Dear Knowledge Web Industry Board member,
Please find inline the text version of the newsletter of the Knowledge Web Industry Area.
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Lyndon Nixon
Industry Area Co-Manager
Knowledge Web NoE
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KNOWLEDGE WEB INDUSTRY AREA NEWSLETTER
Issue 07/1 March-April 2007
EDITORIAL
What's in store for the final year of Knowledge Web?
Author: Lyndon Nixon, FU Berlin
The Network of Excellence Knowledge Web is funded by the EU for the period January 2004 to December 2007.
That means we have now entered the final year of the Network, so what's in store? The presentation of the value of Semantic
Web technologies for enterprises is very important to us, which is why we:
So, as you see, we have a full program in our last year! As an Industry Board member we will keep you up to date through this
newsletter on a two-monthly basis. For more information about any of these activities, click over to the Industry Portal
(knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org/o2i) or contact me at nixon@inf.fu-berlin.de. We look forward to your interest and support
this year!
SPOTLIGHT
The Semantic Technology Event of the Year - ESTC 2007
Authors: Vincent Louis and Alain Leger, France Telecom
ESTC2007 is a new European setting where Semantic Technologies and the
Semantic Web are shown to bring value in products and services. It is the
major European meeting place for customers, practitioners, developers and
researchers in industry to learn and exchange on others experiences in
deploying and commercializing the technology for enterprises and public
organizations. ESTC 2007 also features a key educational program for the
practitioners in Industry. Join us for this year's edition as a paper or
tutorial presenter, a technology exhibitor or an attendee.
The conference will be held in Hofburg Redouten Säle, Vienna, Austria, May
31 - June 1, 2007 and will feature case study and practical experience
presentations, workshops and tutorials, invited talks and an industrial
exhibition. Four internationally recognized speakers, coming from academia
and industry, will present their visions and interests in semantic
technologies:
Ora Lassilla (Nokia Research Center), key Semantic Web initiator at W3C,
Susie Stephens (Oracle), Oracle's technology representative at W3C,
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), key OWL initiator,
Mark Greaves (Vulcan Inc.), formerly Program Manager in DARPA's Information
Exploitation Office
Conference chairman Dr. John Davies, Head of BT's Next Generation Web unit,
said "I am very pleased to be able to announce the initiation of this
conference series. Given the increasing maturity of semantic technology, the
time is right to complement more technical and academic conferences in this
area with an annual European conference focusing on deployment and the
commercial benefits semantic technology can deliver."
ESTC2007 is organized with support from the Austrian Computer Society -
http://www.ocg.at/ - and from the European Semantic Systems Initiative
(ESSI) - http://www.essi.org/ - and is sponsored by a number of major
European organizations.
For further details please see the conference website
http://www.estc2007.org/
NEWS
The Ontology Outreach Advisory (OOA) has now been established, to which enterprises are invited to join.
OOA is an international not-for-profit association that consists of industry, government, and research leaders.
The general mission of the OOA is to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization,
and promote the ontology technology to industry. In particular, two chapters focused on the vertical market sectors
of Human Resources and Healthcare & Life Sciences have been established as well as a Working Group on Quality & Evaluation.
For more information, including how to join, please see http://www.ontology-advisory.org
A Technology Roadmap is being prepared which will provide an overall account of semantic web tools and potential impacts
in industry, business, and society. A critical aspect is to have a strong contribution from practitioners, in order to both
understand how many industries are developing and adopting semantic web solutions and to obtain useful insights about the
impact of semantic web applications.
Please contribute by filling in a brief questionnaire at http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/kw/practitioners.html
Practitioners are also welcome to contribute to the Technology Roadmap wiki! http://fmsweng.science.unitn.it/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A survey of semantic web tools and applications has been published, particularly concerning those tools developed (wholly or partly)
within the context of Knowledge Web. This survey can help you to locate a suitable tool to begin working with Semantic Web
technologies. Your comments and suggestions for improvements of this service are very welcome.
Find our survey of Semantic Web tools at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~blacoe/SWtools.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
European Semantic Technologies Conference (ESTC 2007)
Vienna, Austria 31 May-1 June 2007
Submissions due to: 6 April
Be part of the leading European forum to bring together those who use Semantic Technologies in their business,
those who implement Semantic Solutions and those who build semantically-enabled products! We are seeking contributions of
businesses and public organizations describing their practical experience (case studies) in using Semantic Technologies.
Contributions should consist of a presentation (PPT) to be given at the conference and an accompanying short paper (five pages)
for submission and publication in the conference proceedings. For more see http://estc2007.com/calls-for-submissions/
Applications of Semantic Technologies (AST 2007)
Bremen, Germany 24-28 September 2007 (workshop day to be decided)
Submissions due to: 29 April
This workshop shall bring together researchers and practitioners who
work on applications of Semantic Technologies. It shall further the
cross-fertilization between application areas and aid the technology
transfer from foundational research into practice. For more see
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ast2007
EVENTS
The 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007)
Poznan, Poland 25-27 April 2007
The conference theme will be the semantic integration of data and processes across enterprises and societies.
KnowledgeWeb will be presenting work on query approximation in a semantic human resources portal.
There will be a number of keynote speakers:
John Domingue, Open University, United Kingdom
Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria will speak on Digital Artefacts
Dr. Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria will speak on security issues for the use of Semantic Web in e-Commerce
More information incl. registration: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/10th_bis/