ESWC 2012 Wrap-up

Hi All,

I wanted to give you a brief summary of last week's exciting 9th
Extended Semantic Web Conference

==Overview==
- The conference showcased the best the community has to offer with a
25% acceptance rate for technical track submissions.

- Again the conference continued the tradition of fantastic keynote
speakers including a novel and well received keynote from political
strategist Julius van der Laar as well as leaders in the filed like
Monica Lam (Stanford) and Alon Halevy (Google). These keynotes will be
made available on videolectures.net soon.

- We had a fantastic poster, demo and AI Mashup session in which the
best scores were calculated using SPARQL queries!

- You can find all the papers  in LNCS Volume 7295 at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-30283-1
-- Metadata is at http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2012/html

== Awards ==
Obviously, there was a ton of great stuff at the conference. Here are
the award winners:

-- Best Paper: Graph Kernels for RDF Data by Uta Lösch, Stephan
Bloehdorn, Achim Rettinger

-- Best In-Use Paper: Generating Possible Interpretations for
Statistics from Linked Open Data  by Heiko Paulheim

-- 7 years most influential paper: Towards Semantically-Interlinked
Online Communities by Breslin, Harth, Bojars, and Decker

-- Best Poster:  Bringing the Web of Data to Developing Countries:
Linked Data Markets in the Sahel by Victor De Boer, Nana Baah Gyan,
Pieter De Leenheer, Anna Bon, Chris van Aart, Chistophe Gueret,
Wendelien Tuyp, Stephane Boyera, Mary Alle

-- Best PhD Symposium Paper: A framework for ontology usage analysis
by Jamshaid Ashraf

-- AI Mashup Challenge Winner: Career Galaxy Yiyu Li, Xilong Fan, and Yemin Shi

==ESWC 2013==
- ESWC 2013 will be held in Montpellier, France!
- We hope to see you at next year's conference.

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Paul Groth (p.t.groth@vu.nl)
publicity chair ESWC 2012

Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2012 20:10:15 UTC