<p> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scope of the event</span></strong> </p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The STI Semantic Summit is a bi-annual strategic event that brings together key players within the Semantic Web and Linked Data community to discuss medium- and long-term research perspectives. The Summits are designed to be intellectually, socially, and geographically stimulating and address a focused number of open research questions and industrial challenges of strategic importance. The 2019 Summit follows past Summits in 2017, 2015, 2013 and 2011. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The discussions will be forward looking </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">and will attempt to better understand the upcoming challenges and research directions in the Semantic Technology Community. </span> </p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">While methods for representing, publishing and retrieving knowledge have been an active research field for decades, only recently the technologies around knowledge graphs have started to take hold in industry.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Knowledge graphs can be used to integrate and organise </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">internal and external data sources. A broad spectrum of automation task in Artificial Intelligence require </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">access to formally represented knowledge, as basis </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">for human-machine interfaces and to explain decisions taken by an AI systems</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The flexibility of knowledge graphs provides a powerful foundation for current and future knowledge-based applications, ranging from machine learning and analytics to chatbots and virtual assistants to mixed reality systems.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have initially selected the following themes:</span> </p> <ul><li> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Representation of knowledge in pilots and use cases in vertical domains</span> <ul><li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tourism, retail, utilities, finance, science and education</span> </li> </ul></li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Curating and integrating knowledge graphs at scale</span> <ul><li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Principles and methodologies for the creation, hosting, assessment, cleaning, enrichment, validation and verification of knowledge</span> </li> </ul></li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analytics on knowledge graphs</span> <ul><li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Profiling, mining, learning for and on knowledge graphs</span> </li> </ul></li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Representation of temporal aspects and processes</span> <ul><li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">APIs, services and the Web of Things</span> </li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Decentralised architectures for smart-X (city, enterprise, energy...) systems</span> </li> </ul></li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building systems based on knowledge graphs</span> <ul><li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Architectures for deploying systems based on knowledge graphs: agent architectures, control loops</span> </li> <li> <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Methods and approaches for interacting with knowledge graphs: chatbots and virtual assistants, mixed reality environments</span> </li> </ul></li> </ul><p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The target audience for the invitation-only Summit are senior researchers.</span> </p> <p> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event</span></strong> </p> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attendees have submitted </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N9uwkk5sdxiLFFQugDy_gno2SyA1-y-RhWrcFXwi36I/edit" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">position statements</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> before the Summit. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 2019 edition of the STI Semantic Summit took place at the Avra </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imperial Hotel in Kolymvari, Crete, Greece during </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">September 16 to 17 and the topics of the 2019 Summit resolved around </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">knowledge graphs.</span> </div> <div> <img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Summit%202019.jpg" /></div> <div> </div> <div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow the link for more details: <a href="http://www.juansequeda.com/blog/2019/09/30/2019-sti2-semantic-summit-trip-report/">http://www.juansequeda.com/blog/2019/09/30/2019-sti2-semantic-summit-trip-report/</a> </span> </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organisers</span></strong> </div> <p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://harth.org/andreas/">Andreas Harth</a> : <a href="http://ti.rw.fau.de/">Chair of Technical Information Systems</a>, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany</span> and <a href="http://www.scs.fraunhofer.de/">Fraunhofer IIS-SCS</a>, Nuremberg, Germany </p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/domingue/">John Domingue</a> : President, STI International and Director, Knowledge Media Institute</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, The Open University, UK</span> </p> 1568584800 1568584800 Kolymbari, Chania 73006, Crete Avra Imperial Hotel The 2019 STI2 Semantic Summit 2019-04-08T18:26:01+02:00 2019-04-08T18:26:01+02:00 2019-10-04T01:05:50+02:00 0