Archive for November, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure to attend the second
workshop organized by the IKS
project in Rome. The goal of this 4 years project is to
develop a software stack and a set of design guidelines to help CMS
developers leverage the promises of knowledge oriented software and Linked Data.

In the following I will give a brief overview of some of the
discussions that happened during those four days and a summary
of the Scribo project I presented during the demo sessions the
last day. A more complete coverage of the event can be found the event page
of the IKS wiki.

Materialized semantic indexes

Rupert Westenthaler from the Salzburg Research team is working
on a very interesting prototype to make CMS applications able to perform
fast complex graph queries on a knowledge base by materializing named
graph queries into flat Lucene indexes and tracking the knowledge … Read more