Linked Data Paradigm Can Fuel Linked Cities (Semantic Web)

The small city of Cluj in Romania, of some half-million inhabitants, is responsible for a 2.5 million triple store, as part of a Recognos-led project to develop a “Linked City” community portal (http://www.cluj4all.com/). 

The project was submitted for this year’s ICT Call – SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages, FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL. While it didn’t receive funding from that competition, Recognos semantic web researcher Dia Miron, is hopeful of securing help from alternate sources in the coming year to expand the project, including potentially bringing the concept of linked cities to other communities in Romania or elsewhere in Europe.The idea was to publish information from sources such as local businesses about their services and products, as well as data related to the local government and city events, points of interest and projects, using the Linked Data paradigm, says Miron. Data would also be geolocated. “So we take all the information we can get about a city so that people can exploit it in a uniform manner,” she says. continued…New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Publicado en semanticweb.com el: 12/28/2011 12:24:42 PM

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