2. Semantics Conference
● Meeting place for professionals who
make semantic computing work, and
understand its benefits and know its
limitations
● Attracts: information manager, IT-
architects, knowledge workers,
innovation manager, software
engineers, & researchers
3. A Brief History
● In November 2005
→ first conference of its kind for Central Europe (in Vienna)
I-Semantics (2007-2012) → well established conference within the
sector
→ Initiated by Semantic Web School (now SemanticWeb
→ Company), The Austrian Computer Society, Salzburg
→ NewMediaLab & DERI Innsbruck (now STI Innsbruck)
4. Tassilo Max Headroom ;)
SEMANTiCS Conference
Series- where does it
come from and where
does it go to...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5OrfrtfNGXRa0VFaUQ0YS02dmM/view?usp=sharing
5. ● Venue: Leipzig
● Date: September 12-15, 2016
● Hosted by: Leipzig University
● Co-organized by: Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V., FH St.
Pölten, Semantic Web Company
Details
10. Hot Topics
● Data Quality Management
● Data Science (Data Mining, Machine Learning, Network Analytics)
● Semantics on the Web, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
● Corporate Knowledge Graphs
● Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
● Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
11. The ‘Horizontals’ (Research) & ‘Verticals’ (Industries)
Horizontals
● Enterprise Linked Data
& Data Integration
● Knowledge Discovery
& Intelligent Search
● Business Models, Governance
& Data Strategies
● Big Data & Text Analytics
● Data Quality Management
● ...
Verticals
● Industry & Engineering
● Life Sciences & Health Care
● Public Administration
● Galleries, Libraries, Archives
& Museums
● Education & eLearning
● ...
12. Award Ceremonies
During the Conference Dinner at Moritzbastei
● European Linked Open Data Contest, 13.09.2016, 20:00
● European Linked Enterprise Data Contest, 13.09.2016, 20:00
Awarding/Closing Session on 14.09.2016, 17:15 Audimax:
● Vocabulary Carnival Prince
● Best Paper Award
● Best Poster & Demo Award
○ Votes are being collected at the registration desk till 14.09., 14:00
● Best Innovation and Transfer Project
Awarding on 15.09.2016, DBpedia Day
● Citations & reference challenge
● DBpedia Excellence in Engineering
15. Organizing Team
Ogarit Uhlmann & Christiane Wolf Sandra Bartsch & Julia Holze
Supported by helping hands from
Agile Knowledge and the
Semantic Web Group (AKSW)
19. Daniel Rosenberg
University of Oregon
Food for thought ...
“Facts are ontological,
evidence is epistemological,
but data is rhetoric.”
Source: Rosenberg, Daniel (2013). Data before the fact. In:
Gitelman, Lisa (Ed.). Raw Data is an Oxymoron. Cambridge: MIT
Press, 15-40
20. Research & Innovation
Track (ACM)
85 submissions
18 full papers accepted
8 short papers accepted
21,2% acceptance rate (for
full papers)
93 PC members
21 senior PC members
Poster & Demo
Track (CEUR)
47 submissions
39 posters accepted
82,9% acceptance rate
42 PC members
Conference Statistics
Industry & Use Case Track
65 submissions
43 presentations accepted
66,1% acceptance rate
26 PC members
Amrapali J
Zaveri
Anna
Fensel
Michael
Martin
Martí
Cuquet
Andreas
Blumauer
Christian
Dirschl
21. SEMANTiCS 2016 - Visitor Analysis
213 registered participants (by 01.09.2016)
from 27 countries