SWIB17 - Semantic Web in Libraries

SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organisations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications and LOD activities in other areas.

As in prior years, SWIB17 will be organised by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz).

The conference language is English.

The SWIB programme committee:

• Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
• Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
• Christina Harlow (Stanford University, USA)
• Jana Hentschke (German National Library)
• Anja Jentzsch (HPI, Germany)
• Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden)
• Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute)
• Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany - Chair)
• Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair)
• Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
• MJ Suhonos (Ryerson University, Canada)
• Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
• Jakob Voß (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)