Awards

  • SWSA 10 years award
    • Holger Knublauch, Ray W. Fergerson, Natalya Fridman Noy and Mark A. Musen The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications
  • Best paper research track 
    • AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities using Linked Data Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder, Daniel Gerber, Sandro Athaide Coelho, Sören Auer and Andreas Both
  • Best student paper research track
    • OBDA: Query Rewriting or Materialization? In Practice, Both!  Juan F. Sequeda, Marcelo Arenas and Daniel P. Miranker
  • Best in use paper 
    • Semantic Traffic Diagnosis with STAR-CITY: Architecture and Lessons Learned from Deployment in Dublin, Bologna, Miami and Rio Freddy Lecue, Robert Tucker, Simone Tallevi-Diotallevi, Rahul Nair, Yiannis Gkoufas, Giuseppe Liguori, Mauro Borioni, Alexandre Rademaker and Luciano Barbosa
  • Best poster 
    • Extracting Architectural Patterns from Web data, Ujwal Gadiraju, Ricardo Kawase and Stefan Dietze
  • Best demo 
    • Low-Cost Queryable Linked Data through  Triple Pattern Fragments Ruben Verborgh, Olaf Hartig, Ben De Meester, Gerald Haesendonck, Laurens De Vocht, Miel Vander Sande, Richard Cyganiak, Pieter Colpaert, Erik Mannens and Rik Van de Walle
  • Best reviewer(s) research track
    • Birte Glimm, Antoine Zimmermann
  •  Best reviewer(s) in use track
    • Fabian Floeck, Christoph Lange
  • Developer of the year
    • Kjetil Kjernsmo

 

  • Semantic Web challenge prizes
    • Big Data Track Winner
      • Extending Tables with Data from over a Million Websites Oliver Lehmberg, Dominique Ritze, Petar Ristoski, Kai Eckert, Heiko Paulheim and Christian Bizer
    • Open Track Third Place
      • DIVE into the Event-Based Browsing of Linked Historical Media   Victor de Boer, Johan Oomen, Oana Inel, Lora Aroyo, Elco van Staveren, Werner Helmich and Dennis de Beurs 
    • Open Track Second Place
      • Enabling Live Exploration on The Graph of Things Danh Le Phuoc, Hoan Nguyen Mau Quoc, Hung Ngo Quoc, Tuan Tran Nhat and Manfred Hauswirth
    • Open Track Winner
      • Mining the Web of Linked Data with RapidMiner Petar Ristoski, Christian Bizer and Heiko Paulheim

 

LinkedUp Challenge - Vici Competition

  • 3rd prize (shared)
    • AGRIS: the hub for agricultural research - Fabrizio Celli and Johannes Keizer
    • FAO of the United Nations, Italy - Visualizing Research Works in the Water Resources Industry – Ricardo Kawase, Patrick Siehndel and Ujwal Gadiraju, L3S Research Center, Germany
  • 2nd prize:
    • Didactalia: Building and Taking Advantage of Large Educational Knowledge Graph to Improve and Accelerate the Teaching-Learning Process, Ricardo Alonso Maturana, Ana Moreno, María Elena Alvarado and Susana Lopez, GNOSS, Spain
  • 1st prize:
    • FLAX: Flexible Language Acquisition with Linked and Open Data-Driven Learning, Shaoqun Wu, Alannah Fitzgerald and Ian Witten University of Waikato, New Zealand, Concordia University, Canada
  • People's Choice Award:
    • Visualizing Research Works in the Water Resources Industry – Ricardo Kawase, Patrick Siehndel and Ujwal Gadiraju, L3S Research Center, Germany