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OntoWiki 0.8.6 released

This is a bugfix release with minor enhancements. We fixed some issues from the user community. The most important enhancement is the support for HTTPS now. For a list of all issues, have a look at the Changelog.

OntoWiki 0.8.5 released

The AKSW research group is pleased to announce that OntoWiki 0.8.5 is now available for download. Changes in this release include

A plug-in and event architecture
A file / document manager
Rest webservices for login / query / export ... [More] databases
WebDAV support for browsing and exporting resources
A new JSON exporter that uses the RDF JSON specification draft from talis
New [...] [Less]

OPDW-ONE: First OntoWiki Plugin Developer Workshop

When & Where?
Next week (27.02.2008) we arrange the first OntoWiki Plugin Developer Workshop (OPDW-ONE ) at the IfI / University of Leipzig (room 5-10 3-36).
Group of Participants

OntoWiki Core Team: Christoph Riess, Michael ... [More] Haschke, Norman Heino, Philipp Frischmuth, Sebastian Dietzold
Plugin Developer: Ceriel Jacobs (vakantieland.nl), Deniz Dalli (Interactive Systems), Martin Peklo, Maria Moritz, Michael Martin, Leszek [...] [Less]

OntoWiki Eyetracking

Yesterday, Steffen Lohmann from the Interactive Systems Working Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen has surprised me with very nice eyetracking images from an OntoWiki 0.7.1 session last year which was arranged in the scope of the SoftWiki ... [More] project.
We will meet in Duisburg this march and repeat the experiment with the OntoWiki theme which was [...] [Less]

Open Source Meets Business 2008

Today, Sören presents OntoWiki at the Open Source Meets Business conference (22. – 24. Januar 2008 in Nürnberg). In preparation for this talk, I’ve prepared a new screencast, which showcases an OntoWiki demo session, which is interrupted by some explanatory bubbles …

First Contact (Introducing xOperator)

Fresh from the subversion repository, our new semantic agent project xOperator is now able to play with my local OntoWiki knowledge bases. The initial development to this tool will be done by Jörg Unbehauen as part of his master thesis.
xOperator tries to create a decentralized network of trust. Information is shared in the form of [...]

OntoWiki 0.8 and owcli 0.2 released

OntoWiki 0.8 is now available for download. Changes in this release include

A complete new default theme with smarter html structure and a desktop like style with windows and menus
Statement Based Access Control ... [More] (experimental)
Improved RDF/XML exporter for resources and models
Support for hidden classes
Several GUI enhancements (see a complete list in the changelog)

Additionally, we’ve released the [...] [Less]

Triple-I 2007 in Graz

Today is the second day of the Triple-I Conference in Graz / Austria. Thomas presented the SWORE Ontology for Requirements Engineering which is part of our Softwiki project and I will present the LDAP 2 SPARQL project tomorrow.
Graz is really a nice city with many cultural places of interest and a great old city center [...]

OntoWiki 0.7.1 released

OntoWiki 0.7.1 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release which closes 25 bugs from version 0.7 See a complete list at the sourceforge bug-tracker (status: deleted, group: OntoWiki 0.7.1).

OntoWiki 0.7 released

OntoWiki 0.7 is now available for download. Changes in this release include

Access Control at Model and Action level
Enhancements in System Ontology http://ns.ontowiki.net/SysOnt/
User Data is now FOAF compatible and managed as RDF ... [More] Knowledge Base
New SPARQL Query Shell together with a brand new SPARQL Engine
New URI Routing (list, (class) view)
GUI enhancements
Several bug fixes
Environment Changes include: New [...] [Less]

OntoWiki downloads skyrocketing

Within the last year monthly Powl/OntoWiki downloads were skyrocketing. Check out OntoWiki’s Sourceforge statistics page, do get more details. They effectively quadrupled within the last year, reached now a level of 400-500 monthly downloads and we ... [More] expect even higher increases in the upcoming year, as OntoWiki will significantly mature, include many more additional features [...] [Less]

SPARQLer’s choice: SparqlEngineDb
OntoWiki 0.6 released

We’ve released the version 0.6 of our distributed knowledge engineering tool OntoWiki. We re-engineered most part of it to support a more flexible architecture with themes and plugins. OntoWiki is based now on the Zend Framework and requires PHP ... [More] 5.2 (because of the new __toString() behavior).
This is the first stand-alone version of OntoWiki. It still [...] [Less]

New database-driven SPARQL engine for RAP

Today our diploma student Christian Weiske finished the last bits of his RAP based database-driven SPARQL engine which implements most parts of the W3C recommendation now. Compared to the current memory-based SPARQL engine in RAP, SparqlEngineDb ... [More] generates SQL queries to load off the hard work to the database engine. This speeds up SPARQL queries greatly, [...] [Less]

Collaborative Knowledge Construction - The Challenge

Next week starts the Knowledge Construction Challenge from the CKC2007, a Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge which is arranged in conjunction with the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in ... [More] Banff, Canada.
The goal of the CKC challenge is to use the current state of the art for the tools as [...] [Less]

OntoWiki / Powl 0.95 released

We’ve released Version 0.95 of our OntoWiki / Powl Semantic Web application suite. New features include an OntoWiki Command Line Interface (owcli), which is a PHP command line script for administration and remote control of OntoWiki models. Other ... [More] changes are:

system ontology translation updates (nl)
code and gui cleanups (OntoWiki)
installation improvements
further steps towards MSIE compatibility
shipping with newest [...] [Less]

pOWL 0.94 with Ontowiki user-interface released

This is release 0.94 of the pOWL web based ontology editor. It is the first version of pOWL, which includes the Ontowiki user-interface. We try to provide new releases more frequently in the future (approx. ever 2-3 months).