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Review: PoolParty at Leipziger Semantic Web Days 2011 (LSWT)
Leipzig is one of the hot spots in Europe regarding Semantic Web & Linked Data research. Leipziger Semantic Web Days took place the third time from May 4 until 5, 2011 at Leipziger Mediencampus. PoolParty was pleased to be a sponsor of this great event. We were...
How to identify use cases based on controlled vocabularies for your organisation
We have started to offer PoolParty as an enterprise vocabulary management system on the commercial market in 2009. Since then we experienced many enlightening moments: As you can imagine, many of those topics focused on the starting points with interested parties for...
Do Controlled Vocabularies Matter?
punkt. netServices and the PoolParty Team are conducting a survey about the usage of controlled vocabularies like taxonomies or thesauri and related trends, tools and application scenarios. Answering this questionnaire is anonymous and will only take 5 to 10 minutes....
Open W3C-standards like SKOS provide a great chance to combine corporate information with Internet-based resources
Dr. Horst Baumgarten has worked for Roche for almost 25 years. He was head of Information Management at Roche Professional Diagnostics for 15 years and has become head of Scientific Information Technologies in 2010. His “mantra” is simple: “I want to support my...
Florian Bauer: I like to view “linked data” as a “single worldwide API”
Florian Bauer is REEEP's Operations and IT Director, responsible for the overall operational management of the organisation, the product management of reegle (the search engine for renewable energy and energy efficiency) and the management of the IT landscape of...
Norman Gray: “SKOS is just as complicated as we need it to be.”
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:...
Les Kneebone: “Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia”
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...
Short Screencasts outline PoolParty features
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,...
Meet us at “Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web” (ISKO UK)
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...