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The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. More than just a vision, the Web of Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and by the publication of an increasing number of datasets according to the principles of Linked Data. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF, SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL and Yago. The availability of these and many other data sets has paved the way for an increasing number of applications that build on Linked Data, support services designed to reduce the complexity of integrating heterogeneous data from distributed sources, as well as new business opportunities for start-up companies in this space.

The digital footprint of Gian-Carlo Rota 16-18 February 2009 - Milan, Italy The conference is a tribute to the memory of Gian-Carlo Rota, one of the most influential mathematicians of the second half of the 20th century, a founder of modern Combinatorics, and a developer of the philosophical line of thought rooted in the research of Husserl, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. Gian-Carlo Rota's intellectual footprint lies at the crossroads between modern mathematics, phenomenology, and advanced computer science. His legacy is still fostering innovative research in multiple fields. Gian-Carlo Rota's activity both in the US and in Europe (with a special attention to Italy) established a strong link between research communities on different sides of the Atlantic whose effects are still felt to these days.

The Seminar on Stochastic Processes is an ongoing series of conferences. Many of the participants work on such topics as Markov processes, Brownian motion, Superprocesses, Stochastic Analysis, or Mathematical Finance. SSP encourages interaction between young and established researchers, and typically devotes half its program to informal and problem sessions.

Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009) In conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009) Sanibel Island, Florida 8th February 2009

Use Google Spreadsheets API to create a database in the cloud Mr. Jeffrey W Scudder (Google) 30min Intermediate case study, cloud computing, google spreadsheets, online databse, web, web services I'll show you how to create a Python module which wraps the Google Spreadsheets Data API web service in an interface so that it looks like a local database. Using this tool, your application can run anywhere with Internet connectivity and users will be able to take their data with them. The benefit of using Google Spreadsheets for a back-end is that it provides a simple UI which is easy for non programmers to interact with. The cost of provisioning and running a Spreadsheets based database is zero from the perspective of an application developer. This example module provides a toolkit which simplifies interactions with the Google Spreadsheets API for a specific use case: using a spreadsheet like a remote database.

Call for Contributions SCooP aims at joining people from different fields, such as math, computer science, chemistry, physics, biology etc., who are interested in Community of Practice (CoPs). The workshop shall facilitate the exchange of experiences and implementations. In particular, to address questions such as: * What are scientific or educational practices in educational and scientific communities? * Can these practice be automatically detected/ collected/ or modeled? * What are implementations for CoPs? * Which features make these tools so attractive and how do they support (practices of) CoPs?

Évolution des publications scientifiques - Le regard des chercheurs Evolution of Scientific Publications: the Point of View of Scientists Colloque organisé à l’initiative de Jean-François Bach, Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des sciences Inscription obligatoire avant le 27 avril 2007