LOD2 webinar series: free webinar on the 1st release of the LOD2 Stack on 29.11.2011

The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of a LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image - additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack from scratch are available in the HOWTO Start document.

The official release date of the LOD2 Stack is: 29.11. 2011 and the official launch will be introduced by a free webinar about the LOD2 Stack at 04.00pm CET that is part of the LOD2 webinar series that will bring several Linked (Open) Data (LOD) tool & service webinars to the interested audience in the next months!

About the LOD2 Stack webinar, 29 Nov 2011

What: Free Webinar: LOD2 Stack - 1st release
Presenter: TenForce, Belgium
When: 29.11. 2011, 04.00pm CET
Information & registration: http://lod2.eventbrite.com/

This webinar will introduce the first release of the LOD2 Stack and gives you an overview of the included tools and services as well as it shows concrete use cases that can be managed with the Stack and last but now least it gives a live demo on how to use the LOD2 Stack!
The LOD2 webinar series is powered by the LOD2 project, organised and produced by the Semantic Web Company (Austria).

If you are interested in Linked (Open) Data principles and mechanisms, LOD tools & services and concrete use cases that can be realised using LOD then join us in the LOD2 webinar series!

The LOD2 team is looking forward to meet you at the webinar!!

About the LOD2 Stack

The LOD2 stack is an integrated distribution of aligned tools which support the life-cycle of Linked Data from extraction, authoring/creation over enrichment, interlinking, fusing to visualization and maintenance. The stack comprises new and substantially extended existing tools from the LOD2 partners and third parties. The LOD2 stack is organized as a Debian package repository making the tool stack easy to install on any Debian-based system (e.g. Ubuntu). The first release of the LOD2 stack contains the following components (available as Debian packages):

• LOD2 demonstrator, the root package (LOD2)
• Virtuoso, RDF storage and data management platform (Openlink)
• OntoWiki, semantic data wiki authoring tool (ULEI)
• SigmaEE, multi-source exploration tool (DERI)
• D2R, RDF wrapper for SQL databases (FUB)
• Silk, interlinking engine (FUB)
• ORE, ontology repair and enrichment toolkit (ULEI)

As online services were integrated into the LOD2 Stack: PoolParty (taxonomy manager by SWCG) and Spotlight (annotating texts w.r.t. DBpedia by FUB). The LOD2 Stack also makes use of dataset metadata repositories such as thedatahub.org and http://publicdata.eu. A selection of the datasets has been packaged and are available in the LOD2 stack repository.

The LOD2 stack is an open platform for Linked Data components. We are happy to welcome new components. Detailed instructions how to integrate your component into the LOD2 Stack as Debian package are available in the HOWTO Contribute. For assistance or any questions related to the LOD2-stack contact support-stack@lod2.eu. From now on we will regularly release improved and extended versions of the LOD2 Stack. Major releases are expected for Fall 2012 and 2013.

More information about the LOD2 Stack

Demo: http://demo.lod2.eu/lod2demo
Virtual Machine Image: http://stack.lod2.eu/VirtualMachines/
How To Document: lod2-stack.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documents/HowToStart.pdf

Whats next - the LOD2 webinar series

The LOD2 webinar series offers several (one per month) free webinars about Linked Open Data tools and services around the LOD2 project, the LOD2 Stack and the Linked Open Data Life Cycle, also in the form of 3rd party tools.
The next 2 dates of the LOD2 webinar series are already fixed as follows:

• 20.12. 2011 - Virtuoso (Open Link Software) - information & registration
• 24.01. 2012 - OntoWiki (University of Leipzig, Germany) - information & registration
  

About LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

LOD2 is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission within the FP7 Information and Communication Technologies Work Programme (Grant Agreement No. 257943). Commencing in September 2010, this 4-year project comprises leading Linked Open Data technology researchers, companies, and service providers (15 partners) from across 11 European countries (and 1 associated partner from KOREA) and is coordinated by the AKSW research group at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

LOD2 will integrate and syndicate linked data with large-scale, existing applications and showcase the benefits in the three application scenarios of media and publishing, corporate data intranets and eGovernment. The resulting tools, methods and data sets have the potential to change the Web as we know it today.

... it's the end of the web as we know it ... LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data!

More information about LOD2

Web: http://lod2.eu
Blog: http://blog.lod2.eu
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/lod2project
Twitter: @lod2project , #lod2
flickR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lod2/