- From: Anna Fensel <anna.fensel@sti2.at>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:52:52 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
PlanetData Programs - Call 1 Announcement xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PlanetData (www.planet-data.eu) is an EU co-funded Network of Excellence creating a durable community of academic and industrial partners. This community is supported in conducting research in the large-scale data management area through the provision of data sets and access to tailored data management technology. It benefits from a comprehensive program of training, dissemination, standardization, and networking activities, intended to strengthen existing collaborations and establish new ones, to educate organizations in key questions related to open data exposure, and to transfer research results towards industry. During the duration of PlanetData (2010-2014) the consortium issues open calls to extend its expertise and to invite new partners to carry out certain tasks within the project. Selected partner(s) will be eligible for funding of research activities. Call 1 The ICT project PlanetData has vacancies in the consortium for partners having comprehensive research and technological expertise in the area of "Consuming Linked Data". Specific topics in the thematic area We solicit proposals for research projects with a focus on demonstration of developed technologies in a concrete application context making use of publically available Linked Data sets. Relevant topics include but are not limited to Web-scale data management, searching and querying, reasoning, Linked Sensor Data, quality assessment and data curation, analytics and mining, front-ends and visualisation, as well as business and incentives models for data-driven services and applications. Submissions should demonstrate the applicability of their research results with an application that consumes data from the open Web, ideally of societal value, including, but not limited to the following domains: public sector information and statistical data, bibliographic and media sector information, life sciences, Earth science and environmental data, geospatial data, as well as transportation and urban management. Facts and figures Call open: The call will be open for submissions from 1st January 2011. Deadline for submission of proposals: 16th February 2011, 17h00 Brussels time. Expected duration of participation in project: 4 to 12 months, starting earliest in June 2011. Proposal format: proposals can include one or more organizations eligible for EU funding, and should have an indicative funding between 15,000 and 100,000 Euro. Call identifier: PD-1-2011. Language in which proposal should be submitted: English. Email address for further information: alice DOT carpentier AT sti2 DOT at PlanetData Programs Calls webpage: http://planet-data.eu/planetdata-programs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------- Dr. Anna Fensel | Senior Researcher fon +43-512-507-96884 | web http://userver.ftw.at/~zhdanova | anna.fensel@sti2.at Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 21a | A-6020 Innsbruck | Austria | www.sti-innsbruck.at
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