16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017) Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017 ******************************************* *** Early registration available until September 8, 2017 *** Student travel grant - apply by August 31, 2017 *** Semantic Web Challenge: until September 10, 2017 ******************************************* Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847 Twitter: @iswc2017 (https://twitter.com/ISWC2017) Overview calls: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/ In this announcement: 1. Semantic Web Challenge 2. Student travel fellowship 3. Job Fair 4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Data Visualization 5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches 6. Mentoring Lunch 7. ISWC Jam Session 8. Registration 9. Important dates 1. Semantic Web Challenge ========================================== This year’s Semantic Web Challenge is centered around two important tasks for building large-scale knowledge graphs: * 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. * 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. 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. A full description of all tasks and all the data are available at the link below. The submission deadline for all the tasks is September 10th, 2017 Finalists will be announced on September 15th, 2017 Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc-semantic-web-challenge-2017/ Program Chairs * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany * Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dan Bennett, Thomson Reuters, USA 2. Student travel grants deadline ========================================== 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). 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. Although students presenting at the conference (paper, workshop, doctoral consortium, poster, demo, etc.) will be given priority for funding, there may be limited funding for students who are not presenting at the conference. Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/student-travel-grants/ 3. Job Fair ========================================== ISWC 2017 will host the first edition of the Job Fair! 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. When registering to the conference ( https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/) you can tick the option to register your organisation for the job fair. This will provide your organisation with: 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 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. 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**. 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. Detailed info: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/ 4. ISWC2017 Metadata - Call for Visualisations ========================================== 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). 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 Detailed info and data download: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/calls/iswc2017-metadata-call-for-visualisat... Metadata Chairs * Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany (dietze@l3s.de) * Davide Taibi, CNR-ITD, Italy (davide.taibi@itd.cnr.it) 5. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches ========================================== 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 business event “Semantics in the Field”. 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 linkedstartup@googlegroups.com (see the CfP for details)! Information on the event: https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-th... Call for pitches: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/ 6. Mentoring Lunch ========================================== 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. The last date to register is September 22nd, 2017. Detailed info and registration: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/iswc-mentoring-lunch/ 7. ISWC Jam Session ========================================== The ISWC Jam Session officially returns! 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! (https://data.world). 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. We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, rock, latin… feel free to suggest anything interesting! If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ and join the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740 , where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions, etc. There will be time to rehearse before the jam. We have a studio reserved at "Studio 5" (http://rehearsal.at) 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. Jam Session Chairs * Aldo Gangemi, Université Paris 13, Paris, France and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy * Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US 8. Registration ========================================== Early registration is available until ** September 8th 2017** Register early to get the cheapest rate! You can find all details and register at: https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/ 9. Important Dates ========================================== Notifications sent (Industry track) August 9, 3017 Workshop paper notifications sent August 24, 2017 Poster & Demo notifications sent August 24, 2017 Student activity applications due August 31, 2017 Final version industry track papers due August 31, 2017 Camera-ready for Poster & Demo due September 4, 2017 The last day for early registrations September 8, 2017 Semantic Web Challenge September 10, 2017 Startup pitch submissions due September 30 Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017 Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017 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 https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/ The ISWC Organising Committee ( http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/)