Vestlandsforsking has recently prepared a report on semantic markup for NCE-Tourism.

Notes from the UDC Seminar "Classification & ontology" in Hague last week, with a special emphasize on Patrick Hayes' keynote speech.

Vestlandsforsking ved forskingsleiar Carlo Aall og Høgskulen i Oslo ved professor Karl Georg Høyer deltok som assosierte partnarar under opninga av The Nordic Centre of Excellence NORD-STAR (Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research).

The WIMS'11 Conference is about to start and the keynotes will be streamed.

Vestlandsforsking, Sogndal is hosting the 1st International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS’11) at Quality Hotel Sogndal from May 25 to 27, 2011. Inaugural keynote address will be delivered by Professor Jim Hendler, Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI, USA). Hendler helps lead the Tetherless World Constellation on increasing access to information at any...

We will arrange a new seminar in our series of semantic technology topics: this time about SPARQL. The seminar will be held on Quality Sogndal Hotel on Friday 25th of March, at 13.00 (GMT +1), but will also be streamed on the Net.

Topic Maps by Lars Marius Garshol, Bouvet

The aim of the seminar is to discuss strategies for reducing toxic exhaust emissions, improving combustion and decreasing fuel consumption. The seminar brings together experts on exhaust emissions analysis, fuel properties, pre-treatment and additive technologies. Transport operators will present their perspectives. There will be discussions on research needs and funding. The seminar will be strea...

The WIMS '11 Conference arranged by Vestlandsforsking May 25-27 has recieved a lot of high quality papers. Registration is now open both for authors presenting accepted papers and for anyone else that wishes to attend the conference.

Western Norway Research Institute organised a parallel session on climate adaptation at a Norwegian conference on societal safety and security on 3 January 2011.

Robert Engels, Vestlandsforsking/ESIS

Terje Aaberge, Vestlandsforsking

Vestlandsforsking is 25 years and we are celebrating this by offering a series of seminars on semantic technologies. The series starts Thursday 11th of Nov and will continue until June 2011. All seminars will be streamed and the video will also be available for download afterwards. More information about the dates for the seminars in 2011 will follow later. The topics to be presented in 2011 are ...

Clim-ATIC invited to its international project conference in Florø, Norway, 26-27 October 2010. It was streamed live here at wnri.no.

Program, recorded videos and presentations from the international conference on Climate Change Adaptation in the Northern Periphery in Florø 26th and 27th of October, and Leikanger the 28th.

Rajendra Akerkar has been appointed as a member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee for Semantic Computing.

The conference” ISO 15926 and Semantic Technologies” took place in Sogndal September 9. – 10.

In the weeks to come, we will publish podcasts on local adaptation to climate change.