<html><body><p><font face="Arial">16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)</font><br><font face="Arial">Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017</font><p><br><font face="Arial">*******************************************</font><br><font face="Arial">*** Early registration available until September 8, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">*** Student travel grant - apply by August 31, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">*** Semantic Web Challenge: until September 10, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">*******************************************</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Website: </font><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/"><font face="Arial">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org</font></a><br><font face="Arial">Facebook: </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847"><font face="Arial">https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847</font></a><br><font face="Arial">Twitter: @iswc2017 (</font><a href="https://twitter.com/ISWC2017"><font face="Arial">https://twitter.com/ISWC2017</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font><br><font face="Arial">Overview calls: </font><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/"><font face="Arial">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/</font></a><br>
<p><br><font face="Arial">In this announcement:</font><br><font face="Arial">1. Semantic Web Challenge</font><br><font face="Arial">2. Student travel fellowship</font><br><font face="Arial">3. Job Fair</font><br><font face="Arial">4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Data Visualization</font><br><font face="Arial">5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches</font><br><font face="Arial">6. Mentoring Lunch</font><br><font face="Arial">7. ISWC Jam Session</font><br><font face="Arial">8. Registration</font><br><font face="Arial">9. Important dates</font><br><br><br><font face="Arial">1. Semantic Web Challenge</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">This year’s Semantic Web Challenge is centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs:<br><br>* Knowledge graph population. Given the name and type of a subject entity, (e.g., a company) and a relation, (e.g., CEO) participants are expected to provide the value(s) for the relation.<br>* Knowledge graph validation. Given a statement about an entity, e.g., the CEO of a company, participants are expected to provide an assessment about the correctness of the statement.<br></font><br><font face="Arial">For both tasks, users may use a portion of the knowledge graph for training. Furthermore, arbitrary sources (e.g., external datasets, Web pages, etc.) may be used as input.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">A full description of all tasks and all the data are available at the link below.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">The submission deadline for all the tasks is September 10th, 2017<br>Finalists will be announced on September 15th, 2017</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/</font></u></a><p><br><font face="Arial">Program Chairs<br>* Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany<br>* Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany<br>* Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA<br></font><p><br><font face="Arial">2. Student travel grants deadline</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">If you are a student interested in attending ISWC 2017, you may be eligible to apply for a grant to support the costs of travel and lodging. This year, travel grants are funded by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF).<br>The deadline for applying for an ISWC 2017 travel award is **August 31st, 2017**. Please make sure that you have submitted your application and that your supervisor has sent us a confirmation email by this date. </font><i><font face="Arial">Although students presenting at the conference (paper, workshop, doctoral consortium, poster, demo, etc.) will be given priority for funding, </font></i><i><font color="#111111" face="Arial">there may be limited funding for students who are not presenting at the conference.</font></i><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/</font></u></a><p><br><font face="Arial">3. Job Fair</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">ISWC 2017 will host the first edition of the Job Fair! </font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">We hope that this initiative will help organisations in both industry and academia to find great candidates and to present new career opportunities to conference attendees. </font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">When registering to the conference (</font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/</font></u></a><font color="#222222" face="Arial">) you can tick the option to register your organisation for the job fair. This will provide your organisation with: </font><li type="disc"><font color="#222222" face="Arial">A table (with a sign showing your organisation name and three seats) close to the permanently open coffee corner (in the seated lunch/coffee area) for a 1.5 hour slot in parallel to one of the conference sessions</font><li type="disc"><font color="#222222" face="Arial">A special identification sticker on the badge of each member in charge of recruiting for your organisation. That will allow conference attendees to approach you and your colleagues at any time during the days of the conference to learn about the job opportunities offered by your organisation.</font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">This option is only additional 50 euros on the registration fee. Organisations that have purchased a regular sponsorship package (which includes other additional benefits!) are **exempt from this extra fee**.</font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">If you are a student, post-doc or simply someone looking for a career opportunity you can get a special identification sticker on your badge for free. This will allow recruiters to approach you at any time during the conference days and explain you the opportunities that they offer.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info:</font><br><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/</font></u></a><font color="#222222" face="Arial"> </font><p><br><font face="Arial">4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Visualisations</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">As it has been tradition in the previous years, all metadata of the conference will be made publicly available. This is both an announcement of a *preliminary* release of the ISWC2017 metadata and a call for action to apply your own tools for visualising or exploring the ISWC2017 conference data. A preliminary dump is already available at the link below. In order to put this data to use, we invite submissions of apps/tools which visualise and/or support exploration of the data. The ISWC2017 organisation team intends to link to your applications from the ISWC2017 Website and provide some publicity, so this provides an opportunity to showcase your RDF/Linked Data visualization tool to the ISWC2017 audience. Should you intend to submit or have any questions, please get in touch with the ISWC2017 metadata chairs (contact info below).</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Note: the current data is a preliminary release only, with the aim to facilitate the test of exploration tools. It will be completed and further polished throughout the next weeks. The finalised metadata will be published closer to the conference and integrated in scholarlydata.org</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info and data download: </font><br><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc2017-metadata-call-for-visualisations/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc2017-metadata-call-for-visualisations/</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> </font><p><br><font face="Arial">Metadata Chairs</font><br><font face="Arial">* Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany (dietze@l3s.de)</font><br><font face="Arial">* Davide Taibi, CNR-ITD, Italy (davide.taibi@itd.cnr.it)</font><br><br><font face="Arial">5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">If you attend ISWC 2017 and have an innovative “semantic” business idea, don’t miss out on the unique opportunity to pitch it at the </font><a href="https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">business event “Semantics in the Field”</font></u></a><font face="Arial">. This event will showcase innovative applications and solutions and bring together semantic web researchers and the business community - from local entrepreneurs to large multi-national enterprises. You will get insight into the work of successful companies in the field and be able to pitch your ideas to a diverse and highly competent target audience. The event will provide ample opportunity for networking. Make sure to submit your pitch deck until September 30 to </font><a href="mailto:linkedstartup@googlegroups.com"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">linkedstartup@googlegroups.com</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> (see the CfP for details)!</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Information on the event: </font><a href="https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/</font></u></a><br><font face="Arial">Call for pitches: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/</font></u></a><p><br><br><font face="Arial">6. Mentoring Lunch</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">The Mentoring Lunch at the International Semantic Web Conference brings together graduate students and early-career researchers with experienced researchers from both, industry and academia for a lively discussion and question-answering session on a variety of topics. If you are a PhD student, a postdoc, or have just started an independent research career and would like to get advice on any of the round-table topics listed below, please join us at the specially designated tables during a lunch break on October 24th, 2017.<br><br>The last date to register is September 22nd, 2017.<br></font><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info and registration: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/iswc-mentoring-lunch/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/iswc-mentoring-lunch/</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> </font><br><br><font face="Arial">7. ISWC Jam Session</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">The ISWC Jam Session officially returns!<br>The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music players! After the great success of the Sydney-Jam-Session at ISWC2013 we launch the Vienna-Jam-Session at ISWC2017, sponsored by data.world! (</font><a href="https://data.world/"><font face="Arial">https://data.world</font></a><font face="Arial">).<br>This is a call for musicians in the Semantic Web community that want to share their musical skills and contribute to a very fun night after the ISWC 2017 poster and demo session. <br>We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, rock, latin… feel free to suggest anything interesting! </font><br><font face="Arial">If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive </font><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ</font></u></a><br><font face="Arial">and join the facebook group </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740</font></u></a><font face="Arial">, where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions, etc.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">There will be time to rehearse before the jam. We have a studio reserved at</font><font color="#1D2129" face="Arial"> "Studio 5" (</font><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Frehearsal.at%2F&h=ATM4PGjDNfahXwkzJLYK6KSwKp4jIgh96LGKJmIcpb-MSwpvFxepS-fdnUd0bv0b4p81Hh2c-UNMzcvoWl48QcBULxv5pwCvxv-o3XAgzPa2UqL19ENVR5PBYXSTNVDR1IHzRH74shws373hkN3dgeMcxJQzI--wSAgINPGd&enc=AZOGmcLr6_6eVkSAVz2-mlnJPgn-TKMF08tJLlucrGuDIY0Y987KF3qY0r6KJ6NnKGhsuNkrPUhl6NdAd0UGRuPYNKxWmA-a0F9xziJLgKf1p1N40wgwpgPXwCodZMjb6_aoLP56jpEQHJTO4O-PKy23dr9olsdlax6g-eMP0-pw4tvUeB8sxbhvsPGQ3lzwsNk&s=1"><u><font color="#365899" face="Arial">http://rehearsal.at</font></u></a><font color="#1D2129" face="Arial">) on 21st October between 19:00-22:00, with standard equipment. At the jam venue there will equally be mics, guitar- and bass-amps,, a drum set, and a keyboard.</font><p><br><br><font face="Arial">Jam Session Chairs</font><br><font face="Arial">* Aldo Gangemi, Université Paris 13, Paris, France and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy</font><br><font face="Arial">* Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US</font><br><br><font face="Arial">8. Registration</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">Early registration is available until ** September 8th 2017**</font><br><font face="Arial">Register early to get the cheapest rate!</font><p><br><font face="Arial">You can find all details and register at: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/</font></u></a><br><br><font face="Arial">9. Important Dates</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><br><font face="Arial">Notifications sent (Industry track) August 9, 3017</font><br><font face="Arial">Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Student activity applications due August 31, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Camera-ready for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Semantic Web Challenge September 10, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Startup pitch submissions due September 30</font><br><font face="Arial">Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017</font><p><br><font face="Arial">We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and our gold sponsors Big Data Europe, data.world, metaphacts, Ontotext, Oracle, Semantic Web Company, Siemens and Thomson Reuters for their support. To learn more about ISWC 2017 sponsorship opportunities, please visit </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/"><font face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/</font></a><p><br><font face="Arial">The ISWC Organising Committee (</font><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/"><font face="Arial">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font><br><BR>
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