LD4D at WSSF2013

Our proposal to host the next edition of the tutorial “Linked Data for Development (LD4D)” during the World Social Science Forum 2013 (WSSF 2013) has been accepted! Join us in October in Montreal to attend this three-parts tutorial and discuss with us how to make data sharing technologies could be adapted to work for everyone … Continue reading »

ICT 4 Development course final presentations

This friday, a brand new course at the VU University Amsterdam came to a satisfying close. The ICT 4 Development course (ICT4D) was offered to VUA Computer Science students for the first  year and I feel it was a success. The course, which was a collaboration between the Computer Science department and the Center for International … Continue reading »

Downscaling Entity Registries for Poorly-Connected Environments

Reblogged from Semantic Web world for you: Emerging online applications based on the Web of Objects or Linked Open Data typically assume that connectivity to data repositories and entity resolution services are always available. This may not be a valid assumption in many cases. Indeed, there are about 4.5 billion people in the world who … Continue reading »

Development Linked Data (DLD) Community Group launched!

The Development Linked Data (DLD) community group will discuss the publication of data related to development as 5-star Linked Data. Discussions will initially be organised around the following topics: Open Development data sets: What are the development related data sets available as Open Data? Vocabulary and best practices: What vocabularies should be used to describe … Continue reading »

Decentralised Open Data at PMOD

On June 19 and 20, Anna Bon and Christophe Guéret went to Brussels to speak about decentralised open data at the event “Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism” organized by Phil Archer Continue reading »

Best Poster Award at ESWC 2012!

Reblogged from VIDEBO: The ESWC 2012 conference ended with a bang for me and the rest of the W4RA team: We were awarded the Best Poster Award for our poster “Bringing the Web of Data to Developing Countries: Linked Market Data in the Sahel”. You can find the poster abstract here and the poster itself here. … Continue reading »

ISWC 2012 tutorial on LD4D: Linked Data for Development

Reblogged from VIDEBO: This weekend we got the great news that our tutorial proposal “LD4D: Linked Data for Development” is accepted as a full day tutorial at the ISWC 2012 conference that will be held this November in Boston. The tutorial was co-authored by Christophe Guéret, Victor de Boer and Stefan Schlobach from VU Amsterdam and Walter … Continue reading »

J-2, we’re almost there !

  The schedule for the first workshop on DownScaling the Semantic Web is now ready and we also prepared a poster. Jump on the program page to see what we will be talking about on May 28. If you are attending ESWC don’t forget to visit the workshop and share your ideas on making Semantic … Continue reading »