April 11, 2013 | Post
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica has cooperated with our partner OpenLink Software, to help apply advanced database methods developed at CWI in the Virtuoso database product of OpenLink. The cooperation between CWI and OpenLink Software, was established in the European research project LOD2 (www.lod2.eu), that aims at strengthening the tools and technology for semantic data management (SWC is member of the ...
January 28, 2013 | Post
We are happy to announce the first official release of the PoolParty SKOS API. This API can be installed in addition to a PoolParty Thesaurus Server 3.2 and offers an easy way to programmatically access data of a SKOS thesaurus via RESTful services. The SKOS API can be used without any knowledge about SPARQL . This first release of the ...
March 26, 2012 | Post
At this year´s Atlassian Summit and Semantic Tech & Business Conference, both to be held between May and June in San Francisco, we will present a brandnew plugin for Confluence, the leading Content and Social Collaboration software. PoolParty PowerTagging helps users to tag (annotate) pages more precisely with the lowest possible effort. Come and visit us at one of the ...
December 12, 2011 | Post
Teaching the principles of the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Controlled Vocabularies is not only about presenting the underlying ideas and concepts in theory but also a matter of discussing practical examples and having experiences with concrete tools and demos. Just recently Bernhard Haslhofer, teaching at Web Information Systems at Cornell Information Science, confirmed this apporach by saying "“DBpedia and ...
December 11, 2011 | Post
PoolParty Team has recently published an improved version of their WordPress plugin which enables linked data enrichments of blogs. Therefore a SKOS based vocabulary has to be uploaded or retrieved from a SPARQL-endpoint. Users and developers benefit from automatic annotation of all blog entries displayed as tooltips a comfortable search facility with auto-complete over all concepts from the linked thesaurus including ...
July 28, 2011 | Post
PoolParty plugin makes Wordpress blogs & websites more understandable. Blogs will benefit from linking posts with key terms automatically. The plugin uses SKOS vocabularies and improves SEO Smart Linking. In a recent video Matt Cutts from Google announced that smart internal linking is one of the key strategies for SEO in 2011. So PoolParty Team has released a freely available ...