Exploiting Open Data: the MELODIES conference

3 Nov, 2016
The MELODIES project concluded with a conference held in Brussels on the 11-13 th October 2016. The event was called "Exploiting Open Data" and focussed on the creation and use of open data in the environmental domain, with a particular...

Tracking ocean eddies with AIS

19 Jul, 2016
By Charles Calkoen and Ruben van der Neut Almost all ships nowadays are equipped with an Automatic Identification System (AIS), primarily to improve marine traffic safety. The system broadcasts signals containing the ship's identity, location, speed, heading and more every...

New video guide released for Ontop Spatial

14 Jul, 2016
Konstantina Bereta from the University of Athens has published a new video tutorial for Ontop-Spatial. Konstantina is the developer of the geospatial extension of the system Ontop, named Ontop-Spatial, which is an open source tool that supports on-the-fly GeoSPARQL-to-SQL translation...

Using open Earth Observation data to provide ecological advice to farmers

1 Jun, 2016
From our last blog post you will already know that we want to develop a service to assist farmers while they are searching for suitable areas for greening measures on their arable fields. Within the last months, we have refined...

Combining timeseries data with RDF

17 May, 2016
The Resource Definition Framework (RDF) language was initially designed as a metadata model to represent information in the Web. In the MELODIES project we are using RDF for our data, with the goal of being able to link our measurements...

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