3. 3
University of Münster
• 15 faculties
• ~37.000 students
• ~5.000 staff
• 500+ professors
• 250 degree
courses
• 212 buildings
across Münster
4. 3
University of Münster
• 15 faculties
• ~37.000 students
• ~5.000 staff
• 500+ professors
• 250 degree
courses
• 212 buildings
across Münster
5. 4
LODUM Linked Open Data
• Provide scientific and University of Münster
educational data as Linked Open Data
• Increase transparency and visibility
• Foster transdisciplinary research
• Interlinking 5+3 Ps:
• People, publications, projects, prices, patents
(→CRIS)
• Properties, places, periods
28. 7
Planetology
• Looking for reference data in Iceland
Query
• by theme
• spatially /
temporally
Results
http://ulb.uni-muenster.de/maps/aerial/…
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/data/musil/…
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Iceland
…
29. 7
Planetology
• Looking for reference data in Iceland
Query
• by theme
• spatially /
temporally
Results
http://ulb.uni-muenster.de/maps/aerial/…
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/data/musil/…
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Iceland
…
30. 8
State of affairs
•Development work is advancing (with 4 student
assistants)
•http://data.uni-muenster.de to be launched soon!
•Establishing contacts to other universities
→ Linked Universities
•Special issue in Semantic Web Journal:
Linked Data for Science and Education
•Evaluating funding opportunities & writing
proposals
32. A
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1st International Workshop on
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Linked Science 2011 (LISC 2011)
t
• October 23rd or 24rd 2011 in Bonn
• At International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC
2o11)
• linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011
• Deadline: August 15
33. 11
LODUM Linked Open Data
University of Münster
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