From November 24th to 25th a workshop on Semantic Web in Digital Libraries, called SWIB’09, took place in Cologne, Germany. It was an event dedicated to librarians, information professionals, and other interested people who have or are currently thinking of implementing linked data in their institutions. The workshop language was German, which somehow makes it [...]
For research purposes – if you don’t want to become a DBpedia DoS attacker – it might sometimes be necessary to set up a local DBpedia instance in your local Virtuoso Server. The following steps describe how we did that on our linux machine: Prerequisites: So far I haven’t found an official hardware requirements specification [...]
how to execute SPARQL queries and examine the results on the Mac OS commandline
We are currently working on the first release of DSNotify, which should provide link maintenance support for linked data sources. That means we would like to provide a service that detects broken links among data sets and proposes possible fixes when resources are moved to other URI locations. More on that in our workshop paper, [...]
Summary of a recent discussion on event ontologies on the public Linked Data mailing list
For more than two years, people are working on the Linked Data issue. This article is an attempt to explain the basic ideas behind Linked Data without getting too technical.