Archive for October, 2012

First textbook on cultural heritage linked data published

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Morgan & Claypool, Palo Alto, CA published the SeCo textbook “Eero Hyvönen: Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web” in its new series “Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology”, edited by Jim Hendler (University of Rochester) and Ying Ding (Indiana University) .

The book is available electronically at:


http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00452ED1V01Y201210WBE003

and in print from Amazon.com:


http://www.amazon.com/Publishing-Cultural-Heritage-Linked-Semantic/dp/1608459977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350941989&sr=8-1&keywords=cultural+heritage+hyv%C3%B6nen

Have a look inside at:


http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/2012/hyvonen-ch-book-2012.pdf

IESD Challenge Prize to EventMAP

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

SeCo was member in the EventMAP demonstrator team that won the Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD) Challenge competition at the IESD Workshop in Galway, Ireland. EventMap is a project funded by the European Institute of Technology.

Best In-use Paper Award at EKAW 2012 to SeCo

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

The SeCo paper Osma Suominen and Eero Hyvönen:
Improving the Quality of SKOS Vocabularies with Skosify. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), Springer-Verlag, Galway, Ireland, October, 2012, was selected as the best in-use paper at the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Galway, Ireland.