BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Web Science Events PRODID:-//WEBSCI//Web Science Events//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event63@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120709 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120714 SUMMARY:Web Science Summer School 2012 DESCRIPTION:More details to follow in due course. SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Leiden, The Netherlands END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event68@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120622 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120625 SUMMARY:ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'12) DESCRIPTION:Click here for further details SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Evanston, Illinois END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event71@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120421 SUMMARY:Web Science Track at WWW2012 DESCRIPTION:Click here for further details SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Lyon, France END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event70@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110318 SUMMARY:WWW 2012 Workshop (PhiloWeb 2012) DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speakers: \n\nStevan Harnad (University of Southam pton)\nScott Lash (Goldsmiths) \nChristopher Menzel (Texas A&\;M Un iversity)\nFranç\;ois Rastier (INALCO)\n\nCall for Papers: \nThe advent of the Web is one of the defining technological events of the twentieth-first century\, yet its impact on the fundamental questions of philosophy has not yet been widely explored\, much less systematize d. The Web\, as today implemented on the foundations of the Internet\, is broadly construed as an information space\, the space of all items of interest (&ldquo\;resources&rdquo\;) identified by URIs (Uniform R esource Identifiers\, such as &ldquo\;http://www.example.org&rdquo\;). Originally conceived as an hypertext system of linked documents\, tod ay the Web is rapidly evolving as a universal platform for data and co mputation\, as URIs are used to identify everything from data on the S emantic Web and mobile code in Web applications. Even more swiftly is the Web-driven transformation of many previously unquestioned philosop hical concepts of privacy\, authority\, meaning\, identity\, belief\, intelligence\, cognition\, and even embodiment in surprising ways. In response\, we hope to provoke the properly philosophical question of w hether there is a consistent new branch or practice of philosophy that can weave these changes to technology and society into a coherent who le and have a real social impact?\nWe welcome all submissions of a phi losophical nature involving the Web.\nFor further information http://w eb-and-philosophy.org/philoweb-2012-www-2012-workshop/ SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Lyon, France END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event58@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111022 SUMMARY:DESIRE'11 DESCRIPTION:The conference theme of this second DESIRE conference is t heory and practice of creative processes in design. Full papers and wo rkshop proposals are invited on the following topics:\n\nMethods\, too ls and techniques for supporting creative design processes \nMethods\, tools and techniques for observing and studying creative design proce sses \nDesign cases illustrating the role of creativity in design \nTh eoretical insights into creative design processes \nVisions on teachin g &\; research in \; creative design \nCreativity by teams\, or ganizations\, and communities \nRepresentations supporting creative de sign \n\nThe conference is organized by the DESIRE Network (www.desire network.eu) which is funded by the European Commission. The network ai ms to advance the current understanding of creative processes applied in scientific and technological design.\nThe conference is organized I n-Cooperation with ACM and the proceedings will be published in the AC M library.\nThe conference takes place just prior to the 10th edition of the Dutch Design Week\, the major annual venue to experience Dutch design in all its facets (see www.dutchdesignweek.nl/index.php?lang=en &\;id=0). This year&rsquo\;s Dutch Design Week in which over 1500 d esigners participated lasted 9 days\, has 300 events spread over 65 lo cations throughout the town of Eindhoven\, and \;drew 150.000 visi tors from Holland and abroad.\n SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://desireconference.wordpress.com/ LOCATION:Eindhoven, The Netherlands END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event69@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111006 SUMMARY:PhiloWeb 2011 DESCRIPTION:The Second International Symposium on the Web and \;Ph ilosophy Co-located at Philosophy and Theory of AI Conference \;(P T-AI)\n \;\n>\; Deadline: September 15 2011 (author notification : September 22 2011)\n>\; Format: 500-1000 words (including referenc es). Pure text or pdf.\n>\; Submission: Online - \;http://www.ea sychair.org/conferences/?conf=philoweb2011\n>\; Registration: Online at http://www.pt-ai.org/registration/ as for the normal conference\, with ability to attend the entire PT-AI conference\n>\; Costs: 80&eu ro\; full\, 40&euro\; for students (including conference dinner).\n> \; Further information about travel etc. on the PT-AI site.\n>\; PT- AI Conference (Keynotes by Hubert Dreyfus\, James Moor\, Rolf\n>\; P feifer): http://www.pt-ai.org/\n\n \;\n \;\n \;For further information go to: http://web-and-philosophy.org/philoweb2011_pt-ai_s alonica/\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Salonkia, Thessaloniki, Greece END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event67@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110921 SUMMARY:SemHE '11: The Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Ap plications in Higher Education DESCRIPTION:Co-located with EC-TEL 2011: The Sixth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (http://www.ec-tel.eu/)\nThis worksho p is the third in a series investigating the potential of semantic web technologies and of linked data infrastructures in higher education. It follows the successful organisation of the 1st SemHE workshop at EC TEL 2009\, the 2nd SemHE workshop in 2010 and the special issue for th e IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies (scheduled for Oct-Dec 20 11) to which the best papers were invited to submit. There has been mu ch interest in this topic within the Technology Enhanced Learning\, th e Higher Education and the Web Science communities. The workshop is su pported by the research community that participated in the previous wo rkshops and the community that is taking particular interest in the ar ea of linked open data in higher education. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.semhe.org/ LOCATION:Palermo, Italy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event60@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110722 SUMMARY:The Future of the Social Web Workshop (FoSW'11) DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Intl. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011) July 21\, 2011 -- Barcelona\; Catalunya (Spain)\n&n bsp\;\nTOPICS\n \;\nThe aim of this workshop is to encourage discu ssion and sharing of ideas and highly innovative research results that focus on the future of the social web.\nWe aim to promote interdiscip linary research and exchange of ideas in this area\, between industry and academia\, in different fields (e.g.\, computer science\, mathemat ics\, physics\, psychology\, sociology\, cultural anthropology\, etc.) .\n \;\nIn particular\, we would like to discuss what the future o f the web might be in light of the recent wave of social media technol ogies and\nservices: there is little doubt that the web is being funda mentally transformed by social media\, both in terms of how content is created and shared\, and also in terms of how business and society ar e embracing social media.\n \;\nWe solicit the following types of submissions:\n \;\n \; \; \; \; * Highly-innovativ e research contributions describing innovative results\;\n \;  \; \; \; \; \; e.g. new perspectives on social media m ining\, novel interaction paradigms\,\n \; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; empirical studies showing emerging trends\, metrics\, etc. \n \;\n \; \; \; \; * Position papers discussing t he future of the social web\; e.g. future\n \; \; \; \ ; \; \; developments that might be extrapolated from current e vidence\; scenarios\n \; \; \; \; \; \; potent ially having a strong positive or negative impact on users and society at\n \; \; \; \; \; \; large\; impact of new social media mechanisms on the future of search\, e-mail\,\n \;&nb sp\; \; \; \; \; and other "traditional" services\; fu ture research directions and areas of\n \; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; opportunity for innovation.\n \;\nContributions are li mited to 10 pages in ACM-SIG format\, and should be Submited through E asyChair:\nhttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fosw2011.\n&nbs p\;\nIMPORTANT DATES\n \;\n \; \; \; \; * March 28 \, 2011:Workshop Paper Submission\n \; \; \; \; * Apri l 8\, 2011:Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification\n \; \;  \; \; * July 21\, 2011:ICWSM-11 Workshops Day\n \;\nORGANIZERS \n \;\n \; \; \; \; * Ricardo Baeza-Yates - Yahoo! Research Barcelona\n \; \; \; \; * Carlos Castillo - Yahoo! Research Barcelona\n \; \; \; \; * Sandra Gonza lez-Bailon - University of Oxford (UK)\n* Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes - Ya hoo! Research Barcelona SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://grupoweb.upf.edu/fosw2011/cfp.html LOCATION:Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event59@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110706 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110714 SUMMARY:Web Science Doctoral Summer School 2011 DESCRIPTION:The Digital Enterprise Research Institute\, NUI Galway is pleased to announce that the Second Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School will be held in DERI from July 6th until July 13th\, 2011\nThe Web is the largest technological artefact in existence\, comprising a global network of information sites and services. It is a social machi ne\, delivering information between people and communities\, embedded in almost all processes of human society: education\, medicine\, scien ce and technology\, commerce\, entertainment and social activity. It i s often simply supposed that the Web is a neutral technology\, a stabl e computing platform for the delivery of information and services. Wha t is overlooked is that the Web is changing constantly in response to the demands of human society. Incremental innovations leads to changes in how people use the Web and in turn how Web technology responds to changed human interaction. Small technological decisions influence how individuals use the Web and ripple out to have unanticipated macro-ef fects. Sometimes these effects are beneficial such as the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies. Other technologies such as the rise of spam bot s or 'blackhat' search engine optimisation techniques clutter the Web with irrelevant\, distracting information. While influential corporati ons such as Google\, Facebook and Microsoft generate huge revenues fro m the Web\, the Web itself is owned by everyone and no-one. We need to fully understand the demands placed on the Web by human society\, so that its fate does not lead to a 'tragedy of the commons' but to a sus tainable technological resource for the future.\n SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://webscience.deri.ie LOCATION:DERI,Galway, Ireland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event57@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110723 SUMMARY:Web Science Summer Academy DESCRIPTION:Nothing like the Web has ever happened in all of human his tory. The Web is the largest human information construct in history. T he scale of its impact and the rate of its adoption are unparalleled. If we are to ensure that the Web benefits the human race we must do ou r best to understand it\, engineer its future and ensure its social be nefit. Web Science is the new interdisciplinary field targeting these objectives.\n \;\nThe *Web Science Summer Academy* offers a unique combination of 8 courses in Web Science. The courses cover socio-econ omic as well as computer science subjects. All courses award 3 ECTS cr edits for transfer to home institutions upon passing exams or assignme nts. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://summeracademy.uni-koblenz.de/webscience LOCATION:Koblenz, Germany END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event66@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110629 SUMMARY:Elsevier/Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon DESCRIPTION:The Tetherless World Constellation at RPI is excited to an nounce that TWC and the SciVerse team at Elsevier are planning a 24-ho ur Health and Life Sciences Semantic Web Hackathon to be held 27-28 Ju ne 2011. The Elsevier-sponsored event will be held at the beautiful Pa t's Barn\, on the campus of the Rensselaer Technology Park.\nParticipa nts will compete against each other to develop apps using linked data from TWC and other sources\, web APIs from Elsevier SciVerse\, and vis ualization and other resources from around the Web.\nTo register SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://tw.rpi.edu/web/event/TWCElsevierHackathonJune2011 LOCATION:Pat's Barn, Rensselaer Technology Park, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event55@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110618 SUMMARY:ACM Web Science Conference 2011 DESCRIPTION:Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-tech nical relationships that are engaged in the World Wide Web. It is base d on the notion that understanding the Web involves not only an analys is of its architecture and applications\, but also insight into the pe ople\, organizations\, policies\, and economics that are affected by a nd subsumed within it.\nAs such Web Science\, and thus this conference \, is inherently interdisciplinary and integrates computer and informa tion sciences with a multitude of disciplines including sociology\, ec onomics\, political science\, law\, management\, language and communic ation\, geography and psychology. This conference is unique in the man ner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and crit ical dialogue. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.websci11.org/index.php?id=63 LOCATION:Koblenz, Germany END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event56@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110531 SUMMARY:Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2011) DESCRIPTION:Workshop at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011\nWit h the appearance and expansion of Twitter\, Facebook Like\, Foursquare \, and similar low-effort publishing services\, the effort required to participate on the Web is getting lower and lower. Enormous quantitie s of small user input are being piped into the data streams of the Web \, leading to a rate of growth which has never been witnessed before. We refer to such small user inputs as Microposts\, these can range fro m 'checkin' at a location on a geo-social networking site - allowing u sers to inform their friends of their current location - through to a status update on a social networking platform. The production of such masses of data\, combined with the disparate and heterogeneous nature of the topics which Microposts refer to\, requires new techniques to g lean knowledge from them and provide useful services and applications sitting atop the amalgamation of this data.\nThis workshop: "Making Se nse of Microposts" (MSM)\, will cover the topics of: information extra ction and leveraging of semantics from Microposts\; making use of Micr oposts' semantics\; and social studies related to Microposts that coul d help build appealing new systems based on this type of data. The wor kshop has two main points of difference from existing Social Semantic Web workshops which partially treat Microposts: (a) the interdisciplin ary nature and interest to bring together the Social Sciences and Sema ntic Web research\; (b) the focus on Microposts' usage in making appea ling tools for Web users and showing how the Semantic Web makes a diff erence in those applications. One of the main goals of MSM is to bring together the researchers from various disciplines treating the questi on of Microposts from different angles. We are particularly interested in submissions describing theories from the Social Sciences related t o the creation and potential usage of Microposts that could inspire th e creation of data structures\, ontologies and finally interfaces that make advanced use of Microposts. We also envisage submissions that de scribe the application of Semantic Web technologies\, either in enabli ng the inference of new facts\, or the gleaning and enriching of knowl edge from collections of such data. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://research.hypios.com/msm2011/ LOCATION:Heraklion, Crete END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event62@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110524 SUMMARY:Profiting from the New Web DESCRIPTION:The Web has transformed your relationships with stakeholde rs\, their interactions with each other and their regard for your bran ds. This transformation couldn't have been foreseen just a decade or s o ago. Imagine what the New Web promises for the future.\nThe New Web is already here\, and the early adopters have begun to put it to work. The sooner your organisation understands what it is\, what's possible and what's happening today\, the sooner you can pursue the opportunit ies and secure competitive advantage. This is a unique event bringing together the key players in the technology industry which will help us to discover new and better ways to do business\, run our countries\, and lead fulfilling and sustainable lives via the intelligent\, innova tive and diligent development of the New Web.\nWhat's being talked abo ut?\nSir Tim Berners-Lee\, inventor of the World Wide Web\, and a host of experts\, will bring you up to speed and help attendees to find ho w these new technologies can improve internal processes as well as pub lic relations.\nTo book a place at this event please visit SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.intellectuk.org/component/jevents/icalrepeat.detail/2011/05/23/1571/-/profiting-from-the-new-web LOCATION:The Royal Society, 6-9, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event65@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110514 SUMMARY:Web Science Meetup DESCRIPTION:The Meetup is neither a conference nor a workshop but rath er an informal working day to gather people interested in both Web Sci ence research and teaching as well as to prepare the future collaborat ions on that topic.\n \;\nYou are invited to propose a possible pr esentation by sending us an abstract (&ldquo\;position statement&rdquo \;) before Friday 6th May. There will be a keynote presentation given by Pr. Wendy Hall\, Univ. of Southampton (given by video conference).\ n \;\nPlease learn more and subscribe to the Meetup by visiting: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.meetup.com/Webscience-Montpellier/events/17127307/ LOCATION:Montpellier, at LIRMM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event64@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110512 SUMMARY:P4 Digital - the future of healthcare DESCRIPTION:After the success of the P4 Digital Healthcare convention in 2010\, Highlands and Islands Enterprise offers the opportunity to f urther explore the rapidly evolving field of P4 digital healthcare.&nb sp\;\nThe term 'P4' is being adopted in the life sciences and digital healthcare sectors to describe the changing healthcare landscape as it becomes more Predictive\, Preventative\, Personalised and Participato ry.\nP4 Digital: The future of healthcare conference\, taking place at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness\, will be held on 10 and 1 1 May 2011. \; The theme of the event will be 'exploring and conne cting'.\n \; SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.hie.co.uk/highlands-and-islands/key-sectors/life-sciences/p4-digital-the-future-of-healthcare.html LOCATION:Centre for Health Science , Inverness END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event61@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110419 SUMMARY:W3C UK & Ireland Office Launch DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the launch of the W3C office for UK and Irela nd\, Nominet will be \;hosting an event at \;Keble College\, O xford.\nThis will be a half day seminar for both W3C Members and other Industry participants. Our keynote speaker is Sir Tim Berners-Lee\, i nventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Conso rtium (W3C). There will also be speakers from the BBC\, Vodafone and t he Oxford Internet Institute.\nTo register a place at the event visit SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.nominet.org.uk/about/events/w3c/ LOCATION:Keble College, Oxford END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event54@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101203 SUMMARY:Workshop on Ethics and the Web DESCRIPTION:The World Wide Web is the most complex piece of technology ever engineered\, and has transformed almost every aspect of everyday life\, from science to entertainment\, politics to the media\, commer ce to socialising\, banking to espionage\, administration to crime. Ye t our ethical and moral thinking about this new space has not kept up with the pace of change. \; To explore these issues\, the British Library and the Web Science Trust are co-sponsoring a workshop on Ethi cs and the Web\, featuring keynote speeches\, panel discussions and de bates with an invited audience of practising engineers\, academic rese archers and philosophers.\nThis workshop is related to the British Lib rary's Growing Knowledge exhibition. SEQUENCE:0 URL: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event53@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20101116T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20101116T193000 SUMMARY:Opening the information floodgates: the technologies and chall enges of a web of linked data DESCRIPTION:\nProfessor Nigel Shadbolt FREng \; University of Sout hampton\n\nWe are living in an age of superabundant information. The I nternet and World Wide Web have been the agents of this revolution. Th is deluge of information and data has led to a range of scientific dis coveries and engineering innovations. From characterising the shape an d structure of the Web to efficiently searching its billions of items of content.\nWe are also witnessing the emergence of a new Web - a Web of Linked Data - driven by the release of large sets of data into the public domain. This offers new opportunities for science\, government and business.\nThere are challenges too &ndash\; how will we ensure t he quality and integrity of these information assets\, how do we respe ct and protect our privacy in a world of increasingly interconnected d ata. The lecture will discuss these fast moving developments and how t hey will impact all aspects of our lives.\nSpeaker biography\nNigel Sh adbolt FREng is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton and with Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been developing Open Data technology and policy for UK Government. His research is directed to the development of the next generation Web and the establishment o f Web Science. Admission free &ndash\; no ticket or advance booking re quired. Doors will open at 5.45pm and seats will be allocated on a fir st-come-first-served basis. This event will be broadcast live on the w eb at royalsociety.org/live \; SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://royalsociety.org/events/opening-the-information-floodgates/ LOCATION:The Royal Society, London END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event52@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101017 SUMMARY:PhiloWeb 2010 DESCRIPTION:The first international conference \;on Web &\; Phi losophy\, \;a joint multidisciplinary effort between University Pa ris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne and INRIA\, will be held in Paris  \;on Saturday October 16 2010.\nThe Web as we know it exists thanks to the interplay of many disciplines and schools of thought. Philosophy\ , as betoken the many references to formal semantics\, ontology\, the question of identity and meaning or proper names in current research a bout the Semantic Web\, has played a major part in its advancement. Un fortunately too few philosophers are aware of this fact. Our ambition is to shed light on this dynamic in order to foster future collaborati ons between philosophers\, computer scientists and engineers and event ually shape a new discipline with its own research programme.\n \; \nThis symposium would like to play a foundational role in helping to define what a genuine Philosophy of the Web would be.\n \; SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://web-and-philosophy.org/ LOCATION:La Sorbonne, Paris END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event39@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100929 SUMMARY:Royal Society Discussion Meeting ‘Web Science: A New Fronti er’ DESCRIPTION:The World Wide Web has changed almost every aspect of mode rn life. It touches us all. The Web's billions of pages\, links and ot her resources comprise the largest information fabric in the history o f humanity. Yet the Web is rarely approached as an object of scientifi c study.\nWhat processes have driven the Web's growth\, and will they persist? How does large-scale structure emerge from a simple set of pr otocols? How does the Web work as a socio-technical system? What drive s the viral uptake of certain Web phenomena? What might fragment the W eb? Featuring some of the world's leading researchers on these areas t his interdisciplinary meeting will discuss these and other issues as i t presents the components of a Science of the Web.\n\nEvent Programme: PDF\, \;HTML\, Calendar (.ics)\, RDF\, Browseable Triples\nEvent Location: Google Map\, KML (Google Earth) \;\nStreaming Video: Roy al Society TV Live\nAlternate Streaming Video Feeds for VLC or other c lients \n\nReal Media: \; \;rtsp://stream1.royalsociety.tv:554 /broadcast/real_live_hi.rm\nWindows Media: \;http://stream1.royals ociety.tv:554/wmtencoder/win_live_hi.wmv\n\n\n\nThe linked data for th e event programme was generated from the Royal Society's official PDF version by Christopher Gutteridge and Les Carr at \;Southampton's Web Science Doctoral Training Centre. For further information about th e event\, see the official URL below. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://royalsociety.org/Web-science-a-new-frontier/ LOCATION:The Royal Society, London END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event51@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100712T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100712T160000 SUMMARY:Web Science Distinguished Lecture: Aleks Krotoski - POSTPONED DESCRIPTION:Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes ab out and studies technology and interactivity and the social\, politica l\, economic and psychological impact of the 20 years of the Web. Her PhD thesis in Social Psychology (University of Surrey\, 2009) examined how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web. She recently completed the 4-part\, BAFTA-winning prime time BBC 2 series Virtual Revolution\, about the social history of the World Wi de Web. Aleks writes for The Guardian and Observer newspapers\, and ho sts Tech Weekly\, their technology podcast. Her writing also appears o n BBC Technology\, New Statesman\, MIT Technology Review and The Teleg raph. Finally\, she&rsquo\;s the New Media Sector Champion for UKTI\, the government department that promotes British businesses around the world.\nThis event\, the first in a series of Web Science Distinguishe d Lectures\, will be streamed live. SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:University of Southampton (streamed live) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event41@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100705 SUMMARY:INSNA - Sunbelt Social Networks Conference DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.insna.org/sunbelt/ LOCATION:Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event49@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100717 SUMMARY: Web Science Summer Academy - Koblenz 2010 DESCRIPTION:Registration now open!\nNothing like the Web has ever happ ened in all of human history. The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The scale of its impact and the rate of its ado ption are unparalleled. If we are to ensure that the Web benefits the human race we must do our best to understand it\, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit. Web Science is the new interdisciplinar y field targeting these objectives.\nThe Web Science Summer Academy of fers a unique combination of 7 courses and 3 invited talks in Web Scie nce. The courses cover socio-economic as well as computer science subj ects. All courses award credits for transfers to home institutions. Co urses are held in English in a 4 weeks period in June/July 2010.\nJoin Web Science Summer Academy and:\n* explore interdisciplinary facets o f web science.* earn credit points for your studies at your home insti tution.* meet a lot of interesting people.* have fun enjoying a variet y of social events.* if you want: aquire basic skills in the German la nguage.\nCourses\n \; \; \; \; *Computer Science Track * \; \; \; \; * Semantic Web (Prof. Staab \; \ ; \; \; * Web Retrieval (Dr. Sizov) \; \; \; \ ; \;* Web Engineering (Prof. Ebert)\n \; \; \; \; *Socio-Economic Track* \; \; \; \; * Social Web and Bi bliometry (Prof. Sure) \; \; \; \; * Agent Based Simul ation for a better Understanding of Social Processes \; \;&nbs p\; \; \; \; \; on the Web (Prof. Troitzsch &\; Pro f. Gilbert) \; \; \; \; * System Analysis and Mathemat ical Modelling (Prof. Chernyshenko) \; \; \; \; * Virt ual Goods (Prof. Grimm)\n \; \; \; \; *Invited Talks*: Highlights in Web Science (to be confirmed) \; \; \;  \; * The Web and the Law (tbc) \; \; \; \; * Prof. I. Antoniou: The Physics of the Web: The Web as a Complex System \;&n bsp\; \; \; * Data.gov (tbc)\nParticipation in CoursesWe recom mend participants to register for two or three courses. If youapply fo r three courses (or even more) please consider the amount ofwork and e xams you will have to master in a rather limited period of time.\nA go od command of English is required to successfully participate in theco urses.\nRegistration fee per course amounts to 175 Euro (late registra tion: 200Euro)\, which includes the course materials. Students from Pa rtnerUniversities of the Department of Computer Science of the Univers ity ofKoblenz-Landau will receive fee waivers.\nTravelling and Accommo dation\nLocated at the banks of the rivers Rhine and Mosel\, at the he art ofEurope\, and with only 1 hour distance to three international ai rport\,Koblenz is easy to reach from anywhere.\nThe Summer Academy off ers various accommodations for a low price. Youmay apply for a sponsor -subsidized accommodation. Further InformationThe Web Science Summer A cademy is held as part of the Summer Academy ofUniversity of Koblenz-L andau.\nPlease find more details about the (Web Science) Summer Academ y on ourwebsite:\n \; SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://summeracademy.uni-koblenz.de/webscience LOCATION:University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event40@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100515 SUMMARY:NetSci 2010 DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.netsci2010.net/ LOCATION:MIT and Northeastern University in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts USA. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event50@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100506 SUMMARY:BIS 2010 DESCRIPTION:The BIS conference is by now a well-respected event joinin g international researchers to discuss the wide range of the developme nt\, implementation\, application and improvement of business applicat ions and systems. It is addressed to the scientific community\, people involved in the development of business computer applications\, consu ltants helping to properly implement computer technology and applicati ons in the industry.\n \;\nProfessor Steffen Staab\, University of Koblenz-Landau\, Germany\, will be giving \;a keynote speech.\n&n bsp\; SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/13th_bis/ LOCATION:Berlin, Germany END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event37@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100428 SUMMARY:Web Science Conference (WebSci’10) DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.websci10.org/ LOCATION:Raleigh, North Carolina, US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event44@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100416 SUMMARY:IEEE DEST 2010 - DUBAI DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://dest2010.debii.curtin.edu.au/ LOCATION:Dubai END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event33@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100411 SUMMARY:6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Te chnologies DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Web Inf ormation Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together resear chers\, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological ad vances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has four main track\, covering different aspects of Web In formation Systems\, including Internet Technology\, Web Interfaces and Applications\, Society\, e-Communities\, e-Business and Web Intellige nce. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.webist.org/ LOCATION:Valencia, Spain END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event46@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100323T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100323T200000 SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Privacy and Identity in a Digital Age DESCRIPTION:\nVideo Archive\nTo see the archived video of the event\, see http://archive.zepler.tv/275/\n\nPerhaps the key issue in the onli ne era of the Connected World in which we live is that of identity. Pu blic concern over identity theft and privacy is already high\, and can only grow as we become more engaged online. What happens as we move f orward and make medical records fully electronic for example? How shou ld governments plan to provide public services securely? Even if we cu t out the regular loss of electronic records from laptops or CDs left on trains or lost in transit\, how will governments keep our records s afe? Should we link tax\, driving\, medical\, benefits\, and other per sonal records to be accessible in one place for ease of citizen use\, or does that introduce an unacceptable systemic weakness? And how do w e know that information about us kept by commercial organisations is s afe and not available to be abused? Today we have the Data Protection Act to protect us\, but is it adequate? What should the rules be about availability and use of private records? What should be covered by pr ivacy laws and what is fair game to be sold on and used for (say) mark eting? What is privacy anyway\, and are we entitled to it? If we put i nformation about ourselves online (for example on Facebook\, or even o n an email)\, can we reasonably expect it to stay private? And can IT security keep pace with both technological change and the best efforts of increasingly sophisticated online criminals?\n \;\nPanelists:\ nSimon Davies (Privacy International)\nTim Kelsey (Dr Foster Intellige nce)\nLiam Maxwell (Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead)\nNigel Sh adbolt (University of Southampton)\n \;\nFor \;free registrati on\, visit SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.bathwickgroup.com/cw/index.php?action=event_details&id=6 LOCATION:The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event48@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100308T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100308T203000 SUMMARY:Why Study the Web? Social Machines and the Virtual Revolution DESCRIPTION:\nVideo Archive\nTo see the archived video of the event\, please select one of the following links:\n\nIntroduction by \;Nig el Shadbolt\, http://archive.zepler.tv/266/ \n\nIntroduction slides in PDF format\n\n\nPanel chaired by Dr Aleks Krotoski\, http://archive.z epler.tv/267/\nOpportunities for Studying Web Science\, http://archive .zepler.tv/268/\n\n\nThe Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the U niversity of Southampton \;teamed up with the Web Science Trust to promote opportunities to study the new discipline of Web Science.\nDr Aleks Krotoski\, presenter of BBC's "The Virtual Revolution"\, Profes sor Sir Tim Berners-Lee\, inventor of the Web\, Professor Nigel Shadbo lt\, Government Information Adviser\, who are \;leading experts di scussed the future of the Web and why we need to study it now.\n19:00 Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton): What is Web Scie nce?\n19:10 Panel Discussion\nDr Aleks Krotoski\, Professor Sir Tim Be rners-Lee (MIT)\, Professor Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University )\, Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute)\, JP Rangaswa mi (BT)\n20:10 Opportunities to study Web Science\nProfessor Dame Wend y Hall (University of Southampton)\, Professor Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechic Institute)\, Professor Bill Dutton (Oxford Internet Instit ute)\n20:30 Close\n \;\nFor more information about the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre please visit http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac. uk/dtc/\nTo contact the organisers\, email info@webscience.org\n \ ;\n\nStudying Web Science in the UK\n\nDoctoral Training Centre for We b Science at the University of Southampton\, \;http://webscience.e cs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/\nOxford Internet Institute\, http://oii.ox.ac.uk/\ nScience\, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edin burgh\, \;http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/\n\nStudying Web Science in the US\n\n\nMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\, http://www.csail.mit.edu/ \;\nSchool of Communication at Northwes tern University\, \;http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/\nTe therless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\,&nbs p\;http://tw.rpi.edu/\n\nPlease contact the organisers to have your in stitution added to the list.\n SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event30@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100207 SUMMARY:Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mini ng (WSDM) 2010 DESCRIPTION:WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a young ACM conference inten ded to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search an d data mining. Indeed\, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first two WSDMs\, held at Stanford University and Barcelona in February 2008 and 2009\, has confirmed community interest in a more fo cused venue. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://wsdm2010.org/ LOCATION:New York City, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event45@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100112T074500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100112T093000 SUMMARY:Here Comes Everything: Preparing for the Web of Linked Data DESCRIPTION:Business Southampton has teamed up with the Web Science Tr ust\, NESTA\, Seme4 and the University of Southampton \;to \;b ring you a unique \;opportunity to find out about the future of th e Web.\n \;\nThe aim of this breakfast seminar is to help business es prepare for and anticipate the next stage of the evolution of the W eb and the impact that the emerging Web of Linked Data will have on yo ur business.\n \;\nWeb experts \;Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Professor Nigel Shadbolt from the University of Southampton and the W eb Science Trust will speak of how the Web has evolved over recent yea rs and how its future evolution is likely to affect businesses.\n  \;\nAgenda:\n \;\n0745 Registration and breakfast served0815 Prese ntations commence0900 Networking0930 Close\n* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *\nRSVP\n \;\n&bull\; City Champions: 2 FR EE PLACES&bull\; Additional City Champions and \;Associates: &poun d\;30 + \;VAT\n&bull\; Other delegates: £\;35 + VATIf you wou ld like to reserve your place\, please RSVP by \;6th January 2010& nbsp\;by e-mailing bookings@businesssouthampton.com or calling 023 806 8 2520 . Please note that this is likely to be a very popular event an d spaces are limited so early booking is recommended. SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:Chilworth Manor, Southampton (SO16 7PT) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event32@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091217 SUMMARY:11th International conference on Information Integration and W eb-based Application & Services DESCRIPTION:Barely more than ten years after the birth of the World Wi de Web\, the Global Information Infrastructure is daily reality. In sp ite of the many applications in all domains of our societies: e-busine ss\, e-commerce\, e-learning\, e-science\, and e-government\, for inst ance\, and in spite of the tremendous advances by engineers and scient ists\, the seamless integration of information and services remains a major challenge. The current shared vision for the future is one of se mantically-rich information and service oriented architecture for glob al information systems. This vision is at the convergence of progress in technologies such as XML\, Web services\, RDF\, OWL\, of multimedia \, multimodal\, and multilingual information retrieval\, and of distri buted\, mobile and ubiquitous computing. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2009 LOCATION:Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event29@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091205 SUMMARY:4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Tec hnologies DESCRIPTION:The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital M edia Technologies (SAMT '09) targets at narrowing the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically f rom multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The S emantic Gap. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.samt2009.org/ LOCATION:Graz, Austria END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event43@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091124 SUMMARY:Centenary Talk: Living in a Digital World DESCRIPTION:In a world increasingly dominated by the internet\, what d oes the future hold for us all? Join Dame Wendy Hall to find out what it will mean to be a digital citizen in the future. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/events/events_for_adults/Centtalk_Digitalworld.aspx LOCATION:Science Museum, London END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event13@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091028 SUMMARY:The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration DESCRIPTION:The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the prem ier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration syste ms and processes. WikiSym 2009 aims to explore and extend the thriving wiki community\, bringing together researchers\, practitioners\, writ ers and scholars to gather\, discuss and share knowledge and experienc e on all areas related to wikis and wiki philosophy\, ranging from soc ial to technical\, and from theoretical to experience studies. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php LOCATION:Orlando, Florida, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event28@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091026 SUMMARY:3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems DESCRIPTION:Recommender systems are software applications that aim to support users in their decision-making while interacting with large in formation spaces. They recommend items of interest to users based on p references they have expressed\, either explicitly or implicitly. The ever-expanding volume and increasing complexity of information on the Web has therefore made such systems essential tools for users in a var iety of information seeking or e-commerce activities. Recommender syst ems help overcome the information overload problem by exposing users t o the most interesting items\, and by offering novelty\, surprise\, an d relevance. Recommender technology is hence the central piece of the information seeking puzzle. Major e-commerce sites such as Amazon and Yahoo are using recommendation technology in ubiquitous ways. Many new comers are on their way and entrepreneurs are competing in order to f ind the right approach to use this technology effectively. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://recsys.acm.org/index.html LOCATION:New York City, NY, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event26@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091008 SUMMARY:Tenth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engi neering DESCRIPTION:In recent years we observe growing availability of structu red information on the Web. While significant part of it is in a human readable form\, not adapted for automated processing (HTML\, AJAX\, F lash\, Deep Web\, Web applications)\, more machine-processable informa tion enters the Web thanks to complementary top-down and bottom-up ten dencies. Bottom-up tendencies are related to publication of structured information in a machine-processable form (e.g. in XML\, RDF\, JSON). It also covers annotation of unstructured content with meta-data (e.g . microformats\, RDFa\, SIOC\, MPEG-7). Top-down approaches are relate d to algorithmically structuring unstructured information. They combin e different methods of Web mining\, information extraction\, classific ation\, categorisation\, automated linking and named entities recognit ion. Moreover\, phenomena combining these tendencies\, such as social annotation of resources\, are widely present in today&rsquo\;s Web. Mo re structured information on the Web enables information integration u sing shared vocabularies (linked data approach)\, data mashups (domain -specific integration)\, and automated algorithmic information integra tion (schemas matching\, dataspaces\, lexical techniques). In parallel \, popularization of mashup\, data monitoring and social data sharing techniques\, enable easier information reuse and growing number of int elligent services combing various dynamic information sources\, algori thms and explicit or implicit users input. The ESIW 2009 workshop will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to current tendencies in exploitin g structured information on the Web. The workshop will provide an info rmal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to s hare their research results and practical development experiences. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://integror.net/esiw2009/ LOCATION:Poznan, Poland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event27@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091004 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091005 SUMMARY:2nd Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies and MDE DESCRIPTION:The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engine ering has gained more attention with commercial and scientific initiat ives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWB PD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explor e how Semantic Web and Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge repre sentation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initi atives are the specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel\ , the OWL2 Metamodel\, the introduction to Ontology Driven Architectur es and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/twomde2009/program.html LOCATION:Denver, Colorado, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event2@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090917 SUMMARY:Learningworks Virtual Conference Series DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.hie.co.uk/learningworks/conference.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event34@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090905 SUMMARY:Reasoning Web 2009 DESCRIPTION:The advanced capabilities required in most Semantic Web ap plication scenarios primarily call for reasoning. Reasoning capabiliti es are offered by Semantic Web languages that are currently being deve loped. Most of these languages\, however\, are developed mainly from f unctionality-centered perspectives (e.g. ontology reasoning or access validation) or application-centered perspectives (e.g. Web service ret rieval and composition). A perspective centered on the reasoning techn iques complementing the above-mentioned activities appears desirable f or Semantic Web systems and applications. This Summer School series is devoted to this perspective. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://reasoningweb.org/2009/Objectives.html LOCATION:Brixen-Bressanone, Italy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event25@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090829 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090901 SUMMARY:IEEE International Conference on Social Computing DESCRIPTION:Social Computing can be broadly defined as computational f acilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as des ign and use of information and communication technologies that conside r social context. Social computing has recently become one of the cent ral themes across a number of information and communication technology fields and attracted significant interest from not only researchers i n computing and social sciences\, but also software and online game ve ndors\, web entrepreneurs\, political analysts\, digital government pr actitioners. The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computin g provides a key forum for researchers and industry practitioners to e xchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and pra ctice of social computing. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ LOCATION:Vancouver, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event14@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090801 SUMMARY:IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 Conference DESCRIPTION:The IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a hu ge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical any more but other aspects have arisen. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues relat ed to these developments. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.internet-conf.org/ LOCATION:Rome, Italy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event3@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090729 SUMMARY:Web Science Summer Graduate School DESCRIPTION:We invite graduate students and recently graduated PhDs to apply to attend a week-long Web Science Summer Research Program SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://webscience.org/events/researchweek/ LOCATION:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event36@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090720 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090726 SUMMARY:IEEE 2009 Summer School on Semantic Computing DESCRIPTION:Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field th at integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision\, speech proces sing)\, natural language processing\, semantic web and ontology engine ering\, software engineering\, and other fields with the goal of creat ing new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentio ns with the content of data. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://sssc2009.org/ LOCATION:University of California, Berkeley END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event4@webscience.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090710T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090710T193000 SUMMARY:News Innovation London DESCRIPTION:News Innovation London is an opportunity for journalists\, developers and academics to talk about the latest developments in new s - new ways of gathering news\, analysing data\, distributing news\, adding value to news\, and building news communities. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://newsinnovationlondon.eventbrite.com/ LOCATION:hosted by the Media Standards Trust and WSRI, kindly supported by NESTA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event35@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090705 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090712 SUMMARY:The 6th Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Seman tic Web DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the seventh European Summer Sch ool on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2009). The s uccessful and groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003\, as part of the activities of the OntoWeb Network Consortium\, c ontinued from 2004 to 2007 as part of the activities of the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence\, and is now a well-establish event within t he research community and a role model for several other initiatives. Presented by leading researchers in the field\, it represents an oppor tunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical\, practical\, and collaboration skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing Ontologies and Semantic Web applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and s tudents the school will be limited to 50 participants. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://sssw09.org/ LOCATION:Cercedilla, Spain END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event15@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090321 SUMMARY:WebSci09 - Society On-Line DESCRIPTION:The Web Science Research Initiative have announced WebSci0 9\, the first 'Web Science' conference to be organised by the WSRI. We b Science focuses on understanding\, designing and developing the tech nologies and applications that make up the World Wide Web. But the Web does not exist without the participation of people and organisations. Now that a significant proportion of life is spent on-line in many co untries\, it makes sense for this conference to be dedicated to the pr esentation of research into society on the Web.\n \;\nThe proceedi ngs of WebSci09 are freely available online in the Web Science \;R epository. To aid in navigation the following views have been made ava ilable.\n\nPapers \nPosters \nTrip Reports\n SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.websci09.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event16@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080620 SUMMARY:Web Science Workshop at HT2008: Collaboration and Collective I ntelligence DESCRIPTION:The workshop is for people interested in collaboration sup port and collective intelligence in the age of Web 2.0 and the Semanti c Web. This includes not only people with technical expertise\, but al so those who study human aspects of Web phenomena\, such as the emerge nce of on-line communities\, and the impact of these phenomena on wide r society. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dem/workshops/webscience08/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event17@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080612 SUMMARY:Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event: "The Future of th e World Wide Web" DESCRIPTION: SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.rpi.edu/news/events/tw/index.html LOCATION:Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Auditorium, RPI, New York, USA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event18@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080603 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080604 SUMMARY:"Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?" DESCRIPTION:A WSRI-organised panel at the 5th European Semantic Web Co nference (ESWC2008)\, moderated by Professor Wendy Hall of the Univers ity of Southampton. Panelists:\n\n Professor Stefan Decker\, DERI\, Na tional University of Ireland\n Professor Guus Schreiber\, Free Univers ity Amsterdam\n Professor Nigel Shadbolt\, University of Southampton\, UK\n Professor Frank Van Harmelen\, Free University Amsterdam\n SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.eswc2008.org/program.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event19@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080520 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080521 SUMMARY:The Innovation Edge Conference DESCRIPTION:NESTA's Innovation Edge conference is an unrivalled opport unity to get under the skin of innovation in the UK - and consider the impact it will have on our future. The conference brings together a p owerful mix of experts from industry\, culture\, politics and academia . Bob Geldof\, Lord Puttnam\, Helen Alexander\, Michael Birch and urba n artist 'Inkie' are just a few of those who'll be fuelling the discus sion. Be a part of it. The Innovation Edge is free to attend. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.innovationedge08.co.uk/ LOCATION:Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event20@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080423 SUMMARY:Web Science Workshop at WWW2008: Understanding Web Evolution: A Prerequisite for Web Science DESCRIPTION:This workshop\, to be conducted at WWW2008\, invites you t o present and explain your prediction of the future of the Web\, discu ss how this evolution can be observed and influenced\, and to reflect on why the Web has evolved to its current state. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://webscience.org/events/www2008/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event21@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080319 SUMMARY:Memories for Life/Grand Challenges Workshop DESCRIPTION:As part of the BCS Grand Challenges in Computing Research Conference\, Memories for Life (M4L) presents a call for participation for its Grand Challenge workshop. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.memoriesforlife.org/downloads/GCCR_M4L_WORKSHOP_CALL.pdf LOCATION:The British Computer Society, London, UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event22@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070618 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070620 SUMMARY:Toward More Transparent Government Workshop on eGovernment and the Web DESCRIPTION:The goal of the workshop was to find ways to facilitate th e deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites and help shape the ongoing research agenda in the development of Web technology and p ublic policy in order to realize the potential of the Web for access t o and use of government information. SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/summary LOCATION:US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event23@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061213 SUMMARY:Memories for Life Colloquium: The Future of our Pasts DESCRIPTION:\nReport [PDF]\n\nThe potential of technology to shape and support human memory is only now beginning to become clear:\n\nremedi al prosthetics for those suffering from memory problems\ntechnologies to address information overload in the workplace\nthe use of computers in the home to store private memories (such as the dramatic growth in digital photography).\n\nHence it is an important moment to look at t he topic of memory in relation to the Web\, at the beginning of two in terlinked research agendas. SEQUENCE:0 URL: LOCATION:British Library Conference Centre, London. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event24@webscience.org DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060914 SUMMARY:Web Science Workshop DESCRIPTION:\nReport [PDF]\n SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ehendler/2005/WebScienceWorkshop.html END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR