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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

June 1, 2010 | Post

PoolParty 2.7 offers new and comfortable ways to enrich any SKOS thesaurus with additional facts from the semantic web (see: LOD cloud). This functionality (which was extended significantly with version 2.7 in June 2010) supports any thesaurus manager to generate much richer knowledge models (ontologies) around specific domains than ever before (without facing high extra costs due to additional research). ...