The British Museum (BM) and Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) are some of the leading cultural heritage (CH) institutions that want to publish their collections as Linked Open Data (LOD).
Keeping with tradition, Ontotext is pleased to announce that it will be a Platinum sponsor of the 2012 SemTech Biz conference to be held June 3 through 7 in San Francisco.
Edamam is a New York-based company developing a knowledge base that organizes information related to food and recipes. Last week EDAMAM launched its recipe search at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara, California.
Ontotext are pleased to announce the release of OWLIM version 5.0 featuring a new transaction mechanism, performance improvements, SPARQL 1.1 graph store protocol, integration with TopBraid Composer/Live and many other improvements.
A blog post on "Sports Refresh: Dynamic Semantic Publishing" was published today by Jem Rayfield, Lead Technical Architect at BBC's Future Media department. It describes how the new Dynamic Semantic Publishing (DSP) architecture underpins the recently re-launched BBC Sports and Olympics 2012 sites.
Ontotext are pleased to announce the second BETA release of OWLIM version 5.0 featuring:
Transaction management and isolation mechanisms have been completely refactored. The new mechanism uses two modes: 'bulk-loading' (fast) with similar behaviour to previous versions and 'normal' (safe) where database recovery is instant and there is a significant improvement in concurrency between updates and queries.
The first two Bulgariana collections Golden Pages of the Bulgarian Revival and Pra-historic and Thracian Civilizations have been published in Europeana on March 6th, 2012.
They can be found at http://europeana.eu with the search terms:
Ontotext is pleased to announce the next regular open training course:
28-30th March 2012
Lancaster Gate Hotel
Hyde Park, 66 Lancaster Gate,
London , W2 3NA
Book you place now and feel free to select only those days suitable for your level of experience.
Ontotext launched bulgariana.eu, an agregator to publish Bulgarian cultural heritage in the European virtual library Europeana.