Winners of Triplification Challenge 2010
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
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.
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