IEEE Intelligent Systems
Special issue on AI and Cultural Heritage

http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/content/CulHerCFP.html

Semantic Webs - and The Rest of the World

While Ross Parry is facilitating our SW workshop (Friday,
12.30 till 1.30) at MW 2008, the digital museum community in the UK is carrying
on the debate Ross opened up for comment in the session.

Some remarks about the workshop Weaving a Web of Data made me think about the Semantic Web and Wikis. I shared my thoughts here.

--ThT

2nd CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Submission deadline: March 31, 2008

Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services
A book edited by Maria Manuela Cunha, Eva Oliveira, António Tavares & Luís Ferreira
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
http://handbooksemanticweb.ipca.pt

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services" within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.

Introduction:

"The web isn't about what you can do with computers. It's people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn't tell you about what happens on the web". Tim Berners-Lee, NY Times, Nov 02, 2006.

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Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web Workshop

in conjunction with
the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and
the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007
(11-15 November 2007, Busan, Korea)

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http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/CH-SW.html

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Submission Deadline:
Long Papers due: 20 Aug 2007
Position & Short Papers, Demos due: 27 Aug 2007

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The objective of the workshop is to discuss the digitalization,
annotation, archiving, and retrieval of our cultural heritage in all its
forms, and to present, in the form of practical applications, cultural
services available to citizens and professional users. In addition to
textual representations, cultural content can be digitalized and saved
in visual and auditive format. This calls for discussion on intelligent
multimedia indexing and retrieval. Since culture is international in
nature, research, applications, and directions for international
co-operation are a focus area of the workshop.

The workshop is multi-disciplinary: it is intended for researchers,