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“By the end of 2010, Facebook was the leading social networking site in 15 of the 18 European markets included in this report. Only the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia have other social networks – in each case a home grown site – with audiences larger than Facebook. With 48 percent monthly penetration of the internet user population in the Netherlands, Facebook currently ranks second to Hyves, while it also ranks second in Poland with 55.5 percent penetration behind Nasza-klasa.pl. It should be noted, however, that Facebook is growing rapidly in both those markets. In Russia, Facebook has its lowest penetration in Europe at 18.8 percent, currently lagging behind leaders
Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Mail.ru – My World.”

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11th of Mai, the company Knowledge Hive published the Polish DBpedia !

DBpedia Poland, being a part of the international project DBpedia, gives access to information in Polish Wikipedia in accordance with the Linked Open Data standard.
It is envisioned that soon DBpedia Poland will become an important source of knowledge for various systems and applications using Semantic Web technologies, and in the future, will become a central node in the Linked Open Data cloud.

Recently, a Polish company, Knowledge Hives, has updated one of their open source projects, Open Vocabulary. Open Vocabulary (OV) is a platform for publishing thesauruses and taxonomies in accordance to the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data principles.

The main goal of Open Vocabulary is to encode in the SKOS/RDF standard those vocabularies that do not yet have their RDF or SKOS representation. The new recently added thesauruses are, among others, Open Thesaurus for Polish language and thesaurus of Polish cultural heritage.

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Abstract: This novel method is proposed for building a reliable ontology around specific concepts, by using the immense potential of active volunteering collaboration of detected knowledgeable users on social media.

Available at:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1958824.1958938&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=18492130&CFTOKEN=83579586

punkt. netServices and the PoolParty Team are conducting a survey about the usage of controlled vocabularies like taxonomies or thesauri and related trends, tools and application scenarios.

Answering this questionnaire is anonymous and will only take 5 to 10 minutes. The survey is aimed at practitioners who are using or who are thinking about using controlled vocabularies in their organisation.

This is your opportunity to give feedback about applications & usage of controlled vocabularies. Through your participation in the survey the knowledge management community will gain a better understanding of the potential of controlled vocabularies.

The survey will close on May 18th, 2011 – all participants will gain access to a report with the results within the following month.

Thank you for your help and cooperation!

You can find the survey at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/480834/Controlled-Vocabularies-Survey