The conference took place form the 22nd to the 24th of September and the talk was entitled “Open Data, the UK experience.”
The Open World Forum (OWF) is a global summit where leading decision-makers, researchers and developers meet to exchange ideas on technological initiatives.
It is an annual event which first took place in 2008 but which has grown fast, with over 160 speakers and 1,400 delegates attending in 2010.
The presentation took place on the 22nd of September at the 10th anniversary Gala of the Oxford Internet Institute.
Professor William Dutton, director of the Oxford Internet Institute, said: “The Lifetime awards are intended to honour individuals who have played a uniquely significant and long-lasting role in shaping the Internet. Professor Hall’s impressive career exemplifies the OII’s philosophy that multi-disciplinary collaboration is essential if we are to fully understand the implications of the Internet and Web.”
Wendy Hall was also a member of the panel at a public plenary session which took place before the awards ceremony. The panel included a number of distinguished guests, including Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, Professor Eli Noam, Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information in New York and Dame Stephanie Shirley of the Shirley Foundation.
The Oxford Internet Institute is part of the University of Oxford. It carries out research into the social, political, legal and economic aspects of the Internet.
Research paper by Pattanaphanchai J., O’Hara K. and Hall W. on a new method for the evaluation of the trustworthiness of Web content which uses Semantic Web technologies. It will be presented at the International Semantic Web Conference from the 23rd to the 27th of October in Bonn, Germany.
Research paper by Igor O. Popov, M. C. Schraefel, Wendy Hall and Nigel R. Shadbolt on a new tool for exploring and displaying graph based data sets. It will be presented at the International Semantic Web Conference from the 23rd to the 27th of October in Bonn, Germany.
Professor Shadbolt comments on Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude’s plans for changing the rules regarding Freedom of Information requests.
The 8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) took place from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September.
The ESSIR is the only word-wide school for Information Retrieval (IR). It offers a programme of lectures on the management of information on the Internet for a range of people, including students, researchers and people in industry.
In his keynote lecture Professor Shadbolt discussed the challenges of Information Retrieval and Web Science.
On the 26th of August Wendy Hall was a panellist on the long running show “Any Questions?” where audience members ask questions on a variety of topics.
The other panellists were the theatre director and Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly, the UK Director of Islamic Relief, Jehangir Malik, and columnist Margaret Doyle.
A wide range of topics were discussed, including Libya, obesity, the Brain Drain in the U.K., social networking sites and Big Brother.
The 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) took place in Bonn in Germany from the 23rd to the 27th of October.
The ISWC is the leading conference on the Semantic Web. The programme included tutorials, workshops and presentations on the latest research and innovations.
The conference was held in Barcelona and the talk was entitled “Towards a Smarter Web.”
The conference has been running for 22 years and this year took place from the 16th to the 22nd of July. The theme was “Integrated and Embedded Artificial Intelligence” and focussed on Artificial Intelligence which crosses disciplinary boundaries.
The conference took place from the 26th of June to the 1st of July. Professor Shadbolt discussed the Open Government Data initiative and crowdsourcing, which is the outsourcing of a large task to a group of people via an open call.
The conference, which is held every 4 years and was opened by acclaimed BBC reporter Kate Adie, is a forum for debate on geographical information for chief executives of national mapping organisations and other interested parties.