Although there are a lot of Semantic Web conferences, most of them are either a long way away from London, or are unnecessarily academic/corporate. At SemanticCamp, there's no Call For Papers and no paid product placement. When you are at a BarCamp, you are a participant, not just an attendee. All those interesting conversations you have in corridors at ordinary conferences are the sort of conversations that happen in the sessions at BarCamp.
If you aren't interested in the Semantic Web, then you should try and formulate another possible *Camp event in London that follows a similar model. Why not FoodCamp or AccessibilityCamp or DesignCamp? If there are interesting/interested people and topics, start one up!
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| name | organisation/contact | session topic ideas | other topics i'd like to hear about |
| Jonathan Chetwynd | j.chetwynd@btinternet.com | Accessibility | GUI schema |
| Mark Ng | barcampwiki@markng.co.uk | spidering XFN with PHP | RDF, APML, Microformats |
| Paul S Bacchus | paulsbacchus@googlemail.com | | |
| Rob McKinnon | TheyWorkForYou.co.nz | meaning as a process of hyperlinking, humans ultimate arbiters of subject identity (plus hpricot, haml, yaml, published subject indicators, topic maps) | how we solve global problems with this stuff |
| Jeremy Keith | Clearleft | microformats | |
| Mike Davies | isolani | Atom, AtomAPP, OPML, JSON | RDF engines, OpenId |
| Ashok Argent-Katwala | Imperial College London + personal projects | | tying together overlapping semantic info, e.g. when two different namespaces express some of the same topics in RDF |
| Lance Wicks | lw@judocoach.com | | |
| Steve Harris | steve . harris at garlik . com | Linked data | |
| Rob Styles, Debt Relief | rob.styles@talis.com | Linked Data Licensing | |
| Benjamin Nowack | semsol | RDF, SPARQLing microformats, Online Social Graph aggregation, RDFAuth, SPARQL-based Web development | APML |
| Dirk Olbertz | dirk.olbertz@gmail.com | NoseRub, distributed social networks | OAuth, SPARQL |
| Chris Jackson | Meta Broadcast | making TV more open, using RDF | making RDF accessible to more developers |
| -AlisonW- | Creative Org & Wikimedia UK | OpenID+FOAF+Openqabal as a way of linking open content sites | As I didn't notice the new 'sign-up' requirement appear (and had thought this was it ages ago) then it seems I won't be there after all. Sorry folks! |
| Ian Forrester | BBC Backstage | XML databases/data portability/Cocoon/APML | Anything XSL |
| Daniel Lewis | OpenLink Software | Data Spaces, Social-Semantic Development, Linked Data | Attention Profiling Algorithms, Agent Tech on the SemWeb |
| Sheila Thomson | | | XML, XSL, data exchange, microformats, OpenId |
| Christopher Sutton | C4DM / barcamp at chrissutton dot org | SW tech for digital music collections | user interfaces, SW PIM |
| Yves Raimond | C4DM / yves at dbtune dot org | Linked data for music-related information | record linkage, user interfaces, PIM |
| Georgi Kobilarov | HP Labs, gkob at gmx dot de | Linked Data, DBpedia, Linked Data UIs | |
| Augusta | gaugusta@gmail | Linked Data | |
| Afraz Jaffri | a.o.jaffri@ecs.soton.ac.uk | Linked Data | |
| Inigo Surguy | inigo.surguy@67bricks.com | Data mining with SemWeb approaches (or, since lots of people seem interested in XSL, I could talk about that instead) | SW UIs, scalability, SW tools in functional programming languages |
| Sam Herbert | sam.herbert@67bricks.com | Selling the Semantic Web to business | |
| Premasagar Rose | Dharmafly / p@premasagar.com | Compound microformats | OAuth, New microformats (e.g. hAudio), OpenID, APML, GRDDL, SPARQL, Social benefits of semantics |
| Michael Smethurst | [michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk | | RDF for TV and Radio (+ Music) / Linked data / Data mining |
| Caz Mockett | Mockett Media | Lead discussion on Microformats (particularly hCard) and anti-spam measures | Portable social networks |
| Frances Berriman | BBC / microformats.org | Microformat community / "The Process" / Getting Microformats into large Orgs (BBC) | GRDDL |
| Riccardo Cambiassi | Headshift | oAuth / trust / social news reading | clever stuff |
| Paul Downey | Osmosoft | microformats nanoformats OAuth | visualisations |
| Jure Cuhalev | Zemanta | bringing contextual and "semantic" tools to bloggers | intergrating and mashing up with other solutions |
| Eamonn Neylon | Schrödinger’s Vet | asertion based networks | spidering techniques |
| Charlton Barreto | Charlton Barreto | microformats nanoformats rules policies | simulation |
| James Littlejohn | aboynejames | data portability | future simulation |
| Hugh Williams | OpenLink Software | Data Spaces, Linked Data | Semantic Web Applications |
| Twain | twain2020@gmail.com | | |
| David McBride | Imperial College, Dept. of Computing | Authentication systems | Anything and everything.. |
| Nicholas Humfrey | BBC Radio | Streaming RDF over multicast! | Music and Programmes ontologies |
| Jon Linklater-Johnson | Student | From the man that brought you Specificity Snap: Semantopoly - Semantic / Social/Open Network Monopoly | APML, Microformats |
| Graham Higgins | Bel EPA | cognitive psychology and usability | anything practical |
| Patrick Sinclair | BBC Radio | Linked data - music/programmes ontologies | Data mining/visualisations |
| Yasser Chuttur | Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, USA | social aspects of semantic web - To what extent do friends have similar interests over social networks - what makes a friend A friend? | rdf databases, privacy issues and data collection from social websites |
| Adrian Walker | Reengineering , USA | Semantic Wiki for executable English (Flash video) | End-author enablers for SPARQL and RDF, English explanations from ontologies |
Raju Bitter | Optaros Germany | semantic rich Internet applications (sRIA) | Sorry, won't make it this time! |
| Cennydd Bowles | uSwitch | Semantic Web design challenges - how do we get the world excited about it? | UI patterns, usability, commercial application of Semantic Web concepts, knowledge representation, data portability |
| John Sheridan | The Office of Public Sector Information | How public sector information might contribute to the Semantic Web - in particular how legislative concepts might be used | Sem Web applications |
| Evgeny Shadchnev | evgeny.shadchnev@gmail.com | aggregating data in semantic databases (like freebase) | data visualisation |
| Mohamed Jama | mjama@sapient.com | data collection from social websites and usability | |
| Francois Dongier | francois.dongier@gmail.com | Dataweb; APML, data portability; semantic search | Filtering of RSS feeds; grounding user profiles into semantic databases (DbPedia, Twine, Freebase). Semantic social networks & e-learning. |
| Stephane Monteil | stephane@engineering-studio.com | Data Representation & visualisation | Semantic Web for the consumer market, personal database, business models |
