Semantic Web Seminar
Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies
16 februari 2005
Huis van de Sport -
Antwerp - Belgium
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Semantic Web Seminar
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"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." -- Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web
W3C Benelux and ISOC Belgium organize a seminar Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies on 16 February 2005 in Antwerp. This seminar is the result of an agreement between W3C Benelux and ISOC Belgium and Netherlands with the purpose to disseminate on a non-profit basis the knowledge on new web technologies and applications in the Benelux. Specialists from the Benelux and abroad keep you up-to-date on the most important issues and developments in this area.
The Semantic Web is the next generation of the web. In Feb 2004, The World Wide Web Consortium released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management.
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Ivan graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as a Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He is also member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group at W3C. As part of his work at W3C, Ivan regularly gives presentations on W3C technologies, as well as tutorials, for example on SVG or the Semantic Web.
Before joining W3C Ivan worked in quite different areas (distributed and dataflow programming, language design, system programming), but he spend most of his research years in computer graphics and visualization. He also participated in various graphics related ISO standardization activities and software developments. He was member of the Executive Committee of the Eurographics Association for 15 years, and vice-chair of Association between 2000 and 2002. He was the co-chair of the 9th World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, May 2000. He is also member of IW3C2, the committee responsible for the World Wide Web Conference series.
Fee for this seminar for ISOC (BE or NL) and W3C
Benelux members only 50 euro (become an ISOC member !).
Non-members are paying 100 euro.
Feweb-members 75 euro.
More information about W3C can be obtained at :
- W3C Belgium :
tel. +32 (0)9-329 39 16.
- for W3C Benelux, tel. +31 (0)20-592 4033