 by Ali Khalili

CSEDU 2013, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education was taking place in Aachen, Germany this year. The conference was addressing different e-learning themes such as Information Technologies Supporting Learning, Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment, Ubiquitous Learning, Social Context and Learning Environments as well as Cloud Education Environments. Read more about "SlideWiki at CSEDU2013 Conference"

Open Data Conference in Seoul ( 2013-05-01T23:25:02+02:00 by Dr. Sören Auer)

2013-05-01T23:25:02+02:00 by Dr. Sören Auer

On the second day of Sören’s short trip to Korea, we participated in the Open Data Conference of the Information Society Agency (NIA). NIA seems to be implementing a comprehensive Open Data strategy (also involving LinkedData). Looks like South Korea is quite advanced in this regard already. Read more about "Open Data Conference in Seoul"

LOD2 STACK USABILITY SURVEY STARTED ( 2013-04-16T13:06:40+02:00 by Sandra Prätor)

2013-04-16T13:06:40+02:00 by Sandra Prätor

In the recent years the LOD2 stack established a collection of applications developed in the context of the LOD2 project, presented as an unified environment. These applications are referred to as components although they can also be installed independently. Read more about "LOD2 STACK USABILITY SURVEY STARTED"

Preview release of RDFaCE special edition for Schema.org ( 2013-04-15T17:12:48+02:00 by Ali Khalili)

2013-04-15T17:12:48+02:00 by Ali Khalili

We are happy to announce the preview release of our RDFaCE WYSIWYM content editor special edition for Schema.org. RDFaCE (RDFa Content Editor) extends the TinyMCE rich text editor to facilitate the authoring of semantic documents. This version of RDFaCE is customized for annotating content in RDFa or Microdata formats based on Schema.org vocabularies. Read more about "Preview release of RDFaCE special edition for Schema.org"

European project BioASQ sets a challenge to push research in biomedical information retrieval and question answering ( 2013-04-12T12:23:14+02:00 by Sandra Prätor)

2013-04-12T12:23:14+02:00 by Sandra Prätor

Every day, approximately 3000 new articles are published in biomedical journals. That averages to more than 2 articles every minute! Managing this large amount of data is a challenge in itself. Read more about "European project BioASQ sets a challenge to push research in biomedical information retrieval and question answering"