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Thanks to find this week the following news.

Have a good week-end.

Project News - TripCom

The final review of the TripCom Project was held in Innsbruck, Austria 15 May 2009.

The project involved the creation of a system for storing RDF triples in a distributed set of spaces on the web, with the intention of having the system scale to web scale.  DERI worked on creating an ontology based on the EDIFACT business messaging standard so that disparate users could communicate with each other using that ontology, and on designing and constructing an interface for Semantic Web services -- we built it to interface with WSML.  We participated to a lesser extent with implementation of parts of the system, and with the use cases -- one a design of a European patient summary system and the other a system for managing auctions of video offerings.

Our ontology & EDIFACT encoding are being examined by standards bodies managing EDIFACT subsets.  GS1 (the body which standardizes product codes
and barcodes) invited us to give a talk at a global standards meeting. The Cyc Foundation accepted a Cyclified version of our ontologies as an official submission to be added to OpenCyc -- they are currently reviewing it and want to flesh out the concepts with rules before incorporating it.

The project as a whole produced a prototype of the intended system based on a simple hashcoding scheme, only presented results for reading single triples, and implemented only some of the initially intended distribution techniques.

DERI Tutorials 

The next DERI Tutorial will be given by Sami Bhiri - Introduction to SOA
The abstract will be soon on the tutorial webpage : http://www.deri.ie/teaching/tutorials/

The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference - ESWC 2009

31 May - 4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece - http://www.eswc2009.org/

As said in a previous post, keep in mind, that you can find out papers, people and others things related to the main conferences in the area of Semantic Web Research, on the Semantic Web Dog Food Corpus. 
Therefore, the ESWC2009 data is available at: http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2009/

The institute will attend this event with the following conference papers, workshop papers, demo and poster. The institute is also involved in the organisation of the 1st International Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web (SemSensWeb 2009) - and of the SPOT2009 - Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
SCOVO: Using Statistics on the Web of Data
Michael Hausenblas, Wolfgang Halb, Yves Raimond, Lee Feigenbaum, Danny Ayers
Semantic Web in Use Track of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009) 

Towards Linguistically Grounded Ontologies
Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Peter Haase, Michael Sintek
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2009.

Semanta - Semantic Email made easy
Simon Scerri, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh, Manfred Hauswirth
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference 2009.

WORKSHOP PAPERS
Privacy Concerns of FOAF-Based Linked Data
Peyman Nasirifard, Michael Hausenblas, Stefan Decker
Proceedings of the Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web
Workshop at The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'09), 2009.

Enabling cross-wikis integration by extending the SIOC ontology
Fabrizio Orlandi, Alexandre Passant
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis (SemWiki2009)
Workshop at 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), 2009.

RDFa in Drupal: Bringing Cheese to the Web of Data
Stéphane Corlosquet, Richard Cyganiak, Axel Polleres and Stefan Decker
5th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web, ESWC 2009.

DEMOS
Semanta - Semantic Email in Action
Simon Scerri, Ioana Giurgiu, Brian Davis, Siegfried Handschuh
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference 2009.

A rule system for querying persistent RDFS data
Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwallner, Alessandra Martello, Axel Polleres
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), LNCS 2009.

Controlled Natural Language for Semantic Annotation
Brian Davis, Pradeep Varma, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Hamish Cunningham
Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece.
2009.

POSTER
SemanticGov: A Showcase for the Region of Central Macedonia
Vangelis Tolias, Stamatia-Ann Katriou, Nikos Loutas, Lemonia Giantsiou, Vassilios Peristeras, Konstantinos Tarabanis
Proceedings of 6th European Semantic Web Conference, Springer
2009.

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SUPER : Final Review of the Project

As we described in a previous post, "the main purpose of the EU-funded SUPER project, in which DERI is involved, is to bring back business process management to business professionals". Few weeks ago in Berlin, the SUPER IP project had its final review. It was very successful.

A promotional movie is available here : http://podcast.open.ac.uk/ouresearch/podcast-super#

"This movie gives an outline of the EU funded SUPER project which combines Semantic Web Service and Business Process Management Technologies to bridge the gap between business expert's view of business processes and the IT perspective of processes running in enterprise systems."
Visit their website to get more infos about SUPER.

The W3C SPARQL Working Group (WG)

Last week, the W3C SPARQL WG, in which DERI is involved, held his first
F2F, both in Bristol and Boston. They mainly discussed which of the
many proposed features the next generation of SPARQL should involve. Stay tuned!
More information about the WG and Features can be found on the group wiki:
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/

The Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA)

On the IIEA Youtube Channel, find the video of the talk given by Liam Ó Móráin from DERI Galway, at the Institute of International & European Affairs

DERI Tutorial's Video are available

As usual, all information about next tutorials are available here. And to get the slides of the previous presentation, click on "Archive".
Next thursday : "Introduction to IR" by  Colm O'Riordan

This week, we are pleased to announce, the video of the last tutorial is available.
" Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks " by Marco Zuniga

Abstract :
During the last decades, we have seen a continuous miniaturization of computer hardware. This trend, captured elegantly in Moore's Law, is the driving force behind the IT Revolution that have taken us from the big mainframes of  the 1960's to nowadays Internet and cell-phone devices.
This miniaturization trend continues and it is bringing a new generation of computer networks with significant challenges. Wireless Sensor Networks is one of the technologies aimed to solve the problems of this new era of Embedded Computing.
In this talk, we will provide an introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks, its research challenges and promote a healthy discussion about its importance within DERI’s vision of Enabling Networked Knowledge.

DERI Project News

DERI is a partner in a new eParticipation EU project: WAVE. WAVE (Welcoming Visualisation to Europe) kicked off in February 2009 and aims to improve the inclusiveness and transparency of EU decision making at the national and European level by using highly integrated, state-of-the-art Argument Visualisation techniques. WAVE will deploy Debategraph, an innovative argument visualisation platform, in a multi-lingual, cross border context, to entice citizens, special interest groups and decision makers to engage collaboratively in the policy-making process. DERI’s role in this project is to develop an interactive, semantic Web platform that will facilitate debate and collaboration on the issue of climate change, impacting policy-makers and the resultant legislation in the three pilot sites: UK, France, Lithuania.  

Proceedings

The proceedings of the upcoming ESWC2009 Worshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2009) have just been published via CEUR-WS (ISSN: 1613-0073) on Vol-447.
The proceedings include the 9 papers that have been selected for the workshop as well as the abstract of the keynote that will be given by Prof. Piero Bonatti and a workshop preface.

DERI Tutorial


DERI Galway defined a set of lectures that aims to give a comprehensive overview on the understanding of the topics covered by our institute such as : * Introduction to the Semantic Web, RDF, Ontologies (RDFs and OWL), SPARQL , * Principles of publishing linked data, * Social Semantic Web : Introduction....
Visit our webpage to get the slides of the previous tutorial and to know the topics of the followings.
Next Thursday "Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks" by Marco Zuniga.

RDF Sprint at DERI in May

Drupal 7, announced for 2010, will see RDF baked in its core.  Therefore, during the week of May 11th until May 14th, few developers will gather at DERI Galway to focus on Drupal core and aim at integrating as much RDF semantics in it. Have a look on this page http://groups.drupal.org/node/21469 to get details about goals of the code sprint.

The list of participants is not closed. "If you or your group have expertise in Drupal core development + RDF and would to participate", contact Stéphane Corlosquet from DERI.

More information about :
RDF in Drupal roadmap and code sprint wiki page
RDF in core code sprint