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Mag. Andreas Blumauer Author of Chapter 2 Andreas Blumauer earned a Master‘s degree in business, specialising in business informatics, at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Vienna University of Technology. He started his career in 1996 as software developer for financial services organisations. In 2000, he co-founded punkt. netServices, a specialised provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Andreas is Managing Partner at Semantic Web Company (SWC), where he is responsible for various consulting projects as well as for the product management of PoolParty, a Linked Data management platform. He regularly lectures at universities throughout Austria in the fields of knowledge management systems, social software and semantic technologies. Andreas has been a pioneer in the area of the semantic web and Linked Data since 2002, and is co-editor and editor of one of the first comprehensive books in German about the semantic web.
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Social Semantic Web - Web 2.0, was nun?
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Using Linked Data in Thesaurus Management
Contact Tel: +43 (0)1 402 12 35-27 E-Mail: a.blumauer@semantic-web.at Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ABLVienna LinkedIn: http://at.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-blumauer/6/46/b
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