It was the result of hard work and dedication: Early in the wee hours, precisely at 3:53 am, Sören Auer from AKSW (Leipzig University) announced the release of a new version of Triplify, the web application plugin that exposes structured data from relational databases as RDF, Linked Data and JSON.
With Triplify, AKSW want to overcome the present dilemma of the Semantic Web: Even though significant research and development efforts are undertaken, the growth of semantic representations is still outpaced by the growth of traditional web pages – to an extent that one might be skeptical about the potential success of the Semantic Web.
Within the Semantic Web initiative a number of standards and techniques were developed supporting the encoding and exchange of structured information and knowledge on the Web. And that’s the core of the Triplify approach – exploiting structured relational representations behind Web applications for creating a critical mass of semantic representations on the Web. Read more on our homepage.
Related pages:
Triplify.org
i-Semantics Triplification Challenge
