Interviews and News

Ontotext is a proud sponsor of the conference with CEO Atanas Kiryakov impatient to meet you in Amsterdam

August 28, 2017

Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of Ontotext, sees Semantics as the best European event to meet other vendors of semantic technology and outstanding early adopters across all sectors.

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Kadaster can be characterised as an information organisation a lot of datasets and information are available at platforms and are connectable

August 25, 2017

Frank Tierolff is board member of SEMANTICS 2017 Premium Sponsor Kadaster. He characterises Kadaster as an information organisation a lot of datasets and information are available at platforms and are connectable. That is a challenge as well: datasets that are combined provide added value but require careful consideration when privacy is nowadays of relevant interest; that requires sensitivity and transparency.

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Will semantics help disentangle the Gordian knot of Big Data in animal health

August 18, 2017

The semantic web could offer a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across canonical form, application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Read what keynote speaker Miel Hostens, Post-Doc assistant at Ghent University, Belgium, has to say about it.

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Mario Campolargo of ISA2 sees Semantics 2017 as an opportunity to go on expanding the map of semantic interoperability

August 18, 2017

Mario Campolargo is Deputy Director-General for Directorate-General of Informatics (DG DIGIT) at the European Commission. He sees the presence of the ISA2 Programme at Semantics 2017 is a brilliant opportunity to go on expanding the map of semantic interoperability and identify the latest trends that will help us to improve the impact of our actions in Europe. Read the article here!

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DBpedia, an open project with an inclusive model.

August 18, 2017

Sebastian Hellmann is the Executive Director of the DBpedia Association and the Director of the Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (KILT) Competence Center at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI). We had the chance to do a brief interview and ask him about DBpedia and the upcoming DBpedia Day.

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Keynote speaker Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles about knowledge extraction and ontology engineering

August 11, 2017

If Knowledge Extraction and Knowledge Management are to serve people and workers, then the semantic web research has to include more cooperative principles in knowledge sharing and reuse. Keynote speaker Nathalie  Aussenac-Gilles shines her light on the matter. Read it here!

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MarkLogic: multi-model NoSQL database

August 09, 2017

Stephen Buxton, Senior Director  Product Management at MarkLogic is excited to hear about the mainstreaming of semantics, made possible by an Enterprise-ready, Multi-model database (MarkLogic Server) and a rich toolset (including PoolParty). Read the article here!

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Ordina - one of the first major IT companies in the Netherlands with focus on Linked Data

August 07, 2017

Marco Brattinga, thought leader linked data at premium sponsor Ordina would like Semantics 2017 to be a landmark that Linked Data is here to stay, and a starting point for a bright future for this technology as a driving force for the intelligent data-oriented organization. Read the article here!

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TopQuadrant: Agile solutions for managing information

July 28, 2017

 

We had a brief chat with Robert Coyne (COO) and Ralph Hodgson (CTO) from SEMANTICS 2017 Gold Sponsor TopQudrant. Read full interview below about data-governance, the latest trends in this field, Robert’s and Ralph’s expectations for SEMANTICS 2017 as well as the workshop conducted by TopQuadrant!

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Powerful Data Management - Semantics is Key!

July 21, 2017

Semantic Web Company’s (SWC) CFO and co-founder Martin Kaltenböck on semantic technologies, SEMANTICS 2017 and the role of SWC at this yearly event. A great overview on these topics brought to you by SEMANTICS 2017 Gold Sponsor PoolParty.

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