Dear all- The 2021 General Assembly will be held on June 18, 16:00 CEST, on Zoom at https://psich.zoom.us/j/9208408267. The general assembly is open to all dues-paying BONSAI NGO members. There is a r

A new poll has been created: Please indicate your preferences for the BONSAI General Assembly 2021 by Friday, June 4. You can vote for more than one option. Times are in Central European Summer Time (

Quick question to the data scientists among us: Does anyone have experience with DVC? It looks very promising so I might use it for my PhD but I would like to hear user experiences first. Cheers! Ben

Dear BONSAI and ARIES members, I hope you enjoyed the holidays and are ready to start into the new year with new energy! As a late Christmas present, I am happy to inform you that I was finally able t

Dear BONSAI-Samurais, thank you for participating in Tuesday’s and today’s meeting with ARIES. Concerning Tuesday’s k.LAB tour, I have uploaded the recording but I am currently not able to share it du

Dear BONSAI-Samurais, I just sent out invitations for the k.LAB tour on Tuesday. Unfortunately, there will be no recording as no one seems to have the right software. Let's see it as a motivation to l

Dear All Hope you are all keeping in well. We have some updates on recent BONSAI activities : 1) We are presenting our ontology and its application across several virtual conferences: 'Transparent Sha

Hi all, I am looking for semantic formatted data in the form of turtle (.ttl ) files. I tried the SPARQL enpoint but only saw a way to download the results in .csv format. I am not very familiar with

Dear BONSAI-Samurais, Bo brought to my attention the Integrated Modelling Partnership and their technology for the assessment of ecosystem services, ARIES. I believe both, the partnership and the tech

So, sometimes people ask what is this vision about (and how Semantic Web fits in the picture)? Some people in the DataCommons initiative provided some more details on that (in a more general domain):

Hi all, "annuntio vobis gaudium magnum", a.k.a., great news! The BONSAI RDF codebase reached a quite stable and tested stage (more details are provided at the end of the email, don't miss them!) and w

Hi all, I think this is really a well made guide. We should probably collect useful introductory materials about RDF, LCIA, and other topics interesecting the BONSAI project. “An easy-to-read guide fo

Hi all Bonsamurais, We have the opportunity to host a paid research assistant for 1 year at the BONSAI group at Aalborg University (the ODA project). We would like to people from the BONSAI community

Dear BONSAI community- The 2020 general assembly will be held on Thursday, and is open to all paid members of BONSAI. Remember, active members qualify for a reduced enrollment rate of € 50 - it isn't

Hi all, I would like to propose we change branch names in our github repositories away from `master`. Here some more pointers about this proposal. ``` Language and words have a power and, unfortunatel

Hi all, Tomas, the automatic deploy of the ontology is failing and we cannot understand why, see here: https://travis-ci.org/BONSAMURAIS/ontology Do you have any idea? Thanks, Matteo

First rough draft of Spring 2020 proposal is here: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/hackathons/blob/master/2020-spring/proposal.md. Please provide feedback on mailing list or by editing the proposal tex

Hello, the Bonsai enhancement proposal 0002 is now up for discussion: https://github.com/BONSAMURAIS/enhancements/blob/master/beps/0002-bonsai-project-community-governance-structure.md#bep-0002-bonsai

Dear all- I will be on the Slack channel #relational-db all day tomorrow, happy to discuss / answer questions / provide suggestions on what people can get started on. If you aren't on the BONSAI slack

I would like to propose we open a second work track for BONSAI: data liberation. The goal is to allow for more work to be done on interesting research questions and practical challenges in a distribut