The 2011 STI Semantic Summit



Every two years STI International will hold a Semantic Summit organized by the STI Fellows for the STI Board and selected Junior STI members. STI Semantic Summits will be intellectually, socially, and geographically stimulating and will address a small number of open scientific and domain or industry challenges of strategic importance to STI and to the Semantic Technology Community. They will be forward looking and will attempt to better understand the challenges and to set directions for STI Members, STI, and the Semantic Technology Community.

The 2011 STI Semantic Summit, our inaugural event, is limited to 50 invitation-only participants. It will take place over 3 days starting at noon July 6, 2011 and end at noon July 8, 2011 and will consist of highly interactive sessions that will engage all participants. With the exception of a small number of invited talks, sessions will be dominated by short presentations and animated discussions. The Summit will not be a conference or a presentation of research results.

The STI Executive Board and the STI Fellows have initially selected the following themes:

• Social Semantics
• Linked Data: What Next? Or Future the Semantic Web
• Processing Linked Data for Applications: Requirements and Scenarios
  • Strategic Future of LOD: making it work
  • Semantic Web and LOD applications
  • Services and semantics on mobile platforms
  • Linked data services and applications: E-Government, social networking, …
• Computation, storage, and management aspects
  • Data management at scale: storage, search, inference, data integration, …
  • Reasoning / Problem Solving over LOD
  • Role of services and semantics in LOD applications
  • Semantics in Cloud Computing

Post Summit Papers

• The Meaningful Use of Big Data: Four Perspectives – Four Challenges, Christian Bizer, Peter Boncz, Michael L. Brodie, Orri Erling, published in SIGMOD Record Web Edition, Volume 40, Number 4, December 2011.

Agenda

The following tentative agenda will be modified based on the topics that emerge from the participant position papers. Session formats will consist of a mixture of short invited talks, participant statements from position papers, moderated discussions, and brilliant interjections all designed to actively engage all participants.

All talks are now available to watch on VideoLectures.net: http://videolectures.net/stisemanticsummit2011_riga/

Start Time	Activity	Presenter
Wednesday	06.July 2011
13:00	Opening Session	Chair: Fensel
	STI Summit Introduction	John Domingue
	Fellows Summit Introduction	Rudi, Mark, Michael
14:00	Managing Data @ Web Scale I	Chair: Brodie
	Introduction: Managing Data @ Web Scale	Michael Brodie
	Global Data Integration and Global Data Mining	Chris Bizer
	discussion
	DB vs RDF: structure vs correlation	Peter Boncz
	discussion
16:00	break
16:30	Future of the Semantic Web	Chair: Studer
	Ontologies and Linked Data	Rudi Studer
	discussion
	Application Challenges that may be amenable to Semantic technology solutions	Dr. Jörg Wurzer
	discussion
	Monetizing the Semantic Web	Denny Vrandečić, Elena Simperl, Rudi Studer
	discussion
18:15	NoTube	John Domingue
18:35	break
20:30	dinner
Thursday	07.July 2011
09:30	Social Semantics	Chair: Greaves
	State-of-the-art: Crowd Sourcing	Mark Greaves
	discussion
	Diversity and the Semantic Web	Denny Vrandečić, Elena Simperl, Rudi Studer
	discussion
	Beyond Privacy	Andreas Harth
	discussion
	Shortipedia	Denny Vrandečić
	discussion
11:10	break
11:40	Linked Data in Domains	Chair: Greaves
	Introduction: Making Linked Data Work	John Domingue
	discussion
	Linked Data and Life Sciences	Ismael Navas-Delgado, Maria del Mar Roldán-García, José F. Aldana-Montes
	discussion
	Visual Analyses on Linked Data – An Opportunity for both Fields	Michael Granitzer, Vedran Sabol, Wolfgang Kienreich, Dickson Lukose, Kow Weng Onn
	discussion
13:10	lunch
14:00	Managing Data @ Web Scale II	Chair: Brodie
	RDF For the Data Driven Age	Orri Erling
	discussion
	The Grand Challenge For Semantic Technologies: Planet Scale Information Integration	Valentin Zacharias
	discussion
	Integrating Data at Scale	Michael Brodie
	discussion
15:45	break
16:15	Making Linked Data Work I	Chair: Studer
	Services Over Linked Data (TBD)	Carlos Pedrinaci & Maria Maleshkova
	Linked Data Principles for Services and Streams	Andreas Harth
	discussion
	Planet Data	Elena Simperl
	discussion
18:00	The Story So Far I	Chair: Fellows
	Summarizing: Conclusions, Challenges, What we missed, …	Dieter Fensel
18:30	break
20:30	dinner
Friday	08.July 2011
09:30	Making Linked Data Work II	Chair: Studer
	The Next Generation of Ontology Development – Usage-based Ontology Engineering	Markus Luczak-Rösch
	discussion
	Towards a Dynamic Web	Rüdiger Klein
	discussion
10:20	The Story So Far II	Chair: Fellows
	Summarizing: Conclusions, Challenges, What we missed, …	Open to all
12:00	break
12:15	2011 STI Semantic Summit Closing	Chair: Fensel
	What We Learned	Rudi, Mark, Michael
	STI Summit Summary	John Domingue
13:15	lunch
14:00	Tour of Riga This tour is optional and costs 30 € per person includes a boat trip and walk (max. 2-3 hours)  download tour description

Guidance for Presenters

The 2011 STI Semantic Summit will be a small forum on strategic and advanced research and industry issues, opportunities, and challenges at the intersection of the Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web, and Database communities. Rather than a conference or workshop focusing on the presentation of research and industrial results, the Summit will be a forum of less than 25 experts in the relevantdomains focusing on the discussion by all participants on open issues, promising (or otherwise) directions on some of the major topics of our new Digital Universe – Big Data, the Web, Services, the Cloud, and the Future Internet.

Your presentation will be wildly successful if you state your issues, challenges, opportunities and premises:

• Clearly so as to be understood by all participants from multiple communities, without preaching to the choir
• Provocatively so as to meaningfully (andamusingly) engage All participants, and
• Briefly so that discussion dominates presentation.

Also consider

• Motivate your presentation with realistic use cases or requirements
• Fitting your remarks to your session
• Engaging participants from different communities (Database, Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies) who may have different assumptions
• Engaging contrary ideas and views versus dogmatic or pejorative stances that in the past have stymied progress on augmenting Big Data with meaning, an increasingly urgent challenge full of opportunities
• Having impact beyond the Summit so that in 2015 peoplemight say "Back at the 2011 Riga Summit you …"

We welcome

• Strategic perspectives
• Grand challenges
• Application potential for semantic technologies
• Semantic technology trends
• Significant challenges of a pragmatic, practical nature
• Topics for a 5 year research and development agenda
• State-of-the-art: Where we are, key issues and challenges

Organizers

Conference Chair

• John Domingue, The Open University, United Kingdom, STI President

STI Fellows

• Michael L. Brodie, Verizon Communications, USA
• Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
• Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

STI Board

Registration

All registrations have to be send to office@sti2.org by May 2, 2011.

Fees

• STI Board Members – free
• Others - €250

Dates

• Position papers: April 15, 2011 by e-mail to office@sti2.org
• Registrations: May 2, 2011 by e-mail to office@sti2.org

Accomodation

Booking Information

Following room rates are available for the STI International Summit 2011, and include buffet breakfast, value added tax, free access to fitness center, sauna and pool, as well as parking.

• Standard Single room: EUR 70.00/per room/per night
• Standard Double room: EUR 80.00/per room/per night
• Business Class room: EUR 115.00/per room/per night

To book a room, please fill in the booking form and send it not later than June 22, 2011 to

• Radisson BLU Daugava Hotel
  Email: reservations.riga@radissonblu.com 
  Fax: + 371 6706 1101

  AND

• STI International office
  Email: office@sti2.org 
  Fax: +43 1 23 64 002-99

Radisson BLU Daugava Hotel 

24 Kugu str., Riga, Latvia,
LV - 1007, Latvia
https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-riga-daugava

View Larger Map

Information on the Position Paper Process and on the rules for attending the summit

However, the themes and Summit Program will emerge from submitted position papers. Each participant must submit at least one of the following types of one-page position paper on one of the above themes or on a theme about which the submitter is passionate by April 15, 2011. An example position paper from Michael Brodie, Mark Greaves, and Jim Hendler can be found here.

• Research: open challenges, future directions
• Application/Industry/Domain: application challenges that may be amenable to semantic technology solutions
• Summit: What I want from this Summit

A significant feature of the Summit is that a few seats are reserved for bright junior PhD candidates or post-docs of STI Partners who will be invited to participate based on their energy, bright ideas, and hard work reflected in their submitted position papers.

More specifically, the following rules apply in respect to attending the Summit:

1. All members of the Board  may attend the Summit.
2. If the representative of a Partner (who will be a member of the Board) can not attend the Summit the representative can be substituted with a suitable deputy.
3. The organising committee  of the Summit may invite a number of experts to cover niche research fields or a specific commercial, policy or social sector.
4. Each Summit participant, except for invited experts, must submit at least one of the following types of one-page position paper on one of the above themes or on a theme about which the submitter is passionate by April 15, 2011. Multiple authored submissions can only support one participant.
   • Research: open challenges, future directions
   • Application/Industry/Domain: application challenges that may be amenable to semantic technology solutions
   • Summit: What I want from this Summit 
5. A number of STI Members including PhD students and Post Docs will be invited based upon a submitted position paper on one of the above themes. Attendees accepted through this route will be expected to contribute to recording the event and also in generating follow-up articles.