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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 ...

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

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 ...

Meet us at “Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web” (ISKO UK)

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, ...

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