Ontoforce challenge at the SWAT4LS hackathon

Our gold sponsor Ontoforce is proposing a challenge for the upcoming SWAT4LS hackathon: define a linked-data representation of people, so that author names from PubMed affiliations can be linked to a URI. We offer an iPad mini to that participant that is able to link most author names in PubMed to a URI. It is allowed to update on existing sources.

New poster submission and early registration deadline

We extended the poster and demo submission deadline on the 17th or October. After this date, we "may" still be able to accept posters, but not to publish them in the proceedings.
Early registration deadline is October 20th!

Announcing paper submissions deadline extensions

We have extended the deadline for submissions to SWAT4LS: the paper submission deadline is now September 30th (same as the poster deadline). Abstract for papers are to be submitted by the 22nd, in order to help with reviewers assignment.

Submissions are open, registration are open, updates on the program!

Submissions to SWAT4LS 2014 are now open, and registrations will open in the morning of September 1st.
Stefan Decker, director at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, will join the current lineup of keynotes.
The preliminary list of tutorials now covers ontologies for HL7, natural language interfaces for the Linked-Data, rule systems, EMBL-EBI RDF resources and relational/rdf integration via ontop.

First keynotes confirmed at SWAT4LS 2014

We have confirmed the first keynotes for SWAT4LS 2014. They will be Andre Dekker , from MAASTRO clinic, NL and Maryann Martone, from UCSD, USA. 

Announcing SWAT4LS 2014

SWAT4LS 2014 will be held this year in Berlin, with the following agenda:
Dec. 9th:   Tutorials
Dec. 10th: Workshop
Dec. 11th: Hackathon

Key dates:Submission opening: June 30th, 2014
Expression of interest for tutorials: August 5th, 2014
Papers submission (abstracts): September 7th, 2014
Papers submission deadline (full text): September 15th, 2014
Posters and demos submission deadline: September 30th, 2014
Communication of acceptance: October 27th, 2014 
Camera ready paper: November 18, 2014

A detailed CfP is available at http://swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2014/

SWAT4LS Updates

We are working on the 2014 edition of SWAT4LS. We have still to finalize the venue, but we are working on having the event in Rome, betweeen mid November and mid December.
On another from, the call for the Journal of Biomedical Semantics SWAT4LS thematic series is now open. Participants who presented in Edinburgh are being offered a discount of 20% of publication fees from BMC. The deadline for this call is May 31st.

A few interviews to keynotes, presenters and participants at SWAT4LS 2013

A few video interviews to keynotes, presenters and participants at SWAT4LS 2013 have been poster on the ecancer.org website.

Proceedings of SWAT4LS 2013 are out

Proceedings of SWAT4LS 2013 have been published on CEUR at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1114