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Using the LOD2 stack: linking datasets

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published by Bert Van Nuffelen on December 19, 2011 - 13:31

The LOD2 project aims at easing the publishing of Linked Data in RDF formet.  In this blog,
I guide you through the process of interlinking two datasets using the LOD2 stack.
The tutorial is based on our work for the LOD2 project and is also available at
the wiki of the LOD2 stack.

Leuven Open Data

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published by Lambda Verdonckt on August 31, 2011 - 15:47

For most people "Information Technology" is still a black box. Or even a box of Pandora! Probably IT people themselves are to blame, they always make software and computers seem complex and a kind of magic. Would that be a kind of territorial defense, maybe?

That's why we organize an event, especially for those who are fed up with hearing IT say "what you ask, is not possible". At the event we will explain - or should I say "show" - one of the most innovative IT technologies: Open Data. (And that's the last time we'll say 'technology' or 'IT'.)

Taxonomy, Thesaurus, Ontology... What the # are they talking about?

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published by Lambda Verdonckt on August 24, 2011 - 17:12

These terms are very often used interchangeably… and cause a lot confusion doing so! These ‘things’ happen to be our expertise at TenForce: we develop them and make systems that use them. And pragmatic as we are we usually don’t bother too much about the right name. ‘Cause what’s in a name?  That which we call a taxonomy by any other name would work as well. But we don’t want you to be confused either, so let’s go for a short ride through the land of Knowledge Organization Systems.

What do they have in common?

Taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies are systems that help you organize your knowledge.

Think of a library: the knowledge is kept in books and placed on shelves in an alphabetical order. A very practical system! We all know how to find a book when we know the title or the author.

Digital Agenda Assembly

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published by Bert Van Nuffelen on June 22, 2011 - 16:21

I attended the first day of the Digital Agenda Assembly last week. The workshop on Open Data and Re-use of Public Sector Information was my first stop. Nice to see some colleagues of the digital agenda scoreboard project back!

The DAA succeeded to bring a large group of people together, all concerned with opening (governmental) data to the wide public.

How the EU scores on the digital agenda

LOD2 infrastructure for public service information

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published by Bastiaan Deblieck on May 27, 2011 - 11:22

On May the 10th and 11th I represented the LOD2 consortium on the share-psi.eu in Brussels.

LOD2 - Brussels

This conference was set up by ETSI and W3C in preparation of the Digital Agenda meeting in Brussels in mid June 2011. The audience was a mix of public services, private companies and non profit organizations.

Release Notes | sprint 100

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published by Wim Meeus on May 4, 2011 - 14:02

Rates for hours per person are now configurable

Four fields (standard, weekend, overtime and oncall) costs are added to the person page and organization unit.

On the skills page, internal and external costs are added.

The API has been extended to support the setting/getting of these values.

There is a specific method to retrieve the cost of a person. If no value is set on the person, the values of the organization unit are returned.

Sprint 100 - TeamParty

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published by Wim Meeus on April 28, 2011 - 10:37

In order to celebrate out Scrum Sprint 100, we party...hard.

- 100 sprints
- 1.3 MLOC
- Hundreds of change requests
- 9 lunatics



www.pmscrum.com

Sprint 100

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published by Wim Meeus on April 18, 2011 - 13:25

We started in 2008 with our first sprint in a Scrum environment. Today we start sprint 100.
Time flies when you're having fun.

We started, as we all do, very small. Making every mistake in the book. But in time we grew into being actual Scrum professionals.
Over time we...

- started using time tracking
- learned how to use story points
- started planning using planning poker
- the whole shabang...

Today we already look back onto a succesfull integration and as a company we now...

New Features

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published by Wim Meeus on April 1, 2011 - 16:24

We are updating your favourite tool on a daily basis.
Some exciting new features are heading your way or have already been implemented.

This time our Design and Development Team proudly presents:

CUSTOMIZE TAGS

Additional to the ability to enter tags we provided the possibility to customize the tags. This way you can give them a background color for better recognition.
You can pick a color with the custom made colorpicker.

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