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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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SEMANTiCS2014 is a venue, where different communities meet. These
communities include business and research, and also different
horizontals and verticals. Thus, SEMANTiCS has a huge potential in
shaping the European research and innovation with regard to applying
different technologies (semantic, data, language, and others) for
solving real world problems.<br>
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We would like to take this opportunity and create a venue at the
conference – a session that may have an impact on our fields in the
future. The session will sketch directions we are targeting and link
parties working on complementary topics or searching for solutions
of problems. We will go beyond a typical H2020 matchmaking session.
The voice of the community will be heard. As Linked Data technology
has matured and has proven its effectiveness in some areas, we – as
a community – should discuss what strategies there are to drive the
Linked Data economy to a boom in Europe.<br>
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In this 60-minute session, we will listen to Linked Data leaders and
experts from the community about the potentials and current
shortcomings of Linked Data as well as their individual opinion
about the direction Horizon 2020 should go to provide effective
support for Linked Data adoption by businesses. The session is open
for everyone that would like to share his point of view. This may be
done, filling in the form:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VF3Heb3_m7VeYb19LZR-hllVut1oQVxERXLhGRWL0J8/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VF3Heb3_m7VeYb19LZR-hllVut1oQVxERXLhGRWL0J8/viewform</a><br>
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We would also like you to promote your organisation in order to set
up consortia to apply for funding. We will allow all attendees of
SEMANTiCS to submit an organisation profile description, so they can
be contacted by potential partners. These descriptions will be made
available to all attendees of SEMANTiCS in a printed form to
facilitate networking at (and after) the conference. If you are
interested, we would kindly ask you to fill out this form:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZRsJylyVwZ1x3BwAdXVp_Dia-cVUDvd8fuN4wYzktuk/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZRsJylyVwZ1x3BwAdXVp_Dia-cVUDvd8fuN4wYzktuk/viewform</a><br>
(Available for registered participants only)<br>
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You can read more about the session at the SEMANTiCS2014 website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.semantics.cc/programme/talks/h2020-towards-a-linked-data-driven-economy-for-europe/">http://www.semantics.cc/programme/talks/h2020-towards-a-linked-data-driven-economy-for-europe/</a><br>
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Let's create the Linked Data driven economy for Europe together!<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Agata Filipowska, Tatiana Gornostay and Sebastian Hellmann<br>
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