Growth in Semantic Web related conferences last 10 years

By Roy Lachica, June 15. 2012

We at Webnodes are developing a Semantic CMS and it is crucial for us to know if the Semantic Web is getting traction or not. Last year we made a popular blog post on who is using Semantic Web technologies. This time we have mapped all Semantic Web related conference events over the last ten years. 

The graph below shows conferences where the main topic is (or closely related to) the Semantic Web. For further selection criteria see bottom of page.

Results

Data

 2001

• International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS 2001) http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/ 

 2002

• First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002) http://iswc2002.semanticweb.org
• 11th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002)  http://www2002.org/

 2003

• 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003)  http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org
• 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003)  http://www2003.org/

 2004

• 1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS 2004) www.esws2004.org
• 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)
• 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004)  http://wwwconference.org/www2004/
• IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004)  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI0

2005

• 2nd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005) http://www.eswc2005.org/
• 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005) http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org
• 2005 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2005) http://www.slideshare.net/bpa777/semantic-searchstc2005final
• 1st online Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2005)     http://www.cc.uah.es/msicilia/metadata-conf/
• 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005)  http://wwwconference.org/www2005/  
• 1st International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GEOS 2005)  http://www.geosco.org/geos2005/
• IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005)  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/

2006

• 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006) www.eswc2006.org/
• 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006) http://semanticweb.org/wiki/ISWC2006
• 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2006) www.aswc2006.org
• 2006 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2006) http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jena-dev/message/19878
• The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS 2006) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/SWWS/index_html
• 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)    http://wwwconference.org/www2006/ 
• IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006)   http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/

 2007

• 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007) www.eswc2007.org/
• 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007) http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iswc/iswc2007.html
• SABRE Conference on Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007) http://aksw.org/SocialSemanticWebConference
• 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007) (http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/ (collocated with ISWC 2007)
• 1st IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007) http://semanticweb.org/wiki/IEEE-ICSC_2007
• 2007 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2007) http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SemTech_2007
• 2rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2007)    http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/mtsr/mtsr2007.html
• The 2007 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2007) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/conferences/SWWS07
• 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007)  http://wwwconference.org/www2007/
• 2rd International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GEOS2007) http://geosco.org/geos2007
• 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2007) http://www.culturegrid.net/SKG2007/
• IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007) http://xanadu.cs.sjsu.edu/~drtylin/wi07/wi/
• 1st European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2007) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2007Feb/0000.html

2008

• 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008) http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/esws/eswc2008.html
• 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org
• 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008) (www.aswc2006.org)
• 5th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2008)
• 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008) http://icsc.eecs.uci.edu/
• 2008 Semantic technology conference (SemTech2008) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb965744.htm
• The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2008) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/swws08
• The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2008) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008
• 6th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008
• 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)  http://www2008.org/CFP/index.html
• 4th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid 2008 (SKG 2008)   http://www.culturegrid.net/SKG2008/
• The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence (WI 2008)  http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/
• 1st International  SWAT4LS  workshop. Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2008) http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/edimburgh2008/
• Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2008) http://www.iscb.org/cshals2008
• 2nd European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2008) http://www.sti2.org/content/2nd-european-semantic-technology-conference-estc2008-0
• LinkedData Planet – Conference & Expo 2008  http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/04/17/linkeddata-planet-conference-expo-2008/
• Ontology for the Intelligence community (OIC 2008) http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08/papers.html

2009

• 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009) www.eswc2009.org/
• 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org
• 4th Annual Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009) http://www.aswc2009.org/
• Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2009) http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/
• 6th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2009) http://escholarship.org/uc/cdl_ipres09
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009) http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsc/
• 2009 Semantic technology conference (SemTech 2009) http://vimeo.com/channels/semtech2009
• 3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2009)  http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/MTSR09/
• The 2009 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2009) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/conferences/swws09
• 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009/
• 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009) http://www2009.org
• 3rd International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GEOS 2009) http://www.geosco.org/geos2009/
• Web Intelligence (WI 2009) http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/
• 2nd International  SWAT4LS  workshop. Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2009) http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/amsterdam2009/
• Semantic Web in biblioteken 2009 (SWIB09)    http://www.swib09.de/
• Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2009) http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2009/
• 3rd Annual European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 (ESTC 2009) http://www.estc2009.com/
• Ontology for the Intelligence community (OIC 2009) http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC09/

2010

• 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) www.eswc2010.org/
• 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010) http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org
• 4th Chinese Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2010) http://arnetminer.org/csws2010_en
• 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2010) http://www.samt2010.org/
• 4th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010) http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ICSC2010/
• 2010 Semantic technology conference (SemTech 2010) http://semtech2010.semanticuniverse.com/
• Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall (SMWCon Fall 2011) http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2010  
• Semantic MediaWiki Conference Spring (SMWCon Spring 2011) http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2010
• 4th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2010) http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/
• The 2010 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2010) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/swws10
• Future Internet Symposium 2010 (FIS 2010) http://www.fis2010.org/
• 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2010) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010
• 4th International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML 2010) http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2010/
• 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010) http://www2010.org/www/about/index.html                     
• The 6th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grids (SKG 2011) http://www.culturegrid.net/skg2010/
• Web Intelligence (WI 2010)  http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/
• 3rd International  SWAT4LS  workshop. Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2010) http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2010/
• Semantic Web in biblioteken 2010 (SWIB10)   http://swib.org/swib10/
• Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2010) http://www.iscb.org/cshals2010
• 4th Annual European Semantic Technology Conference 2010 (ESTC 2010) http://www.prweb.com/releases/Semantic/Technologies/prweb4696384.htm
• Linked AI: AAAI Spring Symposium "Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence" http://www.foaf-project.org/events/linkedai

2011

• 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) www.eswc2011.org/
• 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org 
• 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2011) http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=15031&copyownerid=16219
• Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011)  CSWC 2011+ ASWC 2011 http://www.jist-conference.org/
• 7th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2011)  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/swws11  
• 2011 Semantic technology conference (Semtech 2011) http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/   [Tech/Biz/Industry]
• 3rd Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS2011) http://csws2011.uwaterloo.ca/
• Semantic Tech & Business Conference UK http://semtechuk2011.semanticweb.com/  [Tech/Biz/Industry]
• Semantic Tech & Business Conference East  http://www.mediabistro.com/semanticwebsummit/?c=mbevnt  [Tech/Biz/Industry]
• 5th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011) http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ICSC2011/
• The 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011) www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/
• The International conference on Intelligent Semantic Web-Services and Applications (ISWSA 2011) http://iswsa.ipu.edu.jo/
• 5th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011) http://mtsr2011.yasar.edu.tr 
• The 2011 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS 2011) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/swws11
• 5th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2011) http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2011
• 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML 2011)http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2011ijcai/
• The Third International Conference on Web & Semantic Technology (WeST-2011),  http://coneco2009.com/west2011/west2011.html
• International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2011) www.geosco.org/geos2011
• The 7th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grids (SKG 2011) http://www.culturegrid.net/SKG2011/
• The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2011) http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SEMAPRO11.html
• International Conference on Semantic Technology and Information Retrieval (STAIR'11), www.ftsm.ukm.my/stair11/
• WIMS2011, WIMS  International Conference Series on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics http://wims.vestforsk.no/
• Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall (SMWCon Fall 2011) http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2011
• Semantic MediaWiki Conference Spring (SMWCon Spring 2011) http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2011  
• 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011)  http://wwwconference.org/www2011
• The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2011)  http://liris.cnrs.fr/~wi-iat11/WI_2011/
• 4th International  SWAT4LS  workshop. Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2011) http://www.swat4ls.org/2011/
• Online Information 2011 http://www.online-information.co.uk/digital_assets/7855/OIS2011_agenda.pdf  [Tech/Biz/Industry]
• 1st French Semantic Web conference (SemWeb.Pro 2011)  http://www.semweb.pro/blogentry/1312
• Linked Data Enterprise data pattern workshop, Data-driven Applications on the Web  http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/
• Semantic Web in biblioteken 2011 (SWIB11) http://swib.org/swib11/
• Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives & Museums (LODLAM 2011)  http://www.slideshare.net/adrianstevenson/report-on-the-international-linked-open-data-for-libraries-archives-and-museums-summit
• Dutch Culture Linked Open Data Event 2011 (DCL11) http://www.dcl11.net/
• Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2011) http://www.iscb.org/cshals2011
• SOA and Semantic Technology Symposium 2011  http://www.servicetechsymposium.com/soa_archive/usa2011/ [Tech/Biz/Industry] 

About the study

Conferences were counted by searching online for conferences, by browsing research papers and conference listings as well as publication databases.

Selection criteria

One of the following three criteria had to be met:

• The conference title contained the term ‘Semantic Web’ or
• The conference call for papers/topics section contained one or more predefined keywords [2] or
• The conference call for papers/topics section contained the term Ontology and 2 or more submitted papers for conference proceedings was about one or more of the predefined keywords [2].

Exclusion criteria (events not counted)

• Workshops that are part of a bigger conference.
• Conferences that are co-located and organized by one organizer are counted as one.
• Smaller events such as open days, user group meetings, half day workshops, hack camps or meet-ups.

Event types recorded

• Stand alone conferences, symposiums and summits.
• Workshops that are not part of a conference and which lasts at least 2 days.

[2] Predefined keywords

Semantic Web, RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data, Linked Open Data.

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