News: All presentation slides are available at US2TS Slides

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News: Submit challenges or issues with semantic technologies using this form. We will use your input to discuss current challenges and solutions in a plenary session on Wednesday, March 13.

News: Deborah McGuinness will be our opening keynote speaker.

News: Call for Posters . Deadline: Feb 25, 2019 (first-come first-serve)

News: Call for Lightning Talks . Deadline: Open until slots filled (first-come first-serve)

News: Helena Deus , Technology Research Director at Elsevier will give a keynote.

News: The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) offers a Travel Fellowship program, with a particular focus on increasing diversity at bioinformatics-related events by helping to lower financial barriers to participation. This includes the US2TS conference. Travel awards are up to $1,000, and applications are reviewed three times a year, with the next deadline on Saturday, December 15, 2018. More information, including how to apply, can be found at https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md

News: Registration now available through RegOnline. Please click here for registration.

News: Students and early-career professionals can apply for Travel grant funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Please click here for more details. Application Deadline: December 23, 2018

News: Call for Sessions Proposals. Click here for details. Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2018

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Semantic Web is an inherently multi-disciplinary field. The Artificial Intelligence community has contributed much in the way of formal logic and knowledge representation. Similarly, the applied computer science community, along with industry and government agencies, have contributed with application development and testing. With an ever-growing dependence on the web, and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse, natural science researchers, geoscience, biology, library science, health care, the humanities, just to name a few, have also taken an increasing interest in the Semantic Web. Large-scale industrial applications are under way or already deployed.

Yet, the division between computer science, natural science, and academia/government/industry, has a downside. It limits the formation of a coherent national agenda for exploring emerging trends in Semantic Technologies. What are needed are community consolidation and the building of a U.S.-based community research network.

The goal of the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium series is to bring together the U.S. Semantic Web community and begin forming such a research network. We achieve this by supporting communication across disciplinary, organizational, and geographical boundaries. The Symposium events provide a forum by which participants can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and advance their science and education through communication and the sharing of ideas.

To this end, the 2019 Symposium will be an informal gathering with plenty of time for discussion and breakout sessions. We encourage anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web, regardless of field, to attend.

Main Organizers:

  • Anna Lisa Gentile (Program Chair)
  • Tania Tudorache (Program Chair)
  • Hilmar Lapp (Local Chair)
  • Marshall X Ma (Sponsorships)
  • Amit Joshi (Publicity)
  • Pascal Hitzler (Outgoing General Chair)
  • Krzysztof Janowicz (Outgoing Program Chair)

For all questions please contact the organizers at contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com

Past Event: US2TS 2018