The nominees for the LOD Triplification Challenge are up! The challenge was organized as part of the preparations for the I-SEMANTICS 2008 conference and asked for submissions in the form of applications of Linked Open Data tools, RDF and Linked Data exporters, adoptions of configurations of TriplifyPlugin for Web applications, which reveals the semantic structures encoded in relational databases by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data. (http://dl-learner.org/Projects/Triplify) for standard web applications, portings of the triplify script into other languages (e.g. Python, RubyRuby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. It was influenced primarily ..., Perl, ASP) and for applications showcasing the benefits of Linked Data to end-users.

Triplify itself is a small web application plugin – its crucial parts consisting of roughly 200 lines of code – currently only implemented in PHP. It is based on the definition of relational database queries for a specific web application in order to retrieve valuable information and to convert the results of these queries into RDF, JSON and Linked Data. More information about Triplify can be found here.

On to the nominees: Eight of the submissions were nominated and can now be voted on using the poll widget on the nominations page. The nominees are:

1. Automatic Generation of a Content Management SystemA content management system (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to: Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data Control access to ... from an OWL ontology, an ontology is a formal representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the entities within that domain, and may be used to describe the domain. In theory, an ontology is a "formal, explicit ... and RDF import and export by Alastair Burt, Brigitte Jörg.
   URL: www.lt-world.org/triplify
2. Integrating Triplify into the Django web application framework and discover some math by Martin Czygan.
   URL: pcai042.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:9103
3. Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens.
   URL: www.linkedmdb.org
4. Interlinking Multimedia Data by Michael Hausenblashttp://webofdata.wordpress.com/, Wolfgang HalbResearch fellow at JOANNEUM RESEARCH. Interested in Semantic Web related topics. (http://esw.w3.org/WolfgangHalb).
   URL: sw.joanneum.at/CaMiCatzee
5. Showcases of light-weight RDF syndication in Joomla! by Danh Le Phuoc, Nur Aini Rakhmawati.
   URL: swm.deri.org/jsyndication
6. Semantic Web Pipes Demo by Danh Le Phuoc.
   URL: pipes.deri.org
7. DBTune by Yves RaimondSenior Software Engineer at BBC Audio & Music interactive. PhD at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. Interested in music, music technologies, digital signal processing, open-source and semantic-web technologies. (http://moustaki.org/).
   URL: dbtune.org
8. Triplification of the Open-Source Online Shop System osCommerce by Elias Theodorou.
   URL: triplify.org/vocabulary/oscommerce

Detailed information can be found in PDF outlines on the nomination page – and don’t forget to vote! The final decision about the winners of the challenge will be made by the organizing committee.

The prizes will be awarded at I-SEMANTICS 2008, 3–5 September 2008, GrazGraz is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria. It has a population of 291,890 as of 2010 (of which 258.605 have principal residence status). Graz has a long tradition as a student city: its six universities have more than 44,000 students. ..., Austria, which is part of TRIPLE-I, a joint venture of three conferences (I-SEMANTICS, I-KNOW, I-MEDIA).

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