We are the Knowledge-based and Software Systems Group - a research group located at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

We focus on the research and development of knowledge-based information systems using Semantic Web technologies.

Research

Research is the main focus of the group.

Teaching

Subjects and thesis topics.

Open Mic

Tech presentations taking place every other Friday.

Recent posts

Semantics 2025 Review

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We discuss two interesting presentations from the Semantics 2025 conference.

Upcoming Open Mic - Semantics 2025 Review

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The next Open mic session starts on Friday 12 September 2025 at 09:30 at this link. Martin Ledvinka is going to talk about interesting talks presented at the...

Student Thesis Presentations

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On Thursday 5th June, students affiliated with KBSS presented their theses in preparation for their defense.

LLM-Powered Coder Assistants

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Code-generating LLMs are powerful pattern matchers, not magic. This session breaks down how they transform prompts into working code using transformers, atte...

Upcoming Open Mic - LLM-Powered Coder Assistants

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The next Open Mic session starts on Friday 23rd May 2025 at 9:30 at this link. Speaker Evgenii Grigorev will unpack how Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT...

Introduction to STPA Onto Converters

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There are multiple tools which create structured STPA data. In this talk, we discuss a prototype tool which allows to convert STPA and System Control Structu...

Business processes with Camunda tools

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Most organizations operate based on business processes. In this talk, we discuss modeling and execution of business processes using free tools from Camunda.

News in DataSpecer

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DataSpecer is a tool meant for creating data specifications and structures based on the existing or newly created RDF Vocabularies. The speech focuses on the...

Upcoming Open Mic - Changes in DataSpecer

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The next Open mic session starts on Friday 28th March 2025 at 9:30 at this link. Todays speaker Michal Med introduces changes in DataSpecer since the last Op...

AI tools to power academic research

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On Friday 11 October 2024 speaker Miroslav Blaško held an Open Mic session with the topic "AI tools to power academic research". Video and presentation inclu...

Lessons Learned from the Last Aviation Project

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On Friday 31st April 2024, our research group leader Miroslav Blaško discussed in an open mic session the lessons learned from the latest aviation project, w...

How to Control Access to Enterprise Linked Data

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On Tuesday 30th April 2024, our former reesearch grou leader Petr Křemen was leading an open mic session inspired by his work for his new employer – Cognity....

Git Team Workflow

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This two-part presentation discussed best practices for using Git in a team project.

Upcoming Open Mic - Using Git in a Team

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The next open mic session will take place on Friday 1 March 2024. Our guest speaker, Petr Aubrecht, will share his experience with using Git in a team of mul...

Upcoming Open Mic - React component ‘state’

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The next open mic session will take place on Friday 16th February 2024 at 10:30. Join us on this link. Bogdan Kostov will explore in more detail, how compone...

Widoco and its alternatives

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The presentation discussed the documentation generators and visualization tools for RDF data and ontologies.

Upcoming Open Mic - Widoco and its alternatives

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The Open mic session starts on Friday 15th December 2023 at 10:30 at this link. The speaker Michal Med talks about vizualization and documentation tools for ...

Debugging SPARQL queries through algebra

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The talk will explore a few perplexing examples of SPARQL queries, illustrating how the translation can be used to understand/debug such queries.

Design Science

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Design Science is an approach used in fields like information systems, computer science, and engineering to tackle complex real-world problems by creating in...

Upcoming Open Mic - Design Science

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The Open mic session starts on Friday 10th November 2023 at 10:30 at this link. Speaker Max Chopart gives a talk about Design Science.

Student Thesis Presentations

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On Friday 2nd June, the regular Open Mic session gave way to presentations of theses of students affiliated with KBSS.

Winter semester is over

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During the winter semester our group teaches two subjects - Enterprise Architectures (EAR) and Ontology and Semantic Web (OSW). Semester is now over, includi...

Updating Data from External Data Source View

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Data integration is one of the common problems occurring in modern distributed applications. Data integration is a problem where data needs to be integrated ...

Giving Semantics to Web Services with JSON-LD

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JSON-LD allows providing context with data published by REST services. This talk introduces JB4JSON-LD - a library for mapping Java objects to JSON-LD.

Semestral project presentation - Tomáš Majer

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Our student Tomáš Majer presents his semestral project before bachelor thesis. The presentation starts on Friday 10th February 2023 at 12:30 at this link. To...

Project management in IT

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IT project management is a complex process that involves coordinating the efforts of multiple people, often working remotely and across different departments...

RDF support for Jekyll

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Jekyll RDF is a plugin for Jekyll allowing rendering static web based on the RDF file. This Open mic introduces the basis of installation and usage of the Je...

Upcoming Open Mic - RDF support in Jekyll

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The Open mic session starts on Friday 6th November 2022 at 10:30 at this link. Speaker Michal Med introduces usage of RDF plugin for Jekyll to render web pag...

Variables and Environment in Docker

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Docker has changed the way applications are built and run. However, one of the frequent pain points for newcomers is configuration of the containers - what a...

AI-powered completion in IDEs

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In this session taht took place on Friday 7th October, Matěj Kulich introduced an overview of the AI-powered completion tools with the main focus on GitHub C...

Upcoming Open Mic - AI-powered completion in IDEs

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The Open mic session starts on Friday 7th October 2022 at 10:30 at this link. Speaker Matěj Kulich introduces the capabilities of AI-powered completion in va...

Towards Using SForms for Ontology Engineering

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On Friday 1th July at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Towards Using SForms for Ontology Engineering". Video and presentation included.

Tooling and workflow for JavaScript libraries

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On Friday 10th June at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Tooling and workflow for JavaScript libraries". Recording and presentation is inc...

Jobs to be done in Open Mic Session

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On Friday 13th May at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Jobs to be Done". Video and presentation included.

The Open mic session starts on Friday 10 October 2025 at 10:30 via this link. Michal Med presents outputs of his work on metadata profile for Czech cell of European Open Science Cloud.

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  <br/>We discuss two interesting presentations from the Semantics 2025 conference.
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  <a href="/semantics-2025-review-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Semantics 2025 Review</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open mic session starts on Friday 12 September 2025 at 09:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> is going to talk about interesting talks presented at the Semantics 2025 conference.</p>


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  <a href="/requirements-for-a-knowledge-management-tool-in-ontology-based-system-development-open-mic-summary">Requirements for a Knowledge Management Tool in Ontology-Based System Development</a>
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  <br/>Requirements for a knowledge management tool in ontology-based projects relying heavily on inputs from domain experts.
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday, 4 July 2025, at 9:30 via <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> is going to talk about requirements for a knowledge management tool in ontology-based projects relying heavily on inputs from domain experts.</p>


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  <a href="/student-thesis-presentations">Student Thesis Presentations</a>
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  <br/><p>On Thursday 5th June, students affiliated with KBSS presented their theses in preparation for their defense.</p>


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  <br/>Code-generating LLMs are powerful pattern matchers, not magic. This session breaks down how they transform prompts into working code using transformers, attention, and tokenization. We'll dive into their training process, common pitfalls like hallucinations and biases.
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  <a href="/llm-powered-coder-assistants-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - LLM-Powered Coder Assistants</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open Mic session starts on Friday 23rd May 2025 at 9:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://fel.cvut.cz/cs/fakulta/lide/37026-evgenii-grigorev">Evgenii Grigorev</a> will unpack how Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and CodeLlama generate code, blending theory with real-world examples.</p>


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  <a href="/introduction-to-stpa-onto-converters-open-mic-summary">Introduction to STPA Onto Converters</a>
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  <br/>There are multiple tools which create structured STPA data. In this talk, we discuss a prototype tool which allows to convert STPA and System Control Structure (SCS) to the STPA ontology.
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  <a href="/introduction-to-stpa-onto-converters-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Introduction to STPA Onto Converters</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open mic session starts on Friday 25th April 2025 at 9:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov">Bogdan Kostov</a> will present the STPA Onto Converters project which allows to convert STPA analysis artifacts in various formats (e.g. excel, relation DB) to STPA ontology.</p>


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  <a href="/business-processes-with-camunda-tools-open-mic-summary">Business processes with Camunda tools</a>
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  <br/>Most organizations operate based on business processes. In this talk, we discuss modeling and execution of business processes using free tools from Camunda.
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  <a href="/business-processes-with-camunda-tools-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Business processes with Camunda tools</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open mic session starts on Friday 11th April 2025 at 9:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> will talk about his experience with using tools from Camunda to model and execute organization business processes.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-news-in-dataspecer">News in DataSpecer</a>
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  <br/>DataSpecer is a tool meant for creating data specifications and structures based on the existing or newly created RDF Vocabularies. The speech focuses on the practical usage of a tool.
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  <a href="/open-mic-news-in-dataspecer-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Changes in DataSpecer</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open mic session starts on Friday 28th March 2025 at 9:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Todays speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> introduces changes in DataSpecer since the <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/open-mic-dataspecer">last Open Mic session on this topic in November 2022</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/development-and-debugging-of-docker-services-(part-2)-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Development and Debugging of Docker Services (part 2)</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 13 December 2024 at 10:30 via <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a>, who will talk about the development of Docker-based services at KBSS.</p>


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  <a href="/development-and-debugging-of-docker-services-(part-1)-open-mic-summary">Development and Debugging of Docker Services (part 1)</a>
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  <br/>First in a two-part practical series on developing and debugging with Docker Compose.
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  <a href="/development-and-debugging-of-docker-services-open-mic-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Development and Debugging of Docker Services</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 29 November 2024 at 10:30 via <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a>, who will talk about the development of Docker-based services at KBSS.</p>


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  <a href="/ontodeside-and-patomat2-using-ontologies-to-support-circular-economy-open-mic-summary">Onto-DESIDE and PatOMat2 - Using Ontologies to Support Circular Economy</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 8th November 2024 our guest speaker prof. <a href="https://nb.vse.cz/~svatek/">Vojtěch Svátek</a> held an Open Mic session with the topic "Onto-DESIDE and PatOMat2 - Using Ontologies to Support Circular Economy".</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-ontodeside-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - OntoDESIDE and PatOMat2 - Using Ontologies to Support Circular Economy</a>
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  <br/><p>The next Open mic session starts on Friday 8th November 2024 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Our guest <a href="https://nb.vse.cz/~svatek/">Vojtěch Svátek</a> will discuss the use of ontology pattern-based matching and transformation in Onto-DESIDE - a Horizon Europe project researching means of supporting circular economy.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-enhancing-sw-safety-stpa">Enhancing Software Safety in System-Intensive Environments: Applying System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 25th October 2024 speaker <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-chopart">Max Chopart</a> held an Open Mic session with the topic "Application of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to enhance software safety in System-Intensive Environments". Video and presentation included.</p>


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  <a href="/ai-tools-to-power-academic-research-open-mic-summary">AI tools to power academic research</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 11 October 2024 speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> held an Open Mic session with the topic "AI tools to power academic research". Video and presentation included.</p>


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  <a href="/enhancing-sw-safety-stpa-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Enhancing Software Safety in System-Intensive Environments: Applying System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 25th October 2024 at 10:30 via <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-chopart">Max Chopart</a> who is going to talk about Application of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to enhance software safety in System-Intensive Environments.</p>


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  <a href="/ai-tools-to-power-academic-research-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - AI tools to power academic research</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 11th October 2024 at 10:30 via <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> who is going to talk about AI tools to help improve academic research.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-generating-documentation">Generating and Publishing Ontology Documentation</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session took place on Friday 20th June 2024. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> introduced his research in the automatic generation and publication of documentation of ontologies. This session follows up the speech from December 2023[1]. The whole speech, including the discussion, was as usual recorded. The video is available here:</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-generating-documentation-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Generating and Publishing Ontology Documentation</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 20th June 2024 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> introduces his research in the automatic generation and publication of documentation of ontologies. This weeks session follows up the speech from December 2023[1].</p>


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  <a href="/mapping-metadata-profiles">Mapping Various Metadata Profiles to DCAT Family</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 14th June 2024 our host <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> spoke about various metadata profiles and their mapping to the European application profile of the Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT-AP), which is mandatory to share metadata in the European Union and also to share open data in order to fulfill Czech open data legislation.</p>


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  <a href="/mapping-metadata-profiles-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Mapping Various Metadata Profiles to DCAT Family</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 14th June 2024 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> focuses on various metadata profiles and their mapping to the European application profile of the Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT), which is mandatory to share metadata in the European Union.</p>


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  <a href="/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-aviation-project">Lessons Learned from the Last Aviation Project</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 31st April 2024, our research group leader <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miro-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> discussed in an open mic session the lessons learned from the latest aviation project, which involved developing an information system for AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s. (AVA). This system aims to collect and process operational data to enhance the safety and reliability of aircraft. A key objective of the operational data is to provide input for failure analysis using the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) technique.</p>


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  <a href="/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-aviation-project-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Lessons Learned from the Development of a System for Safety and Reliability of Aircraft</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday, May 31, 2024 at 12:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a>, leader of the KBSS research group. He will discuss the lessons learned from the latest aviation project, which involves developing an information system for AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s (AVA). This system aims to collect and process operational data to enhance the safety and reliability of aircraft. A key objective of the operational data is to provide input for failure analysis using the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) technique.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-access-control">How to Control Access to Enterprise Linked Data</a>
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  <br/><p>On Tuesday 30th April 2024, our former reesearch grou leader <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#petr-křemen">Petr Křemen</a> was leading an open mic session inspired by his work for his new employer – Cognity. His presentation was focused on the access control in the various RDF databases.</p>


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  <a href="/maven-deploy-jar-to-remote-repository">Publishing Standalone JAR to Remote Maven Repository</a>
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  <br/>Sometimes one may find themselves with a project-less JAR and needs to deploy it to a remote repository. This post describes the deployment process.
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  <a href="/open-mic-access-control-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - How to Control Access to Enterprise Linked Data</a>
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  <br/><p>The next open mic session will take place exceptionally (again) on Tuesday (!!) 30th April 2024. Our next speaker is KBSS’ former leader <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#petr-křemen">Petr Křemen</a>. His speech is about controlling access to the enterprise Linked Data. The online presentation starts at 14:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-jopa-refactoring">Open Mic - Refactoring Application Ontology Concepts in JOPA based Applications</a>
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  <br/><p>On Thursday 11th April 2024, our speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov">Bogdan Kostov</a> had a presentation about refactoring ontolgies, mainly its concepts, in JOPA based applications.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-jopa-refactoring-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Refactoring Application Ontology Concepts in JOPA based Applications</a>
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  <br/><p>The next open mic session will take place exceptionally on Thursday (!!) 11th April 2024. Our next speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov">Bogdan Kostov</a> and his topic is refactoring ontologies in JOPA based applications. The speech takes place at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-git-team-workflow">Git Team Workflow</a>
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  <br/>This two-part presentation discussed best practices for using Git in a team project.
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  <a href="/open-mic-git-team-workflow-II-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Using Git in a Team - Part Two</a>
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  <br/><p>The next open mic session will take place on Friday 8 March 2024. This session will be a continuation of the previous week’s topic of Git usage best practices, lead by our guest speaker Petr Aubrecht. Join us at 11:00 using <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-git-team-workflow-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Using Git in a Team</a>
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  <br/><p>The next open mic session will take place on Friday 1 March 2024. Our guest speaker, Petr Aubrecht, will share his experience with using Git in a team of multiple developers. Join us at 11:00 using <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-react-component-state-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - React component 'state'</a>
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  <br/>The next open mic session will take place on Friday 16th February 2024 at 10:30. Join us on [this link](https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss). [Bogdan Kostov](https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov) will explore in more detail, how component 'state' works in react.
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  <a href="/open-mic-semweb-news-in-2024">Semantic Web - What Is Coming in 2024?</a>
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  <br/>The presentation discussed news in Semantic Web-related standards likely to appear in 2024.
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  <a href="/lama-saeeda-phd-defense">Lama Saeeda Defended Her PhD Thesis</a>
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  <br/>Our colleague Lama Saeeda successfully defended her dissertation thesis today.
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  <a href="/open-mic-semweb-news-in-2024-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Semantic Web, What Is Coming in 2024?</a>
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  <br/><p>The next open mic session will take place on Friday 12 January 2024. <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> will share upcoming news related to the Semantic Web. This will include changes slated for RDF 1.2, SPARQL 1.2, Jena 5, RDF4J 5, etc. Join us at 10:30 using <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-widoco-and-co">Widoco and its alternatives</a>
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  <br/>The presentation discussed the documentation generators and visualization tools for RDF data and ontologies.
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  <a href="/widoco-and-co-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Widoco and its alternatives</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 15th December 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> talks about vizualization and documentation tools for RDF data on the internet.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-debugging-sparql-queries">Debugging SPARQL queries through algebra</a>
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  <br/>The talk will explore a few perplexing examples of SPARQL queries, illustrating how the translation can be used to understand/debug such queries.
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  <a href="/debugging-sparql-queries-through-algebra-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Debugging SPARQL queries through algebra</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 24th November 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> who opens the topic of Debugging SPARQL Queries using algebra.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-design-science">Design Science</a>
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  <br/>Design Science is an approach used in fields like information systems, computer science, and engineering to tackle complex real-world problems by creating innovative solutions or artifacts.
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  <a href="/open-mic-design-science-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Design Science</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 10th November 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-chopart">Max Chopart</a> gives a talk about Design Science.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-planning-aircraft-revisions">Planning Aircraft Revisions Based on Work Session Records</a>
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  <br/>During aircraft maintenance the mechanics investigate the state of the aircraft and replace worn or damaged parts and equipment in order to reduce the risk of failure during operation. Aircraft maintenance in civil aviation is organized in maintenance blocks or revisions which are packages of maintenance tasks.
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  <a href="/open-mic-planning-aircratft-revisions-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Planning Aircraft Revisions Based on Work Session Records</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 27nd October 2023 at 9:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov">Bogdan Kostov</a> introduces the topic of Planning Aircraft Revisions Based on Work Session Records.</p>


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  <a href="/student-thesis-presentations">Student Thesis Presentations</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 2nd June, the regular Open Mic session gave way to presentations of theses of students affiliated with KBSS.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-shacl-oom">SHACL-based Object-ontological Mapping</a>
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  <br/>Using SHACL integrity constraints to map an ontology to an application object model with closed world semantics.
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  <a href="/open-mic-shacl-oom-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - SHACL-based Object-ontological Mapping</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 12th May 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> opens the topic of SHACL-based object-ontological mapping.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-eu-vocabularies">(Re)using EU controlled vocabularies to enrich Semantic Government Vocabulary</a>
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  <br/>Semantic modeling of the legislative processes and documents at the national level in the Czech Republic is done using Assembly line and the result is stored in a form of RDF vocabularies as Semantic Government Vocabulary (SGoV). The European Union also provides top level vocabularies for description of legislative processes and legislation itself. This speech sums up how are those vocabularies published, what is their content and which of them can be reused.
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  <a href="/open-mic-eu-vocabularies-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - (Re)using EU controlled vocabularies to enrich Semantic Government Vocabulary</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 28th April 2023 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> analyses Controlled vocabularies and models provided and published by the Publication Office of the European Union in the context of enrichment or domain anchoring of Semantic Government Vocabulary (SGoV).</p>


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  <a href="/student-survey">Winter semester is over</a>
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  <br/>During the winter semester our group teaches two subjects - Enterprise Architectures (EAR) and Ontology and Semantic Web (OSW). Semester is now over, including the results of the student survey, making it great opportunity for its evaluation from our side.
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  <a href="/open-mic-lesson-learned-from-aircraft-mainenance-sw">Lesson learned from development of knowledge-based system for planning and execution of aircraft maintenance</a>
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  <br/>Selected challenges encountered while developing the knowledge-based system.
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  <a href="/open-mic-lesson-learned-from-aircraft-mainenance-sw-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Lesson learned from development of knowledge-based system for planning and execution of aircraft maintenance</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 14 April 2023 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker is <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> who is going to talk about insights acquired through the development and deployment of a knowledge-based system for the planning and execution of aircraft maintenance within organization Czech Airlines Technics, a.s. related to project <a href="https://starfos.tacr.cz/en/project/CK01000204">Improving effectiveness of aircraft maintenance planning and execution</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-spipes-view">An introduction to SPipes modules and their usage</a>
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  <br/>SPipes Modules is a collection of specific module types used in SPipes, a tool for managing semantic pipelines defined in RDF. These modules are stateless transformations of input data that can be instantiated in a pipeline. They are implemented in Java and defined in RDF.
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  <a href="/open-mic-spipes-modules-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - An introduction to SPipes modules and their usage</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 17 March 2023 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#matěj-kulich">Matěj Kulich</a> gives the follow-up presentation on <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/open-mic-pipeline">SPipes</a> given in November by <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a>, going into more details regarding SPipes modules.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-external-data-source-view">Updating Data from External Data Source View</a>
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  <br/>Data integration is one of the common problems occurring in modern distributed applications. Data integration is a problem where data needs to be integrated across multiple applications with their own data storage that may have different schemas.
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  <a href="/open-mic-external-data-source-view-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Updating Data from External Data Source View</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 3 March 2023 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. The speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#bogdan-kostov">Bogdan Kostov</a> will present an data integration case for updating data from an external data source view.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-jsonld-webservices">Giving Semantics to Web Services with JSON-LD</a>
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  <br/>JSON-LD allows providing context with data published by REST services. This talk introduces JB4JSON-LD - a library for mapping Java objects to JSON-LD.
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  <a href="/semestral-project-presentation-majerto4">Semestral project presentation  - Tomáš Majer</a>
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  <br/><p>Our student Tomáš Majer presents his semestral project before bachelor thesis. The presentation starts on Friday 10th February 2023 at 12:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/2023-02-10-majerto4">this link</a>. Topic of his semestral project is Visualization of GeoSPARQL data in map webapp.</p>

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  <a href="/open-mic-martin-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Giving Semantics to Web Services with JSON-LD</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 10th February 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> will discuss the topic of enhancing REST Web service semantics with JSON-LD.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-github-projects">Project management in IT</a>
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  <br/>IT project management is a complex process that involves coordinating the efforts of multiple people, often working remotely and across different departments, to achieve a common goal. Various methodologies exist to 
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  <a href="/open-mic-github-projects-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Project management in IT</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 20th January 2023 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-chopart">Max Chopart</a> opens the topic of project management in IT.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-jekyll-rdf">RDF support for Jekyll</a>
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  <br/>Jekyll RDF is a plugin for Jekyll allowing rendering static web based on the RDF file. This Open mic introduces the basis of installation and usage of the Jekyll RDF plugin.
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  <a href="/open-mic-rdf-jekyll-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - RDF support in Jekyll</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 6th November 2022 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#michal-med">Michal Med</a> introduces usage of RDF plugin for Jekyll to render web pages from RDF serialized data.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-pipeline">Developing RDF-based data processing pipelines using SPipes</a>
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  <br/>SPipes is engine to execute RDF-based data processing pipelines. The goal of the session is to present current state of the SPipes and show practical tips  to develop and deploy SPipes scripts.
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  <a href="/open-mic-pipeline-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Developing RDF-based data processing pipelines using SPipes</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 25th November 2022 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#miroslav-blaško">Miroslav Blaško</a> gives his speech about processing piplines into RDF using SPipes.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-dataspecer">Dataspecer: Towards schema modeling from ontologies</a>
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  <br/>Datasepcer is a tool for simple creation of data schemas from complicated conceptual models.
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  <a href="/open-mic-dataspecer-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Dataspecer: Towards schema modeling from ontologies</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 4th November 2022 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/open-mic-kbss">this link</a>. Speaker Štěpán Stenchlák introduces tool Dataspecer for creating dataset schemas from ontologies.</p>


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  <a href="/open-mic-docker-config">Variables and Environment in Docker</a>
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  <br/>Docker has changed the way applications are built and run. However, one of the frequent pain points for newcomers is configuration of the containers - what are `ENV`, `ARG`, environment, `.env` file etc.
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  <a href="/open-mic-docker-config-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Variables and Environment in Docker</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 21st October 2022 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/2022-10-21-open-mic">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#martin-ledvinka">Martin Ledvinka</a> opens the topic of Variables and Environment in Docker.</p>


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  <a href="/openmic-AI-powered-completion">AI-powered completion in IDEs</a>
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  <br/><p>In this session taht took place on Friday 7th October, <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#mat%C4%9Bj-kulich">Matěj Kulich</a> introduced an overview of the AI-powered completion tools with the main focus on <a href="https://github.com/features/copilot">GitHub Copilot</a> and <a href="https://www.tabnine.com/">Tabnine</a> and their advantages and disadvantages. The process of suggestions was also described and displayed on the picture. There was also a short demo at the end showing the usage of Copilot and Tabnine.</p>


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  <a href="/openmic-AI-powered-completion-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - AI-powered completion in IDEs</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday 7th October 2022 at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.jit.si/2022-10-07-open-mic">this link</a>. Speaker <a href="https://kbss.felk.cvut.cz/web/team#mat%C4%9Bj-kulich">Matěj Kulich</a> introduces the capabilities of AI-powered completion in various IDEs.</p>


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  <a href="/towards-using-sforms-for-ontology-engineering-in-openmic">Towards Using SForms for Ontology Engineering</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 1th July at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Towards Using SForms for Ontology Engineering". Video and presentation included.</p>


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  <a href="/openmic-TUSFOE-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Towards Using SForms for Ontology Engineering</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday ‘1’st July 2022’ at 10:30 at <a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:a53641a5c2b64fae9fed0985aa353847@thread.tacv2/1653900345165?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22f345c406-5268-43b0-b19f-5862fa6833f8%22">this link</a>.</p>


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  <a href="/twfjl-in-openmic">Tooling and workflow for JavaScript libraries</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 10th June at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Tooling and workflow for JavaScript libraries". Recording and presentation is included.</p>


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  <a href="/openmic-workflow-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - workflow and tooling for front end applications</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday ‘10th June 2022’ at 10:30 at <a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:a53641a5c2b64fae9fed0985aa353847@thread.tacv2/1653900345165?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22f345c406-5268-43b0-b19f-5862fa6833f8%22">this link</a>. Speaker Max Chopart presents workflow and tooling for front end applications.</p>


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  <a href="/stamp-in-openmic">Ontological Foundation of Hazards and Risk in STAMP</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 27th May at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Ontological Foundation of Hazards and Risk in STAMP". Recording and presentation is included.</p>


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  <a href="/openmic-stamp-announcement">Upcoming Open Mic - Ontological Foundation of Hazards and Risk in STAMP</a>
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  <br/><p>The Open mic session starts on Friday at 10:30 at <a href="https://meet.google.com/jan-ukop-sez">this link</a>. Speaker Jana Ahmad presents her presentation with the topic Ontological Foundation of Hazards and Risks in Stamp.</p>


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  <a href="/jtbd-in-openmic">Jobs to be done in Open Mic Session</a>
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  <br/><p>On Friday 13th May at 10:30 an open Mic session took place. The topic was "Jobs to be Done". Video and presentation included.</p>


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