Luis Manuel Vilches has received an Outstanding Award granted by the Commission on Graduate Doctorate from the UPM. We must also congratulate Óscar Corcho and Miguel Ángel Bernabé Poveda, co-directors of his PhD Thesis, called "Metodología para la integración basada en ontologías de información de bases de datos heterogéneas en el dominio hidrográfico".

El OEG, representado por Asunción Gómez-Pérez y Óscar Corcho, han impartido un curso sobre Linked Data en las acciones formativas de datos.gob.es que ha llevado a cabo la entidad pública empresarial Red.es. El curso, de cuatro horas, ha estado dividido en los siguientes puntos: 1) principios básicos de la web semántica, 2) RDF, RDF(S) y SPARQL, 3) vocabularios y 4) herramientas de publicación de datos para portales de datos abiertos.

Para más información, se puede consultar el siguiente enlace.

The book entitled “Ontology Engineering in a Networked World”, whose editors are Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Enrico Motta, and Aldo Gangemi, is now available.

The book is published by Springer and the details can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-24793-4.

Daniel Vila presents today, February 15th, 2012, the collaboration project with the Spanish National Library. Also, he will presents some Linked Data initiatives carried out in our group, like GeoLinked Data.

This presentation is part of the "II Jornada sobre reutilización de la información del sector público" (February, 15th-16th). The presentation will take place from 12:00 to 12:30 in the Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación de Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The complete program is available in the following link.

Mari Carmen Suárez de Figueroa Baonza has received an Outstanding Award granted by the Commission on Graduate Doctorate from the UPM. We must also congratulate Asunción Gómez Pérez and Mariano Fernández López, co-directors of her PhD Thesis, and María S. Pérez Hernández that is the co-director of another of the winners.

We are pleased to announce that the book entitled “Ontology Engineering in a Networked World”, whose editors are Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Enrico Motta, and Aldo Gangemi, is going to be published by Springer in 2012.

You can find book details at http://bit.ly/pQaxLX.

Day: 10 de octubre de 2011
Room: H1002
Time: 12:00 am
Place:  Facultad de Informática, UPM

Title: "Semantic Workflows for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis"
Speaker: Yolanda Gil (http://www.isi.edu/~gil/cv/short-bio.html) Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science University of Southern California

The Ontology Engineering Group member Elena Montiel-Ponsoda co-organizes the second edition of the Multilingual Semantic Web workshop together with John McCrae (Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University), Philipp Cimiano (Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University) and Paul Buitelaar (DERI-National University of Ireland). The workshop will be co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ISWC 2011) to be held in Bonn, Germany (October, 23rd - 27th). The programme of the workshop as well as the papers accepted for presentation are available at the workshop web page and the conference web page.

We are please to announce that the members of  Spanish Project Web N+1 won the Open Track in the Triplification Challenge 2011. In the work presented, "A Provenance-Aware Linked Data Application for Trip Management and Organization", have participated the following OEG's members: Daniel Garijo, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, and Oscar Corcho.

For further information about the result of the Triplification Challenge 2011, please visit the following link.

OEG's members have developed the mIO! ontology network. The aim of this network is to improve the mobile phone user experience, enabling the terminal to be used as a more reliable source of contextual information related to user tastes and preferences, social relations, services and environment.

The ontology network includes local information on the user (position, date), environment (temperature, luminosity), entertainment (theatre, sport), and social information (list of friends, agenda). It also includes information about the services that users can produce and/or consume (availability, price), as well as on the devices they use (battery, cover).

Luis Manuel Vilches Blázquez defends his PhD thesis "Metodología para la integración basada en ontologías de la información de bases de datos heterogéneas en el dominio hidrográfico". The defense will take place on May 19th at 16:00 in the Sala de Audiovisuales of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Boris Villazón-Terrazas defends his PhD thesis "A Method for Reusing and Re-engineering Non-Ontological Resources for Building Ontologies". The defense will take place on April 14th at 10:30 in the Sala de Grados of the Facultad de Informática at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

The thesis is available for its download in the following link.

OGSA-DAI is a customisable framework for the management of distributed data resources - whether these be databases, files or other types of data - via web services. OGSA-DAI provides a workflow engine for the execution of data access, update, transformation, federation, processing and delivery scenarios. It also provides a powerful distributed query processor allowing SQL queries to be targeted across distributed databases.

Among other new features OGSA-DAI 4.1 now supports RDF data resources which allow querying of Jena SDB databases and SPARQL endpoints using SPARQL, developed by Carlos Buil-Aranda, from the Ontology Engineering Group.

The GeoLinkedData Initiative is happy to announce the release of map4rdf. map4rdf is a mapping and faceted browsing tool for exploring and visualizing RDF datasets enhanced with geometrical Information.

For further information, visit the map4rdf portal website (alternative link).

Two papers written by members of the group were presented at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) held in Shanghai, China from November 7th to 11th. The articles are "Semantic Techniques for Enabling Knowledge Reuse in Conceptual Modelling" by Jorge Gracia del Río and "Enabling Ontology-based Access to Streaming Data Sources" by Jean-Paul Calbimonte.

OEG members have participated in both articles, Asunción Gómez-Pérez and Esther Lozano in the first one and Óscar Corcho in both of them.

This year the Second Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP 2010) co-located at ISWC 2010 takes place in Shanghai (China). There, the OEG team presents some work related to ODPs research at the research papers track and the pattern session.

We are please to announce that the members of  GeoLinked Data (.es) have received an honorary mention in the Triplification Challenge 2010 in the "Open Government Data" track.

In the work presented, "Geographical Linked Data: a Spanish Use Case", have participated the following OEG's members: Alexander De León, Víctor Saquicela, Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Freddy Priyatna, Óscar Corcho, Carlos Buil, José Mora and Jean Paul Calbimonte.

For further information about the result of the Triplification Challenge 2010, please visit the following link.

Óscar Corcho and Mariano Rico have beed interviewed by The Semantic Web Blog. The interview is focused in Fortunata project,  developed by the Ontology Engineering Group of the Computer Science School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid's Department of Informatics Engineering. You can read the interview in the following link.