[open-government] Open Data Thesaurus went online today

Mon May 16 13:16:54 UTC 2011

Dear colleagues!

I'm happy to announce the start of the first Open Data Thesaurus (http://vocabulary.semantic-web.at/PoolParty/wiki/OpenData) 

The Open Data Thesaurus is a collection of key concepts and entities, their definitions and semantic links. Following the principle of "eat your own dog food" this thesaurus is available in machine-readable form based on open W3C standards and under a Creative Commons license. The thesaurus can thus be integrated into other applications, such as for creating mashups, or for indexing of documents. The thesaurus is available in English and German.

The thesaurus is maintained and expanded constantly by the Semantic Web Company in cooperation with Open Knowledge Forum Austria. 
We warmly invite to co-manage this thesaurus. So please contact Andreas (a.blumauer at semantic-web.at) to get signed up.

Greetings
Thomas

German: http://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/3136-thesaurus-fuer-open-data-initiiert.php

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| ** Open Govenment Data Konferenz 2011: http://www.ogd2011.at
| ** OKFN / Open Govenment Data Austria: http://www.opendata.at
| ** LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data: http://lod2.eu/
| ** Die Zukunft des Internet: http://www.zukunftsweb.at/
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| Thomas Thurner, Semantic Web Company
| Head of Transfer
| Lerchenfelder Guertel 43, A - 1160 Wien, Austria
| Tel +43 / 1 / 402 12 35 - 31 | skype thomas_thurner 