January 11, 2011 | Post
Norman Gray is researcher with the Astronomy Group of University of Glasgow. Among other projects he is member in the IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance) which uses SKOS and PoolParty for developing and utilizing vocabularies in a collaborative way. Q: Norman, please tell us about your project and its purpose. The astronomy and astrophysics communities of the major countries launched ...
November 10, 2010 | Post
Les Kneebone is Project Manager at Education Services Australia Ltd. Among other projects he is responsible for Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT). PoolParty Team asked Les a couple of questions about thesaurus management, linked data and the semantic web: 1. What is the purpose of your thesaurus project in general? ESA manages a number of vocabularies used in Australian curriculum organization ...
July 19, 2010 | Post
We have three screencasts available that give a quick overview over PoolParty and how to use it to create thesauri and utilize them for working with tag recommendations, document analysis, linked data, etc. Each screencast also uses a different theme for the GUI, which you can choose and switch at any time. The first screencast in the series shows how ...
June 21, 2010 | Post
ISKO UK will organise a one-day seminar in collaboration with the UCL Department for Information Studies to discuss the "Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web" with a special focus on Linked Data. The seminar will take place at University College London on September 14, 2010. The preliminary programme includes talks by Nigel Shadbolt, Antoine Isaac, Martin Hepp, John Goodwin, ...
June 7, 2010 | Post
PoolParty Team will give a demo session on June 30. Come around and see the coolest features of PoolParty 2.7! What will you learn in this session? How can I manage multi-lingual thesauri for the Semantic Web? How can I make use of automatic text mining to improve my thesauri? How can I use thesauri to make semantic search happen? ...
June 1, 2010 | Post
PoolParty 2.7 offers new and comfortable ways to enrich any SKOS thesaurus with additional facts from the semantic web (see: LOD cloud). This functionality (which was extended significantly with version 2.7 in June 2010) supports any thesaurus manager to generate much richer knowledge models (ontologies) around specific domains than ever before (without facing high extra costs due to additional research). ...