1. By hhappel

2. ISWC 08 in numbers About 620 participants from ? countries Research track –261 submissions, 43 accepted, 16.5% 257, 50, 19%; 215, 52, 24% In-Use track –26 submissions, 11 accepted, 42.3% 29, 12, 41%; 42, 14, 33% 3 keynote talks 13 workshops, Poster & Demo session

3. OBI The First International Workshop on Ontology-supported Business Intelligence (OBI2008) –1 keynote, 10 presentations –Tomas Kliegr, Jan Nemrava, Vojtech Svatek, Jan Rauch, Marek Nekvasil, Martin Ralbovsky, Tomas Vejlupek and Jiri Splichal. "Semantic Annotation and Linking of Competitive Intelligence Reports for Business Clusters"

4. ISWC Karlsruhe Keynotes –Jain Ramesh – Multimedia Semantic Web –John Giannandrea – Freebase –Stefan Decker – DERI – Semantic Web community more convincing?

5. Hlavní konference In Use (business track) –Internet of Services – York Sure (SAP) –Data Intelligence – Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft) –Making The Web Searchable – Peter Mika (Yahoo) BOSS – unlimited search using Yahoo Search Monkey –Creating and Using Organisational Semantic Webs in Large Networked Oriented Orgs. – Sam Chapman –Thesaurus-based search in large heterogenous collections – Jan Wielemaker

6. Nepomuk Project Integrating SW technologies into KDE desktop –Annotating files, documents, music –Open source, part of KDE desktop based on Web 2.0 technologies – central component is the RDF repository

7. IYOUIT

8. Semantic Web Challenge