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Picking up Keith Andrews’ suggestion [1], this is a MeetUp focusing on tools, services and projects dealing with Visualization, Apps-creation and Portals/Catalogs for Open [Government] Data. As this MeetUp is on the eve of Austrians first Open Government Data – Conference (OGD2011) we expect to meet experts ans enthusiasts from Austria and abroad.

• 19.00 Come together

• 19.15 Introduction
  Martin Kaltenböck (SWC, OGD Austria)
  The Vienna Semantic Web Meetup and the 1st OGD2011 Conference

• 19.30 Presentations
  Keith Andrews (IICM, Graz University of Technology)
  “Visualising Open Data” [2]
  
  Andreas Blumauer (SWC)
  “Storing, searching, serving Open Government Data – getting
  an overview on the growing market for open data solutions”

  Robert Harm (open3)
  “Introducing DataMaps.eu – free tool for creating visualizations easily” and “Toilet Map Vienna – augmented-reality as a vis-tool for geodata”

• 20.30 Lightning Talks
  Up to max 7-8 Talks not longer than 4 minutes each – just stand up and talk!
  • OpenStreetMap – StateOfTheMap – Europe
  • Crowdsourced Cartography – Manuela Schmidt (TU Wien,
    Forschungsgruppe Kartographie)

• 21.00 Meeting, Greeting, Networking and Music
  Drinks & finger food will be prepared for you.

This will be a mixed language meetup. Be prepared to listen and speak both – german and english.

Registration: http://www.meetup.com/Vienna-Semantic-Web-Meetup/events/16249351/

[1] Keith: It needs to be much more work on providing decent user interfaces to open public data, especially if access is to be easy and intuitive for the general public. Research from the field of information visualisation gives us some pointers as to how we might address this.

[2] Abstract Keith Andrews: As more data becomes available on the web, there is an increasing need to provide intuitive user interfaces to this data, to make it more accessible to a wider audience. Recent advances in web-based information visualisation might point the way…

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[ Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011; 19:00 bis 21:30. ] Picking up Keith Andrews’ suggestion [1], this is a MeetUp focusing on tools, services and projects dealing with Visualization, Apps-creation and Portals/Catalogs for Open [Government] Data. As this MeetUp is on the eve of Austrians first Open Government Data – Conference (OGD2011) we expect to meet experts ans enthusiasts from Austria and abroad.

19.00 Come together

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