We just released version 0.7 of the Triplify script, which includes the following feature enhancements and fixes:

• Triplify can now be used as a tool for Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) cycles by calling it from the command line.
• The default behavior for mapping URIs to SQL queries can now be easily extended by using regular expressions to match request URL’s.
• The default provenance namespaces was fixed
• A error with two or more tables in a query (#2875711) was fixed

The new features are documented on triplify.org.

Thanks to everybody contributing bug fixes or comments and code (especially Sören Auer and Soren Roug)

We just released version 0.6 of the Triplify script, which includes the following changes:

• Support for the Provenance Vocabulary (added by Olaf Hartig): The Provenance Vocabulary enables providers of Web data to publish provenance-related metadata about their data. For a more detailed description of this extension, have a look at this wiki page.
• small fix and docu for better postgresql support
• small fix for better character encoding

Thanks to everybody contributing bug fixes or comments and codes (especially Olaf Hartig and Thomas Schandl).

Tomorrow the final seminar of the BMBF-sponsored project SoftWiki - Distributed, End-user Centered Requirements Engineering for Evolutionary Software Development will take place within the framework of the Mensch und Computer 2009.

Workshop: Nutzerinteraktion im Social Semantic Web
September 8, 2009: 11:00 am - 4:30 pm
Main Building at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
Berlin

Apart from many publications on details about Requirements Engineering und Semantic Web technologies, the most important results of the SoftWiki project are

• a prototype on the basis of OntoWiki as well as several supporting tools,
• and an OWL-Ontology for the description of requirements.

The results of the project are comprehensively outlined in the book

Agiles Requirements Engineering
für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder
Sören Auer, Kim Lauenroth, Steffen Lohmann, Thomas Riechert (Hrsg.)
Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik | Band XVIII
ISBN: 978-3-941608-05-4

which will be issued at the final seminar in Berlin.

The SoftWiki-Competence-Network continues with this work, aiming to provide the technologies for future applications. It is notable for its interesting group of members. Together with the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Leipzig we comprise an extraordinary scientific know-how. RE-tool developers (QA-System, ProDV) und users mainly in the field of Web-Engineering and E-Government (T-Systems MMS, Lecos GmbH) participate as partners for further development in the future und will facilitate the business deployment.

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Im Rahmen der Mensch und Computer 2009 findet morgen die Abschlussveranstaltung des BMBF-geförderten Projektes SoftWiki - Distributed, End-user Centered Requirements Engineering for Evolutionary Software Development statt.

Workshop: Nutzerinteraktion im Social Semantic Web
08.09.2009: 11:00 Uhr - 16:30 Uhr
Hauptgebäude der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
Berlin

Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse des SoftWiki - Projektes sind, neben vielen Publikationen über Details des Requirements Engineerings und Semantic Web Technologien,

• ein Prototyp auf Basis von OntoWiki, sowie mehreren unterstützender Werkzeuge,
• und eine OWL-Ontologie für die Beschreibung von Anforderungen.

Die Ergebnisse des Projektes werden ausführlich im Buch

Agiles Requirements Engineering
für Softwareprojekte mit einer großen Anzahl verteilter Stakeholder
Sören Auer, Kim Lauenroth, Steffen Lohmann, Thomas Riechert (Hrsg.)
Leipziger Beiträge zur Informatik | Band XVIII
ISBN: 978-3-941608-05-4

vorgestellt, welches zur Abschlussveranstaltung in Berlin veröffentlicht wird.

Das SoftWiki-Kompetenznetzwerk führt diese Arbeiten mit dem Ziel fort, die Technologien für zukünftige Anwender zur Verfügung zu stellen. Es zeichnet sich durch eine interessante Kombination seiner Mitglieder aus. Mit den Universitäten Duisburg-Essen und Leipzig verfügen wir ausgezeichnetes wissenschaftliches Know-how. RE-Werkzeughersteller (QA-System, ProDV) und Anwender vor allem im Bereich Web-Engineering und E-Government (T-Systems MMS, Lecos GmbH) stehen als Entwicklungspartner für zukünftige Weiterentwicklung und den industriellen Einsatz zur Verfügung.

The AKSW team is very delighted to announce a new major release of our semantic data wiki OntoWiki. OntoWiki 0.9 is available from our dowload page. A screencast showing some new features is also available.

OntoWiki 0.9 Frontend Changes

• RDFa widget editing This feature separates the visualization of the RDF data in the browser
  from the statement editing component by using RDFa annotations inside the view and JavaScript
  editing widgets which are sensible to the type and context of the edited data.
• Extension architecture with support for components, themes, datawrapper, translations and
  generic plugins: Most of OntoWiki’s functionality is implemented as extensions now, thus keeping
  the OntoWiki core very small.
• Authentication support for local sioc:Users, FOAF+SSL WebIDs and OpenIDs.
• Support for LinkedData both as server and consumer (see data gathering backend below).
• Translations in English, German an Chinese

OntoWiki 0.9 Backend Changes (Erfurt)

• Separation of the Semantic Web API Erfurt from the OntoWiki core
• Support for multiple SPARQL RDF stores: Implementations are available for Virtuoso and
  ZendDB (i.e. MySQL), allowing installations with support for millions of triples.
• Pattern based query cache: In order to improve the performance of Semantic Web applications, we
  developed an approach for caching SPARQL query results and complete application objects, which
  is sensitive to knowledge store updates.
• Data gathering: Support for plugable data gathering backends e.g. for LinkedData gathering,
  DataWrapper for Twitter and Musicbrainz or Exporter e.g. for EXIF data

Selected extensions packed with OntoWiki 0.9

• FileManager: Upload / serve files and manage associated metadata.
• Community: Create comments and discuss resources.
• History/versioning: See last changes, browse history and rollback edits.
• Map extension: Visualize resources which have direct and indirect geo-attributes attached.