NoE Knowledge Web Dissemination Activities Guus Schreiber Scientific Director

2Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Research  Too many invited talks / organizing / chairing / top-journal articles to mention  Strong presence in Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC  Strong presence in research-application areas

3Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Extensive contribution to standards  Semantic Web Activity at W3C –RDF/OWL, future extensions –Semantic Web Best Practices –Interest group for Life Sciences –Query working group –Rules working group –Incubator Group (XG) multimedia annotation  OASIS activities  OMG: UML Profile for RDF/OWL  ISO: link with Topic Maps  MPEG-7: link XML world to MPEG world

4Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Education  European Association for Semantic Web Education (EASE)  REASE, the repository of EASE for learning units in the area of Semantic Web  Summer School: yearly –Previous two times twice overbooked  Shared European Master

5Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Industry Events  Organiser of Industry Day forums at ESWC 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and ASWC 2006  Demo at WWW’06 Industry day (co-organized by area manager Studer)  SDC 2006, "Semaine de la Connaissance" ""the week of Knowledge"), Semantic Web Applications, June 2006,  Industry track RuleML 2006, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., 9-10 November

6Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting User events  Invited talks for user audiences –Applications of SW technology in life sciences, grid computing, e-culture, ….  Examples in e-culture: –DIGITAL SEMANTIC CONTENT ACROSS CULTURES, Paris, the Louvre, 4-5 May 2006 –Series of efforts with Dutch cultural heritage institutes –………….

7Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Web Services Challenge Organizer of Semantic Web Services Challenge ( This Challenge workshop seeks participation from industry and academic researchers developing software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to automate mediation, choreography and discovery processes between Web services.

8Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting One example: SW technology for major Dutch portal

9Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Knowledge Web Partners University of Innsbruck National University of Ireland, Centre for Research and Technology EPFL Galway Hellas France Telecom Free University of Amsterdam Free University of Bozedn-Bolzan Freie Universitat, Berlin INRIA Learning Lab Lower Saxony The Open University Universidad Politecnica de Madrid University of Karlsruhe University of Sheffield University of Liverpool University of Manchester Vrije Universiteti Brussel University of Trento

10Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Background Knowledge Web (KW) is a 4 year Network of Excellence that began January 1, 2004 with 18 partners. The main goal of KW is to support the transition process of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry.

11Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting Education Knowledge Web Summer School Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web series. The school represents an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical and practical skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications.