- From: Ubbo Visser <visser@tzi.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:37:26 +0100
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Call for Participation for the Semantic Web Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2005 Galway, Ireland November 6-10th 2005 http://challenge.semanticweb.org/ **************************************************************************** ********* The Semantic Web organizers invite proposals for the Semantic Web Challenge 2005. Participants have the chance to show the possibilities of the current Semantic Web technologies. We already have infrastructures, languages, reasoning engines, etc. that enable us to develop integrated,useful, and attractive applications. Specific Goal for Semantic Web Challenge 2005 --------------------------------------------- For the challenge 2005, we encourage people to show the benefit of re-using existing ontologies, schemas, or models. These can be standard ontologies, but also proprietary schemas developed for other applications. People from academia and from industry are invited to submit applications that illustrate the possibilities of the Semantic Web. The applications should integrate, combine, and deduce information from various sources to assist users in performing specific tasks. The submissions should at least satisfy the minimal requirements for a Semantic Web Application and preferably exhibit some of the additional desires. Although we expect that most applications will use RDF, RDF Schema, and OWL, this is not an official requirement. Minimal Requirements -------------------- A Semantic Web Application has to meet the following minimal requirements. 1. First, the information sources used should be geographically distributed, should have diverse ownerships (i.e. there is no control of evolution), should be heterogeneous (syntactically, structurally, and semantically), and should contain real world data, i.e. are more then toy examples. 2. It is required that all applications assume an open world, i.e. assume that the information is never complete. 3. Finally, the applications should use some formal description of the meaning of the data. Additional Desires ------------------ Besides the minimal criteria, a number of desires are formulated. The more desires are met,the higher an application can score. The desires are: - The application uses data sources for other purposes or in another way than originally intended - Using the contents of multi-media documents - Accessibility in multiple languages - Accessibility via devices other than the PC - Other applications than pure information retrieval - Combination of static and dynamic knowledge (e.g. combination of static ontologies and dynamic workflows) - The results should be as accurate as possible (e.g. use a ranking of results according to validity) - The application should be scalable (in terms of the amount of data used and in terms of distributed components working together) How to participate ------------------ Visit http://challenge.semanticweb.org in order to participate and register for the Semantic Web Challenge by submitting the required information as well as a link to the application on the online registration form. The form will be open until June 15, 2005, 12pm CET. The requirements of this entry are: 1.) Abstract: no more than 200 words. 2.) Description: The description will show details of the system including why the system is innovative, which features or functions the system provides, and why it is relevant tothe challenge. Examples of its use must be provided and if the application includes the additional desires these should be mentioned. The description should not exceed four pages (LNCS format). Selected descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings. 3.) Accessibility: The application should be accessible via the web. If the application is not publicly accessible, passwords should be provided. We also ask to provide a (short) instruction on how to start and use the application. Prizes ------ The prizes for the winners will be available as travel support and book vouchers. The winners will also be asked to give a live demonstration of their application at the ISWC 2005 conference. SWC Advisory Board ------------------- Dean Allemang Jürgen Angele Mike Dean Stefan Decker Jérôme Euzenat Frank van Harmelen Ian Horrocks Atanas Kiryakov Deborah McGuinness Rob Shearer Amit Sheth York Sure Mike Uschold Contact: -------- Michel Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Sciences - dep. of Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 44 47782 Department fax: +31 20 44 47653 Email: Michel.Klein@cs.vu.nl Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mcaklein/ Ubbo Visser Universität Bremen TZI - Center for Computing Technologies Universitätsallee 21-23 D-28359 Bremen Germany Tel: 0421/218-7840 Fax: 0421/218-7196 Email: visser@tzi.de Web: http://www.tzi.de/~visser/
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