Event description

The European Semantic Web Conference is an annual scientific conference that aims to present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today’s Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), aims to enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web. [source: ESWC 2009 website]

Deployment description

This was the first deployment of the [link id=”451”]Live Social Semantics[/link] project, a collaboration between the SocioPatterns project and the TAGora project, in particular Harith Alani, Martin Szomszor and Gianluca Correndo. A description of this project’s objectives and methods is provided in the [link id=”451”]Live Social Semantics project description[/link].

Acknowledgements

• development and deployment: Martin Szomszor, Gianluca Correndo, Harith Alani, Ciro Cattuto and Wouter Van den Broeck
• thanks to: the participants, Alexander Wahler from STI International, the venue manager and technical support, the ISI administration, Jean-François Pinton, Milosch Meriac from Bitmanufaktur, and Dr Michael Hausenblas for making ESWC data available in RDF.
• sponsoring institutions:
  • ISI Foundation
  • The TAGora project - Funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies program (IST- FET) of the European Commission under the contract IST-34721. [small]The information provided is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not reflect the Commission’s opinion. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of data appearing in this publication.[/small]