ESWC-16 Conference Live app Challenge
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ESWC2016 http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/
May 29th, 2016 - June 2nd​, 2016
Anissaras, Crete, Greece
FULL DETAILS of the CHALLENGE at https://github.com/AnLiGentile/ESWC-16-ConferenceLive-challenge
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In the past two years the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) has provided a semantic Web application to browse conference data.
The application, called Conference Live, is a Web and mobile application based on conference data from the Semantic Web Dog Food server, which provides facilities to browse papers and authors at a specific conference. The data-backend is provided by the metadata chairs, while the front-end application has been developed by different teams for ESWC2014(http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/eswc2014) and ESWC2015 (http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/eswc2015). In this challenge we call for a front-end application for ESWC2016. The task consist in implementing a system that allows the navigation of ESWC-16 semantic metadata. The system should satisfy specific requirements indicated in the call. The metadata chairs provide:

- data which is enriched with social features (e.g. integrated Twitter accounts of paper authors), scheduling features (calendar information are attached for paper presentations and social events)
- a backend service to vote for publications, if the conference includes sessions where participants can vote, as it is popular e.g. for poster and demo sessions.


Submissions will consist of:

1. A summary description (abstract) of up to 200 words;
2. A paper presenting the details of the implemented method, which discusses its novelty (if applicable), and highlights its strengths and weaknesses;
3. Web Access: the Web application must be fully implemented and the code must be accessible either via the Web (e.g github) or downloadable. In particular, the application should be:
- Open Source
- compatible with Cordova framework (https://cordova.apache.org/)

Full details of the challenge, related data and material can be found at
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https://github.com/AnLiGentile/ESWC-16-ConferenceLive-challenge
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Important Dates

- Challenge papers and systems submission deadline: Friday March 11th, 2016
- Challenge paper reviews due: Tuesday April 5th, 2016
- Notifications sent to participants: Friday April 8th, 2016
- Final ESWC 2016 data published (for final test of the winning system): Friday April 8th, 2016
- Camera ready papers due: Sunday April 24th, 2016​

The notification will already declare the winning system, which will be distributed by Conference Live (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Conference+Live) as the official ESWC-16 App.
If a winning system cannot be proclaimed (e.g. all submissions fail to meet the minimum requisites) the metadata chair will provide a Conference Live baseline system.

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Organising Committee

- Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, STLab-CNR, Italy
- Valentina Presutti, STLab-CNR, Italy