All Infrastructure systems are back online

This week, due to excessive rainfall, part of the ground floor of DERI was flooded. As a precaution all electrical equipment on the ground floor has been turned off, including all equipment in the DERI server room. This equipment is now turned back.

Please, accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Sigma explained in the latest issue of Talis' Nodalities magazine

Sig.ma is developed by Szymon Danielczyk, Richard Cyganiak, Michele Catasta and Giovanni Tummarello. In the latest issue of Talis' Nodalities magazine, Michael Hausenblas and Richard Cyganiak explained Sigma "a visual Web Data aggregation and querying platform targeting entity visualisation and consolidation."

Science Spin - Semantic Web, What's it all about? with Prof. Dr.Stefan Decker

Science Spin is broadcast every Thursday afternoon at 3:30pm to 4pm on Dublin City FM, 103.2FM. The show is written and presented by Seán Duke, science writer and editor.

Stefan Decker, Director of DERI NUI Galway, was interviewed about the semantic web. What it is? How does it work? Why is it important?...

Survey: How Semantic Web researchers use Web 2.0 to communicate about their work?

This survey is established as part of a research MSc. at DERI, NUI Galway. Our aim is to study the habits and motivations of the Semantic Web researchers community to publish and share contents online using Web 2.0 services. Thus, if you are researching Semantic Web technologies, we would really appreciate if you can take the survey.

Next week: the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) in Washington DC

The following papers will be presented next week at ISWC 2009 by DERI people - ISWC 2009 Program

Research Track

• Towards Lightweight and Robust Large Scale Emergent Knowledge Processing by Vit Novacek, Stefan Decker
• Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search by Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Stefan Decker
• Dynamic Querying of Mass-Storage RDF Data with Rule-Based Entailment Regimes by Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwallner, Alessandra Martello, Axel Polleres

Semantic Web In use Track

• Bridging the Gap Between Linked Data and the Semantic Desktop by Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
• Enrichment and Ranking of the YouTube Tag Space and Integration with the Linked Data Cloud by Smitashree Choudhury, John Breslin, Alexandre Passant
• Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal by Stéphane Corlosquet, Renaud Delbru, Tim Clark, Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker

Posters and Demos

• Web of Data Plumbing - Lowering the Barriers to Entry - Juergen Umbrich, Hugh Glaser, Tuukka Hastrup, Ian Millard, Michael Hausenblas
• sClippy: Connecting Personal Information and Linked Open Data - Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
• SensorMasher: Enabling open linked data in sensor data mashup - Danh Le Phuoc, Manfred Hauswirth

Workshop

• SDoW2009 Social Data on the Web - Chaired by John Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant and Sergio Fernandez, Fundation CTIC, Spain

All our publications are listed on our Website: http://www.deri.ie/publications/

Springer has released this week: Semantic Technologies for E-Government by Tomas Vitvar, Vassilios Peristeras, Konstantinos Tarabanis

Read this post to get more information

New: Inspector, Full Cache API – all with Online Data Reasoning

We’re happy to release today 2 distinct yet interplaying features in Sindice: The Sindice Inspector and the Sindice Cache API (both including Sindice’s Online Data Reasoning).

To read the entire post, visit Sindice Blog

DERI is happy to report that Sindice and the Sindice Team have been awarded recently in two separate occasions.

Sindice was awarded the 1st prize at the European Semantic Web Techology Conference, Business Idea Contest. Stefan Decker presented on behalf of the team and apparently the pitch was very well received in fact. He received the prize itself during the ESTC gala dinner.

In a somehow related news, a few weeks earlier, "Sindice.com: A Document-oriented Lookup Index for Open Linked Data" by E. Oren, R. Delbru, M. Catasta, R. Cyganiak, H. Stenzhorn and G. Tummarello recevied the Saltlux prize for the best 2007 DERI paper.

As it should be clear by now, the Semantic Web is all but an easy thing to get started. The Sindice Team at DERI has taken its own route and decided to invest a lot of time in getting a quality infrastructure up for everybody’s use. In an academic setting, this is a somehow bold choice. As we know academia is mostly based on publications and therefore actual infrastructures (that cost a LOT of time, sweats and have much more uncertainty associated than, say, a conference submission) are generally speaking an investment that few do. It is therefore particularly nice, and useful in fact, to receive these recognitions. They do and will help the Sindice effort to continue its commitment toward a more and more useful Web of Data.