[Eurostat dataset] riese = linked data + RDFa

[[ Apologies in case you receive multiple copies of this announcement ]]


The 'riese' awakes: We are happy being able to announce the alpha
release
of riese (RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort):

  http://riese.joanneum.at/

To the best of our knowledge this is the first approach deploying 
linked data with XHTML+RDFa. With 'riese' we aim at serving both humans
(with a nice GUI) and machines (with RDF-based metadata) from a single
source.

Although we currently only serve some 5 million RDF triples, the goal
is to have the entire Eurostat dataset (3 billion triples) online, along
with millions of high-quality interlinks. The interlinking in 'riese'
is hybrid: On the one hand we use standard template-based interlinking
for, e.g. geonames interlinking, on the other hand we offer an interface
to add semantic links in a Wiki manner, called User Contributed
Interlinking (UCI).

Regarding Semantic Web technologies, the following is an excerpt of what
has been used to build 'riese':

 + linked data [1]
 + XHTML+RDFa [2]
 + SKOS [3]
 + SW crawling sitemap extension [4]


Enjoy 'riese' and please contact us for feature requests or bug reports
at:

  riese@joanneum.at


The riese-team,

			Wolfgang, Yves & Michael


PS: In case you wonder what 'riese' means: it's a pun - 'riese' 
    is the German word for giant ;)

[1]
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenD
ata
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/
[4] http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/

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Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 09:55:32 UTC