SWAP joint art exhibition:
Gerry Turano, Shadow Pillars
Introduction
The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy and infrastructure, new issues, technologies and tools are emerging.
These issues include creating, presenting and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources, and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form.
New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction.
While applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web technologies are critically important, building applications that use Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most software developers. This happens in the context of a widespread interest in semantic techniques for web data integration, e.g. Linking Open Data is growing very fast, microformats are blowing up on the web, social networks are blossoming, etc. How to leverage them toward the goal of having a smarter web, call it Web 3.0 or not?
This workshop aims at a relaxed meeting for brainstorming and debating among international researchers and developers on the Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which can enable wide-scale use of Semantic Web technologies.
Supported by:
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Roma
Semantic Technology Laboratory, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (CNR), Roma
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Office in Italy,
Semedia Group (DEIT, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche),
Universita' di Trento.
Important Dates
October 27th (21.00 CET) - Paper Submission
November 21st - Notifications
November 27th (Hawaii time) - Camera ReadyDecember 15th - Tutorial Day
December 16-17 - SWAP 2008
