INSEMTIVES news

1st User Advisory Board Meeting

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:24:00 EST

May 30, 2010, co-located with ESWC 2010 in Crete

Agenda:

9.30 - 10.00 Project overview (Coordinator)
10.00 - 11.00 Tools presentations (WP4 partners)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Open discussion and feedback from UAB
12.30 - 13.00 Closing (Coordinator)
19.00 Social event

Please confirm your attendance to Alice Carpentier until Friday, 19.3.2010 12.00.

Call for Papers: Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (WEBCENTIVES)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:56:00 EST

Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on large-scale user participation. Open Source Software projects (OSS), gaming and other online communities are constituted by voluntary engagement of contributors, almost self-organized and self-managed. Also large-scale intranet applications of business companies and non-governmental organizations are increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web technologies and community-building.

The WEBCENTIVES workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to participate in (online) communities and to contribute to collaborative content creation.

Win attractive prizes at the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge!

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:55:00 EST

Useful semantic content cannot be created fully automatically, but motivating people to contribute to this process remains challenging. Our project INSEMTIVES revisits fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring tools in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine ways in which such mechanisms can be transferred into technology design. Hiding the technicalities of knowledge engineering, semantic annotation and data integration behind captivating, entertaining games seems to be a promising approach to achieve this goal.

As part of the INSEMTIVES game challenge we are looking for colorful, innovative ideas with a twist for new �games with a purpose�. The purpose, of course, is primarily the creation of useful semantic content, but there are no bounds to your creativity. To get some inspiration, you can have a look at some of our games: OntoPronto and OntoTube, which are about the development and population of an ontology, and the semantic annotation of video content, respectively. Other relevant topics could include the annotation of text, music files, photo collections, but also the interlinking of RDF data sets, their curation, the alignment of data sources, or any other aspect that facilitates the uptake of the Semantic Web.

INSEMTIVES game idea challenge

INSEMTIVES is proud sponsor of EKAW 2010 and STI International Symposium 2010

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

INSEMTIVES has become a sponsor for the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2010) and of the STI International Symposium 2010.

For more information on both events please visit the websites:

Peter Reiser, Sun, and Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburger Research, at INSEMTIVES meeting

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EST

The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome two other exciting invited speakers: Peter Reiser from Sun Microsystems and Sebastian Schaffert from Salzburger Research (KIWI project) will be visiting us on Friday, 30th of October, 2009, for an INSEMTIVES-KIWI collaboration meeting in Innsbruck.

Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research gave a talk at INSEMTIVES project meeting

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EST

Biography Peter Mika is a researcher and data architect at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. He received his BS in computer science from Eotvos Lorand University and his MSc and PhD in computer science (cum laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in social networks and the Semantic Web earned him a Best Paper Award at the 2005 International Semantic Web Conference and a First Prize at the 2004 Semantic Web Challenge. He has been co-chair of the Semantic Web Challenge since 2007. Mika is the youngest member elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. He is the author of the book �Social Networks and the Semantic Web� (Springer, 2007). In 2008 he has been selected as one of �AI�s Ten to Watch� by the editorial board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal. Abstract �Year of the Monkey: Lessons learned from the first year of SearchMonkey� In this presentation we reflect on the experiences we have gained since the launch of SearchMonkey, Yahoo�s groundbreaking Semantic Web application platform in May, 2008. For most publishers, SearchMonkey provided the first occasion to learn about semantic technologies and reflect on the costs and benefits of providing data in semantic formats such as RDFa. For developers inside and outside Yahoo, it often meant having to learn the somewhat peculiar knowledge representation paradigms of the Semantic Web. As a summary of these experiences, this presentation provides key insights to those interested in what the Semantic Web looks like in action and at a large scale, viewed from the perspective of a search engine provider. It also highlights critical bottlenecks in the adoption of semantic technologies on the Web and therefore should be also of interest for Semantic Web researchers and developers.

Kick-off meeting in Trento (IT)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST

The INSEMTIVES Kick-off meeting takes place in Trento (IT).

INSEMTIVES Q1 Meeting in Innsbruck

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:00:00 EST

The INSMETIVES Q1 meeting was held in Innsbruck, Austria. Among the items discussed in the meeting were the completed deliverables, upcoming deliverables, discussions with the case studies, collaboration with other projects as well as dissemination and impact activities. We were also pleased to welcome two invited guests, Michael Fink from Google Israel and Sebastian Schaffert, coordinator of the KIWI project.

First ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for a Knowledge-Powered Enterprise

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST

The First ACTIVE Summer School precedes the European Conference on Machine Learning "European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML PKDD 2009".

Organised by ACTIVE FP7 Integrated Project and hosted by the Jozef Stefan Institute, the summer school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry being being in order to share the recent developments, solutions and technologies from the areas of:

Semantic technologies and content,
Social software and Web 2.0,
Adaptive and context-aware systems,
Context mining,
Process mining,
Knowledge filters,
Stream mining,
Anomaly detection,
Meta learning,
Forecasting, and
Social network analysis.

During the three day summer school attendants will have an opportunity to listen to very distinguished invited speakers: Paul Warren (BT), Marko Grobelnik (JSI), Tobias B�rger (STI), Igor Dolin�ek (HERMES SoftLab), Rayid Ghani (Accenture), Michael Witbrock (Cycorp), Lise Getoor (University of Maryland), Neel Sundaresan (eBay), Pat Moore (Bloomberg), Paolo Paganelli (Insiel), Denny Vrandečić (KIT), Marcel Tilly (Microsoft), Ian Mulvany (Nature).

Participation is limited to 40 participants. Based on already expressed interest, we expect to receive more applications than there are places available. This is why we ask potential participants to send their expression of interest together with curriculum vitae in pdf format no later than July 1, 2009 to tina.anzic@ijs.si. Selected participants will be notified by July 15, 2009.

The registration fee including accommodation for three nights in a three star hotel and sharing a double room is only 120 EUR. Without accommodation the cost is 50 EUR (teaching materials, refreshments, lunches, and one social event included).

Detailed information about the school, admission and fees can be found at: active09.ijs.si

Questions about the "First ACTIVE Summer School" may be directed to tina.anzic@ijs.si.

IEEE 2009 Summer School on Semantic Computing

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EST

Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data.

The summer school will provide an introduction to the field to senior undergraduate and graduate students. A mix of young and well-established researchers and educators will present recent research results, as for example presented in the IEEE conferences on Semantic Computing or the International Journal on Semantic Computing. The tutorials will be complemented by keynote talks by renowned experts in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Multimedia or Natural Language Processing.

The 6-day event takes place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in July 20-25, 2009.

WEBCENTIVES workshop

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EST

WEBCENTIVES workshop, co-located with WWW'09, Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009

Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, at INSEMTIVES project meeting

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:28:00 EST

The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome another exciting invited speaker: Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research (http://research.yahoo.com/Peter_Mika), just confirmed his invited talk at our next project meeting. The meeting is hosted by Telefonica R&D in Madrid in October 2009.

KIWI @ INSEMTIVES PROJECT MEETING

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST

Sebastian Schaffert and �Kiwi� joined our INSEMTIVES project meeting in Innsbruck. Sebastian presented the project and gave a demo of the tools. Additionally, we had some interesting discussions on the topic of community equity. We are planning to follow up on these discussions with a dedicated collaboration meeting in September.

Collaboration with KIWI

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:53:00 EST

INSEMTIVES has recently initiated a collaboration with the KIWI project. As part of this collaboration Tobias Bürger from STI Innsbruck introduced INSEMTIVES during a KIWI plenary meeting in Prague. Additionally Sebastian Schaffert from the KIWI project gave an presentation of the KIWI project during the INSEMTIVES Q1 meeting in Innsbruck. For more information visit Tobias's blog post where he shares his experiences of the Prague meeting.

Talk: Michael Fink, Google Israel

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:27:00 EST

At the INSEMTIVES project meeting, we were happy to welcome Michael Fink from Google Israel. We are now looking forward to his talk on YouTube's Collaborative Annotations.

INSEMTIVES project started

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:00:00 EST

The INSEMTIVES project started on April 1, 2009.

INSEMTIVES project presentation

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:00 EST

The INSEMTIVES team from UIBK presented the project poster at this year’s STI International Offsite meeting.