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Chair of Technical Information Systems

Welcome to the Chair of Information Systems, especially Technical Information Systems.

We conduct research around Semantic Web, Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs and decentralised information systems in close collaboration with the department Data Spaces and Internet of Things Solutions at the Center for Applied Research on Supply Chain Services of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS located at the Nordostpark in Nuremberg.

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News

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  17APR 2025

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  BLAST is Now Public

  Our previously internal research project BLAST – Block Applications for Things is now publicly available. BLAST is a collection of libraries easing IoT development building on the W3C Web of Things (WoT) standards, consisting of 5 parts: @blast/core is a library enabling usage of WoT Thing Descriptions (TDs) for Bluetooth devices in Node.js. @blast/node bundle […]Our previously internal research project BLAST – Block Applications for Things is now publicly available. BLAST is a collection of libraries easing IoT development building on the W3C Web of Things (WoT) standards, consisting of 5 parts: @blast/core is a library enabling usage of WoT Thing Descriptions (TDs) for Bluetooth devices in Node.js. @blast/node bundle […]

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  08JAN 2025

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  Best Paper Award at KGSWC

  The Sixth International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) has awarded the Best Paper Award to “Enriching RDF Data with LLM-Based Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Embedded Natural Language Annotations.” Authored by Michael Freund, Rene Dorsch, Sebastian Schmid, Thomas Wehr, and Andreas Harth, the paper introduces an innovative approach to improving data interoperability. […]The Sixth International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) has awarded the Best Paper Award to “Enriching RDF Data with LLM-Based Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Embedded Natural Language Annotations.” Authored by Michael Freund, Rene Dorsch, Sebastian Schmid, Thomas Wehr, and Andreas Harth, the paper introduces an innovative approach to improving data interoperability. […]

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  02DEC 2024

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  MANDAT Final Meeting in DATEV IT Campus

  Our BMBF-funded project MANDAT concluded successfully! On November 29th and 30th we had our final meeting together with our partners from DATEV eG and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. We met in the DATEV IT Campus to showcase our results and implementations on the development of a methodological basis for open, data-driven ecosystems with data trustees […]Our BMBF-funded project MANDAT concluded successfully! On November 29th and 30th we had our final meeting together with our partners from DATEV eG and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. We met in the DATEV IT Campus to showcase our results and implementations on the development of a methodological basis for open, data-driven ecosystems with data trustees […]

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  15JUL 2024

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  AuthApp Wins Best Paper Award

  The 24th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), this year in Tampere, Finland, from 17-20 June 2024, awarded our paper “AuthApp — Flexible, Reusable Solid App for GDPR-compliant Access Granting” with the Best Paper Award. Our work is the result of the joint effort of Andreas Both, Thorsten Kastner, Dustin Yeboah, Christoph Braun, Daniel Schraudner, […]The 24th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), this year in Tampere, Finland, from 17-20 June 2024, awarded our paper “AuthApp — Flexible, Reusable Solid App for GDPR-compliant Access Granting” with the Best Paper Award. Our work is the result of the joint effort of Andreas Both, Thorsten Kastner, Dustin Yeboah, Christoph Braun, Daniel Schraudner, […]

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  10JUN 2024

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  FlexRML Wins First Place in Performance Track at Knowledge Graph Construction Challenge 2024

  The Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction, co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), organized a challenge to evaluate the resource efficiency of existing Knowledge Graph Construction engines. Our tool, FlexRML, developed by Michael Freund from Fraunhofer IIS in cooperation with the Chair, won the performance track of the 2024 challenge, where […]The Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction, co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), organized a challenge to evaluate the resource efficiency of existing Knowledge Graph Construction engines. Our tool, FlexRML, developed by Michael Freund from Fraunhofer IIS in cooperation with the Chair, won the performance track of the 2024 challenge, where […]

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