LOD2 project plenary meeting Paris: Introduction and State of Play of the LOD2 project in month 6 by Sören Auer of University of Leipzig, presented at the Paris plenary meeting in March 2011.

1. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
LOD2 M6 State of Play
Sören Auer
http://lod2.eu
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2. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Focus of the first 6 months
Getting started
Getting up to speed
Developing a joint vision
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3. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Focus of the next 6 months
Architecture &
Integration
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4. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Deliverables
D12.4.1 – Website and Online Collaboration Platform
D10.2.1 – Continuously updated project website
D12.5.1 – Project Fact Sheet Version 1
D2.1.1 – Initial LOD cloud hosted on the LOD2 Knowledge Store Cluster
D1.2 – State-of-the-art analysis
D4.3.1 – State-of-the-Art Report for Mapping, QA and Data Fusion
D1.1 – Common requirements analysis and specification
D1.3 – Architecture & system design
D12.2.1 – Intermediate Project Reports
D2.1.2 – State-of-the-Art and LOD2 Laboratory
D3.1.1 – State-of-the-Art Report for Extraction from Structured Sources
D3.4.1 – Report on Automatically Detectable Modelling Errors and Problems
D10.2.2 – Updated dissemination plan
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5. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Publications
22 overall (includes articles to appear), thereof
• 13 ULEI
• 5 FUB
• 1 OpenLink
• 1 Book
• 1 Journal
• 4 ISWC 2010 (20% acceptance rate)
• 3 ESWC 2011 (23% acceptance rate)
• 2 EKAW (28% acceptance rate)
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6. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Highlights: energy.publicdata.eu
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7. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
PubLink as the Linked Open Data Starter Service
1. Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria
Team contact: Bastiaan Deblieck, Tenforce
2. Greater London Authority
Team contact: Bastiaan Deblieck, Tenforce
3. Deutsch Bibliographie, Historische Kommission
Team contact: Thomas Riechert , ULEI
4. The Parliament of Finland
Team contact: Jonathan Gray, OKFN
5. City of Vienna
Team contact: Martin Kaltenböck, SWCG
6. Instituto Canario de Estadística (ISTAC)
Team contact: Michael Hausenblas, DERI
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8. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Highlight: Linked Data Book
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9. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Highlight: Events
• Tim Berners-Lee at Linked Data
at the Future Internet
• LDOW Workshop
• Eurostat Hackday
• Open Government Data Camp
London
• SWIB10 - Semantic Web in
Bibliotheken Invited Talk "Von
offenen Daten zu einem
Ökosystem vernetzten Wissens"
• LOD2 meetup at fedict on
26.01.2011 in Brussels, Belgium
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10. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Highlights: LOD2 Open Data Stakeholder Survey
Already involved Starting with OGD
in OGD
United 27 Germany 44
Kingdom
Spain 11 Austria 21
Netherland 10 Italy 12
s
United 9 France 6
States
Canada 3 Belgium, Finland, India 4
Australia, 1 Hungary, Norway, Portugal 3
Ireland, Isle
of Man,
New
Zealand
Andorra, Belarus, Brazil, 2
Croatia, Greece,
Luxembourg, Romania,
Russia, Slovenia, Sweden
Albania, Argentinia, 1
Bhutan, Bulgaria, Chile,
Denmark, Israel, Mexico,
Poland, San Marino,
Switzerland, Taiwan,
Turkey
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Highlight: BSBM
4store BigData BigOwlim TDB Virtuoso
Query 1 145.3 64.4 45.0 62.2 163.0
Query 2 55.7 35.3 111.6 44.1 73.8
Query 3 122.9 14.4 48.1 66.1 195.4
Query 4 62.9 40.0 37.8 47.3 94.8
Query 5 5.0 1.7 1.8 1.2 9.3
Query 6 - - - - -
Query 7 49.3 21.9 11.0 15.0 15.4
Query 8 57.1 14.1 12.6 15.9 22.5
Query 9 117.3 44.6 67.9 97.1 160.1
Query 10 52.8 28.8 22.4 26.4 69.9
Query 11 33.3 26.7 18.7 23.4 39.5
Query 12 40.4 31.1 29.1 28.3 39.8
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12. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Lowlights
Final phase of deliverable production partially too uncoordinated
Stronger involvement of some partners in joint integration &
dissemination activities
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13. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
LOD2 Dissemination Resources
Website: http://lod2.eu
Weblog: http://lod2.eu/BlogPost
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lod2project
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/lod2project
PUBLINK: http://lod2.eu/Article/Publink.html
Remark: please use #lod2 on twitter for your posts & connect with account: lod2project
many thanks in advance!!
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14. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
Facts and Figures
 Internal LOD2 mailing list about 70 subscribers
 Public LOD2 mailing list about 30 subscribers
(e.g., to support discussion about Linked Open Data on the mailing list worldwide)
 Twitter about 525 followers
(e.g., to post LOD2 relevant topics and show competence in the field of LOD as well as for networking
purposes)
 LOD2 website 9615 unique clients
(e.g., monthly interviews, event participation announcements, articles about event participations, posts
about relevant developments, outputs of other related projects and developments, reports about project
meetings)
 Press clippings about 20
e.g., Germany (Zeit online, Heise online, Börsenblatt), Belgium (Datanews ), Austria (Computerwelt)
 Talks and presentations about 36
e.g., award-winning paper “Knowledge Engineering for Historians on the Example of the Catalogus
Professorum Lipsiensis” at ISWC 2010 by ULEI
 Book publication Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data
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