At the opening ceremony we announced the nominees for the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award at ISWC 2018. The nominees for the Best Paper Award are: Representativeness of knowledge bases with the generalized Benford’s law by Arnaud Soulet, Arnaud Giacometti, Béatrice Markhoff and Fabian Suchanek. That’s interesting, tell me more! Finding descriptive […]
Read moreAs in previous editions of the ISWC conference, the metadata of ISWC 2018 is made publicly available. A turtle file of the metadata can be downloaded here. If you don’t want to store the metadata on your local machine, we have good news – the metadata is published and integrated in scholarlydata.org. Many thanks to Andrea […]
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September 21, 2018
When: Tuesday, October 9, at 19:00 – 22:00 Where: Asilomar Seascape (next to the Crocker dining hall, where lunch is served) “Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, […]
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September 14, 2018
Overview We set up the Blue Sky Ideas track as a means to stimulate novel research and initiatives that complement the work commonly submitted into the other tracks of the main conference. The track is supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). The format is used widely at several top scientific conferences, including AAAI, ACM […]
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September 12, 2018
The Posters and Demos session at ISWC is a big plenary session where 79 presentations will be ongoing at the same time. So how can you make sure that your poster or demo attracts the attention it deserves? In this blog post we have put together some tips on preparing a successful poster or demo. […]
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August 10, 2018
When: Thursday 11 October (after the Posters and Demos session) Where: Asilomar Seascape (next to the Crocker dining hall, where lunch is served) Many have asked… and yes, the Jam Session is back at ISWC 2018! The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music […]
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August 7, 2018
Fariz Darari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and TU Dresden) and Anastasia Dimou (Universiteit Gent) are joint winners of the 2018 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award. The winning dissertations are: – Fariz Darari, Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for RDF Data Sources – Anastasia Dimou, High quality Linked Data generation from heterogeneous data sources Our sincere congratulations […]
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June 26, 2018
We are training + riding and why you should join. We all work long hours, we sit in front or our screens all day, sometimes long nights as well. Sometimes our eyes are dry, our back hurts from the crouching, we stretch for a second and think – if only I had moved a little today, […]
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May 23, 2018
Have you adopted semantics in innovative industrial applications? The web of data has proven to be a fertile ground for both academic and industrial research, but transitioning the technology to real-world industrial strength applications raises different, and yet challenging, technical issues. Companies from small to large, are making revealing leaps forward in science and […]
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May 22, 2018
The Blue Sky Ideas initiative is meant to stimulate new research ideas that are different from the current mainstream research and look at topics that are not anticipated by current applications. The initiative is meant to stimulate scientists to think about basic, open goal, curiosity driven science. On the sponsor To encourage participation, the Computing […]
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May 16, 2018
The posters and demos track is always a highlight of ISWC with cutting edge work being presented on a wide range of topics in a relaxed environment. Whilst the posters and demos track is usually less competitive than for example the research track, it can still be a challenge to fit your work into 4 […]
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