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).

14. April 2012
15:37
by: Alex Oberhauser

Development and Release Workflow

In the last few weeks I have tried to work out a suitable development and release workflow for the Sigimera project. For me it was important to have an easy overview about the deployed versions, without the need of intense … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Sigimera

29. February 2012
21:57
by: Alex Oberhauser

Sigimera Frontend Development or why Ruby on Rails is the right choice

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This blog post explains why the Crisis Information Platform uses Ruby on Rails for the Frontends. Continue reading →

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17. February 2012
19:31
by: Alex Oberhauser

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 →

Posted in Sigimera

6. February 2012
20:52
by: Alex Oberhauser

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized

22. January 2012
13:47
by: Alex Oberhauser

Networld Blog – Style and other minor changes

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

Posted in Networld

19. January 2012
22:51
by: Alex Oberhauser

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. Continue reading →

Posted in Research, Sigimera Tagged

16. January 2012
16:03
by: Alex Oberhauser

Server Downtime

Server Downtime from 16. January 2012 until not specified Continue reading →

Posted in Administration Tagged

21. November 2011
09:12
by: Alex Oberhauser

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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17. September 2011
21:58
by: Alex Oberhauser

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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17. July 2011
12:59
by: Alex Oberhauser

Sigimera – Crisis Information Platform

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First preview of the launch of the Crisis Information Platform Sigimera. Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Networld, Research, Sigimera