ISSLOD 2011

ISSLOD 2011

Indian-summer school on Linked Data

Leipzig, Sep 12-18, 2011

The Linked Data methodology is a light-weight approach to facilitate the transition from the document Web to the Web of Data and ultimately a Semantic Web. With a wide availablility of Linked Data tools and knowledge bases, a steadily growing R&D community, industrial applications, the Linked Data paradigm already became crucial bulding block of the Web architecture.

ISSLOD is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, and other young researchers investigating aspects related to the Semantic Data Web. The Summer School will also be open to senior researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their own fields of research.

ISSLOD is organized by the EU-FP7 project "LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data". Lecturers comprise distinguished experts from LOD2 member organizations as well as invited speakers, the majority of which will - apart from their lectures - also be present for the duration of the school to interact with students. Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be supported through social activities and an interactive, amicable atmosphere.

ISSLOD takes place in late summer with hopefully still a lot of Indian Summer (i.e. Altweibersommer/Бабье лето) sunshine rays.

Programme

All lectures as well as the poster session will take place at the Felix-Klein Lecture hall in the second floor (1. OG) at Johannisgasse 26. Please see http://aksw.org/FindUs for directions.

Monday, Sep 12

Tuesday, Sep 13

Wednesday, Sep 14

Thursday, Sep 15

  • 9:00-10:30 Student project work
  • 11:00-12:30 Linked Semantic Multimedia, Harald Sack
  • Lunch
  • 13:30-15:00 Text Mining and Annotation on the Data Web, Sebastian Hellmann/Pablo Mendes
  • 15:30-17:00 Ontology Reasoning, Enrichment and Repair, Jens Lehmann
  • 18:00 Excursion to Fockeberg with Barbeque

Friday, Sep 16

  • 9:00-10:30 Collaborative Authoring and Annotation of Linked Data, Ali Khalili
    Mobile Semantic Applications, Timofey Ermilov
  • Collaborative knowledge engineering in DBpedia+LinkedGeoData, Claus Stadler
  • 11:00-12:30 Student project work: final presentations
  • Lunch and farewell

Application

Since the number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation have to be made via Easychair at: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isslod2011

The programme of the school will include a poster session where students can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and colleagues. Applications shall include a remark on whether a poster will be presented along with a short abstract.

Applications should be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information:

  1. Name, contact details
  2. Affiliation
  3. Motivation for participation
  4. Summary of profile
  5. Willing to present a poster? (yes/no, if yes, include a short poster abstract)
  6. Supervisor (if applicable)
  7. Publications (if applicable)

Application Deadline: 30 July 2011
Notifications: 5 August 2011

Student Grants

There will be a limited number of student grants available. Student grants will cover registration fees as well as accomodation costs for the summer school. In case you are interested in applying for this grant, please apply normally for the summer school as outlined above and indicate in your application that you are interested in the student grant. The declaration of interest for the grant should be accompanied by a short justification confirming that the attendance could not be financed by other means such as project funds.

Registration

Details of the registration process will be announced on the Web site, after the application deadline. We will keep the registration fee low (175 EUR) and provide reasonable accomodation packages (less than 40 EUR per night) for students. Registration costs include lunches and the social events.

Organization Committee

  • Sören Auer
  • Jens Lehmann
  • Amrapali J. Zaveri
  • Nadine Jänicke

Testimonials

Dr. Mateja Verlič (Zemanta d.o.o., R&D)

We read a lot about people doing important things, however this time we – LOD2 partners – are the ones changing the history of Web by revolutionizing information use and reuse, contributing to semantic data standards and pushing the limits of almost every WWW-related aspect (sc… read

Dr. Jens Lehmann (Universität Leipzig, Research Group Leader)

The size and number of Semantic Web knowledge bases published as Linked Open Data has been growing tremendously over the past years. The LOD2 project will be a key factor for sustaining this momentum. More importantly, the quality of knowledge bases and the scalability of methods accessing… read

Jindřich Mynarz (University of Economics, Czech Republic)

Apart from being legally open, linked open data is an open technology. Due to its non-exclusive, non-proprietary, well-formalized, and standards-based nature, linked open data supports a wide spectrum of uses. It does not exclude any application from using it and thus it is open to be mixe… read

Dr. Mladen Stanojevic (Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia)

The richness of any semantic model and the usability of represented data is dependent on the links between them. LOD2 is an important step in this direction that will enable an efficient exploration and processing of vast quantity of open data on the Web.

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Mun Yong Yi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

Data becomes more meaningful and powerful as they are linked and integrated. As I learn more about what LOD can do, I am convinced that it will not only change the future of the Internet but also the quality of human life. I am glad that I am participating in this project, which will defin… read

Orri Erling (OpenLink Software, Virtuoso Program Manager)

Value from information increasingly depends on integration. RDF is a great model for this. LOD2 will make RDF a cost competitive alternative in the database space, without compromising ad hoc flexibility and expressive power. read

Vojtech Svatek (University of Economics, Czech Republic)

As researcher in ontological engineering, I am excited to see LOD2 provide tools that make the generation of semantically structured data easy and thus widespread. I believe that ontological research is deemed to build upon the world views already expressed by means of simpl… read

Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company, CEO)

15 years ago we all were excited when we published HTML for the first time and it didn't take a long time until all of us were "on the internet". Now we are starting to publish data on the web. Based on semantic web technologies professional data management will be possible in distributed … read

Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink Software, CEO)

Three years ago, OpenLink Software enthusiastically contributed the prowess of Virtuoso to the grassroots effort that lead to DBpedia and the Linked Open Data cloud that coalesced around it. Today, we are both honored and enthusiastic about Virtuoso's critical infrastructure role in this n… read

Bastiaan Deblieck (TenForce, Partner and Business Development Manager)

An internet of data opens up tremendous opportunities for our corporate and government customers. We intend to be on the forefront of this evolution. read

Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer, Content Architect)

Linked (Open) Data will change the existing publishing paradigms! Creating high quality content for professional usage will remain an important factor in future publishing, but additional access points and new usage environments will equally define its success. read

Dr. Giovanni Tummarello (National University of Ireland, Galway, Research Unit Leader)

Semantic Markups on the Web could drive information reuse to enable scenarios and applications which we can now only dream of. The idea is extraordinarely compelling, but we know now it won't simply realize itself. The LOD2 project is now a great opportunity for inspired and coordinated re… read

Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, Chief Science Officer)

Enterpise search is all about providing correct, complete, and appropriate information to the employee and decision maker. LOD2 promises to not only allow internal company information to be linked up to the growing amount of Open Data on the web, but to also provide the mechanisms for val… read

Hugh Williams (OpenLink Software)

It is exciting to see the LOD2 project finally kick off in its quest to take the Linked Open Data cloud to the next level of scalability, performance and integration for the exploitation of the Web as a viable platform for enterprise level data and information integration. read

Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company, CFO)

Linked (Open) Data technologies offer a new way of data integration for the enterprise! Smooth interoperability between internal data sets can reduce costs as well as the enrichment of these data sets by external data can support new market intelligence paradigms for a better decision making. read

Dr. Peter Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

The publishing of ever more datasets by e.g. governments adds value for many key applications including business intelligence, which will drive the Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm going forward. In the LOD2 project, CWI is working to increase the scalability and performance of querying int… read

Dr. Sören Auer (Universität Leipzig, LOD2 coordinator)

The Linked Data paradigm is a simple and efficient way for integration of heterogeneous information on the Web. Ultimately, we will, for example, be able to search for a new appartment and a close-by available spot in child care in one go. read

Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company, R&D)

Semantic interoperability changes the technological and economic nature of metadata opening up exciting opportunities for value creation in various comercial and non-commercial areas. Linked Data is the blueprint for this new ecosystem and it will change the way we think about and use the web today. read

Wouter Dewanckel (TenForce, WP Project Leader)

It is an honor to take part in this challenging integration project to create solutions that can generate business value out of emerging technologies. read