News

OntoWiki 0.8.6 released
This is a bugfix release with minor enhancements. We fixed some issues from the user community. The most important enhancement is the support for HTTPS now. For a list of all issues, have a look at the Changelog.

Triplification Challenge Winners
We are very pleased to announce that the winners of this years Triplification Challenge were awarded on September 5th at I-Semantics 2008. The winners are: 1st prize (Macbook Air): Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens http://www.linkedmdb.org 2nd prize (eeePC): DBTune by Yves Raimond http://dbtune.org 3rd prize (iPod): Semantic Web Pipes by Danh Le Phuoc http://pipes.deri.org Further information can be found [...]

DBpedia 3.1 breaks 100 million triples barrier
Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. The OpenLink team and the research group around Chris Bizer helped us to produce the release. Apart from [...]

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. Semantic LDAP – bridges the gap between LDAP and the Semantic Web.