Winners of the Semantic Web Challenge 2010

The winners of the Semantic Web Challenge 2010 have been announced in the ISWC closing ceremony. The SWC chairs, Diana Maynard and Chris Bizer, as well as the complete jury congratulates the following teams:

Open Track

Runners-up:

• Falcons Explorer (Gong Cheng, Huiyao Wu, Saisai Gong, Weiyi Ge, and Yuzhong Qu)
• Exploring Your Research (Fergal Monaghan, Georgeta Bordea, Krystian Samp, and Paul Buitelaar)
• Put a Facebook button (Giovanni Tummarello, Szymon Danielczyk, Michele Mostarda, Davide Palmisano, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker)

Billion Triples Track

Runner-up:

• High Performance Semantic Factoring Cliff Joslyn, Bob Adolf, Sinan al-Saffar, John Feo, Eric Goodman, David Haglin, Greg Mackey, and David Mizell

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to our participants, advisory board and our sponsor Elsevier Science for making SWC 2010 again such a successful event!
Press release about the Semantic Web Challenge 2010

Evaluation Committee of the Semantic Web Challenge 2010

• Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Tim Finin (University of Maryland, USA)
• Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc., USA)
• Ivan Herman (W3C, Netherlands)
• Peter Mika (Yahoo!, Spain)
• Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio, Brasil)
• Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Sweitze Roffel (Elsevier, USA)

Submissions to the Semantic Web Challenge 2010

1. NCBO Resource Index: Ontology-Based Search and Mining of Biomedical Resources
   (Clement Jonquet, Paea LePendu, Sean M. Falconer, Adrien Coulet, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, and Nigam H. Shah) Demo
2. Falcons Explorer: Tabular and Relational End-user Programming for the Web of Data
   (Gong Cheng, Huiyao Wu, Saisai Gong, Weiyi Ge, and Yuzhong Qu) Demo
3. The 20th Century Press Archives as Linked Data Application (Joachim Neubert) Demo
4. Twitris 2.0 : Semantically Empowered System for Understanding Perceptions From Social Data
   (Ashutosh Jadhav, Hemant Purohit, Pavan Kapanipathi, Pramod Ananthram, Ajith Ranabahu, Vinh Nguyen, Pablo N. Mendes, Alan Gary Smith, Michael Cooney, and Amit Sheth) Demo
5. Supporting Technical Decision-Making with InSciTe
   (Seungwoo Lee, Mikyoung Lee, Hanmin Jung, Pyung Kim, Taehong Kim, Dongmin Seo, Won-Kyung Sung)
6. Innovation Development using a Semantic Web Platform: A case-study from the National Health Service in England
   (Mark Birbeck, Michael Wilkinson) Demo
7. SemWebVid - Making Video a First Class Semantic Web Citizen and a First Class Web Bourgeois
   (Thomas Steiner, Michael Hausenblas) Demo (see paper for login details)
8. Exploring Your Research: Sprinkling some Saffron on Semantic Web Dog Food
   (Fergal Monaghan, Georgeta Bordea, Krystian Samp, and Paul Buitelaar) Demo
9. SocialWall: Make Your Semantic Government-related Poster on iPad
   (Haofen Wang, Xinruo Sun, Xing Niu, Lin Zhou, Zhongyang Fu, Shu Rong, and Yong Yu) Demo
10. TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linking Open Government Data
    (Dominic DiFranzo, Li Ding, John S. Erickson, Xian Li, Tim Lebo, James Michaelis, Alvaro Graves, Gregory Todd Williams, Jin Guang Zheng, Johanna Flores, Zhenning Shangguan, Gino Gervasio, Deborah L. McGuinness and Jim Hendler) Demo
11. http://dayta.me - A Personal News + Data Recommender for Your Day
    (Ali Al-Mahrubi, Gianluca Correndo, Hugh Glaser, Augustinas Grieze, Stephen Lynch, Ian C. Millard, Emmanuel Munyadzwe, Tope Omitola, Igor Popov, Darren Richardson, Manuel Salvadores, Daniel A. Smith, Max Van Kleek, Yang Yang, mc schraefel, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Nigel Shadbolt) Demo
12. Shortipedia - Aggregating and Curating Semantic Web Data
    (Denny Vrandecic, Varun Ratnakar, Markus Kr�tzsch, and Yolanda Gil) Demo
13. Put a Facebook button, get the entire Web of Data to work for you
    (Giovanni Tummarello, Szymon Danielczyk, Michele Mostarda, Davide Palmisano, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker)
14. BAOSearch: A Semantic Web Application for Biological Screening and Drug Discovery Research
    (Saminda Abeyruwan, Caty Chung, Nakul Datar, Felimon Gayanilo, Amar Koleti, Vance Lemmon, Christopher Mader, Mitsunori Ogihara, Deepthi Puram, Kunie Sakurai, Robin Smith, Uma Vempati, Sreeharsha Venkatapuram, Ubbo Visser, and Stephan Stephan Schurer) Demo

Submissions to the Billion Triples Challenge Track

1. Creating voiD Descriptions for Web-scale Data
   (Christoph Böhm, Johannes Lorey, Dandy Fenz, Eyk Kny, Matthias Pohl, Felix Naumann) Demo
2. HadoopRDF : A Scalable RDF Data Analysis System
   (Yuan Tian, Jinhang Du, Haofen Wang, Yuan Ni, and Yong Yu)
3. Scalable Online Analysis of Semantic Web Data
   (Pingpeng Yuan, Pu Liu, Buwen Wu, Delong Wu, Huizhong Zhong, Hai Jin) Demo
4. High Performance Semantic Factoring of Giga-Scale Semantic Graph Databases
   (Cliff Joslyn, Bob Adolf, Sinan al-Saffar, John Feo, Eric Goodman, David Haglin, Greg Mackey, and David Mizell) Demo

Data set of the Billion Triples Challenge 2010

Submissions 2009

Winners of the Semantic Web Challenge 2009

Open Track

Runners-up:

• Collaborative Creation of Semantic POI (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
• Linked Geo Data (University of Leipzig, Germany)
• The Information Workbench (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)

Billion Triples Track

Runner-up:

• eRDF (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to our participants, advisory board and our sponsor Elsevier Science for making SWC 2009 again such a successful event!
Press release about the Semantic Web Challenge 2009

Evaluation Committee of the Semantic Web Challenge 2009

• Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA)
• Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, USA)
• Tom Heath (Talis, UK)
• Ivan Herman (W3C, Netherlands)
• Ian Horrocks (Oxford University, UK)
• Asuncion Gomez Perez (Technical University Madrid, Spain)
• Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio, Brasil)
• Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Jamie Taylor (Metaweb, USA)
• Ubbo Visser (University of Miami, USA)

Data set of the Billion Triples Challenge 2009

Submissions 2008

Winners of the Semantic Web Challenge 2008

Open Track

Runners-up:

• IYOUIT (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Telematica Instituut)
• xOperator (University of Leipzig)

Billion Triples Track

Runners-up:

• i-MoCo (University of Zurich)
• SAOR (DERI, NUI Galway)

Honorable mention:

• Virtuoso (OpenLink Software)

Submissions 2007

Winners of Challenge 2007

Runner-ups:

• GroupMe
• iFanzy

Submissions 2006

Winners of Challenge 2006

Runner-ups:

• eMerges: Semantic Web Services GIS based Emergency Management
• Semantic MediaWiki (ontoworld.org)

Honorable mention:

• Falcon-S: An Ontology-Based Approach to Searching Objects and Images in the Soccer Domain
• PaperPuppy: Sniffing the Trail of Semantic Web Publications
• Semantics-based Automatic Metadata Tracking and Service Insertion in Geospatial Web Service Composition
• Dartgrid: a Semantic Web Toolkit for Integrating Heterogeneous Relational Databases

Submissions 2005