7TH ISWC 2008

Jan ZemánekKIZI, VŠE, Praha

Outline

Poster Attended tutorials

RSWA 2008 - Realizing a Semantic Web Application

Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Panel

„An OWL 2 far?“ Papers Industry talks Semantic Web Challenge Presentations online

Poster

Jan Zemánek, Simon Schenk. Vojtech Svatek: Optimizing SPARQL Queries over Disparate RDF Data Sources through Distributed Semi-Joins

RSWA 2008 - Realizing a Semantic Web Application

http://swa.cefriel.it/meex (Re-)using data from distributed and

disparate data sources SPARQL endpoint Web Service

Invoke Web Service -> get results as XML -> transform to RDF by using GRDDL, XSLT -> query the resulting RDF

XML dump (file) XML -> GRDDL, XSLT -> RDF

Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences

http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC2008/Tutorial

Data Needs of Health Care and Life Sciences

Using RDF/RDFS for Aggregating Drug Target Information

Linking Open Drug Data Task

„An OWL 2 far?“

Panelists Decker, Dumontier, Finin, Horrocks

„What level of expressive power does the Semantic Web need?“

„How should standard Semantic Web languages be designed?“

„Does the Semantic Web even need formality?“

Papers

Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL Puleston, Parsia, Cunningham and Rector

Semantic Modelling of User Interests based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis Szomszor, Alani, Cantador, O‘Hara and

Shadbolt

Industry talks

Internet of Services York Sure (SAP Research)

Semantic Web @ BBN Mike Dean (BBN)

Making the Web Searchable Peter Mika (Yahoo Inc)

Semantic Web Challenge

http://challenge.semanticweb.org/ Open Challenge

13 participants 1st prize: paggr 2nd prize: DBpedia Mobile

Billion Triple Challenge 9 participants 1st prize: SemaPlorer 2nd prize: SearchWebDB

Presentations online

Keynotes, most of Presentations and Industry Talks

will be soon available at http://videolectures.net/