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Andreas Blumauer

I-Semantics: Get in touch with Europe´s Linked Data community!

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In September 2012 I-Semantics will take place the 8th time. With more than 400 participants every year the conference is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the semantic web.  It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies.

I-Semantics is a conference aiming to bring together science and industry:

  • To address the needs and interests of industry the iPraxis track presents enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like like Linked Data, Data Publishing, Semantic Search, Recommendation Services, Sentiment Detection, Search Engine Add-Ons, Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text Mining, Data Mining and any related fields.
  • In the exhibition area I-SEMANTICS 2012 will offer its participants a unique platform either to present latest and leading edge developments or to catch up with the developments of most innovative IT technologies, content applications, knowledge management trends and emerging market opportunities.
  • For the first time in 2012 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Paper Award, the Best Poster Award, the Best PhD Paper and the Linked Data Cup.
  • I-SEMANTICS 2012 proceedings will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series and will contain all accepted papers from the Research & Application track and the I-CHALLENGE. The topics of interest for research and application papers include (but are not limited to): The Web of Data, Quality of Semantic Data on the Web, Corporate Semantic Web, Semantic Content Engineering, Semantic Multimedia and (Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets

Website: I-Semantics 2012

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Tassilo Pellegrini

Keynotes @ I-SEMANTICS / I-KNOW 2009

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This year’s keynotes at the I-SEMANTICS / I-KNOW conference taking place from September 2 – 4, 2009 in Graz / Austria have been fixed.

The scientific keynotes will be provided by Paolo Traverso, Director of the Center for Information Technology – IRST, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy, and Professor Eric Tsui, Associate Director of the Knowledge Management Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.

The industry keynote will be held by Peter Kropsch, CEO of the Austrian Press Agency.

Further details will follow.

Jana Herwig

Putting Together A Personal Conference Schedule (triggered by: TRIPLE-I)

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I do admit that I am probably a bit picky here but I whole-heartedly HATE the process of having to read my way through conference schedules, in particular through the ones that have four or more parallel tracks running. Me and my colleagues have been looking forward to the TRIPLE-I for quite a while, and my adhoc resolution for the NEXT i-Semantics (which is one of the three parts of the TRIPLE-I) is to initiate the development of an end-user oriented conference planning tool supported by faceted browsing: something that would allow me to sift through the pile of conference events quickly, changing perspectives as I wish, fading in and out not only tracks, but also topics, institutions and people.

Perspectives I’d apply would be for instance:

  • What are talks or presentations that discuss visualization in an industry-applied context?
  • The same thing in a scientific context?
  • Which talks are addressing knowledge management and web 2.0 at the same time?
  • Which talks are in English?
  • Which presenters are Austrian/from the University of Trier/ from Overseas?
  • Which are relevant for the Linked Data scope?
  • etc. pp.

Such a tool would be a nice showcase for the conference itself, and – using Exhibit – shouldn’t be that difficult to put together (I think). In the meantime, I’ll have to keep studying the three pages Excel to PDF export of the detailed conference schedule (and yes, I am probably underestimating the cognitive value and more sustainable side-effects that studying such finely printed pages has:-). At first glance, these are the top three talks on each day that interest me most – for now, and disregarding German language presentation (results might change if I study the program again on Tuesday, which I will, so don’t be offended if you’re not on it:-)

Wednesday, 3rd of September:
- Semantic Search and Visualization of Time-Series Data
- Community Rating Service and User Buddy Supporting Advices in Community Portals
- Harnessing Wikipedia for Smart Tags Clustering

Thursday, 4th of September
- Seeding, Weeding, Fertilizing – Different Tag Gardening Activities for Folksonomy Maintenance and Enrichment
- A Model for Document Processing in Semantic Desktop Systems
- Non-linear Story-telling in a Mobile World
Friday, 5th of September
- Collaborative Knowledge Engineering via Semantic MediaWiki
- Building Ontology Networks: How to Obtain a Particular Ontology Network Life Cycle
- Improving Recommendations by Using Personality Traits in User Profiles

For more about the conference, go to the conference website.

And anyone who is planning to attend TRIPLE-I: I have just registered Semantic Web Company account on 12seconds, a platform for micro movies and I am looking for interview partners – it won’t take more than 12 seconds:-)

Jana Herwig

Linked Open Data Triplification Challenge: Nominees are up, voting tool is online

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The nominees for the LOD Triplification Challenge are up! The challenge was organized as part of the preparations for the I-SEMANTICS 2008 conference and asked for submissions in the form of applications of Linked Open Data tools, RDF and Linked Data exporters, adoptions of configurations of Triplify for standard web applications, portings of the triplify script into other languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, ASP) and for applications showcasing the benefits of Linked Data to end-users.

TriplifyTriplify itself is a small web application plugin – its crucial parts consisting of roughly 200 lines of code – currently only implemented in PHP. It is based on the definition of relational database queries for a specific web application in order to retrieve valuable information and to convert the results of these queries into RDF, JSON and Linked Data. More information about Triplify can be found here.

On to the nominees: Eight of the submissions were nominated and can now be voted on using the poll widget on the nominations page. The nominees are:

  1. Automatic Generation of a Content Management System from an OWL ontology and RDF import and export by Alastair Burt, Brigitte Jörg.
    URL: www.lt-world.org/triplify

  2. Integrating Triplify into the Django web application framework and discover some math by Martin Czygan.
    URL: pcai042.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:9103

  3. Linked Movie Data Base by Oktie Hassanzadeh, Mariano Consens.
    URL: www.linkedmdb.org

  4. Interlinking Multimedia Data by Michael Hausenblas, Wolfgang Halb.
    URL: sw.joanneum.at/CaMiCatzee

  5. Showcases of light-weight RDF syndication in Joomla! by Danh Le Phuoc, Nur Aini Rakhmawati.
    URL: swm.deri.org/jsyndication

  6. Semantic Web Pipes Demo by Danh Le Phuoc.
    URL: pipes.deri.org

  7. DBTune by Yves Raimond.
    URL: dbtune.org

  8. Triplification of the Open-Source Online Shop System osCommerce by Elias Theodorou.
    URL: triplify.org/vocabulary/oscommerce

Detailed information can be found in PDF outlines on the nomination page – and don’t forget to vote! The final decision about the winners of the challenge will be made by the organizing committee.

The prizes will be awarded at I-SEMANTICS 2008, 3–5 September 2008, Graz, Austria, which is part of TRIPLE-I, a joint venture of three conferences (I-SEMANTICS, I-KNOW, I-MEDIA).

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