ANN: 3rd ESWC Summer School: September 2-7, 2013, Kalamaki, Crete

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Following another successful event this year we are very happy to be able to announce that the 3rd ESWC Summer School will take place September 2-7 on the Southern part of Crete in the beautiful village of Kalamaki. 

Essential Data
Website: http://summerschool2013.eswc-conferences.org/

**Directors**
John Domingue (The Open University, UK)
Elena Simperl  (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)

**Keynotes**
Stefan Decker (DERI, IE)
Kieron O'Hara (University of Southampton, UK)
Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, DE)
…more pending

**Tutors**
Dan Brickley (Free University of Amsterdam, NL)
Aidan Hogan (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, IE)
Barry Norton (Ontotext, BG)
Matthew Rowe (Lancaster University, UK)
Elena Simperl  (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)

**Topics**
Knowledge representation languages and Web-scale reasoning
Linked Data publishing and consumption
Developing and using ontologies
Semantically enabled Web APIs and services
Social semantics
Linked Data Preservation

**Dates**
Application opens: February 1st 2013
Application closes: March 30th 2013
Decision on acceptance: May 15th 2013
Summer school: September, 2nd (9am) to midday September 7th

**Fees**
TBC

**Overview**
The 3rd ESWC Summer School will run in southern Crete -  from the morning of Monday September, 2nd to midday Saturday September 7th 2013. The overall goal for this event is to provide intensive training and networking opportunities for the next ESWC generation. In particular we wish to facilitate the creation of a new cohort of ESWC: Master’s, Ph.D. students and junior researchers who will in time become the next leaders of the ESWC conference and of the Semantic Web and Linked Data research areas in general.

In this respect the above the topics of the ESWC summer school will be aligned with the most prominent and emerging topics of the ESWC conference. We will also provide opportunities for attendees to network with their peers, the school tutors and keynotes as well as senior members of STI International and senior members of the Semantic Web community who are participating.

The organization and tutorial team for this summer school have extensive experience in these types of events having organized similar events in Europe, the US and Asia over a number of years. Building from this experience, and also knowledge of pedagogy we know that learning-by-doing leads to successful learning. We also know the true value of networking in the research context and that this is best supported by an informal atmosphere coupled with an enjoyable inclusive social program. Supporting the above will be a dominant theme of the EWSC summer school and a significant portion of the school will involve hands-on sessions with the latest generation of Semantic Web tools. 

The summer school is open to anyone studying in a Semantic Web related post-graduate course or is at an early stage of a Semantic Web related career and is engaged in suitable Semantic Web activities. Places will be limited to 50 in order to ensure that all participating students receive quality time with their tutors. Accepted students will be obliged to attend the whole week.

We encourage anyone who is at an early stage of their Semantic Web career to apply our school which benefits from its close association with the conference. 

The ESWC summer school is supported by a number of European projects including the network of excellence PlanetData and EUCLID and also videolectures.net.

You can find out more details including the whole program at our website at: http://summerschool2013.eswc-conferences.org/

John


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Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
phone: 0044 1908 653800, fax: 0044 1908 653169
email: j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk web: kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/

President, STI International
Amerlingstrasse 19/35, Austria - 1060 Vienna
phone: 0043 1 23 64 002 - 16, fax: 0043 1 23 64 002-99
email: john.domingue@sti2.org  web: www.sti2.org 

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