STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners of the 2012 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC). Determined by a jury of leading experts from both academia and industry, winners were announced at the International Semantic Web Conference recently held in Boston, MA. The challenge and allocated prizes were sponsored by Elsevier.
SWC contestants competed in any of two challenge categories - 'Open Track' and 'Billion Triples Track'. Open Track contestants are required to submit applications that utilise the semantics (meaning) of data and applications are designed to operate in an open web environment where information sources are under diverse ownership and control. Billion Triples Track contestants had to reason with a pre-supplied, very big data set of mixed quality.
Of this year's 24 submissions, the panel of experts selected 4 Open Track Challenge winners and 1 Billion Triples Track winner.
The SWC was set up in 2003 to showcase the very latest in semantic web technology. Over the years the challenge has attracted over 165 submissions from across the globe. Every year the final rounds of this competition take place at the annual International Semantic Web Conference. The continuing maturity of the tools and components used to build applications has resulted in increasingly more compelling demonstrations.
