The LinkedGeoData and GeoKnow Projects
- When:
- Thursday, September 19, 2013, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Where:
- 11th fl Large CR (rm 1135)
- Type:
- AI Seminar
- Speaker:
- Dr. Jens Lehmann, Head of AKSW/MOLE group, University of Leipzig
- Description:
Will not be Webcasted
Abstract:In the talk, Jens Lehmann will give an introduction to Geospatial Linked Data projects at his research group AKSW (http://aksw.org) at the University of Leipzig / Germany. The presentation will cover the GeoKnow (http://geoknow.eu) European Union project, which is a funded project with 7 partner organisations, as well as spatial data extraction in LinkedGeoData (http://linkedgeodata.org), a large RDF knowledge base derived from OpenStreetMap.Short Bio:
Dr. Jens Lehmann (http://www.jens-lehmann.org) is a researcher at the University of Leipzig, at which he is co-leading the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Group. His research interests involve Semantic Web, machine learning and knowledge representation. He is founder, leader or contributor of several community research projects, including DL-Learner, DBpedia, LinkedGeoData and ORE. He works/worked in several funded projects, e.g. GeoKnow (EU STREP, coordinator), LOD2 (EU IP, work package lead), LATC (EU STREP, lead for University of Leipzig) and SoftWiki (BmBF). Dr. Jens Lehmann authored more than 40 articles in international journals and conferences cited more than 3000 times according to Google Scholar.
