Sören heads the Enterprise Information System group at the computer science department at University of Bonn. He is also member of the leadership council of Fraunhofer-Insitute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). Sören founded Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) research group at University of Leipzig and worked at TU Chemnitz as well as University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include social and semantic web technologies, knowledge representation, engineering & management, usability, agile methodologies as well as databases and information systems. Sören co-founded the Wikipedia extraction project DBpedia, the collaborative open courseware authoring platform SlideWiki.org or the spatial data initiative LinkedGeoData. He is the coordinator of EU projects LOD2-Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data and H2020 BigDataEurop-Empowering Communities with Big Data Technologies. 

Abstract:Linked Data gained quite some traction recently for publishing and integration data on the Web. In this talk, we will discuss the life-cycle of linked data including its stages extraction, storage, curation, linking, enrichment, cleaning and visualization/exploration. Some examples of large scale applications include Enterprise Data Integration, Cultural Heritage portals and (Linked) Open Government Data. We will present some examples of existing large-scale Linked Data deployments in each of these domains and discuss promising directions for future research and development in the Linked Data realm.