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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Tutorial Linked Data for Development (LD4D)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">November 12, 2012 - International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Boston.</span><br>
<a href="http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/tutorials"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/tutorials</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<a href="http://worldwidesemanticweb.wordpress.com/events/ld4d-2012/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://worldwidesemanticweb.wordpress.com/events/ld4d-2012/</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Linked
 Data have by-and-large been designed around centralized, powerful Web 
servers and the (mobile) clients accessing them. As a direct consequence
 of these design decisions, the usage of data-sharing technologies 
depends on the availability of a Web infrastructure comprised of 
data-centers, high-speed, reliable Internet connections, and modern 
client devices. Four-billion people currently have no access to such an 
infrastructure and are thus deprived of the benefits Linked (Open) Data 
provides.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">“Linked
 Data for Development” (LD4D) is a sub-topic of Information and 
Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), referring to the 
specifics of using Linked Data principles in developing countries. In a 
few words, this tutorial is about the need for establishing such 
technology and the potential usages of it. Participants will learn more 
about the specific challenges of ICT4D and play around with some 
technologies being developed to tackle these challenges.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program overview</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">----------------------</span></p>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><div dir="ltr"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse">
<colgroup><col width="99"><col width="525"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">09:00 – 10:30</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ICT4D: what is this about?</span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">10:30 – 11:00</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">break</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">11:00 – 12:30</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">LD4D: how can Linked Data contribute to improving the life conditions?</span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">12:30 – 14:00</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">lunch</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">14:00 – 15:30</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Towards LD4D based systems</span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">15:30 – 16:00</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">break</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">16:00 – 17:30</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:top;padding:7px"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Hands on session</span></p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><br>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Keynote speakers</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">-----------</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Walter
 Bender: Walter Bender is founder of Sugar Labs, a non-profit 
foundation. In 2006, Bender co-founded the One Laptop per Child, a 
non-profit association with Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. As 
director of the MIT Media Laboratory, Bender led a team of researchers 
in fields as varied as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong
 kindergarten. In 1992, Bender founded the MIT News in the Future 
consortium, which launched the era of digital news.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Bernie
 Innocentie: Bernie Innocenti is a Linux software engineer and systems 
administrator who volunteers for OLPC since 2007. In 2009, Bernie 
co-founded Sugar Labs, a community-led project to promote world-wide 
access to free and open education through a constructionist computing 
environment for young learners. Since then, Bernie worked on-site with 
the engineering teams of several OLPC deployments to improve Sugar and 
the underlying Linux platform.</span></p><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Onderzoeker<br>+31(0)6 14576494<br><a href="mailto:christophe.gueret@dans.knaw.nl" target="_blank">christophe.gueret@dans.knaw.nl</a><br><br><b><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)</span></b><br>
DANS bevordert duurzame toegang tot digitale onderzoeksgegevens.<br>Kijk op <a href="http://www.dans.knaw.nl" target="_blank">www.dans.knaw.nl</a> voor meer informatie en contactgegevens.<br>DANS is een instituut van KNAW en NWO.<br>
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