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1st Price at Triplification Challenge and ESWC Best Paper Award

09/18/2009

We are happy to announce that:

1. The Linking Open Drug Data effort within the W3C's Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has won the 1st price at the I-Semantics Triplification Challenge. Within the project the Web-based Systems Group cooperates with the University of Oxford, Yale University, the University of Toronto, DERI Galway and the pharma companies Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca on interlinking life sciences data relating to traditional Chinese medicine, clinical trials, genes, diseases, drugs, and adverse drug reactions. In total, the data consisted of more than 8.4 million RDF triples and almost 390,000 links to external data sources. Congratulations to Anja Jentzsch who is leading the effort on our side! For more details please refer to the Linking Open Drug Data Triplification Challenge submission.
    

2. The paper Media Meets Semantic Web - How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Conections by Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Christian Bizer, Robert Lee has won the In-Use Track Best Paper Award at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009). The paper describes our joined-work with the British Broadcasting Corporation on using Linked Data technologies to connect various BBC content repositories and to expose metadata about BBC content on the Web. Congratulations to Georgi Kobilarov who is leading the effort on our side!