SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/TenerifeGathering
The 5th European Semantic Web Conference, 2008
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Get together
Sunday, 1 June, gather at the Sheraton La Caleta Resort & Spa at 5pm. We'll meet somewhere in the lobby, please watch out for the following label:
People
- MichaelHausenblas will be around at ESWC arriving on 31 May (Saturday) and leaving on 6 June (Friday), staying at the La Nina (skype: mhausenblas or on IRC/#swig channel)
- TomHeath I'll be there, though not sure of travel plans just yet. Likely to be leaving on the Thursday.
- MatthiasSamwald I will be there (I think I'll arrive in the evening of May 31)
- Southampton: HughGlaser, Ian Millard and AfrazJaffri arriving 19:30 on Sunday June 1st (sorry). Benedicto Rodriguez-Castro arriving Saturday 31st May.
- OpenLink Software: Orri Erling and Yrjana Rankka are attending. Exact dates are not known but I guess we can add a spare day.
- CathyDolbear : if not me, someone else from Ordnance Survey will be there.
- DannyAyers I'll be there, not sure about dates
- SergioFernandez will try to be there
- ChrisBizer (anything Saturday till Tuesday is fine for me)
- NormanGray will be there from late on Saturday
- RichardCyganiak will be there.
Ideas
- Follow up on ideas from earlier gatherings, esp. Beijing 08 and Busan 07
- Discuss further activities such as panels, workshops, etc.
Lightning Talks
Note that the IRC logger on freenode was not available, hence the log comes from an alternative site, see [1] (thanks to bengee pointing this out).
- Tom's overview on linked data (opening the data silos)
- Chris introduction to the SWEO LOD project (Tom's and Chris' slides, rerun of the WWW2008 Linked Data slides)
- Lightning talks
- Orri Erling (OpenLink) about Virtuoso, ODS, Linked Data Deployments, EC2, and things to come.
- Richard Cyganiak (DERI) on sindice.com slides
- Andraz (Zemanta) on Zemanta
- Alexandre on moat
- Denny (AIFB) on semanticweb.org
- Dan Brickley on SocialGraph
- Michael Witbrock on Cyc
- Michael Hausenblas on UCI and metaLOD slides
- Marko Grobelnik (Josef Stefan) on triple extraction from plain text
- Matthias Samwald (Semantic Web company and DERI) on Health Care and Life Sciences
- Tom Heath on linkeddata.org
We hope that people will upload their slides, here (or, you could send them to me - I'll do the dirty work, then ;)