PoolParty Thesaurus Server 3.2.2. has been released: Virtuoso integration, custom RDF schemas and ordered collections have been added as new features. Improved security, GUI optimzations and some facilitations for the operation of the server complement the list. Virtuoso Integration opens the door to new ways to make use of linked data based enterprise vocabularies. By integrating relational databases with unstructured… read more →
Today, WAND has announced that nine leading information management vendors have become founding members of the new ‘WAND Within’ Taxonomy Partnership Program. We are happy to announce that PoolParty is one of the nine vendors which will from now on be able to offer high-quality WAND taxonomies together with their software solutions to their clients. PoolParty technologies combined with WAND… read more →
Several standards exist for expressing controlled vocabularies but with the wide adoption of the Linked Data concept, the Web-based SKOS data model has become the choice of many contributors who want to integrate their controlled vocabularies into an interconnected Web of Data. With qSKOS it becomes possible to measure the quality of SKOS vocabularies and, most importantly, qSKOS supports thesaurus… read more →
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… read more →
It will not be long until PoolParty Team will be present at SemTechBiz 2012, the world´s largest exhibition & conference in the area of semantic technologies. Come to our booth located in the exhibition area and watch PoolParty product family in action – we will be happy to discuss with you some of your business cases PoolParty´s brandnew release 3.1… read more →
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… read more →
If you want to get involved with “Linked Data”, the most practical “Semantic Web” we have seen so far, watch this video of a webinar we gave in Ocotber 2011 evaluate possibilities which linked data can offer understand how to transform your data to linked data in a controlled and strategic manner get an idea why linked data technologies are… read more →
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… read more →
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… read more →
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. The survey is aimed at practitioners who are using or who are thinking about using controlled vocabularies in their organisation.… read more →
