5th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP2008)
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.
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Dec 15, 2008 09:00 AM
to Dec 17, 2008 05:00 PM |
| Where | Rome, Italy |
| Contact Name | Heiko Stoermer |
| Contact Email | stoermer@disi.unitn.it |
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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.
Jointly organized by:
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Roma
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Roma
In collaboration with:
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Office in Italy,
Semedia Group (DEIT, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche),
Universita' di Trento.
