D:SWARM is truly #opensource, please participate!

Today, we have released a public beta of d:swarm on the occasion of the conference Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB14). The SWIB conference aims to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners on Linked Open Data (LOD) developments relevant to the library world. And this is what we ask you to do: please help us test our web application, guide our development or fork our code. We are looking forward to your feedback, your ideas, and your opinion.

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d:swarm – Data Management and Swarm Intelligence

We have accomplished an important milestone in our sub-project Data Management Platform. We are proud to present the alpha release and, at the same time, pronounce the name of our data integration and data modelling tool: d:swarm. This name does call to mind associations with swarm intelligence, busy swarming and altruistic collaboration. At this stage, however, we focus on making our principal idea of a highly flexible data integration solution with a graphical user interface come true. We want to take away the task of data management from programmers and IT specialists and give it back into the hands of those to whom it belongs: librarians, metadata experts and knowledge workers. Continue reading →