Search through the STI International News Archive.
DEADLINE EXTENSION! Until 18 March there is still a chance to win the BEST PAPER prize of €500 or FREE conference registrations for best student papers!
Find us at: http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/iwest2012/
After the successful events in 2010 and 2011, the OGD Business Day 2012: Open Data & Business will bring together stakeholders to discuss the future potential of Open (Government) Data, taking place Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM (GMT+0100) in Vienna, Austria.
Speakers:
Panel discussion with:
Following the success of the first campaign in 2010 (see the SEALS Whitepaper for more details), we are pleased to announce the second International Evaluation Campaign for Semantic Technologies which will be conducted in Spring 2012. This campaign is organised by the Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale (SEALS) Project.
The Future Internet Assembly published its third book titled:
Following a very successful inaugural event we are very happy to be able to announce that the 2nd ESWC Summer School will take place again in the week before the ESWC 2012 conference on the Southern part of Crete in the beautiful village of Kalamaki.
STI International is seeking expressions of interest to host Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC2014).
The expression form for this, which also includes guidance, can be found at http://www.eswc-conferences.org/content/local-host-application and the deadline for expression of interest is: March 12th 2012. Notification for submissions which are successful will be March 19th 2012.
In December, the Post Summit Paper by Christian Bizer, Peter Boncz, Michael Brodie and Orri Erling has been published in the newest volume of SIGMOD Record.
The report results from discussions held at 2011 STI International Semantic Summit within a group of twenty-five researchers, on the meaningful use of Big Data. The four authors each put forward a challenge: multi-disciplinary Big Data integration, the Billion Triple Challenge from the Semantic Web community, getting value out of government linked open data, and integrating linked data in regular DBMSs.
Orri Erling blogged about the 2011 STI International Summit and the history of Semantics and its future. His blog post can be found at http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/oerling/?id=1694.
Missed the ESWC 2011? Or want to re-watch a session?
We are happy to inform you that the video recordings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2011 are now available on VideoLectures.net.
Link: http://videolectures.net/eswc2011_heraklion/
Contact person in charge.
