WP15- Dissemination & Exploitation INMARK Dissemination &Awareness Strategy Meeting Feb 15-16, 2006 Luxembourg

What “making the semantic web fly” means? Bridging the Gap Providing Solutions for: Information finding and ICK acquisition Automatic opening up an annotation of textual documents Representation Interoperability Interpretation Personalization Multimedia Content representation and visualization Maintenance and Collaboration support Implicit knowledge Explicit knowledge STATIC WWW URI, HTML, HTTP Semantic Web RDF, RDF(S), OWL

Objectives & Target Groups Dissemination objectives: Awareness raising among targeted audience groups Knowledge &Experience sharing and transfer towards stakeholders Support the conception and implementation of the VIKEF Exploitation Plan Target audiences: The Knowledge Management and Semantic Web related Scientific community Market actors: a)in the Scientific Congress and Trade Fairs industries and b) other industries which have already shown interest in VIKEF as a result of previous D&A activities Software developers active in Knowledge-Based systems High-Tech related brokers and venture capital investors

Dissemination Strategy & Channels Focused on: Creating an adequate level of awareness among target groups as well as among non-identified potential stakeholders Providing backup support or targeted/customised dissemination activities Dissemination channels: VIKEF website, press releases, flyers, scientific papers, public deliverables and participation in conferences, workshops, etc. Line 1: Build –up of a wide scope exposure and visibility (“shotgun approach”) Line 2: Build –up a critical mass of “convinced” stakeholders (“sniper approach”) Focused on: Establishing networks of stakeholders & partners interested in taking advantage of Project´s outputs, either on the scientific and educational fields or looking for the creation of future business opportunities. Main Dissemination tool: one-to-one marketing with pre-identified organisations.

Main Events Event Date International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - VISAPP 2006, Setubal, Portugal February 25-28, 2006 ICPA 2006, International Conference on Pattern Analysis, Wien, Austria March 29-31, 2006 WWW2006, Edinburgh May 23-26, 2006 ESWC2006, Budva, Montenegro VIKEF Workshop "Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation" June 11-12, 2006 CILC 2006, Bari Italy June 26-27, 2006 ECAI2006 -the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Riva del Garda, Italy Workshop on "Context Representation and Reasoning" (CRR2006) August 28 – Sept 1 2006 ECAI 2006- 4th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems 17th ECML - European Conference on Machine Learning/ 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases . Berlin, Germany Sept 18-22, 2006 ISMIS 2006 - 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Bari, Italy Sept 27 – 29, 2006 KES 2006 (Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems), Invited Session on Engineered Applications of Semantic Web Bournemouth, UK October 9-11 2006 eChallenges2006, Barcelona, Spain October 25 – 27, 2006 5th ISWC, Athens, USA Nov 5-9,2006 IST 2006, , Helsinki, Finland Nov 22 – 24, 2006 CER2006 Communicating European Research TBA