Malta hosts summer school for semantic web
Malta has hosted a summer school for local and international students involved in research and application of the semantic web. This was held as part of Nepomuk, an international research project funded by the European Union within the IST 6th...
Malta has hosted a summer school for local and international students involved in research and application of the semantic web. This was held as part of Nepomuk, an international research project funded by the European Union within the IST 6th framework research programme, and took place in Sliema between September 7 and 13.
Nepomuk develops the social semantic desktop, a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange of social and organisational relations. It uses and extends the technological basis available from the internet, the semantic web, and Web 2.0.
The project consortium of 16 partners brings together researchers, industrial software developers and representative industrial users. Twenty-eight students from 12 countries spent the week learning about semantic technologies and the social semantic desktop in particular. While the mornings were dedicated to theoretical and conceptual lectures, the afternoons were spent in guided hands-on sessions which allowed students experience the new techniques.
Lectures and tutoring were performed by senior researchers from the Nepomuk project team. Keeping balance between hard work and hard party, the evenings allowed the participants to enjoy Malta by visiting places of interest, boat trips and other social events.
Students were also grouped in small teams and worked on mini projects of their own, aimed at using the newly-gained know-how to investigate and realise new, creative and funny ideas. The groups presented a total of five prototypes and interaction designs as the concluding highlight of the summer school.
Nepomuk delivers open-source and well-published results and encourages active participation by interested parties beyond the original project consortium.
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org .
Nepomuk develops the social semantic desktop, a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange of social and organisational relations. It uses and extends the technological basis available from the internet, the semantic web, and Web 2.0.
The project consortium of 16 partners brings together researchers, industrial software developers and representative industrial users. Twenty-eight students from 12 countries spent the week learning about semantic technologies and the social semantic desktop in particular. While the mornings were dedicated to theoretical and conceptual lectures, the afternoons were spent in guided hands-on sessions which allowed students experience the new techniques.
Lectures and tutoring were performed by senior researchers from the Nepomuk project team. Keeping balance between hard work and hard party, the evenings allowed the participants to enjoy Malta by visiting places of interest, boat trips and other social events.
Students were also grouped in small teams and worked on mini projects of their own, aimed at using the newly-gained know-how to investigate and realise new, creative and funny ideas. The groups presented a total of five prototypes and interaction designs as the concluding highlight of the summer school.
Nepomuk delivers open-source and well-published results and encourages active participation by interested parties beyond the original project consortium.
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org .