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<div class="">15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)</div>
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Kobe, Japan, October 17 -21, 2016<br class="">
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Website: <a href="http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org" class="">http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org</a><br class="">
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The program is online!<br class="">
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<div class="">In less than two months, ISWC 2016 opens its doors in the beautiful Kobe.</div>
<div class="">We are happy to announce the full 5-day program that will take place, </div>
<div class="">check it here: <a href="http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/program.html" class="">http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/program.html</a></div>
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<div class="">Don’t forget to register<br class="">
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<div class="">Attending the conference? Don’t forget to register in time, </div>
<div class="">early bird tickets are ending September 2.</div>
<div class="">Read all about registration, visa, accommodation </div>
<div class="">and travel here: <a href="http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/attending.html" class="">http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/attending.html</a></div>
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<div class="">Workshop highlights</div>
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<div class="">** SemStats 2016 Call for Challenge **</div>
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<div class="">The SemStats 2016 challenge is still running, with a deadline of September 16th, </div>
<div class="">see <a href="http://semstats.org/2016/call-for-challenge" class="">http://semstats.org/2016/call-for-challenge</a>. </div>
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<div class="">There is BIG monetary prices for this challenge, thanks to generous sponsors!</div>
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<div class="">** VOILA 2016 (Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data) **<br class="">
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- 15 presentations of latest research & development<br class="">
- interactive demo sessions and discussions<br class="">
- share your ideas, demos, and experiences<br class="">
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<a href="http://voila2016.visualdataweb.org" class="">http://voila2016.visualdataweb.org</a></div>
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<div class="">** The Consuming Linked Data Workshop (COLD) **</div>
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<div class="">The Consuming Linked Data Workshop (COLD) goes into its seventh edition this year, </div>
<div class="">and we have three main highlights for this edition: </div>
<div class="">(i) a great keynote, (ii) six research papers, and (iii) The Great Linked Data Debate!</div>
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<div class="">(i) Our keynote speaker this year is Juan Reutter from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. </div>
<div class="">Juan is at home in the database community and he will share with us his thoughts on "The Fascinating World of Querying Linked Data."</div>
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<div class="">(ii) The next highlight are presentations of the following six research papers:</div>
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<div class="">* Distributed Linked Data as a Framework for Human-Machine Collaboration</div>
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<div class="">* Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD</div>
<div class=""> (Radityo Eko Prasojo, Fariz Darari, Simon Razniewski, Werner Nutt)</div>
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<div class="">* Multidimensional Interfaces for Selecting Data within Ordinal Ranges</div>
<div class=""> (Ruben Taelman, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle)</div>
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<div class="">* Property Paths over Linked Data: can it be done and how to start?</div>
<div class=""> (Jorge Baier, Dietrich Daroch, Juan L. Reutter, Domagoj Vrgoč)</div>
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<div class="">* The Impact of an Extra Feature on the Scalability of Linked Connections</div>
<div class=""> (Pieter Colpaert, Sander Ballieu, Ruben Verborgh, Erik Mannens)</div>
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<div class="">* Towards Maintainable Constraint Validation and Repair for Taxonomies: The PoolParty Approach</div>
<div class=""> (Monika Solanki, Christian Mader)</div>
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<div class="">(iii) Last, but certainly not least, for this edition of COLD we are planning to have The Great Linked Data Debate. </div>
<div class="">Here is what it is about:</div>
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<div class="">The Linked Data principles, as described by Tim Berners-Lee, recently passed their decade anniversary. </div>
<div class="">By some accounts, the glass is half full: Linked Data has been a huge success and enjoys healthy adoption. </div>
<div class="">By other accounts, the glass is half empty: Linked Data has failed to live up to its original promise by a wide margin. </div>
<div class="">But by all accounts, the glass could be more full.</div>
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<div class="">Within the community, there is a natural tendency to see the glass as half full, </div>
<div class="">at least when we are not too busy solving low-level technical topics and writing papers.</div>
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<div class="">The goal of this session will be to take a step back and to try to view the glass as being half-empty, </div>
<div class="">to try to understand why that might be, to see what challenges need to be addressed, </div>
<div class="">what unforeseen problems have arisen from the adoption of the past 10 years, and what is holding us back from further success.</div>
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<div class="">We will invite a selection of experts to foment debate on these topics. In particular, in the style of a debate, </div>
<div class="">we will ask each expert to argue the position that, Linked Data, as it currently stands, is doomed to fail. </div>
<div class="">After stating their position, the expert will then debate their position with the audience. </div>
<div class="">Each expert will thus act as a devil's advocate. They will argue as convincingly as possible a critical stance against Linked Data, </div>
<div class="">regardless of their own position on the topic. It will be the role of the audience to defend Linked Data, if they so choose.</div>
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<div class="">As you can see, we have a great program, and we will plan a lot of time for discussions. </div>
<div class="">Come to the workshop, engage with our speakers, and take part in the discussions!</div>
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<div class="">For more information, visit the workshop Web page at <a href="http://dcc.uchile.cl/cold2016/" class="">
http://dcc.uchile.cl/cold2016/</a></div>
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