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• 2012 sameAs 2012.
• 2012 endDate "2012-05-31".
• 2012 startDate "2012-05-27".
• 1 type OrganisedEvent.
• 1 label "Semantic Web/LD at a crossroads: Into the garbage can or to theory?".
• 1 sameAs 1.
• 1 description "From Greek mythology (abbreviated from the Wikipedia): Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) and Charybdis was a whirlpool. They were regarded as a sea hazard located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer, Odysseus was forced to choose which monster to confront while passing through the strait... Since its inception Semantic Web research projects have tried to sail the strait between the Scylla of overly theoretical irrelevance and the Charybdis of non-scientific applied projects. Like Odysseus the Semantic Web community was wooed by the neatness of theoretical explorations of knowledge representation methods that endanger to crash the community into the Scylla – the rock of irrelevance. On the other side the maelstrom of Charybdis attracts the community as it tries to fulfill the next vision of the next web thereby loosing its scientific identity. In this talk I will discuss and exemplify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and pitfalls (or threats) of each of these extremes. I will use this analysis as a basis for to explore some possible strategies to navigate the potentially stormy seas of the Semantic Web community's future.".
• 1 endDate "2012-05-29T10:30:00".
• 1 startDate "2012-05-29T09:00:00".
• 2 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2 label "New Audiences for Ontologies: Dealing with Complexity in Business Processes".
• 2 sameAs 2.
• 2 description "Today, governments and businesses have to deal with high degrees of complexity: The products they offer are highly individualized, there are many regulations they must comply with and all this has to be dealt with under a growing rate of change. Many organizations have tried to meet this challenge by reducing complexity, through the elimination of exceptions etc. Jeroen van Grondelle, principal architect at Be Informed, argues that the only way to deal with complexity is by embracing it. Ontologies have proven to be an excellent way to deal with all the different concepts that are introduced when products are defined and the supporting business processes are designed. When the right conceptualization is chosen, ontologies capture these policy choices in a natural way. Ontologies deal well with the heterogeneous nature of policy and regulations, which often originate from different legal sources and have different owners. The benefits exist throughout the entire policy lifecycle. The formal, precise nature of ontologies improves the quality and consistency of the choices made and reduces ambiguity. Because ontologies are well interpretable by machines, Be Informed succeeds in inferring many of the supporting services, such as process applications and decision services, from the ontologies, thereby eliminating the need for systems development. And the ability to infer executable services also allows for advanced what-if analysis and simulation of candidate policies before they are put into effect. Jeroen will show some examples where ontologies were successfully applied in the public sector and what the impact was on all parties involved, from policy officers to citizens. He will also present some of the research challenges encountered when ontologies are put to so broad use.".
• 2 endDate "2012-05-29T15:30:00".
• 2 startDate "2012-05-29T14:00:00".
• 3 type OrganisedEvent.
• 3 label "Musubi: A Decentralized Mobile Social Web".
• 3 sameAs 3.
• 3 description "With the rise of cloud services, users' personal data (from photos to bank transactions) are scattered and hosted by a variety of application service providers. Communication services like email and social networking, by virtue of helping users share, have the unique opportunity to gather all data shared in one place. As users shift their communication medium from email to social networks, personal data are increasingly locked up in a global, proprietary social web. We see the rise of the mobile phone as an opportunity to re-establish an open standard, as social data are often produced, shared, and consumed on the mobile devices directly. We propose an API where apps can interact with friends' phones directly, without intermediation through a centralized communication service. Furthermore, this information can then be made available on our own devices to personalize and improve online interactions. Based on this API, we have created a working prototype called Musubi (short for Mobile, Social, and UBIquitous) along with various social applications, all of which are available on the Android market.".
• 3 endDate "2012-05-30T10:30:00".
• 3 startDate "2012-05-30T09:00:00".
• 4 type OrganisedEvent.
• 4 label "Data Value Chain in Europe".
• 4 sameAs 4.
• 4 description "Data is today everywhere. The quantity and growth of generated data is enormous, its proper management challenges us individual users but also business and public organisations. We are facing data/information overflow and we are often handicapped by storing, managing, analysing and preserving all of our data. At the same time, this growing large amount of data offers us due to its intelligent linkage, analysis and processing business opportunities like establishment of new, innovative digital services towards end users and organizations; better decision making support in business and public sector; and increased intelligence and better knowledge extraction. This is the reason why many of us see data as the "oil of the 21th century". We are challenged to unlock the potential and the added value of complex and big data. It has become a competitive advantage to offer the right data to the right people at the right time. In my talk I will introduce the "value chain thinking" on data, than analyse its main technology and business challenges and inform about the ongoing and envisaged policy, infrastructure, research and innovation activities at European level.".
• 4 endDate "2012-05-30T15:30:00".
• 4 startDate "2012-05-30T14:00:00".
• 5 type OrganisedEvent.
• 5 label "Bringing (Web) Databases to the Masses".
• 5 sameAs 5.
• 5 description "The World-Wide Web contains vast quantities of structured data on a variety of domains, such as hobbies, products and reference data. Moreover, the Web provides a platform that can encourage publishing more data sets from governments and other public organizations and support new data management opportunities, such as effective crisis response, data journalism and crowd-sourcing data sets. To enable such wide-spread dissemination and use of structured data on the Web, we need to create a ecosystem that makes it easier for users to discover, manage, visualize and publish structured data on the Web. I will describe some of the efforts we are conducting at Google towards this goal and the technical challenges they raise. In particular, I will describe Google Fusion Tables, a service that makes it easy for users to contribute data and visualizations to the Web, and the WebTables Project that attempts to discover high-quality tables on the Web and provide effective search over the resulting collection of 200 million tables.".
• 5 endDate "2012-05-31T10:30:00".
• 5 startDate "2012-05-31T09:00:00".
• 6 type OrganisedEvent.
• 6 label "Large Scale Learning at Twitter".
• 6 sameAs 6.
• 6 description "Twitter represents a large complex network of users with diverse and continuously evolving interests. Discussions and interactions range from very small to very large groups of people and most of them occur in the public. Interests are both long and short term and are expressed by the content generated by the users as well as via the Twitter follow graph, i.e. who is following whose content. Understanding user interests is crucial to providing good Twitter experience by helping users to connect to others, find relevant information and interesting information sources. The manner in which information is spread over the network and communication attempts are made can also help in identifying spammers and other service abuses. Understanding users and their preferences is also a very challenging problem due to the very large volume information, the fast rate of change and the short nature of the tweets. Large scale machine learning as well as graph and text mining have been helping us to tackle these problems and create new opportunities to better understand our users. In the talk I will describe a number of challenging modeling problems addressed by the Twitter team as well as our approach to creating frameworks and infrastructure to make learning at scale possible.".
• 6 endDate "2012-05-31T15:30:00".
• 6 startDate "2012-05-31T14:00:00".
• dinner type OrganisedEvent.
• dinner label "Improving the Impact and Takeup of Semantic Web Research".
• dinner sameAs dinner.
• dinner description "We've come a long way from small pockets of researchers contemplating how knowledge can be acquired, managed and used to a research area which has received many millions of Euros and Dollars in funding and is taken seriously by national governments and a number of major industrial players. I believe that the time is now ripe to take the next step. How do we become as large and as ubiquitous as for example the telecoms industry? In this talk I will outline a number of radical strategies which occasionally will be backed up by evidence and rationale.".
• dinner startDate "2012-05-30T20:30:00".
• preconf type OrganisedEvent.
• preconf label "Cutting through the noise: How to shape public perception, frame the debate and effectively engage your audience in the digital age".
• preconf sameAs preconf.
• preconf description "Successful political campaigns have mastered the tactics and strategies used to effectively present an argument, manage and respond with authority during crisis, influence the debate and shape public perception. Yet, in today's 24/7 media environment it has become more difficult than ever to set an agenda, frame an issue or engage an audience. Four years ago, Barack Obama set a new standard for campaigning by changing the way new media was used to build an aspirational brand, engage and empower supporters, raise money and turn out voters. As the 2012 presidential race unfolds, the campaigns are stepping up their game. And in this cycle, they are embracing digital media more than ever. However, it's not only the President's campaign and his opponents who are faced with the challenge to create a narrative and frame the public debate. Organizations in the private sector often deal with the similar complex issues as they struggle to deliver tailored messages to target their audience, regardless of whether its costumers, investors, media, the general public or even potential employees. From storytelling to big data lifestyle targeting: Julius van de Laar will provide a first hand account on how today's most effective campaigns leverage battle tested strategies combined with new media tools to create a persuasive narrative and how they translate into actionable strategies for the corporate context.".
• preconf endDate "2012-05-28T18:30:00".
• preconf startDate "2012-05-28T17:30:00".
• 1 type OrganisedEvent.
• 1 label "Big Data and Semantic Technology".
• 1 sameAs 1.
• 1 description "The traditional world of relational databases and enterprise data warehouses is being challenged by growth in data volumes, the rise of unstructured and semi-structured data, and the desire to extract more valuable business insights in order to remain competitive: we are entering the world of 'big data.' Views differ as to what constitutes 'big data' but a pragmatic definition is 'when the size of the data itself becomes part of the IT challenge.' Scale-out, commodity hardware-based solutions based on the map-reduce programming model for parallel processing on large hardware are emerging to address these Big Data requirements that have challenged traditional technologies. Simultaneously, interest is growing in Linked Data and Open Data and governments and other organisations around the world are publishing data on the web, offering public access to huge data volumes in an interoperable and extensible way using semantic technology open standards. The question naturally arises as to how these two emerging initiatives relate and this is the subject of the panel. Among the issues for discussion include: Linked Data and Big Data - how do they fit? Is reasoning over massive volumes of heterogeneous data feasible or desirable? Is consistency over massive volumes of heterogeneous data feasible or desirable? What representations are suitable for big data management? How can semantic technology be used in real-time environments with large volume data feeds? How big is big to qualify as Big Data and do traditional data mining techniques remain appropriate? What value can semantic technology bring to the concerns of Big Data? Is a new Theory of Data required and how can semantic technology contribute? We have assembled a panel from a variety of backgrounds with wide-ranging expertise for what should be a lively and informative debate!".
• 1 endDate "2012-05-30T18:30:00".
• 1 startDate "2012-05-30T17:45:00".
• 2013 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2013 label "10th ESWC 2013".
• 2013 sameAs 2013.
• 2013 endDate "2013-05-30".
• 2013 startDate "2013-05-26".
• 1 type OrganisedEvent.
• 1 label "".
• 1 sameAs 1.
• 2 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2 label "A Semantic Web for End Users".
• 2 sameAs 2.
• 2 description "For whom are we creating the Semantic Web? As we wrestle with our ontologies, alignments, inference methods, entity extractions and triple stores, it's easy to lose track of the vast majority of users who have no idea what any of these things are, who they help, or what problems they'll solve. In this talk, I'll adopt the perspective of these end users. I'll identify a number of information management problems faced by them---such as organizing their personal information, communicating effectively on the web, and handling their incoming information overload. The Semantic Web can play a key role in solving these problems. But what will matter most to end users is not the details of the Semantic Web's syntax, model, or algorithms, but rather the interfaces and workflows through which end users interact with it. I will describe key characteristics of these interfaces and workflows, and offer an overview of the research that needs to be done to develop them as effective solutions for end users.".
• 3 type OrganisedEvent.
• 3 label "What does it mean to be semantic? On the effective use of semantics in the Semantic Web".
• 3 sameAs 3.
• 3 description "Twelve years after the publication of the seminal article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, which expounded the vision of a Semantic Web characterised by dynamic and large scale agent interoperability, the Semantic Web still distinctly lacks a “wow factor”. Many SW applications exist, but too often they are characterised by few data sources put together at compile time to drive some relatively simple user functionality. In many cases it is difficult to identify the competitive advantage that ‘being semantic’ affords these applications, compared to systems built using conventional technologies. Of course, one could argue that this is not necessarily a problem: the success of an area is measured in terms of its academic vitality and its impact on commerce and society. However, I would argue that there is actually a problem here and in my talk I will analyse these issues by examining how the notion of semantics is used in our community, highlighting the productive and unproductive uses of the term, and in particular describing the different ways in which semantics can be effectively exploited to provide added value to applications. The key message is that while there are many ways to exploit semantics to develop better functionalities, as a community we need to develop a better understanding (both fundamentally and pragmatically) of the value proposition afforded by the use of semantics. Without such understanding there is a risk that we will fail to take full advantage of the technologies that we are developing and the opportunities they create for us.".
• 1 type OrganisedEvent.
• 1 label "Big Data and Semantic Technology".
• 1 sameAs 1.
• 1 description "The traditional world of relational databases and enterprise data warehouses is being challenged by growth in data volumes, the rise of unstructured and semi-structured data, and the desire to extract more valuable business insights in order to remain competitive: we are entering the world of 'big data.' Views differ as to what constitutes 'big data' but a pragmatic definition is 'when the size of the data itself becomes part of the IT challenge.' Scale-out, commodity hardware-based solutions based on the map-reduce programming model for parallel processing on large hardware are emerging to address these Big Data requirements that have challenged traditional technologies. Simultaneously, interest is growing in Linked Data and Open Data and governments and other organisations around the world are publishing data on the web, offering public access to huge data volumes in an interoperable and extensible way using semantic technology open standards. The question naturally arises as to how these two emerging initiatives relate and this is the subject of the panel. Among the issues for discussion include: Linked Data and Big Data - how do they fit? Is reasoning over massive volumes of heterogeneous data feasible or desirable? Is consistency over massive volumes of heterogeneous data feasible or desirable? What representations are suitable for big data management? How can semantic technology be used in real-time environments with large volume data feeds? How big is big to qualify as Big Data and do traditional data mining techniques remain appropriate? What value can semantic technology bring to the concerns of Big Data? Is a new Theory of Data required and how can semantic technology contribute? We have assembled a panel from a variety of backgrounds with wide-ranging expertise for what should be a lively and informative debate!".
• 2014 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2014 label "11th ESWC 2014".
• 2014 sameAs 2014.
• 2014 endDate "2014-05-29".
• 2014 startDate "2014-05-25".
• 2015 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2015 label "The 12th Extented Semantic Web Conference".
• 2015 sameAs 2015.
• 2015 description "The 12th Extented Semantic Web Conference".
• 2015 endDate "2015-06-04T17:00:00".
• 2015 startDate "2015-05-31T09:00:00".
• 2011 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2011 label "Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics".
• 2011 sameAs 2011.
• 2010 type OrganisedEvent.
• 2010 label "3rd Future Internet Symposium".
• 2010 sameAs 2010.
• boosting-future-internet-research-and-innovation-t type OrganisedEvent.
• boosting-future-internet-research-and-innovation-t label "Boosting Future Internet research and innovation to underpin the Digital Agenda for Europe".
• boosting-future-internet-research-and-innovation-t sameAs boosting-future-internet-research-and-innovation-t.
• pay-as-you-go-data-integration-on-the-public-web-o type OrganisedEvent.
• pay-as-you-go-data-integration-on-the-public-web-o label "Pay-as-you-go Data Integration on the public Web of Linked Data".
• pay-as-you-go-data-integration-on-the-public-web-o sameAs pay-as-you-go-data-integration-on-the-public-web-o.
• the-innovation-triathlon%3A-the-first-the-fastest- type OrganisedEvent.

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