SWAD-E and Europe

Focus on Europe

Promoting development and adoption within Europe

Europe in Focus

Highlighting European development in the international arena

These slides http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/1016-cmn-dc2k2/slide1-0

A European project

World Wide Web Consortium

Through host INRIA (and more so with ERCIM from 2003) directly part of European academic / research milieu

Has over 100 European members

ILRT, University of Bristol

HP Labs, Bristol

Stilo Technologies

Bristol has a concentration of Semantic Web development, and these three groups are strongly connected to Academia, Research, Industry and Open source developer communities.

CCLRC, RAL

A W3C office with strong connections to industry and research in the UK and throughout Europe.

Focus on Europe

• Developer Workshops in Europe
  • EARL/Image annotation
  • DC workshop
  • Calendaring workshop
• Multiple Languages as possible

  - so far some work in french, spanish and italian

Europe in focus

• International participation in workshops
• Participating in international events
  • DC2002
  • WWW2002, WWW2003, ...

Working in the community

• NOT creating new or rival communities

  - working in existing communities (DC, W3C, etc)

• Contributing to standards, or pre-standards work
• Open and public project
  • Live, archived discussion at workshops
  • Documents and reports available at early stages