Thoughts on remixing, provenance and data by Paul Groth
Last week, I was at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026). This is one of my regular conferences and I’m always happy to see both friends and meet new faces. ESWC provides a space with research that intersects data, machine learning, knowledge representation and their joint applications. You can sit in a session … Read More
Last week I was at SIGMOD/PODS 2025 hosted in Berlin. This is one of the leading conferences in data management. This year there were over 1200 attendees. Data management is still hot! Congrats to the Berlin data management community for pulling this off. I was there as one of the senior chairs for the Provenance … Read More
Last week, I was happy to be able to attend the 22nd European Semantic Web Conference. I’m a regular at this conference and it’s great to see many friends and colleagues as well as meet new people. The conference had 279 attendees. I’m happy be a part of a community that is both intellectually dynamic … Read More
Last week, I attended the 21st Extended (European) Semantic Web Conference. The conference was well organised by Dr. Albert Meroño Peñuela from King’s College London. He seemed surprisingly chill during the whole conference. Congrats to him and the organization team on such a good job. The community is as strong as ever with many old … Read More
I’m just getting back from a nice trip to the US where I attended the Academic Data Science Alliance leadership summit and before that the Web Conference 2023 (WWW 2023) in Austin, Texas. This is the premier academic conference on the Web. The conference organisation was led by two friends and collaborators Dr. Juan Sequeda … Read More
The last post on this blog was two years ago at the start the pandemic. It was a trip report on one of the first virtual conferences I attended – the 2020 Knowledge Graph Conference. In the intervening two years, I’ve attended other virtual conferences and even attended a couple of hybrid ones, but I … Read More
Last week, I virtually attended the Knowledge Graph Conference 2020. Originally, KGC was planned to be hosted in New York at Columbia University but, as with everything, had to go online because of the pandemic. Before getting to the content, I wanted to talk about logistics. Kudos to Francois Scharffe and the team for putting … Read More
It’s not so frequently that you get a major international conference in your area of interest around the corner from your house. Luckily for me, that just happened. From June 30th – July 5th, SIGMOD/PODS was hosted here in Amsterdam. SIGMOD/PODS is one of the major conferences on databases and data management. Before diving into the event … Read More
From June 2 – 6, I had the pleasure of attending the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2019 held in Portorož, Solvenia. After ESWC, I had another semantic web visit with Axel Polleres, Sabrina Kirrane and team in Vienna. We had a great time avoiding the heat and talking about data search and other fun projects. I … Read More
About two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the 1st Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction held in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference follows up on a number of successful workshops held at venues like NeurIPS and NAACL. Why a conference and not another workshop? The general chair and host of the conference (and … Read More