ESWC

Mission
The annual European Semantic Web Conference presents the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies and also features a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.
ESWC is a focus for researchers and developers from Europe and around the world and acts as a catalyst to promote Semantic Web research results and their application in industrial settings.
The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.

Next Event
May 5 - June 1, 2009
Heraklion, Greece
http://www.eswc2009.org

History
This conference started out as the European Semantic Symposium and was setup by the European Semantic Systems Initiative (ESSI) in 2004. In 2007 the activities of ESSI were taken over by STI.

Steering Committee
Chair:

John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK & STI International, AT

Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester School of Computer Science, UK
Enrico Franconi, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland at Galway, IE
Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Guus Schreiber, Free University of Amsterdam, NL
York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, DE

Former Events

ESWC 2008 - http://www.eswc2008.org/

ESWC 2007 - http://www.eswc2007.org/

ESWC 2006 - http://www.eswc2006.org/

ESWC 2005 - http://www.eswc2005.org/