- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:15:38 +0100
- To: Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
Dear Markus, First of all thanks for bringing this up - I think its really crucial for us as a research community to showcase what impact the results of our research can make in practice! Besides DBpedia (already frequently featured in public press, e.g. two days ago by famous German newspaper TAZ [1]), we are working on Catalogus Professorum (led by my colleague Thomas Riechert), which I think nicely demonstrates the usefulness of semantic technology to a wider public: The Catalogus Professorum is a project by historians and AKSW research group from Universität Leipzig to enlighten the academic history in Germany by representing information about professors, their professional, familiar and societal context in a comprehensive, semantically structured knowledge base. It currently features more than 1500 detailed biographies of academics with some ties to Universität Leipzig, but due to the mobility of the academic community it gives also insights on the academic life in Germany and central Europe in general. The knowledge base allows historians to pursue various research questions by employing the Catalogus Professorum knowledge base. Of particular interest are currently the relationship between religious movements, political systems, family ties and academia. However, since the information is represented semantically independent of a particular usage scenario it can be easily used to facilitate the investigation of novel research questions. The Catalogus Professorum is also extremely interesting to citizens interested in local history, Genealogy, the history of specific topics or communities. It was recently features in an article by the leading daily regional newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ). More information about Catalogus Professorum can be found at: * http://blog.aksw.org - a copy of the LVZ article * http://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog - website for the general public * http://catalogus-professorum.org - the project website for experts * http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2010/ISWC_CP/public.pdf - the best paper award winning ISWC 2010 In-Use track paper about CP Feel free to forward my contact details to the journalist or let me know if I can help in any other way to facilitate this effort! Best, Sören [1] http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzkultur/artikel/1/wie-das-wissen-system-bekommt/ -- Working on LOD2 - from Linked Data 2 Knowledge: http://lod2.eu -------------------------------------------------------------- Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, Skype: soerenauer
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