Category Archives: Conferences & Events

Thomas Thurner

Free Webinar: Linked Data for the Environmental Sector – Use Cases and Opportunities

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Organizations working in the environmental sector most often act as intermediates between politics, economy and citizens. They are growing out of their role as plain content providers. To service the demands of their stakeholders they have to act also as data and tool providers for their respective communities.

On June 13 this webinar introduces several good practice examples achieving data governance in using the linked open data paradigms. Together with a basic overview of the possibilities of linked open data you get an appealing picture of the new opportunities which are provided by these principles and technologies, also for your organisation!

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Learn more about three organizations and their linked data projects

Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN)

GBPN_logo_rgb_72GBPN established the “Policy comparative tool on building stock data” together with a domain specific thesaurus used for a domain specific news aggregator.

Renewable Energy and Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)

logo_reeepAs one of the pioneers in the sector, REEEP has an extensive focus on the use of linked data for renewable energy and energy efficiency, facilitating that in various services, like an automatic annotation service, aggregated country data presented as fact sheets, a domain specific search engine, etc.

Austrian Geological Survey (GBA)

gbaThe main driving factor for institutions like the GBA to invest in thesaurus and taxonomy projects, is the increasing need for a uniform description of their data. The idea is that this enhances value and re-usability of their products for their stakeholders. Especially in the geo-spatial sector the INSPIRE directive of the European Parliament and Council gave a push in that direction. As a public authority, the GBA was legally called to implement the directive for its domain.

Presenters in this Webinar

  • Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
    CFO and Project Lead at Semantic Web Company for Data Portal Solutions
  • Florian Bauer (REEEP)
    Operations and IT Director of REEEP as well as the  clean energy information portal www.reegle.info
  • Andreas Blumauer (SWC)
    CEO and Evangelist for Linked Data and SKOS based Thesaurus Management

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Tassilo Pellegrini

REMINDER: I-SEMANTICS 2013 – Deadline Extension

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I-SEMANTICS 2013, the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems, has extended the deadlines of its Call for Papers.

Important Dates (Research & Application & Challenge Papers)
  • Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: April 8, 2013
  • Extended Submission Deadline: April 15, 2013
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2013
  • Camera-Ready Paper: June 24, 2013

Please download the CfP in the format of your choice.

We are happy to announce as this year’s Key Note Speakers

  • Ed Chi from Google, USA
  • Aldo Gangemi from Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
  • Tiit Paananen from Skype, USA
  • Yves Raimond from BBC, UK

The conference will take place from September 4-6, 2013 in Graz, Austria and brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web.

I-SEMANTICS 2013 will also hold the “I-CHALLENGE”, which brings to you the 6th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. The proceedings will be published with the ACM ICP series. Last year’s event attracted 85 submissions from 33 countries.

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Thomas Thurner

I-Semantics Conference 2013 calls for industry submissions

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This year’s i-Praxis Track is running under the title „The linked enterprise – how linked open data revolutionize industry“.

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I-Semantics Conference invites presenters coming from industry, to submit to the iPraxis Call 2013. All accepted submission will be granted a presentation slot of 30 minutes within one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web.

The call is open –> get information and apply at i-semantics.tugraz.at

Submission Deadline: June 03, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: June 28, 2013
Submission of final PDF/PPT: August 23, 2013

 

Andreas Blumauer

Webinar: Semantic Web for Developers

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GotoWebinar, March 20: Semantic Web for Developers – building semantic applications with PoolParty

This webinar gives insights into software development based on semantic web standards. We will give a short overview over frequently used standards (SPARQL, SKOS and RDF), application scenarios and technologies (OpenRDF, Virtuoso, Solr/Lucene) and we will give live-demos on how to make use of PoolParty technologies to build a variety of semantic applications.

Part 1 (15min):
Short introduction to semantic web and linked data standards, overview over typical application scenarios

Part 2 (30min):
PoolParty architecture, components and APIs: making use of the linked data front end, Sparql endpoint, PoolParty reports, thesaurus API (PPT API), extractor API (PPX API) and semantic search API (PPS API) -  for each API, an example will be shown (incl. returned formats and how to make use of it in a programming language like PHP)

Part 3 (10min):
Putting the pieces together: Combine the APIs to build

- a semantic search engine
- a content recommender
- a linked data mashup

Part 4 (min. 5min):
Questions and answering

Register now: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/774130327