We are very happy that Heiko Paulheim from University of Mannheim, Germany, is joining the ISWS 2025 tutor team again. ...and as you can see by yourself, he seems to be proud, too, to be part of our summer school ;-)
https://2025.semanticwebschool.org/
#semweb #summerschool #isws2025 #knowledgegraph #AI #responsibleAI #reliableAI #generativeAI #llms #semanticweb #academiclife #PhDs @fizise @albertmeronyo @AxelPolleres @pgroth
Ever wondered how ISWC has grown over the years?
Find out in our new blog post: a data-powered tour through two decades of Semantic Web research 
https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/#/blogs/naturenavigator
Huge thanks to @angelosalatino for this fun and insightful piece!
Last week, our team member Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi presented our work on BFO-based ontologies for materials science at the European Materials Modeling Council (EMMC) in Vienna. Joint work together with @joerg Kostya Hubaev @enorouzi @heikef and @lysander07
#ontologies #bfo #bfo2020 #materialsscience #NFDIMatWerk #NFDIrocks @KIT_Karlsruhe @fiz_karlsruhe #semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #pmdcore #mwo #nfdicore
I have just published shaclgen 3.0.0b1, please test: 
https://pypi.org/project/shaclgen/3.0.0b1/
There was no release of #shaclgen since almost 5 years. There were many changes in between including major #rdflib releases. A changelog can be retrieved from the commit history.
The MatWerk ontology MWO 3.0 is based on BFO2020, IAO, and PMDcore 3.0. It serves as a domain-level ontology representing (research data) resources of the NFDI-MatWek consortium.
https://ise-fizkarlsruhe.github.io/mwo/docs/
#ontologies #materialsscience #NFDIMatWerk #NFDIrocks #bfo @enorouzi @joerg @heikef @lysander07 @fiz_karlsruhe #semweb #semanticweb
We are contributing to the design and implementation of the PMDcore ontology, focussed to represent the entire domain of materials science - as well as to MatWerk Ontology, which is based on NFDIcore ontology (also provided by our group) to represent research data from the NFDI-MatWerk consortium. All ontologies are BFO2020-compliant.
MWO 3.0: https://ise-fizkarlsruhe.github.io/mwo/docs/
PMDcore: https://materialdigital.github.io/core-ontology/3.0.0/docs/
#ontologies #semweb #semanticweb #materialsscience #bfo #AI @fiz_karlsruhe @enorouzi
In our ISE seminar today our colleague Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi is presenting the current state of the #NFDIMatWerk ontology - MWO. In the beginning, he is introducing two large #materialsscience related projects on digitalisation and research data management: Platform Material Digital (PMD) and NFDI-MatWerk.
@fiz_karlsruhe #NFDIrocks #ontologies #semweb #semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #BFO #bfo2020 #seminar @enorouzi @joerg
Yesterday team members @enorouzi Gunjan Singh and Marzieh Moghaddam presented our teaching offers (ISE lecture, project course and seminars) as well as our research and potential master/bachelor thesis topics at the WiWi Modulcafé at KIT to the new students.
#teaching @KIT_Karlsruhe @fiz_karlsruhe @lysander07 @tabea @GenAsefa #SemanticWeb #SemWeb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI #digitalhumanities #ise2025
@csarven @iswc_conf @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @AnnaJacyszyn
Dear Sarven, I'm happy to forward this important issue to the Sci-K 2025 organisers:
@angelosalatino @sonjas0815 @andremanno
@AnnaJacyszyn
5th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2025)
Call for papers is OUT!
https://sci-k.github.io/2025/#call-for-papers
#AI #knowledgegraphs #semweb #semanticweb #networkscience #cfp #iswc2025 @iswc_conf @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @AnnaJacyszyn
Our 2nd course for this summer semester at KIT ist the project course "Telling data stories with knowledge graphs and generative AI" organised anbd conducted by @tabea @lysander07 and Torsten Schrade from the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz with data resources from @nfdi4culture
https://portal.wiwi.kit.edu/ys/8599
We have still free slots for this course!
@KIT_Karlsruhe @fiz_karlsruhe @NFDI4DS #culturalheritage #dh #digitalhumanities #lecture #knowledgegraphs #semanticweb #generativeAI #AI
I'm a bit sad that we went from the #SemanticWeb idea of "let's all agree to structure all information on the internet as meaningfully and machine readable as possible, so eventually humanity can interconnect all knowledge and perform crazy useful cross-queries" to the idea of "I am going to obfuscate everything I do so no machine can extract any meaningful information from my work", just because of the #LLM / #AI backlash.
It's not like an LLM crawling my hobby blog empties my bank account.
My nerdy special-interest-having ass wishes there was #Fediverse software that lets you, no, actually *requires* you to use semantic markup for your posts. I want my <abbr>s and my <dfn>s and even all the #Schema #microformats!
I wanna add semantic info to literally everything on the whole wide web and I am not afraid.
The only depressing thought in the back of my head is that no software will ever do anything cool with all that information...
Der Weimarer Schlosskastellan und die Semantifizierung – Video anschauen!
https://www.compgen.de/2025/04/der-weimarer-schlosskastellan-und-die-semantifizierung/
Everything I've seen about the <nav> element makes me feel like it's really only intended for groups of navigation links that navigate you somewhere else from the current page, and that are not really semantically related to the content of the specific page you are on.
As far as I know, screenreaders usually skip them.
In my case, the list of blog articles is the main attraction of the page though, not a "home" and "about" style navigation bar.
I got an #HTML #SemanticWeb question.
My website has a 'blog', which is really just a bunch of HTML files each containing a standalone essay.
This screenshot shows the main landing page of the 'blog'. Here you choose which article to read.
Right now, that's just a <ul> element with article links.
Should that be wrapped in a <nav>? It's the main reason for the page to exist and not really an optional navigation bar. I am not sure what's best for a #screenreader either.
Releasing tei-rdfa (beta)
Python utility for extracting RDFa data from TEI-XML documents Resolves native TEI namespace formatting (through <prefixDef>)
https://pypi.org/project/tei-rdfa/ https://github.com/timofruehwirth/tei_rdfa
We welcome beta testing, feedback & contribution via #GitHub.
Boosts will be very much appreciated.
This week’s edition of my @linkedin newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/model-context-protocol-bridging-generational-computing-idehen-qdtce/
Working on a digital scholarly edition? Looking for advice?
Why not take our free Digital Editions training course and get published in #PRISMS: https://www.prisms.digital/
#PRISMS is a #DSE publication platform powered by the #SemanticWeb.
A new success story from the #NFDI network:
@Textplus collects research data in the humanities and cultural sciences in the Common Authority File (GND) in order to enhance undeveloped databases with authority data.
This standardised data makes it possible to clearly assign entities such as persons, works and geographical terms, regardless of spelling.
It promotes interoperability, facilitates data searches and contributes to the development of the #SemanticWeb.
