[ANN] Web Intelligence Summer School on The Web of Data

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Web Intelligence Summer School - The Web of Data
25th-29th August, 2014
Saint-Étienne, France
http://ecole.web-intelligence-rhone-alpes.org/
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Data is no longer an asset that only companies and organisations deal 
with. Recently, Web data has become crucial to our daily life. Open data 
is transforming institutions, people are sharing increasingly private 
and sensitive data on social networks, access to web APIs facilitates 
application development, and linked data is changing the Web into a huge 
database. The Web of Data is thus complementing the existing Web of 
multimedia documents, the Social Web and the Web of Applications. In 
this situation everybody should be aware of data management, 
manipulation, access and visualisation.

During one week, the Web Intelligence community in Rhône Alpes and 
Universität Bonn will bring together Web of Data experts who will equip 
the participants with scientific and practical competence via lectures 
and hands-on sessions, enabling them to contribute to and take advantage 
of the full potential of the Web of Data.


Important Dates
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* Opening of application for participation: 15 March 2014
* End of application: 30 May 2014
* Notification of acceptance: 7 June 2014
* Deadline for registration: 30 June 2014
* Summer school: 25-29 August 2014


Programme overview
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Expected topics are:
  * publishing and organising Web data
  * querying and structuring Web data
  * reasoning on the Web of data
  * mining the Web of data
  * visualising the Web of data
  * protecting data in the Web of data

We will gradually complete the programme information on the homepage as 
soon as the speakers confirm their attendance. Speakers have been 
invited from the best known institutions in the field, in order to 
ensure highest quality in content and pedagogy. In the meantime, feel 
free to send us any enquiries by email.


Attendance
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We welcome international participants. In case we receive more than the 
50 applications we can host, we will select attendees based on their CVs 
and motivation. The participation fee will be €300 for students and €400 
otherwise. A limited number of free registrations is available for 
students having financial difficulties and who can prove that 
participation will be beneficial to them.

We will soon announce the possibility to register.


Organisation committee
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Antoine Zimmermann, École des mines de St-Étienne (chair)
Sören Auer, Universität Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS
Philippe Beaune, École des mines de St-Étienne
Jérôme David, Université Pierre-Mendès France
Frédérique Laforest, Université Jean Monnet, Télécom Saint Étienne
Christoph Lange, Universität Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS
Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet
Xavier Serpaggi, École des mines de St-Étienne
Thomas Steiner, Université de Lyon / Google Hamburg
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Antoine Zimmermann
ISCOD / LSTI - Institut Henri Fayol
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
158 cours Fauriel
CS 62362
42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 2
France
Tél:+33(0)4 77 42 66 03
Fax:+33(0)4 77 42 66 66
http://zimmer.aprilfoolsreview.com/

Received on Friday, 7 March 2014 08:20:59 UTC