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OBDA Semantika 1.2 Released

03/04/2014

I'm happy to announce the release of Semantika 1.2! OBDA Semantica allows Relational to RDF Mapping and Transparent Data Access for SPARQL over SQL Databases. The highlights of the new version are:    Support "rr:datatype" attribute in the mapping file to override the underlying SQL column's type,  Support SPARQL filter expression ...

Cookbook for translating relational data models to RDF schemas

02/04/2014

The ISA programme of the European Commission created a methodology for translating relational Data Models to RDF schemas and these are expressed in a Cookbook. The premise is that to achieve interoperability between two systems they need to seamlessly exchange data, a conceptual Domain Model needs to be implemented in ...

Reports from the meeting held at the Research Data for Alliance 3rd Plenary in Dublin

31/03/2014

On the 26th of March 2014 in Dublin at the Research Data for Alliance Plenary, l co-chaired with Devika Madalli two important meetings, whose reports l present below. The first was the Interest group on Agricultural Data and the second was the Agricultural Data Interoperability IG. In both cases the reports ...

International survey about journal management and Open Access

31/03/2014

The Cologne University of Applied Science in cooperation with Humboldt University zu Berlin has prepared a survey on the effect of Open Access in journal management. If you want to contribute to this analysis the survey is open until 14.04.2014 at UK: http://www.unipark.de/uc/UK/JournalManagement/OA/ (US ...

Communiqué: Major repository infrastructure initiatives agree to align their networks

31/03/2014

In a meeting in Rome on March 20-21, 2014 representatives from several major regional repository networks sat down to develop a strategy to better align their activities. The meeting brought together delegates from Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Latin America and the United States. As research becomes increasingly global, it is critical ...