The 9th SSSW Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2012) - Applications Open
THE 9TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2012) 8-14 July, 2012, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain. http://sssw.org/2012 Applications are now open to attend the SSSW 2012 Semantic Web Summer School. See http://sssw.org/2012/how-to-apply/ for details. The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a well-establish event within the research community and a role model for several other initiatives. Presented by leading researchers in the field, it represents an opportunity for both students and practitioners to equip themselves with the range of theoretical, practical, and collaboration skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 50 participants. Applications for the summer school will open on the 30th January 2012 and will close by the 31st March 2012. From the very beginning the school pioneered an innovative pedagogical approach, combining the practical with the theoretical, and adding teamwork and a competitive element to the mix. Specifically, tutorial/lecture material is augmented with hands-on practical workshops and we ensure that the sessions complement each other by linking them to a group project. Work on developing and presenting a project in cooperation with other participants serves as a means of consolidating the knowledge and skills gained from lectures and practical sessions. It also introduces an element of competition among teams, as prizes are awarded to the best projects at the end of the week. Participants will be provided with electronic versions of all course lectures and all necessary tools and environments for the hands-on sessions. PC access with all tools pre-installed will be available on site as well. SSSW 2011 will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which participants will benefit not only from the formal and practical sessions but also from informal and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants to the school. To further facilitate communication and feedback all attendees will present a poster on their research. TOPICS Knowledge Representation Ontology Design Web of Data Semantic Web Applications HCI and Ontology Engineering Ontology Matching and Alignment Semantic and Language Technologies Knowledge Management Web Science Semantic Search Trust and Provenance Personal Information Management Social Semantic Web ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mathieu d'Aquin (Director), m.daq...@open.ac.uk Oscar Corcho (Co-Director), ocor...@fi.upm.es Enrico Motta (Founder), e.mo...@open.ac.uk Asun Gomez-Perez (Co-Founder), a...@fi.upm.es INVITED SPEAKERS AND TUTORS Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester, UK) Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK) Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Asun Gomez-Perez (UPM, Spain) Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) Tom Heath (Talis, UK) Ian Herman (W3C) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Valentina Presutti (ISTC-CNR, Italy) HOW TO APPLY We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. Normally, but not exclusively, applicants will be postgraduate students in relevant disciplines with some knowledge of semantic technologies. Some basic acquaintance with knowledge representation languages for the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, etc.) is required. Application should be sent by filling the application form, as well as sending a CV to i...@sssw12.org (see http://sssw.org/2012/how-to-apply/) The deadline for applications is 30 March 2012. Accepted candidates are expected to arrive on Sunday, July 8th, between 3pm and 6pm and to participate fully in the activities of the school until its conclusion, at 2pm on Saturday, July 14th. Applicants should keep in mind that we will not consider applications from students who cannot commit themselves to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. Students are also required to bring and present a poster at the summer school, describing their own research. Apart from activities directly related to lectures, the summer school schedule is rightly famous for its unrivalled social programme, which enables informal interaction between all participants to the school - i.e., students, tutors, invited speakers, school staff, etc. These events include a gala dinner outside Cercedilla, walks in the mountain, discos, and sport activities. STUDENT GRANTS We expect to provide a number of grants for students who would not otherwise be able to attend the school. More details about student grants will be published at a later date. VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION Cercedilla is a small village in the mountains near Madrid. The school will be held in the Residence of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. The Residence has a
Open Position: PhD Researcher
** Apologies for cross-posting ** Dear All, the Semantic Technology Institute ( http://www.sti-innsbruck.at http://www.sti-innsbruck.at ) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria ( http://www.uibk.ac.at/index.html.en ) is currently seeking candidates for the following position PhD Researcher More Information on the job and the application procedure can be found at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public_prod/owa/karriereportal.karriere_detail?asg_ id_in=6855 Best Regards, Human Resources STI Innsbruck Technikerstraße 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria
3rd CFP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012) Workshop at WWW2012
= Call for Papers: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012) Workshop at WWW2012 http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/ = 16 April, 2012 Lyon, France = Objectives The Web is continuing to develop from a medium for publishing textual documents into a medium for sharing structured data. In 2011, the Web of Linked Data grew to a size of about 32 billion RDF triples, with contributions coming increasingly from companies, governments and other public sector bodies such as libraries, statistical bodies or environmental agencies. In parallel, Google, Yahoo and Bing have established the schema.org initiative, a shared set of schemata for publishing structured data on the Web that focuses on vocabulary agreement and low barriers of entry for data publishers. These developments create a positive feedback loop for data publishers and highlight new opportunities for commercial exploitation of Web data. In this context, the LDOW2012 workshop provides a forum for presenting the latest research on Linked Data and driving forward the research agenda in this area. We expect submissions that discuss the deployment of Linked Data in different application domains and explore the motivation, value proposition and business models behind these deployments, especially in relation to complementary and alternative techniques for data provision (e.g. Web APIs, Microdata, Microformats) and proprietary data sharing platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LastFM). = Topics of Interest Topics of interest for the LDOW2012 workshop include, but are not limited to: * Linked Data Deployment * case studies of Linked Data deployment and value propositions in different application domains * application showcases including aggregators, search engines and marketplaces for Linked Data * business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption * analyzing and profiling the Web of Data * Linked Data and alternative Data Provisioning and Sharing Techniques * comparison of Linked Data to alternative data provisioning and sharing techniques * implications and limitations of a public data commons on the Web versus company-owned sharing platforms * increasing the value of Schema.org and OpenGraphProtocol data through data linking * Linked Data Infrastructure * crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web * linking algorithms and identity resolution * Web data integration and data fusion * Linked Data mining and data space profiling * tracking provenance and usage of Linked Data * evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data * licensing issues in Linked Data publishing * interface and interaction paradigms for Linked Data applications * benchmarking Linked Data tools = Submissions We seek the following kinds of submissions: 1. Full scientific papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format 2. Short scientific and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG template (as per the WWW2012 Research Track) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates . Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not operate a double-blind review process. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the workshop and attend to present the paper. Please submit papers via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2012 = Important Dates * Submission deadline: 13 February, 2012, 23:59 CET * Notification of acceptance: 7 March, 2012 * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 23 March, 2012 * Workshop date: 16 April, 2012 = Organising Committee * Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Tom Heath, Talis Systems Ltd, UK * Tim Berners-Lee, MIT CSAIL, USA * Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland = Programme Committee * Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * Andreas Langegger, University of Linz, Austria * Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics, UK * Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany * Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria * Christopher Brewster, Aston Business School, UK * Daniel Schwabe,
