Semantic Web Challenge 2010
News from Nov 17, 2010
The winners of the Semantic Web Challenge 2010, the premiere event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web, have been announcedat at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) in Shanghai, China.
The SWC chairs, Diana Maynard and Christian Bizer, as well as the complete jury congratulates the following teams:
Open Track
- Prize: NCBO Resource Index: Ontology - Based Search and Mining of Biomedical Resources by Clement Jonquet, Paea LePendu, Sean M. Falconer, Adrien Coulet, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, and Nigam H. Shah
- Prize: TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linking Open Government Data by Dominic DiFranzo, Li Ding, John S. Erickson, Xian Li, Tim Lebo, James Michaelis, Alvaro Graves, Gregory Todd Williams, Jin Guang Zheng, Johanna Flores, Zhenning Shangguan, Gino Gervasio, Deborah L. McGuinness and Jim Hendler
- Prize: Shortipedia - Aggregating and Curating Semantic Web Data by Denny Vrandecic, Varun Ratnakar, Markus Krötzsch, and Yolanda Gil
Billions Triples Track
- Winner: Creating voiD Descriptions for Web-scale Data by Christoph Böhm, Johannes Lorey, Dandy Fenz, Eyk Kny, Matthias Pohl, Felix Naumann
For more information about the Semantic Web Challenge please refer to:
- the Semantic Web Challenge website
- the Elsevier press release about the Semantic Web Challenge 2010.
Photos from the SWC2010 prize ceremony:
