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WeKnowIt externally reviewed by Advisory Board
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 14:04

WeKnowIt was externally reviewed during an Advisory Board meeting held in Karlsruhe on April 8th, in the context of the regular WKI consortium meeting (April 7-9). In the Advisory Board meeting, which lasted a whole working day, all second year's progress was presenteed and reviewed, and the Advisory Board memebers provided valuable feedback to the consortium.

The Advisory Board comprised:

Prof. Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland, Galway, and
Prof. Lars Schmidt-Thieme, University of Hildesheim

WeKnowIt in BAPCO
Friday, April 9, 2010 - 12:49

WeKnowIt will participate with a booth to the BAPCO annual conference and exhibition, demonstrating the Emergency Response prototype to Emergency Repsonse professionals. The exhibition will take place on April 21-22 in Islington, London.

Come and visit us in Stand 132!

WeKnowIt sponsors SSMS 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 14:06

WeKnowIt will be one of the main sponsors of the 5th edition of the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics (SSMS 2010), which will take place in Amsterdam, from 30 August until 3 September 2010.

WeKnowIt@ICMB2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 16:20

The following WeKnowIt supported paper on the first prototype of the Consumer  Social Group use case is accepted for ICMB/GMR 2010 (9th International Conference on Mobile Business and the 9th Global Mobility Roundtable):

S. Diplaris, A. Flores, B. Sigurbjornsson, N. Tintarev, M. Escriche, R. van Zwol, Y. Kompatsiaris , "Collective Intelligence in Mobile Consumer Social Applications", 9th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2010), full research paper.

Non-disclosure agreement signed with Pronto
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 17:05

In terms of the liaison activities beetween WeKnowIt and Pronto, the members of the Pronto consortium have signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Sheffield City Council, in order to acquire media data from SCC. Cooperation between the two projects is expected to continue with further data exchange, pilots testing, and common organisation of events and workshops.

WeKnowIt@ESWC 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 11:09

The following WeKnowIt relevant and supported papers are accepted for ESWC 2010 (European Semantic Web Conference):

S. Diplaris, A. Sonnenbichler, T. Kaczanowski, P. Mylonas, A. Scherp, M. Janik, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris, WeKnowIt : Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use. 'News from the front' session.

M. Braun, A. Scherp, S. Staab: Collaborative Semantic Points of Interest. Demo.

F. Schwagereit, A. Scherp, S. Staab: Representing Distributed Groups with dgFOAF. Full paper.

WeKnowIt in CeBIT
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 12:14

WeKnowIt will participate to one-2-one meetings in the "Future Match" event in the context of the CeBIT digital industry tradeshow during 2-6 March in Hannover, with the aim to promote the project exploitation potential and possibly achieve industrial cooperations.

WeKnowIt Grand Travel Challenge: Barcelona drift
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 14:45

The WeKnowIt Grand Travel Challenge was succesfully conducted during the Consortium meeting that was held in Barcelona on 20-22 February 2010. The consortium tested their own technologies using the 1st version of the Consumer Social Group travel application on a field test in the streets of Barcelona. Collective intelligence and personalization services provided automatically produced mobile guidance and POIs recommendations to each traveller.

csxPOI application released
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 13:25

The novel mobile application csxPOI (short for: collaborative, semantic, and context-aware points-of-interest) enables its users to collaboratively create, share, and modify semantic points of interest (POI). Semantic POIs describe geographic places with explicit semantic properties of a collaboratively created ontology. As the ontology includes multiple subclassifications and instantiations and as it links to DBpedia, the richness of annotation goes far beyond mere textual annotations such as text.

WeKnowIt in Mobile World Congress
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 11:30

WeKnowIt will participate in one-2-one meetings in the context of the Mobile World Congress industrial event during 15-18 February in Barcelona, with the aim to
promote the project exploitation potential and possibly achieve
industrial cooperations. If you want to meet us and discuss possible collaboration or exploitation opportunites you can register for the Brokerage event and arrange a meeting with WeKnowIt.

Seventh Framework Programme