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Dominic Oldman: “SKOS is the obvious choice for representing our thesauri in semantic form”

June 20, 2011 | Post
Dominic Oldman is Deputy Head of the Information Systems department at the British Museum. He is Principal Investigator of the ResearchSpace project, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aiming to develop a semantic research environment for the culture and heritage sector. PoolParty Team had the chance to talk with Dominic about the importance of semantic technologies and ...

Marcus Ebner: “In a globalized science world it can be very tiring if you don’t speak the same ‘language’ or can’t read someone else´s data.”

May 26, 2011 | Post
Marcus Ebner is a Geologist working as a domain expert in knowledge management in the Department of Geoinformation at the Geological Survey of Austria. The Geological Survey of Austria is a public sector research institution that is affiliated with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research and as such the premier advisory body for the Austrian Government for geosciences. ...

Open W3C-standards like SKOS provide a great chance to combine corporate information with Internet-based resources

March 22, 2011 | Post
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 colleagues at Roche to more easily find the needed information for their daily work”. Baumgarten is convinced, ...

Florian Bauer: I like to view “linked data” as a “single worldwide API”

March 16, 2011 | Post
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 REEEP. PoolParty Team had the chance to talk with Florian about reegle - information gateway on clean energy. Could you please ...

Norman Gray: “SKOS is just as complicated as we need it to be.”

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 ...

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