W3C Semantic Tour - 12 June to
24 June 2002
Project acronym: QUESTION-HOW
Project Full Title:Quality Engineering
Solutions via Tools, Information and Outreach for the New Highly-enriched
Offerings from W3C: Evolving the Web in Europe
Project/Contract No. IST-2000-28767
Workpackage 6, Deliverable D6.2
Project Manager: Daniel Dardailler
<danield@w3.org>
Author of this document: Marie-Claire Forgue
<marie@w3.org>
Created: July 2003. Last updated:
September 2003
Introduction
The W3C has organized a second series of one day events across Europe, in
2003, which purpose was to promote the W3C Semantic Web technologies.
Representatives of W3C Member organizations and the W3C Team explained how
Semantic Web technologies help to create richer, more usable data on the
existing Web.
The schedule of the events was the following:
All events were open to the public and free of charge.
A public Web
page was published in March 2003 presenting the tour.
The tour was advertised on the W3C home page in the first days of April,
and stayed as a top news for 2 weeks. Again, it made the top news during the
period covering all the events. Moreover, in each country, Offices were able
to announce their own local event many on-line publications' agendas.
A press
release was issued on 10 June 2003, and translated into 5 languages (Dutch,
English,
French,
German,
Greek,
Italian
and Japanese).
European press reported on the tour, specifically in each visited country
(see below), but it is worth noted that this tour was also advertised in
other publications, such as this Japanese one:
- @IT:
XML & Web Services [20 May]
- "W3C/XML Watch - May 2003", Emie
Kayama, W3C, MathML 2.0, XKMS, VoiceXML, I18N, SVG 1.2, WCAG 2.0,
WSCI, Amaya 8.0, W3C Semantic Tour (in Japanese)
- E-Marketing [13 June]
- "Le
W3C organise une tournée européenne sur le Web sémantique"
, W3C, Semantic Web, HTML, Semantic Web, RDF, OWL, XML, W3C
Semantic Tour
- ZDNet UK - CNET [8 April]
- "W3C
advances Semantic Web drafts" , Paul Festa, W3C, OWL,
RDF, Semantic Tour, Eric Miller
- Démocratie
Electronique [10 June]
- "Tournée
sémantique du W3C" , W3C Semantic Tour
- Sophianet.com [10 June]
- "W3C
: une tournée européenne pour le Web Sémantique" ,
Jean-Pierre Largillet, W3C, Semantic Tour, RDF, OWL, XML, Daniel
Dardailler, Philipp Hoschka
The Semantic Web Extends the Current Web
The goal of the Semantic Tour was not only to present current Semantic Web
technologies developed at W3C, but also to allow the Web community,
industries, and public at large to interact with all the speakers. The tour
was in that sense very successful as there has been a better understanding of
the Semantic Web itself: not a new Web to build, but simply an extension of
the current one.
For the Web to reach its full potential, it must evolve into a Semantic
Web, providing a universally accessible platform that allows data to be
shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. The Semantic
Web, first a vision expressed by Tim Berners-Lee at the Web's inception, is
now best known as an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. Berners-Lee
wrote an early Roadmap
for the Semantic Web in 1998, and it continues to be a good place to learn
the architecture on which the W3C Semantic Web Activity is based.
The W3C Semantic Web Activity,
launched in 2001, brings together experts and leaders in areas such as
metadata, ontologies, and the Web, and encourages both the design of
specifications and the open, collaborative development of technology.
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web that will allow you to
find, share, and combine information more easily. It is designed to be a
universal medium for the exchange of data, and allows vocabulary semantics to
be defined and reused by any interested person or user community, making it
cost-effective for people to record their knowledge, and share with
others.
Deliverables
Nearly all the talks were delivered in Italian and audio/video recordings
of each of those are available on the public accessible Web page (in
Italian). Oreste Signore, W3C Italian Office
Manager, chaired the day.
- Speakers & Talks
-
- Panelists
- Massimo Marchiori, Jeremy J. Carroll, Michele Missikoff, Nicola
Guarino, Guido Vetere
The panel discussion was chaired by Oreste Signore
- Attendance
- Participants could register on line. 223 people registered and 108
people attended the conference.
- W3C Members: 33
- Industry: 30
- Public Administration: 21
- Research: 42
- Other: 15
- Press: 2
- Press Attendance and/or Interviews
- Vincenzo Bloise (Network News) - itws of Daniel Dardailler and
Oreste Signore (on site)
- Anna Lia Marinucci (freelancer) - no itw
- Mila Fiordalisi (Italia Oggi) - itws of Oreste Signore and
Massimo Marchiori (by phone)
- Valeria Camagni (PC Professionale) - itw of Massimo Marchiori
(by phone)
- Dario de Judicibus (Internet News) - itw of Massimo Marchiori
(by phone)
- Di Bello Buonaventura (Internet Facile) - itw of Oreste Signore
(by phone)
- Carlo Cremona (Zero Uno) - itw of Oreste Signore (by
phone)
- Press Articles
- Web News [10 April]
- "W3C: avanti
con il nuovo Web" , Francesco Caccavella, W3C,
Semantic Tour, Semantic Web, Web Ontology, Eric Miller (in
Italian)
- FullPress.it [28 May]
- "Il
W3C Semantic Tour debutta a Roma" , Luisa Brigatti,
W3C, Semantic Tour, Tim Berners-Lee (in Italian)
- FullPress.it [10 June]
- "Il
World Wide Web Consortium lancia il W3C European Semantic
Tour" , Luisa Brigatti, W3C, Semantic Tour (in
Italian)
- Libero [June]
- "Ue
e USA, il Web Semantico è roba da PMI" , W3C, Semantic
Tour (in Italian)
- Lithium [10 June]
- "Il
World Wide Web Consortium Lancia il W3C European Semantic
Tour" , W3C Semantic Tour (in Italian)
- AetnaNet [1 May]
- "Web
semantico, il linguaggio del mondo" , Antonio Volpon,
W3C, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Tim Berners-Lee (in Italian)
- DataManager [June]
- "Il W3C
Semantic Tour debutta a ROMA" , W3C, Semantic Tour (in
Italian)
- Italia Oggi [12 July]
- "Si rivoluzionano le ricerche in rete" , Mila
Fiordalisi, W3C, RDF, XML, Semantic Web, Massimo Marchiori (in
Italian)
- La Repubblica [14 July]
- "Web Semantico, chi o costui? Il futuro" , Ernesto
Assante, W3C Semantic Tour, Tim Berners-Lee (in Italian)
- Blogs
- Fed's Bolsoblog [3
April]
- "W3C
Semantic Tour, Europe 10-24 June" , W3C Semantic
Tour
Public
accessible Web page. Michael Wilson, W3C UK & Ireland Office Manager,
chaired the day.
Speakers & Talks
- Michael Wilson presented Welcome and Introduction
(4.1)
- Ivan Herman presented an Overview of
W3C(4.1)
- Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Fellow, presented Towards
the Semantic Web(4.4)
- Brian Matthews, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, presented
Migrating
Thesauri to the Semantic
Web(3.4)
- Andy Seaborne, HP Research Lab, presented Applying
(and building) the Semantic Web
(4.1)
- Michael Moss, Rolls-Royce, presented Some industrial
information scenarios - Can the Semantic Web help?
(3.4)
- Alistair Duke, BTexact, presented Applying
Semantic Web Technology to eBusiness and
KM(3.6)
- Panelists
- Steve Ross-Talbot, Ivan Herman, Dan Brickley, Andy Seaborne.
The panel discussion, chaired by Michael Wilson, was rated as
(4.1)
- Attendance
- 109 people attended the event. Among those:
- Registered Participants: 130
- Actual attendance: 101
- Academics: 33
- Industrials: 57
- W3C and CCLRC: 11
- Press: 3
- Evaluation Forms Results
- Participants were given an evaluation form to fill out via e-mail.
They were asked to rate each talk from 1 to 5 where 1 was poor and 5
was excellent. There were a total of 19 reports returned.
- Regarding talks, the average marks of each of them are indicated
in ( ) above.
- 17 people out of 19 thought that the event was at a correct
technical level.
- They found that the most useful parts of the day were: Morning
plus panel, Andy Seaborne, Ora Lassila, meeting people, All of it, Ivan
and Ora, Morning, Presentations and the pub, HP’s
perspective.
- The overall evaluation of the day answers are: Best self-funded
development day I have attended, very good, more enthusiasm needed,
morning was excellent, well organised, very interesting, 4, good, some
breack-out sessions would have been useful, excellent, needed more
coffee.
- Press Attendance and/or Interviews
-
- Press Articles
- Client Server News [15
June]
- "Semantic Web hits the Road" , W3C, Semantic
Web, W3C Semantic Tour
- UsabilityNews [June]
- "W3C Semantic
Tour - Europe" , W3C, Semantic Tour
- EI.pub [19 June]
- "W3C
semantic web tour" , W3C Semantic Tour, Ora
Lassila
- Blogs
- Earle Martin's blog [14
June]
- "Notes
on the W3C Semantic Web Tour London" , Earle Martin,
W3C Semantic Tour, Ora Lassila, Ivan Herman, Brian
Matthews
- Seb Schmoller's
mailing [15 April]
- "W3C European
Semantic Web Tour" , W3C Semantic Tour, Tim
Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila
The event was chaired by Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C Germany & Austria Office Manager.
Nearly all the talks were delivered in German. The full agenda is available
at this detailed public
accessible Web page (in German).
- Speakers & Talks
-
- Panelists
- Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka, Mario Jeckle, Jürgen Angele
Panel session chaired by Klaus Birkenbihl.
- Attendance
- Registrants: 120
- Participants: 111
- Academics: 30
- Industrials: 54
- Press: 16
- Press Attendance and/or Interviews
- Siegfried Dannehl (Freelancer) - no itw
- Dr. Elisabeth Schwarz-Mehrens and Frits Fliers (Going Global
Consult) - itw of Ivan Herman (on site)
- Matthias Fischer (Finanzen)
- itw of Ivan Herman (on site)
- Hans-Jürgen Grohmann (e-commerce Magazin and other publications)
- itw of Klaus Birkenbihl (on site)
- Uwe Harms (iX Magazin) - no itw
- Wolf Hosbach (PC Magazin)
- itw of Klaus Birkenbihl (on site)
- Norbert Luckhardt (KES
Zeitschrift) - itw of Ivan Herman (on
site)
- Marco Mittag (Transline Group) - no itw
- Dr. Dietmar Müller (ZDNet News/
Cnet Germany) - itw of Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka (on
site)
- Ulrike Ostler (Freelancer) - itw of Ivan Herman, Philipp
Hoschka(on site)
- Konstantin Pfliegl (Internet Professionell) - itw of Ivan Herman,
Philipp Hoschka (on site)
- Dr. Peter Schüler (c’t
Magazin) - itw of Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka (on
site)
- Christian Wachter (Redaktionsbüro Althof) - no itw
- Christian Wagner (Silicon.de) - itw with Philipp
Hoschka and Ivan Herman (on site)
- Gerda von Radetzky (Freelancer) - no itw
- Press Articles
- Der Spiegel [17 June]
- "Tidying
up the Data Chaos" , Peter Zschunke, W3C, Semantic
Web, HTML, Web Services, XML, Eric Miller, Tim Berners-Lee (in
German)
- Basler Zeitung [17 June]
- "Departure
into a more intelligent Web" , W3C Semantic Tour, XML,
Web Services, XML, RDF, HTML, Berners-Lee, Eric Miller (in
German)
- Oberosterreich.com [20
June]
- "The Semantic Web" , W3C Semantic Tour, HTML,
XML, RDF (in German)
- Tiroler
Tageszeitung [22 June]
- "The Future of the World Wide Web" , W3C
Semantic Tour (in German)
- ORF ON FutureZone [22
June]
- "Web
inventor for Semantic Web" , W3C Semantic Tour, XML,
RDF, Tim Berners-Lee (in German)
- Freie
Presse [24 June]
- "Raid into a new Surf age", W3C Semantic Tour,
HTML, XML, RDF (in German)
Evangelos Markatos, W3C Greek Office
Manager, chaired the event. A detailed agenda is available in the following
public accessible Web pages: in Greek and
English.
The talks were delivered either in English or in Greek. Greek to English
real-time translation has been provided.
Speakers & Talks
- Ioannis Kalogirou, Secretary General of Infosociety, Ministry of
Development, Professor - National Technical University of Athens,
presented Introduction
of the day
- Daniel Dardailler presented W3C: How to
protect your innovation thru Web Standards
- Stelios Orphanoudakis, ERCIM Director and ICS-FORTH Director
- Discussion and greetings:
- Vassilis Spitadakis, R&D Manager FORTHnet S.A., presented
Semantic
Web: The 'Key' to Enhancing the Value of Web
Business
- Grigoris Antoniou, Professor of University of Crete &
Associate Researcher, ICS-FORTH, presented Rules
and Ontologies for Semantic Web Services
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presented RDF in
Real Life - Some examples of RDF applications
- Panel Discussion and greetings:
- George Philokyprou, Professor, National and Kapodistrian
Univeristy of Athens
- Panos Constantopoulos, Professor, University of Crete,
presented The
Semantic Web vision
- Panelists
- Daniel Dardailler, Grigoris Antoniou, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux ;
panel chaired by Evangelos Markatos.
- Attendance
- 135 people registered and 66 attended the event.
- The categorie of participants is as follows:
- Members: 4
- Research Institutes/Organizations: 12
- Public Organizations: 5
- Companies: 25
- Universities: 16
- Press: 4
- Press Attendance and/or Interviews
- Nick Makrymanolakis (Ne.o) -
itw of Daniel Dardailler (on site)
- Paris Kapralos (Imerissia)
- itw of Daniel Dardailler (on site) and itw of
Professor Orphanoudakis(by phone)
- Nikos Kondakis (NetFax) - itw
of Evangelos Markatos (on site)
- Vicky Vamiedaki (Nautemporiki) - itws of
Evangelos Markatos and Professor Orphanoudakis (on
site)
- George Fetokakis (PC
Magazine) - itw of Professor Orphanoudakis (on
site)
- Dimitris Yannopoulos (Athens
News) - itw with Marie-Claire Forgue (on
site)
- Press Articles
- Nautemporiki [30 June]
- "For a broader and more useful network" , Vicky
Vamiedaki, W3C, Semantic Tour, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee (in
Greek)
- Imerissia [5 July]
- "Automatic content translation from W3C" , W3C,
Semantic Tour (in Greek)
- ne.o [July]
- "Semantic Web" , Nick Makrymanolakis, W3C,
Semantic Web, Semantic Tour(in Greek)
- NetFax [17
July]
- "A semantic Web day in Athens", W3C, Semantic
Tour (in Greek)
- EKT [29 May]
- "The
Presentation of Semantic Web in Greece" , W3C,
Semantic Tour (in Greek)
The event was organized and chaired by Frank Roos, W3C Benelux Office Manager. The detailed agenda
is available at the following three public accessible Web pages: in English, Dutch and French. Some pictures
of the event are made available (thanks to Miente Baker).
Speakers & Talks
-
- Panelists
- Ivan Herman, Daniel Dardailler, Peter Brown, Frank van Harmelen
The panel discussion was driven by Frank Roos.
- Attendance
- Electronic registrations: 115
- On-site registrations: 7
- No shows: 43
- Attendees: 79
- Companies: 25
- Press: 3
- Press Interviews and/or Attendance
- Vincent Genot (LeVif) - itw of
Daniel Dardailler (on site)
- Davy Vandevinne (Computer Magazine) - no iw
- Jan-Frans Lemmens (freelancer) - no itw
- Stef Gyssels (DataNews) - itw of Frank Roos (by
phone)
- Roeland Tegenbos (deCURSOR) - itw of Daniel Dardailler
(by phone)
- Press Articles
- 01 Informatique [23 May]
- "W3C Semantic Tour : le 24 juin à Bruxelles" ,
W3C, Semantic Web
- Europa
News [2 July]
- "Commission
backs semantic web tour across Europe" , W3C, Semantic
Tour, Semantic Wev, Tim Berners-Lee
- EEdesign [10 June]
- "World Wide Web
Consortium Launches W3C European Semantic Tour" , W3C,
Semantic Tour
- AIfIA News [11 June]
- "W3C Semantic
Tour in Brussels" , W3C, Semantic Tour (in
Dutch)
- Blogs
- Namreh's blog [11 June]
- "W3C
Semantic Tour" , W3C, Semantic Tour (in
Dutch)
Conclusion
The overall tour has been extremely well received, the attendance in all
stops was very good and quite enthusiastic. The panels were very successful
and fully attended, even if scheduled at the end of each day. We had nearly
500 people over the whole tour.
Most of the attendees were already acknowledgeable of W3C work, at all
levels of understanding. A good number of industrials were present, and
judging by the quality of numerous questions, all the attendants were
satisfied with the level of interaction provided. At the London event, a
participant expressed its great satisfaction by rating the event as the best
self-funded development day he ever attended.
Finally, the theme of this tour was very attractive, as it is regarded as
a new short term challenge in the IT sector. Last year's Interop Tour was
less successful in respect. The press attendance was remarkably high in
average, thus leading to a very good presence of W3C's work in either the
public press or the technical one.
At last, W3C would like to thank Franco Mastroddi and all government and
European representatives for their participation in the W3C Semantic Tour.
Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C European Communications Officer (marie@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2003/09/30 12:59:43 $