With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.

The IKS project was glad to be sponsors of the I-SEMANTICS 2012 – 8th Int. Conference on Semantic Systems in Graz, Austria.

As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for Research and Application Papers include (but are not limited to):

• The Web of Data
• Quality of Semantic Data on the Web
• Corporate Semantic Web
• Semantic Content Engineering
• Semantic Multimedia
• Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
• (Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets