Jun 02 2009
ESWC Day 2: 4th Semantic Wiki Workshop
The second day of ESWC09 was the day of the big event, the Semantic Wiki Workshop. Overall, it was really a big success, many interesting contributions, lively discussions, the number of participants just limited by the size of the room. Pictures are just making their way to Flickr over the slow Internet line (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kiwiknows/). 
The KiWi project was very present at the workshop, being one of the few big efforts in the area:
- Pavel and Marek started with presenting their ideas and prototype on information extraction; it is really nice to see how results get better and better in this area:-)
- Rolf then discussed various approaches to synchronisation of data repositories that are used in the KiWi backend (relational database, triple store, SOLR index)
- Fred and Peter presented different recommendation algorithms that they experiment with in the course of KiWi
- and finally I did a rather short presentation of the KiWi platform, which I then demonstrated in the afternoon’s Open Space session
The star of the workshop, though, was our cute toy kiwi which you’ll likely see on many photos on Flickr & Co. Again, with minimal effort we have generated more awareness than by sponsoring a reception… Here is one such photo showing the SemWiki organisation team with the KiWi:
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