Author Archives: Alex Oberhauser

About Alex Oberhauser

Alex Oberhauser's current private and professional interests are Research and Development in the area of Semantic Web and Service Oriented Architecture with the focus on the applicability of new technologies in real world scenarios. He is founder of the meta project Networld and the Crisis Information Platform Sigimera (http://www.sigimera.org)

Sigimera Architecture v2.0

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It is not the first time that Sigimera had changed the underlying architecture. The first few were prototypes to exploit different technologies and find there weakness. After a extended exploitation phase the business logic was simplified and of course the … Continue reading

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Sigimera Status Report and Justification

The justification of our crisis information platform is that information during and after the crisis must be available for everybody. An important aspect is the social part. Official sources can only give a broad overview about the crisis. Here we … Continue reading

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Networld Blog – Style and other minor changes

Description of style and minor changes in the structure of this website.

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Sigimera Architecture 1.0 is dead – Long live Sigimera Architecture 2.0

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A short summary why we have changed our architecture from 1.0 to 2.0 and why the first stable will come later as expected.

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Server Downtime

Server Downtime from 16. January 2012 until not specified

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Sigimera – Semantic Data Model

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The Crisis Information Platform, as described in previous blog entries on this site, consists of a SOAP backend, with an public accessible REST API. Another major part is the data representation, that is specified in RDFS/OWL. From the user representation … Continue reading

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Sigimera – Short outlook to the first Crisis Information Platform BETA Release

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After the setup of a developer infrastructure, our team works toward a first release. The plan is to have a first beta release by the end of this year. To achieve this goal we are working on a suitable frontend, … Continue reading

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Sigimera – Crisis Information Platform

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First preview of the launch of the Crisis Information Platform Sigimera.

Posted in Development, Networld, Research, Sigimera

Facebook to Semantic Web

In the focus of my Context Computation Algorithm I have used the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Ontology to extract the context information. That was fine for myself, because I have a pretty complete FOAF file that is public available, … Continue reading

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Mikrokopter Project – Codename “Sigimera”

A short description about the Mikrokopter Project, Codename "Sigimera", in which Networld is involved. The article outlines also how this new project fits together with the "Future House" project.

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