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PoolParty 2.8.1 released

Helmut Nagy — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:08:57 +0000

The new PoolParty Release 2.8.1 is available now. It’s a minor update mainly addressing security issues, some of the improvements are:

Information on generation of snapshots
Admin Dashboard offering information for projects
Custom parameters for queries in the SPARQL endpoint.

To get an overview on all changes made in Release 2.8.1 you can read the Release Notes.

Try PoolParty and get a Demo Account or join our next webinar to learn more about PoolParty.

Les Kneebone: “Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia”

Andreas Blumauer — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:38:36 +0000

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. Here is a short summary of this interview:

Why did you choose thesauri to organize your information? What kind of problems are you able to solve with this approach?

A thesaurus approach was chosen rather than a subject headings approach because we assumed (and continue to assume) that post-coordinate indexing will drive vocabulary-assisted discovery.

Which role does SKOS and/or Linked Data play in order to achieve your goals?

ScOT concepts are now published as URIs. This approach solves the problem of different ScOT versions in disparate systems.

What are the most important values you generate for your stakeholders? What kind of applications can be built or have been built on top of your thesauri?

The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various rdf vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved.

What are the most important arguments to use Semantic Web standards and linked data, especially in education?

The Australian education sector is characterized by many disparate systems in different education jurisdictions. Semantic web technologies are one solution to linking education data in Australia.

Why did you choose PoolParty to manage your thesauri?

We had already identified SKOS as an important standard for ScOT so it was natural to select PoolParty as a our new thesaurus management tool.

What are your future plans and next steps? How do you manage to get your thesauri used, how are you going to build an “eco-system” around your work? (Do you plan to publish ScOT on the LOD cloud? Under which licenses?)

Our vocabularies are currently for non-commercial use and we don’t anticipate any change to the license at this stage. The ScOT license requires attribution, permits derivatives that must be shared, and is for non-commercial use.

Read the full interview here.

SCMS face2face meeting took place in Amsterdam 7-8 October 2010

Martin Kaltenböck — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:54:36 +0000

After the last face to face meeting in Vienna in January 2010 it has been about time to have the next SCMS project meeting to discuss the status of the work packages 2 (Knowledge Discovery),3 (Knowledge Engineering) and 4 (Knowledge Storage) as well as to plan the SCMS project workplan 2011 including work packages 5 (CMS implementation – Enterprise Knowledge Management – at the moment it si planned to implement the SCMS stack into the following systems: Drupal, Typo3, conX and Atlassian Confluence) and 6 (News Mining implementation).

This time the project team was invited by OpenLink Software that hosted the meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In a two day face 2 face meeting the project team presented the status of the above mentioned work packages including tool demonstrations and hands on sessions as well as discussed required changes on architecture and components. Finally the procedure for the implementation of the SCMS technology stack into CMS solutions has been specified in detail.

Beside the final specification of A) extracting structured information out of unstructured content (using NLP technologies) as well as B) turning this structured information into contextual embedded knowledge using RDF and several semantic web technologies the 1st specification of C) the mechanisms of inferencing and knowledge querying has been specified to build reports/mash ups out of the available internal and external structured and unstructured information / data.

The afternoon of the second day was mainly destined for hands on sessions: these sessions really helped us to solve some important coding- & tool issues – so it was a good idea to manage this sessions beside presentations and specifications!

The meeting will be followed by a SCMS hackaton in Vienna in early December 2010 – the next face to face meeting will take place in May 2011.

At the meeting presented tools:

CARE of Digital Trowel, Israel
(see also article about: TheStockSonar.com in TechCrunch)
OntoWiki of InFAI, Germany
Virtuoso of OpenLink Software, UK
PoolParty of punkt. netServices, Austria
(see also new demo zone available)

Please do not hesitate to contact us if any questions on SCMS technologies and methodologies are arising!

Btw the 2 Use Cases (AIDA tours and reegle.info of REEEP) will be finalised and presented as BETA in late 2011 – so watch out!

PoolParty 2.8 released

Helmut Nagy — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:00:16 +0000

The new PoolParty Release 2.8 is available now offering many new features and improvements:

Import and export of subtrees and concept schemes
Creating subproperties for relations
Adding notes to concepts (Change/Editorial/History notes)

To get an overview on all changes made in Release 2.8 you can read the Release Notes. The User Guide for the new PoolParty Release is also available.

Try it out and get a Demo Account or join our next webinar to get a deeper insight.

Publishing Linked Data for the first time (PoolParty 2.7 release notes)

Andreas Blumauer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:13:23 +0000

I still remember when I was publishing HTML for the first time in my life: It took place in 1996 and I used Microsoft Frontpage. It was exciting because then “I was on the Internet”. Yesterday, around 15 years later something similar happened: I published Linked Data for the first time actively! Eureka! Sure, by using Semantic MediaWiki or Wordpress’s SIOC plugin “I was already on the Semantic Web” – but a lot of data which is produced by such tools is not Linked Data but simple RDF. A closer look at all the datasets in the LOD cloud also reveals that none of them can be edited with an ease, except upcoming DBpedia Live which offers “real-time semantic web”. Conclusio: So far most of the linked data in the LOD cloud was generated by DB2RDF mapping tools like D2R which can only be handled by semantic web experts and technicians. Don´t get me wrong – this is a very important basic layer for the LOD world. All automatically generated datasets like DBpedia are kind of “highways” on the linked data map. Now it´s time to pave the side streets. Just imagine, a teacher would like to publish his knowledge about Italian painters in a way it can be re-used as linked data. Should we tell him to “open an editor, to start typing RDF triples and to upload the file via FTP”? When we started to design PoolParty in 2007 we had people in our minds who would like to contribute actively to producing data for the semantic web. People working for organizations with special domain knowledge are not only able to connect the dots from the linked data highways but also know how to customize such data for their own applications. PoolParty 2.7 offers the following features and functionalities for such tasks:

Linked Data editing: users generate linked data to describe their resources (concepts) on top of SKOS
Linked data lookup: mapping between own thesauri and additional facts from the semantic web The following resources can be used at the moment: DBpedia, Umbel, Yago, DMOZ, LCSH, Geonames & Wordnet; this service is highly configurable – also internal linked data sources can be mapped and used to enrich local thesauri; the lookup service makes use of the very fast TuQS server
Linked data publishing: based on linked data patterns any resource can be published as linked data, ready to re-use for any linked data application; example: http://open.poolparty.punkt.at/Wine/13 which can also be viewed by linked data browsers like Zitgist’s DataViewer
SPARQL endpoint: another way how PoolParty’s RDF data can be accessed by semantic web developers

In addition to these features PoolParty 2.7 comes with some other new features:

Translation support: works for nearly any language and domain with high accuracy – thanks to Google Translate
Online Documentation: PoolParty’s end-user manual is open for the public, easy to access and searchable; since PoolParty 2.7 it is available not only as PDF document but also as browsable Wiki
Flexible Reporting Tool: As we have already blogged before, PoolParty’s new reporting tool is flexible enough to manage to export formats like, for example, Google Synonyms; also “traditional” thesaurus reports like hierarchical reports are available
iPhone front-end: If you have to do research using your thesauri while you are somewhere outside of the office, this could be a possible solution for you – see this screenshot!

If you also want to publish some linked data (for the first time in your life ) register to get a PoolParty demo account and go for it! It´s really easy.

PoolParty 2.6 available now!

Andreas Blumauer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:06:53 +0000

PoolParty 2.6 was released today with useful new features:

Special import functionalities: Each concept can be populated with multi-lingual lists of sub-concepts via CSV import.
User Management: Each PoolParty user belongs to one or many usergroups which can own and edit one ore many thesauri. Projects published into the “public” group can be viewed via wiki frontend without login.
New skin: Beside “White Russian” and “Tequila Sunrise” and new skin called “Bluebird” is available now (all skins are named after cocktails)

Welcome to SCMS EUREKA Eurostars! project weblog

Martin Kaltenböck — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:00:58 +0000

This is the weblog of the EUREKA Eurostars SCMS project : Semantic Content Management Systems for Enterprise Knowledge Management and News Mining.

The SCMS project is a project funded in the EUREKA Eurostars! Programme. It started in October 2009 and has a duration of 33 months until June 2012. The project consortium consists of 5 partners from 4 differnt countries. If you are interested in the project just read the ‘about section’.

On this weblog we will inform you continuously about the project SCMS! We will provide news flashes in the area of technology, use cases, partner news and news about the progress of SCMS.

So stay in touch – we will keep you informed!

The SCMS project team