ABLE project

2009 (6th)European Semantic Web Conference

• http://www.eswc2009.org/
• 31 May - 4 June 2009
• Heraklion, Greece
• Recognised some familiar names from Sheffield, for example, and our own KMi.
• The ESWC 2010 will take place from 30th of May to 3rd of June 2010 with the venue remaining the same as this year - Aldemar Knossos Royal Village Conference Centre in Hersonissos, Crete.
• If we are to attend a semantic web conference it would be this one.

2009 (8th) International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

• http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/
• 25-29 October 2009
• at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC
• the original semantic web conference, the European and Asian conferences are regional complementary conferences

2009 (4th) Asian Semantic Web Conference

• http://www.aswc2009.org/
• 6-9 December, 2009
• Shanghai, China
• looked at to see what topics are covered rather than with any thought of attending

2009 (5th) Semantic Technology Conference

• http://www.semantic-conference.com/
• 14-18 June 2009
• at Fairmont San Jose, San Jose, California
• very commercial, is not academic

Notes

Having looked at these conferences and their papers, tutorials, keynotes, etc, they do not seem an appropriate route for disseminating our work. The emphasis in the conferences is on the web and creating sense of its contents through folksonomies and ontologies. The work in these conferences has a different starting point to our won because their data is born digital (whether xml, html, rdf or whatever) and so relatively clean. Further, it often includes some form of explicit metadata. The issues discussed at these conference are mainly related to how best to merge the disparate forms of metadata and how to enhance it further through exploitation of any implicit metadata present in the web source. I could find little that relates to our work, and even that was rather tangential.