The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier international forum where Semantic Web / Linked Data researchers, practitioners, and industry specialists come together to discuss, advance, and shape the future of semantic technologies on the web, within enterprises and in the context of the public institution.
We are very pleased to announce that we got a paper accepted at ISWC 2017 for presentation at the main conference. Additionally, we also had a Demo paper accepted as well.
“Distributed Semantic Analytics using the SANSA Stack” by Jens Lehmann, Gezim Sejdiu, Lorenz Bühmann, Patrick Westphal, Claus Stadler, Ivan Ermilov, Simon Bin, Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Hajira Jabeen.
Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann presented a work done on SANSA project with the main focus on offering a compact scalable engine for the whole Semantic Web Stack. The audience showed a high interest on the project, Room was very packed, a lot of people even standing ; around 150 attendees.
@JLehmann82 presenting @SANSA_Stack, a Semantic Component in the @BigData_Europe Platform solution at #iswc2017. Demo scheduled later! pic.twitter.com/EaFh6iJeQI
— Big Data Europe (@BigData_Europe) October 23, 2017
Website: http://sansa-stack.net/
GitHub: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack
Slides:https://www.slideshare.net/JensLehmann/sansa-iswc-international-semantic-web-conference-2017-talk
Furthermore, we are very happy to announce that we won the Best Demo Award for the SANSA Notebooks:
“The Tale of Sansa Spark” by Ivan Ermilov, Jens Lehmann, Gezim Sejdiu, Buehmann Lorenz, Patrick Westphal, Claus Stadler, Simon Bin, Nilesh Chakraborty, Henning Petzka, Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Hajira Jabeen.
Best demo #iswc2017 pic.twitter.com/skyGw9YK4v
— iswc2017 (@iswc2017) October 25, 2017
Here are some further pointers in case you want to know more about SANSA:
- Website: http://sansa-stack.net/
- GitHub: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack
- Slides:https://www.slideshare.net/GezimSejdiu/the-tale-of-sansa-spark-iswc-2017-demo
- Screencasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHCoWmzUJlE&t=2s
The audience displayed enthusiasm during the demonstration appreciating the work and asking questions regarding the future of SANSA, technical details and possible synergy with industrial partners and projects. Gezim Sejdiu and Jens Lehmann, who were presenting the demo, were talking 3+ hours non-stop (without even time to eat 😉 ).
ISWC17 was a great venue to meet the community, create new connections, talk about current research challenges, share ideas and settle new collaborations.