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Winners of Triplification Challenge 2010

September 05, 2010 By: Tassilo Pellegrini Category: Calls & Competitions, Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data 2 Comments →

On Friday, September 3, 2010 the winners and honorary mentions of the 3rd Triplification Challenge have been awarded at the I-SEMANTICS conference in Graz. This year’s challenge consisted of an Open Track and a special Open Governement Data Track.

In total we received 28 submissions from which 15 nominees have been selected by the organizing committee. In a second round an international reviewing team of scientific and industrial experts elected the 3 equal winners and 3 honorary mentions. The winners were each granted a prize money of 1000.- Euro which was sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Germany, Semantic Universe and Semantic Web Company.

In the Open Governement Data Track the awards went to:

Winner:

Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks
Richard Cyganiak, Fadi Maali and Vassilios Peristeras

Honorary Mention:

Linking Open Government Data: What Journalists Wish They Had Known
Christoph Boehm, Felix Naumann, Markus Freitag, Stefan George, Norman Höfler, Martin Köppelmann, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher and Tobias Schmidt

Honorary Mention:

Geographical Linked Data: a Spanish Use Case
Alexander De Leon, Victor Saquicela, Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Freddy Priyatna, Oscar Corcho, Carlos Buil, Jose Mora and Jean Paul Calbimonte

In the Open Track the awards went to:

Winner:

Live Open Linked Sensor Database
Danh Le Phuoc, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Michael Hausenblas, Yuanbo Han, Manfred Hauswirth

Winner:

Twarql: Tapping Into the Wisdom of the Crowd
Pablo Mendes, Pavan Kapanipathi and Alexandre Passant

Honorary Mention:

BibBase Triplified – http://data.bibbase.org
Christian Fritz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Yang Yang, Reynold Xin and Renée J. Miller

Cordial congratulations from the organizing team & look out for the 4th Triplification Challenge in 2011, which will again take place at the I-SEMANTICS conference, September 7 – 9, 2011 in Graz / Austria.

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The Open Government Data Meetup in Vienna

April 10, 2010 By: Thomas Thurner Category: Open Government Data, Politics No Comments →

Show what is possible! As Martin Kaltenböck – one of the organizers oft the recently held Semantic Web Meetup on an Austrian Open Government Data Initiative – said, there is a lot of enthusiasm and energy to inform the public and engage politics about the impact a initative similar to those in US and UK may have for Austria. And the KickOff was promissing. Inspiring talks by Rufus Pollock (UK) and Stefano Bertolo (EU) where giving an insight whats possible in the specific field of Open Government Data, as well as how a start of an initiative can look like.

As ePSI-Platform wrote in their blog
The Austrian Open Data initiative is online and at work.

The event was very well attended, and brought together stakeholders from science, industry, government and citizen activists, A promising melange of people which may carry the project forward to very concrete UseCases and Trials in the very near future. As the initiative is ment to be carried by a broad group of proponents, the follow-up of the meeting will be a round table talk, of those who are willing to contribute in upcoming light-tower projects and opening concrete sets of government data for that.

The next meeting of the Austrian Open Data Initiative
takes place on the 12th May at 9.30 a.m. in
Room D, quartier 21 of the Vienna Museum Quarter.

Find Documentation of the Meetup on Zukunftsweb, browse the Picture’s Album or read the conclusions at ePSI-Platform.

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