Events

With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.

The SMW+ team will present a use case study of SMW+ at Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan. In a second talk we will demonstrate the SMW+ data integration features.

The Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.

The location and dates of the next SMWCon, or Semantic MediaWiki Conference, have been announced: it will be held at the Tri-City Wellness Center in Carlsbad, California, USA (a city located between San Diego and Los Angeles). The event will be sponsored by ai-one, a San Diego software company.

The Semantic Tech & Business Conference is the most authoritative conference series on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. It covers every major technology and application are you'll need to know.

The Join International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a joint event for regional Semantic Web related conferences. This year's JIST brings together two regional conferences : ASWC2011 (2011's Asian Semantic Web Conference) and CSWC2011 (The 5th Chinese Semantic Web Conference).

ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented. Join the presentation of ontoprise "Practical applications of Semantic Wikis in commercial environments"

An ISWC workshop, taking place on October 23 or 24. The ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley.

Die KnowTech positioniert sich als jährlicher Kongress zum (IT-gestützten) Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen und Organisationen und bietet seit 1999 eine neutrale Plattform zum Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Anwendern, Anbietern, Wissenschaftlern und Politikern. Die KnowTech thematisiert die Zusammenhänge zwischen Geschäfts- und Wissensprozessen von Unternehmen und Verwaltungen, Kompetenzentwicklung der Mitarbeiter, Organisationsentwicklung und IT, Innovationskraft und nachhaltigem wirtschaftlichen ...

SMWCon is the twice-yearly Semantic MediaWiki Conference that brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.

The RegioWikiCamp is an open conference for all RegioWiki projects in Europe and actors of related technologies and projects like Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Semantic Wiki, OpenStreetMap, media culture, peer education, public administration (Government 2.0) are adressed.

RegioWikiCamp 2011 will take place from September 2nd to 4th in Brest (France).

RuleML2011 is the Fifth International Conference Symposium on Rules. It is held from July 19 2011 to July 21 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, Europe co-located with IJCAI2011.

SOTICS 2011, an inaugural event on social eco-informatics, bridges different social and informatics concepts by considering digital domains, social metrics, social applications, services, and challenges. Academic and industrial contributions are expected on algorithms, mechanisms, models, services dealing with challenges in social eco-systems.

The 2011 Semantic Technology Conference (#SemTech) will be held at the Hilton Union Square in downtown San Francisco on June 5-9, 2011. Now in its sixth year, SemTech 2011 is the world’s largest educational conference for the community of executives, technologists, researchers, investors and customers who are involved with semantic technologies.

WIMS'11: International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics is the first in a new series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantic-driven computing machine. WIMS'11 will be organised under the auspices of Western Norway Research Institute on 25th - 27th MAY 2011 at Sogndal, Norway.

This years first Semantic MediaWiki Conference will be held in Washington DC area from mid April to early May 2011. The Conference is a semi-structured gathering for users, developers and enthusiasts of Semantic MediaWiki from the corporate, academic and other organizational worlds. At the moment the event is under construction, which yet leaves room for proposals regarding the conferences items and organization (there is actually even a structured community polling for this available at the con ...

Michael Erdmann, the technical lead of ontoprise's SMW+/halo team has been invited to present today SMW+ at the "Data summit 2011". This event is a working session about semantic data, analytics and research into data dumps, organized by the Wikimedia Foundation.

This is the 16th forum of Next generation of semantic wikis .

This is the 16th forum of Next generation of semantic wikis .

FIA Ghent will be part of the Future Internet Conference Week, a series of events concerning different aspects of the Future Internet. It is organised by communities reaching out to different but related audiences that share common goals. With these events back-to-back, the participants benefit from the ideas from the different parts. This series of events will create an unprecedented synergy between the 2500 professionals from all over Europe.

Jurix 2010 is the 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

SWAT4LS 2010 is the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences. It is held from December 8 2010 to December 10 2010 in Berlin, Germany, Europe together with the 7th Berlin Semantic Web Meetup.

This is the 15th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

The 4th European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2010 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the forth time in a row. ESTC is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focusing on the growth of the ICT semantic technology markets, highlighted by showcased industry practices, advancements in the field of semantic technologies achieved in the past year, and successful marketing strategies in delivering semantic applications that generate new revenues.

How can you create value that will put you ahead of the competition? The Semantic Web Summit, formerly the Web 3.0 Conference, features innovators across industries examining the potential of the semantic web, and how it can transform the way you do business. This won't be a day and a half of technical jargon -- this event is about improving efficiencies in marketing and information management for a positive bottom line effect.

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

This is the 14th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

Das zweite deutsche KnowledgeCamp startet am 8. und 9.10.2010 in der Universität Passau. Das BarCamp als Austausch-, Lern- und Kontaktforum für Wissensmanager, Wissensarbeiter, Trainingsleiter, Führungskräfte, Personalentwickler, Professoren, Studenten, Berater, … - aus allen Branchen und Disziplinen, deren Interesse bei Themen des Wissensmangements liegt. Wir erwarten ausgewiesene Experten ebenso, wie Menschen, die gerade erst beginnen, sich mit Wissensmanagement zu beschäftigen. Wir wünschen u ...

The event will bring together developers, users and corporations from the SMW community around the world. The event will feature tutorials, presentations and developer discussions. More information will be announced as soon as they are available.

Am 15.-16. September 2010 findet im KongressCenter / Kurhaus Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe die 12. KnowTech – Kongress zum IT-gestützten Wissensmanagement – statt.

Für die diesjährige KnowTech hat das Programmkomitee 9 Leitthemen vorgegeben:

- Kollaboration im Unternehmen 2.0

- Aktuelle Herausforderungen für Wissensmanagement im Unternehmenskontext

- Wissensmanagement – Erfolgsfaktor bei der Bewältigung von Herausforderungen aus der demographischen Entwicklung und bei der Gestaltung des „Denk-Arbeit ...

This is the 13th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

The commitee is looking for contributions on current interest issues in the field of free software and Open Source, for example:

• operation systems
• development
• administration
• security
• legal issues
• desktop
• education

This is the 12th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

This is the 18th forum of Next generation of semantic wikis .

This is the 11th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

Ontoprise is presenting SemTech 2010 is the world’s largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. We are going to show the latest version of SMW+ at the SemTech Conference. Daniel Hansch, the SMW+ project manager, will give a talk on the semantic Wikis together with his development and project partner.

In Vorträgen und Software-Demonstrationen informieren Referenten aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen in Karlsruhe über aktuelle Trends, Geschäftsmodelle und erfolgreiche Anwendungen zum Thema "Linked Open Data"

May 30 or 31, 2010: Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis: Linking Data and People (SemWiki2010) at the 7th Annual Extendeduropean Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Crete, Greece.

Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies.

Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather humans and computers in order to build ...

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) is to bring together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference.

This is the 4th Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) user group meeting, while the first under the name of SMWCon (the previous one in Karlsruhe, Germany is called “SMW Camp”); we will continue to use this name from now on.

For more information, please check out http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Spring_2010_SMWCon.

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering.

This is the 10th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (2010)

The Next Web 2010 is the fifth edition of the conference that began in 2006. This year it is going to be bigger and better than ever! There are 1200 Internet professionals expected to gather for 3 days to enjoy Amsterdam, the conference, to do business and to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the web on the biggest party of the world.

This is going to be a 360 experience you’ll never forget. Great content, highly inspiring, high level people, super networking, and awesome party! The Conference ...

The World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web.

It began in 1994 at CERN and is organized by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conference brings tog ...

Wikimedia Germany invites all MediaWiki developers, Toolserver users, Gadget hackers, and other people interested in the technical side of Wikimedia projects to come to Berlin for a Developer Meet-Up on April 14.-16.

The goal of Linked Data is to enable people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can share documents today. The basic assumption behind Linked Data is that the value and usefulness of data increases the more it is interlinked with other data. Linked Data is simply about using the Web to create typed links between data from different sources. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Pr ...

This is the 9th session for people to meet and chat and learn what others are doing in SMW development.

This is the 17th forum of Next generation of semantic wikis .

The WikiCamp is a BarCamp-style gathering of wiki consultants, developers, gardeners, users and all people generally interested in (enterprise) wikis on March 6 2010 in Hanover/Germany on the CeBIT fair ground.

The 1st international congress on Web Studies aims at providing a venue for researchers and professionals from different backgrounds for discussion, study, practical demonstrations, sharing, and exchange on new developments and theories regarding the World Wide Web. The congress therefore invites contributions from a heterogeneous set of fields and domains such as: Web systems, computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, digital theory, Web sociology, and well as interactive and digi ...

This year's exhibition we present together with IBM a world novelty in business analytics. With the proposed solution unstructered information, for example from documents can be queried directly. The information is being enhanced with existing context knowledge from the knowledge model (ontology) and analyzed by company-specific rules. With this the search for important information passes well faster and upcoming decisions can be made easier by their excellent quality of information.

The 3rd European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2009 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the third time in a row.

The aim of the conference is to bring together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organizations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations. ESTC is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focus ...

Am 25.11.2009 wird in DARMSTADT einen weiteren Workshop im Rahmen der REIHE "Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien" veranstaltet. Der Schwerpunkt der Veranstaltung wird sein:

"Semantische Wikis".

Der Workshop ist die Fortsetzung mehrerer Veranstaltungen zu den Themenbereichen "Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien" (18.10.2007, 19.10.2006, 30.11.2005, 23.06.2005) sowie "XML Topic Maps" (21.06.2004, 13.11.2003, 10.04.2003).

Web 2.0 Expo is a conference and tradeshow for everyone who cares about embracing and extending the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.

Web 2.0 Expo engages thousands of participants through:

• Tactical and strategic sessions assembled by program chairs Brady Forrest (O'Reilly) and Jen Pahlka (TechWeb), designed to hone practical skills and keep you ahead of the game
• A bustling Expo Hall showcasing companies and projects vital to the web ecosystem
• Keynote presentations from lea ...

Am 15. und 16. November veranstaltet die Software & Support Media Group nach den großen Erfolgen im letzten Jahr ein weiteres Mal die Open Source Expo. Mit Karlsruhe hat man einen der wichtigsten IT-Standorte Deutschlands gewählt, um den Besuchern die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich über eine Vielzahl an Open-Source-Anwendungen und -Lösungen zu informieren und direkt mit deren Entwicklern in Kontakt zu treten.

Open Source trotzt der Krise und erfreut sich einer immens wachsenden Beliebtheit. Mit der ...

The Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT is a three-days conference on Nov. 10-12th 2009 about how enterprises can improve business results by enhancing its collaborative performance.

With exclusive experts from the worldwide Enterprise 2.0 community and best-practices from different parts of Europe the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT is seen as the major European event within this topic.

Have a look at the program: http://www.e20summit.com/archive/program.html

SMW Camp is an annual user meeting by and for the SMW and SMW+ community. It will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany on November, 7th – 8th 2009.

Preparations for this event just has started.

The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.

Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right ...

ISWC is the major international forum where the latest research results and technical innovations on all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

WikiSym is the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, the symposium (conference) and community of wiki and open collaboration researchers and practitioners world-wide. WikiSym 2009 will take place in Orlando, Florida, Oct 25-27, at Disney's Contemporary Resort.

The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing

Basics on semantics

Fundamental of semantics processing; Semantic-based techniques for feature selection; Semantic-based pruning; Semantic interoperability; Semantics uncertainty; Semantics pre-processing and post-processing; Semantics harmonization; Constraint-based semantics processing; Embedded semantics into the discovery process; Semantics in spatial and spatio-temporal models

Ontology fundamentals for semanti ...

Knowledge Camp is the first German BarCamp about knowledge management.

It will take place at university of Karlsruhe in October 2009. The exact venue is Universität Karlsruhe, AIFB, Kollegiengebäude am Ehrenhof (Geb. 11.40).

Als führender Kongress zum IT-gestützten industriellen Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen und Organisationen ist die KnowTech bereits seit 1999 eine fest etablierte neutrale Plattform zum Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Anwendern, Anbietern, Wissenschaftlern und Politikern.

Die KnowTech thematisiert die Zusammenhänge zwischen Geschäfts- und Wissensprozessen von Unternehmen und Verwaltungen, Kompetenzentwicklung der Mitarbeiter, Organisationsentwicklung und IT, Innovationskraft und nachhaltigem wirt ...

Needs of a community towards their tools are changing as they are adjusting their daily work routine to the needs of the market. You will learn here how easy it is for your user group to adjust the data model while they are using it and to create templates and forms for appealing wiki-articles and easy data-entry.

We cover:

• Adjusting the data model with the ontology browser and semantic toolbar
• Creating templates for displaying data
• Creating forms for entering data

Attend webinar: Link ...

SMW+ is a full fletched collaborative knowledge management system providing state-of-the-art technology and standards.

We present here how to use this technology for advanced semantic tagging (like symmetric, inverse and transitive relationships) and how to use SMW+' reasoning engine for exploiting this tags for the benefit of your community.

We cover:

• Types of semantic relations (inverse, symmetric, transitive) and category hierarchies
• Basic ontology modeling techniques
• Advanced seman ...

DMS EXPO in Cologne, with an Enterprise 2.0 forum and session board.

The Web is considered as the most important information space in our modern society. Human beings have been trying to reflect their interests and life styles on the Web, but the participation in contributing social content has to date been limited. Web 2.0 plays an important role in facilitating the participation by providing an architectural platform to enable linking data in various formats from various sources. However, the further the data on a system is linked, the more difficult it becomes ...

WI-IAT 2009 will be held in Milano, Italy ’s business city, one of the most famous places in the world for fashion, design and history. It will be hosted by the University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy.

In addition to presentations of regular research papers, workshops, tutorials, industry track, PhD mentory program, and demo track will be organized. As in previous editions of the WI-IAT conferences there will not be a separate workshop or tutorial registration fee. One conference registration wil ...

As the World Wide Web grows, it is becoming more and more complex for humans to efficiently find and exploit the information we need. The underlying idea of having a description of data available on the Web, organized in such a way as to be used by machines for automation, integration and reuse across various applications, has been promoted by a number of research fields.

The First International Workshop on “Semantic Web Information Management" (SWIM) aims to review the most recent data-center ...

A community using SMW+ is generating a readable knowledge base. To gradually increase the quality of the knowledge base SMW+ provides various means which are demonstrated in this session.

We will cover:

• inspecting the predefined ontology with the ontology browser
• add categories, properties with the ontology browser
• assign categories, properties to a wiki section
• check the knowledge base with gardening bots

Attend webinar: Link will be published here 1 hour prior

The webinar is sc ...

When introducing SMW+ to a corporate community then legacy data can be easily imported and used to generate article for re-use in the new working environment (for example vocabularies or taxonomies). In this session we are demonstrating how to easily prepare a data source and how to migrate it into SMW+.

We will cover:

• prepare a csv file for import into SMW+, map the columns to an ontology, run the import
• re-using the imported articles in the workflow
• (short) recap

Attend webinar: Cl ...

I-SEMANTICS '09 (former SEMANTICS) offers a forum of exchange for innovative businesses and European research institutions and companies that concentrate on semantic technologies.

Vendors and developers of semantic technologies and applications will present their products and services to the public.Leading international experts will discuss state of the art developments and future trends from the technological, economical and social view and present up-to-the-minute research & development in s ...

I-KNOW '09 brings together international researchers (English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (German speaking industry part, Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes, an international cooperation-event and a conference-wide exhibition complete the I-KNOW conference program.

I-KNOW '09 will be held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS '09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems.

(Note by PZ): There will also be so ...

Wikimania is an international conference hosted by Wikimedia with the aim to bring participants, technical experts and scientists together and to discuss about the future of wikis and the different projects of Wikimedia.

Deploying SMW+ in a corporate environment requires attaching external data sources to provide the user community with uptodate data.

We present here how to easily attach web services to an SMW+ installation and how your community can collaborate on the provided data.

We will cover:

• Create and register a simple webservice (example: weather forecast)
• How to use the webservice in an article
• Create and register a complex webservice (example: bugzilla)
• How to use the webservice in an ...

The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will be held over the weekend of July 25-26 2009 at New York University, and hosted by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.

Plans are still gestating, and more schedule details should appear soon; participants are encouraged to give your own ideas for topic sessions. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will be giving a keynote, and there will be also a second keynote speaker TBA.

In this session you will learn how to employ SMW+ to efficiently manage your project and how SMW+ helps motivating your team members to actively collaborate.

We cover the following SMW+ features:

• Setting up a project with the pre-configured data model
• Entering information about project stakeholder
• (short) introduction to SMW+
• Setting up a project, stakeholders, organizations
• Loading the project with initial documents, articles, tasks
• Managing the tasks and progress
• (short) recap

Philipp Zaltenbach from Ontoprise presents at the Project management day why semantic enterprise Wikis are paramount to guide project teams through critical and highly collaborative phases, like project start phase.

SemTech is the world's leading conference on semantic technologies, The fifth annual conference will take place June 14-18 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

Over the past five years, SemTech has established itself as the must-attend forum to address real-world issues faced by the industry today, attracting hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs, technologists, and academics from around the world. The conference program has grown to become the most comprehensive offering on semantic ...

Now in its sixth year, the annual SemTech Conference represents virtually the entire spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the emerging field of semantic technologies. It is the most extensive event ever assembled on the topic.

The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. ESWC2009 will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops.

The purpose of the Leipziger Semantic Web Tag (LSWT) is to get more in touch with enterprises from Saxony and to raise awareness about the opportunities Semantic Web technologies offer for small and medium sized companies.

The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web.

Organized by IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is the annual opportunity for the International community to discuss and debate the evolution of the Web. The conference will feature a range of presentations on world-class research, as well as stimulating talks, workshops, tutorials, panels, and late-brea ...

The Conference on Professional Knowledge Management provides a broad integrative overview of organizational, cultural, social and technical aspects on Knowledge Management. Focus of the conference is bringing together different research disciplines and sharing experiences gained in the different areas where knowledge management is being applied.

The Conference on Professional Knowledge Management provides a broad integrative overview of organizational, cultural, social and technical aspects on Knowledge Management. Focus of the conference is bringing together different research disciplines and sharing experiences gained in the different areas where knowledge management is being applied.

More information on the http://www.km-conference2009.org/index.php

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, is pleased to present the 2009 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 23–25, 2009 at Stanford University.

The STI Germany Industrietag '09 serves the networking of companies, which are interested in semantic technologies, with product vendors and service providers.

Speakers from different domains inform via presentations and demos about recent trends, business models and successful applications of semantic technologies.

Daniel Hansch has presented SMW+ in the context of project halo where integral parts of SMW+ have been implemented to advertise the immediate benefit of semantic technologies.