Events

Following the success of SPIM2010, we are pleased to announce this year’s 2nd Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation in conjunction with ISWC2011. The workshop aims at improving the exchange of ideas between the different communities involved in the research on semantic personalized information management. The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on the Semantic Social Web, machine learning, user modelling, recommender systems, information retrieval, semantic interaction, or their combination.

Open Government Data Camp is the world’s biggest open data event. It brings together civil servants, developers, NGOs and others for two days of talks, workshops and project sprints. The camp has 4 key objectives:

• Build consensus – around core open data principles and values
• Build community – expand and strengthen international open data community
• Share ideas – on the future of open data and how we can do things better
• Make things – from starting projects, to making plans, to writing code

The main goal of the Linked Data-a-thon competition is to develop innovative applications that showcase the benefits of Linked Data ... in two weeks! The spirit of this competition is to demonstrate what is possible with Linked Data, even in a short amount of time. The competition starts on October 1, 2011, and it closes 14 days later, on October 15, 2011.

Submissions for the IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Linked Open Government Data is now 21 Sep 2011!

We seek original work around a number of challenges:

Linked Data technologies provide for setting links between records in distinct databases and thus to connect these databases into a global data space. Over the last years, Linked Data technologies have been adopted by an increasing number of data providers, including the US and UK governments as well as major players in the media and pharmaceutical industry, leading to the creation of a global Web of Data. Experience the Linked Data life cycle yourself and learn how to publish and consume Linked Data.

The Open Data Challenge was Europe's biggest open data competition to date. There were 20,000 euros in prizes to win, and a total of 430 entries from 24 EU Member States. It was open for 60 days - from early April to early June 2011.

The winners were selected by an all star cast of open data gurus, and announced by Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes at the Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels.

Linked Data on the Web (LDOW11) at WWW2011, Hyderabad, India.

Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD2011) at WWW2011, Hyderabad, India.

Unfortunately, currently the Future Internet architecture does not include means to achieve interoperability at a data level. At the same time Linked Data is becoming an accepted best practice to exchange information in an interoperable and reusable fashion. Many different communities on the Internet use Linked Data standards to provide and exchange interoperable information.

A two day workshop for people interested in open government data.