[open-development] EDF2014 in Athens, Greece, 19-20 March 2014 – Call for Contributions

Tue Oct 22 09:28:20 UTC 2013

Dear all*
*(apologies for cross posting)

The organising committee<http://2014.data-forum.eu/about/organizing-committee>
of
the European Data Forum 2014 (EDF2014) is very happy to announce the Call
for Contributions for the EDF2014. The next
edition<http://2014.data-forum.eu/> of
the European Data Forum will take place on 19th and 20th of March 2014 in
Athens, Greece.

Hereby we would like to invite you to submit your proposal for a
presentation at the EDF2014 - see all relevant information below as well as
on the Call for Contributions website <http://bit.ly/EDF2014_CfC>. The
deadline for the CfC is 10 December 2013.

The CfC specifically mentions *Open Data, Linked Data and Big data for
development*, so it would be great to see contributions from this group on
that topic!

We would also like to inform you that there is a Call for
Exhibition<http://bit.ly/EDF2014_CfE> (CfE)
in place and that the EDF2014 is offering interesting sponsoring
bundles<http://bit.ly/EDF2014_sponsoring> for
organisations, projects and enterprises.

Kind Regards,

Sander van der Waal

Dissemination Chair Open Data

*European Data Forum - EDF2014 - Call for Contributions*

*The European Data Forum (EDF)* is an annual *meeting place for industry,
research, policy makers, and community initiatives* to discuss the
challenges and opportunities of data in Europe, especially in the light of
recent developments such as *Open Data, Linked Data and Big Data*. The
forum balances technical (the technology and infrastructure needed to
master the volume, heterogeneity and dynamicity of today’s data),
application (new products and services that are now possible due to Open
Data, Linked Data and Big Data), and socio-economic issues (social impact,
legal issues, government policies and regulations, business models,
commercialization and innovation in this new era).

Our aim is to *bring together all stakeholders involved in the data value
chain* to exchange ideas that address the above challenges and
opportunities, in order to strengthen the European data economy and its
positioning worldwide. Discussions at EDF provide input to research,
development, and policy activities at the European Commission (e.g. Horizon
2020) and those of the EU member states, with the aim of influencing the
development of the *new European data economy*.

An additional goal of the European Data Forum is to *establish and foster a
truly European data community and ecosystem*. This emerging community
enables promising ideas to move from the stage of research questions all
the way to successful deployment and market introduction. At the same time,
its stakeholders will mutually reinforce their strategies that will result
in a forward-looking, dynamic, and well-integrated EU-wide ecosystem.

Because of the strategic importance of multilingualism in Europe, EDF 2014
will promote the integration and co-operation of the European data
community and the language resources and technology community. The synergy
of these communities is critical for new types of multilingual digital
services and the *creation of a European digital single market without
language barriers*.

*EDF 2014 will be held in Athens, Greece on March 19-20, 2014*. The program
will consist of a mixture of presentations, panels and networking sessions
by industry, academics, policy makers, and community initiatives. Topics
will cover a wide spectrum of research and technology development,
applications, and socio-economic aspects of the data value chain.

With this call for contributions, we are seeking inspiring presentations
addressing the topics listed below:

   - *Innovative research and technology for Open Data, Linked Data and Big
   Data*
      - New data models, languages and system architectures
      - Visualisation techniques
      - Data and content analytics - data mining
      - Semantic technologies and the Web of data
      - Geospatial information and its importance in the new era
      - Language resources and technologies in the new data value chain
   - *Applications*
      - Innovative Open Data, Linked Data and Big Data applications in
      different sectors of the European economy (geospatial, finance and
      insurance, health, energy, telecommunications etc.)
      - Open Data, Linked Data and Big data for development
      - Particularly welcome in this year’s EDF are applications showcasing
      how governments and the public sector are making use and benefiting from
      Open Data, Linked Data and/or Big Data.
   - *Socio-economic and policy issues*
      - Economic and business models for new data markets
      - Legal issues, policies and the European regulatory framework
      - Cross-sector learning and collaboration for Open Data
      - Security and privacy
      - Data governance
   - *Data visions for the future*

We distinguish between the following types of presentations:

   - *In-use contribution*: Presentations with a practical, industry- or
   user-oriented focus by representatives of technology providers, adopters,
   and user organizations.
   - *Research contribution*: Presentations with a technical focus by
   representatives of academia and researchcentres. Research contributions
   should summarize a broad range of techniques, methodologies or tools of
   relevance to Open Data, Linked Data and Big Data that have been recently
   developed by the presenters; papers on specific technical results or
   systems should be rather submitted to specialized research conferences.
   - *Impact contribution*: Presentations with a specific focus on
   impact-creation activities including policy development,
   road-mapping, standardisation, exploitation and training.

Each proposal for a presentation will have to provide the following
information:

   - Contributor names and short CVs
   - Type of the presentation proposed
   - Title of the presentation
   - Summary of the presentation (100 words)
   - Extended abstract of the presentation (at most 4 pages
   in 11pt A4 format)

Proposals for presentations should be submitted as *a single PDF file* at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edf2014. If you experience any
difficulties using the submission system, please send the proposal via
e-mail to edf2014 at data-forum.eu <edf2014 at data-forum.eu?subject=EDF2014>.
Proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee of EDF 2014
according to their relevance to the scope and purpose of the event.

*Important Dates*

   - Submission of proposals:  *December 10 2013, 22.00pm CET*
   - Notification of acceptance or rejection: *early January 2014*
   - Full EDF2014 program available: *end of January 2014*

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*EDF2014 facts*

EDF2014 website: http://2014.data-forum.eu/
Overall EDF website: http://www.data-forum.eu/
LinkedIn Group: http://bit.ly/linkedin-EDF
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/EUDataForum
twitter hashtag: #EDF2014

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Sander van der Waal

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@sandervdwaal<https://twitter.com/sandervdwaal>

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