Category Archives: News & Events

EU, researcher and industry partners working together adding spatial dimensions to the Web in order to improve search, reuse and interlinking of data. Nidau, December 17, 2012: GeoKnow, an EU FP7 funded project started as scheduled in December 2012. The research shall address the problem of geospatial data, in particular, the linking of such data [...]

Ontos is a leader in the field of semantic technologies and works close with leading universities in the field of Semantic Web. Therefore we are proud to be a sponsor of the 9th Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) allowing researchers around the world to contribute and present their actual work. This year includes interesting topics for [...]

Ontos and his partners University of Leipzig, W3C, HSE and AviComp have been awarded in Russia to a research project related to Linked Open Data and scientific papers. The research is funded by the Russian ministry and the projects run time is 600 days. Research areas cover topics like publishing aggregated content into a RDF [...]

Ontos supports the upcoming rNews-initiative by providing a plug-in for the authoring tool TinyMCE. The plug-in uses Ontos’ API to automatically analyze written content and create and embed proper RDFa. In addition it allows to manually add and edit rNews metadata. The IPTC draft rNews is used in its current version 0.5. rNews allows news [...]

Software Engineer (m/w) Als Software Engineer (m/w) übernehmen Sie zentrale Aufgaben bei der Weiterentwicklung unserer Java-basierten Informationssysteme. Sie arbeiten mit Hilfe weltweit führender Methoden der semantischen Technologie an der Optimierung unserer Lösungen für Kunden unterschiedlichster Branchen. Ihr Profil (Kenntnisse in den folgenden Bereichen): J2EE XML, XSL, RDF/XML, OWL, SOAP, SPARQL HTML, JSP, JavaScript Eclipse Sehr [...]

Ontos participates in the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference. A demo paper about Ontos Feeder was included in the proceedings, the demo will be held at the conference.

The European Semantic Technology conference moves into the 4th edition. Besides interesting key notes one of the main topics is LOD (Linked Open Data). LOD starts to play a major role, especially in the online publishing industry. Daniel Hladky from Ontos will participate at the LOD panel on December 3rd and will share the experiences [...]

Ontos is about to integrate its news portal into the Linked Data Cloud. Ontos’ GUIDs for objects are now dereferencable – the resulting RDF contains owl:sameAs-attributes to DBpedia, Freebase and others (check e. g. the entry for Barack Obama). Within the portal Ontos crawls news articles from diverse online sources, uses its cutting-edge NLP technology [...]

During the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems Ontos presents a browser plug-in that not only allows to clip and assemble text fragments from any website, but provides the possibility to enrich these fragments with RDFa automatically. Clip & Share was nominated for the triplify challenge.More information can be found on Ontos’ website.

Ontos will take part at the second Semantic Web Day in Leipzig. The event is organised by the AKSW group of the University Leipzig led by Dr Sören Auer. The focus of the Ontos presentation will be the Ontos API which allows to create semantic annotations for text. Besides an introduction on how to use [...]