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Articles about AKSW

AKSW projects and its results are frequently featured in online and print media.

2011

• Another interesting article on AKSW's activities has been published about the Leipzig Semantic Web Day 2011. Many of the talks and discussions are summarised in here, thus giving a nice overview on current developments in the Semantic Web field in general and on the event's main theme “Linked Data for the Masses” in particular. The article can be found here.

• The magazine of the University of Leipzig has published an article on a new regional project between AKSW and the Kunert Business Software company based in Leipzig. Sponsored by Leipzig's Chamber of Industry and Commerce, this project is about developing another open-source tool for the interlinking of enterprise data. The article written in German can be found here.

• In the quarterly magazine Transferbrief Leipzig the University of Leipzig takes the opportunity to report on latest research results and concrete interaction projects between academia and the business community. This year's first issue covers a one-page introduction to AKSW's newest projects. The article can be found in the print issue 1/2011 on page 11.

2010

• On December 18, the Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote about the Professors Catalog of the University of Leipzig, which is based on the AKSW software Onto Wiki and has been developed and managed in cooperation with historians from the university. The article describes the award-winning and so far unique online catalog through nice examples and especially praises its easy-to-use character.

• With a long and amiable article on the Semantic Web in its March issue (03/2010), Leipzig's city events guide and social magazine Kreuzer notably featured AKSW and its projects. A PDF of the print version can be accessed here. A shorter online version is also available.

2009

• Austrian newspaper Die Presse published a long article about the Semantic Web and prominently references AKSW technologies such as Triplify. A PDF of the original article can be accessed here, a shorter online version is also available.

2008

• The popular Web technology blog ReadWriteWeb featured AKSW's light-weight information integration tool Triplify.
• Semantic Web School published an interview with Sören Auer on Cofundos and the vision of participatory R&D. Read the interview here.
• AKSW's participatory R&D platform Cofundos.org was mentioned in popular news channels and Weblogs (e.g. Heise, Golem, linux.com and many others).

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