Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)

The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Department for Business-oriented Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig.

Goals

• Development of methods for Agile Knowledge Engineering inside the research field of the Semantic Web 
• Implementation of tools and applications for Agile Knowledge Engineering
• Research of the underlying Semantic Web Technologies
• Development of fundamental Semantic Web tools and applications

AKSW is committed to the open source and open access movements.

Projects

• SoftWiki – Distributed, end-user centered Requirements Engineering for evolutionary software development
• Powl – our Semantic Web application development platform, OntoWiki is an adaptive semantic collaboration tool based on Powl implementing the Web 2.0 idea of an architecture of participation.
• dbpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.
• R2D2 – a PHP tool and API component for mapping relational database content to RDF based ontologies.
• Onto-Learning tackles the problem of learning concept/class definitions in Description Logics / OWL from examples

Demos

Please have a look at our demos:

Wikipedia Query Builder: Query the over 10M facts extracted from the English Wikipedia

OntoWiki: use social semantic collaboration to build comprehensive knowledge bases

PediaX: visit our lab for advanced Wikipedia user interfaces

DBpedia Relationship Finder: allows to explore the DBpedia dataset to find relationships between two things.