Category Archives: Calls & Competitions

Tassilo Pellegrini

REMINDER: I-Semantics 2011 — Call for Papers

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I-SEMANTICS 2011 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 7th conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and takes place from September 7 – 9, 2011 in Graz / Austria. I-SEMANTICS brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Linked Data, Social Software and the Semantic Web in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the “Social Semantic Web” and the “Corporate Semantic Web”.

I-SEMANTICS 2011 will be the host of the 6th AIS SigPrag International Conference on Pragmatic Web as well as the 4th edition of the TRIPLIFICATION Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management. This setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.

The scientific track invites long and short papers along the main topics “Linked Data and Web of Data” to “Semantic Web Applications and Application Building Blocks, Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks”. The papers will be published in the ACM ICPS series. The detailed CfP containing all scientific tracks can be found here: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/call-for-papers

To address the needs and interests of industry the i-Praxis track invites enterprises and public organisations to present industry relevant solutions in the field of semantic technologies. Presenters will be granted free access to the conference and will have generous time slots to present their applications. The presentations will be published on the conference website. Please find more information here: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/industry-track/call-for-papers

Important Dates:

  • Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2011
  • Camera-Ready Paper: June 30, 2011
  • I-SEMANTICS 2011: September 7 – 9, 2011
Tassilo Pellegrini

I-SEMANTICS 2011 — Call for Papers

by , Category: Calls & Competitions, Conferences & Events

I-SEMANTICS 2011 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 7th conference in the I-SEMANTICS series and takes place from September 7 – 9, 2011 in Graz / Austria. I-SEMANTICS brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Linked Data, Social Software and the Semantic Web in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising the “Social Semantic Web” and the “Corporate Semantic Web”.

I-SEMANTICS 2011 will be the host of the 6th AIS SigPrag International Conference on Pragmatic Web as well as the 4th edition of the TRIPLIFICATION Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management. This setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.

The scientific track invites long and short papers along the main topics “Linked Data and Web of Data” to “Semantic Web Applications and Application Building Blocks, Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks”. The papers will be published in the ACM ICPS series. The detailed CfP containing all scientific tracks can be found here: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/call-for-papers

To address the needs and interests of industry the i-Praxis track invites enterprises and public organisations to present industry relevant solutions in the field of semantic technologies. Presenters will be granted free access to the conference and will have sufficient time to present their applications. The presentations will be published on the conference website. Please find more information here: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/industry-track/call-for-papers

Important Dates:

  • Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2011
  • Camera-Ready Paper: June 30, 2011
  • I-SEMANTICS 2011: September 7 – 9, 2011
Andreas Blumauer

Open Government Data around the World

by , Category: Calls & Competitions, Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data

My colleague Thomas Thurner has put some Open Government Data initiatives on a map to get an overview what is happening around the world in this area. If you have any additional initiatives to add, please feel free to contact Thomas (office @ semantic-web DOT at) to get access – he will support you in this!

This is an important step to collect initiatives worldwide so we can follow our objective to build a network of OpenGov initiatives around the world in the course of building a focal point for the LOD topic – many thanks for your support!

(This initiative is part of the LOD2 project which was recently started in Leipzig.)

Tassilo Pellegrini

Winners of Triplification Challenge 2010

by , Category: Calls & Competitions, Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data

On Friday, September 3, 2010 the winners and honorary mentions of the 3rd Triplification Challenge have been awarded at the I-SEMANTICS conference in Graz. This year’s challenge consisted of an Open Track and a special Open Governement Data Track.

In total we received 28 submissions from which 15 nominees have been selected by the organizing committee. In a second round an international reviewing team of scientific and industrial experts elected the 3 equal winners and 3 honorary mentions. The winners were each granted a prize money of 1000.- Euro which was sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Germany, Semantic Universe and Semantic Web Company.

In the Open Governement Data Track the awards went to:

Winner:

Self-Service Linked Government Data with dcat and Gridworks
Richard Cyganiak, Fadi Maali and Vassilios Peristeras

Honorary Mention:

Linking Open Government Data: What Journalists Wish They Had Known
Christoph Boehm, Felix Naumann, Markus Freitag, Stefan George, Norman Höfler, Martin Köppelmann, Claudia Lehmann, Andrina Mascher and Tobias Schmidt

Honorary Mention:

Geographical Linked Data: a Spanish Use Case
Alexander De Leon, Victor Saquicela, Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Freddy Priyatna, Oscar Corcho, Carlos Buil, Jose Mora and Jean Paul Calbimonte

In the Open Track the awards went to:

Winner:

Live Open Linked Sensor Database
Danh Le Phuoc, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Michael Hausenblas, Yuanbo Han, Manfred Hauswirth

Winner:

Twarql: Tapping Into the Wisdom of the Crowd
Pablo Mendes, Pavan Kapanipathi and Alexandre Passant

Honorary Mention:

BibBase Triplified – http://data.bibbase.org
Christian Fritz, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Yang Yang, Reynold Xin and Renée J. Miller

The  winners f.l.t.r. Christian Dirschl (Sponsor Wolters Kluwer), Alex Passant, Richard Cyganiak, Danh LePhuoc and Pablo N. Mendes

Cordial congratulations from the organizing team & look out for the 4th Triplification Challenge in 2011, which will again take place at the I-SEMANTICS conference, September 7 – 9, 2011 in Graz / Austria.