lod2014

About the event

“The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.” (Tim Berners Lee)

“We are surrounded by data – data about the performance of our locals schools, the fuel efficiency of our cars, a multitude of products from different vendors, or the way our taxes are spent. By helping us make better decisions, this data is playing an increasingly central role in our lives and driving the emergence of a data economy” (Tom Heath & Chris Bizer)

The W3C Office in Italy is organizing the Linked Open Data (LOD) event that will be held in Rome on 20^th, 21^st February 2014

The “LOD2014” event is centred around a keynote presentations from Phil Archer, a key W3C team member for the Semantic Web and LOD effort, leader of W3C Data Activity. The event will be an opportunity to learn about the latest developments in LOD and related technologies, and on the current thinking about Next Web Technologies. The event will give you the opportunity to know what is going on in the “LOD world”.

In these two days we would also want

to share our Italian experiences regarding the use of Linked Open Data
to provide information on Best Practices
to describe the developments and the working groups in the W3C

This event is aimed at experts, public organizations, developers, decision makers and the general public.

Call for Contributions

Talks should describe standards and best practices relevant to the linked open data ideally within the Italian context, such as:

Best practices
Applications
Business models
Relevant Standards
Datasets

Contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to the LOD area including:

LOD Publishing of existing repositories
Quality of data
Data Cleaning and Integration in LOD
Open Data Mashups
Linked data applications
Privacy and sensitive data
LOD Licences
Cultural Heritage and LOD
Gender Open Data
Geographical LOD
Graph Database

Speakers are asked to focus on describing practical ways of enabling people to deal with LOD successfully, rather than to focus on technical details or specific products. Given the wide range of topics at the workshop, speakers should also pitch their talk at a level that will be understood by attendees who are unfamiliar with the topic.

Submission guidelines

We will use EasyChair to manage the submission and review process. Get an EasyChair account if you don't have one.

The abstract of your experience should be no longer than 1000 words. A URL related to linked open data or to the application using this data, or a submission of a multimedia document showing its usage is strongly encouraged. Selected contributions will be published on the event site.

Language

The language of this event is Italian, foreign guests will speak English, abstracts and slides can be in Italian or English, for the publication on this Web site English is adviced.