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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The programme will alternate between keynote speakers, technical 
lectures, hands-on sessions, and social events. We want to focus on 
practical work and guarantee that at least half of the tutorials will be 
dedicated to the hands-on sessions. A poster session will be organised 
where students will have the opportunity to present their own work.

Topics of the lectures are:
* Keynote, Sören Auer (Universität Bonn / Fraunhofer)
* Publishing Web Data Christoph Lange (Universität Bonn / Fraunhofer)
* The Web of Data at the W3C, Eric Prud'hommeau (W3C)
* Querying Web Data,  Axel Polleres (WU Wien)
* Provenance on the Web, Paul Groth (VU Amsterdam)
* Wikidata, Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden)
* Privacy in the Web of Data, Mathieu d'Aquin (MKi, Open University)
* Visualisation and HCI, Aba-Sah Dadzie (University of Birmingham)

Complete and always updated view on the programme is available on the 
homepage.
http://ecole.web-intelligence-rhone-alpes.org/

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.

Registration is open.
http://ecole.web-intelligence-rhone-alpes.org/Registration

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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