Re: Question: Is/was there an ASWC 2011?

Dear Paola,

as John said STI2 is not planning to organize an 
event for 2011. Mostly for three reasons:

         1) Asia is somehow fragmented (obviously 
because it is so much bigger than small
         Europe) and therefore it is quite a 
challenge to bridge the different national research
         communities and establish a true cross 
country event. Even for small Europe this
         only happened after EU funding helped to 
generate a cross-country awareness
         (what a shame that people need money to 
civilize). Also when we had ISWC in
         Asia we made similar epxeriences.

         2) There were severe requests that we 
should generalize the conference to
         a Pacific-Asian Semantic Web Conference 
and we are reflecting on this for 2012.
         In a sense this makes the problem even 
harder but it is requested quite clearly.

         3) A number of people were requesting to 
see the event going on and I love to
         see your interest in it. For example, we 
have severe interests expressed from groups
         in Singapore, Korea, and Malaysia 
(Unfortunately in Japane they still think we
         are their failed 5th generation 
project). Simply, currently nobody is taking the lead to
         take the opportunity and brings it to its full potential.

If you would like to help on this (and some of 
the colleagues you are referring to, too) we would
very much appreciate this and could provide you 
much of the help and contacts needed.
Finally this is also a question to Jim and the 
SWSA foundation which could/should help on
this task, too.

Many greetings,

Dieter

At 10:16 AM 1/5/2011, Paola Di Maio wrote:
>John
>
>I wonder if you could share some info on why there's no ASWC, was the
>last one not successful or something?
>
>Some of us who lecture in Asia and organise research events are
>particularly interested
>to know the plans
>
>cheers
>
>PDM
>
>On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:14 PM, John Domingue <j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Michael, I can confirm that there are no plans for ASWC for next year.
> > Preliminary discussions are under way for a Pan-Pacific conference
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On 6 Dec 2010, at 12:26, Yimin Wang wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> To my knowledge, ASWC has no plan for 2010 or any further. This was a
> >> decision made last year.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Yimin
> >>
> >> On 6 December 2010 18:51, Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> A question: Does anybody know whether there is or was an Asian Semantic
> >>> Web
> >>> Conference (ASWC) this year? In former years, it has been close to the
> >>> end
> >>> of the year, but I cannot find anything about it on the web. Or was it
> >>> merged with ISWC, as in 2007 (although I cannot find any note about this
> >>> at
> >>> the ISWC site)?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>> Michael
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