Dear all (i.e. Open Linguistics, Wiktionary2RDF, DBpedia and NIF community), (Note, that this is not an announcement per se. We would like you to participate and give feedback, otherwise the workshop might not be organized. See below for what we need, please answer within a few days).

I have the chance to organize a workshop in connection with the SABRE conference in Leipzig (http://sabre2012.infai.org/) and the Leipziger Semantic Web Day (http://aksw.org/Events/2012/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay). The workshop would be two days (24.9.-25.9.) and it would probably be a continuation of the Linked Data in Linguistics Workshop held in Frankfurt in March ( http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/) with a different topic/attitude of course. This time the workshop would not only be for researchers, but also industry and commercial consumers of the data produced by research. Tentative title is "Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises"

The rough draft of the plan is as follows:

Monday 24th: Code-Sprint-a-Thon (hands-on workshop) and developers meet-up for DBpedia, LLOD cloud, Wiktionary2RDF, NIF: - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Internationalization - http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/ - http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary - http://nlp2rdf.org/about Maybe also Spotlight?: http://dbpedia.org/spotlight

The Code-Sprint-a-Thon would invite data providers and non-developers to attend and give input for this day in form of use cases, wishes, data and requirements. Result will be more Open Data, more links, more tools, more LOD. We can even make Data Post Proceedings.

Tuesday 25th: Presentation of the results of the Code-Sprint-a-Thon Presentation/Discussion Topics: - How can we unlock the data created by research for enterprises? What is missing? How can we build bridges? - Open-source and open-licences for software has shown that it can be successful in a commercial environment. How can we transfer these models to Multilingual Linked Open Data? - What is the meaning of "Open" in Linked Open Data? - What are appropriate licenses for research data? CC-BY + SA? + NC? + ND? (following the discussion on this thread: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-linguistics/2012-May/000278.html) In parallel, there will be the Leipziger Semantic Web Day: http://aksw.org/Events/2012/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay so you can hop conferences on the second day.

Steven Moran will help me organize the workshop. We would need feedback in the following way: Please tell us as soon as possible, - if you would attend (fee is 80 Euros for one day and 150 for 2 days, 10 Euro for students). - if you would act as a sponsor (we will use your money mainly to bring developers in, who need financial aid). - if you would like to give a presentation have ideas about topics, we should discuss. - if you would like to become a chair/organizer of this workshop (we are looking for chairs in each of the areas, possibly having more than 10 active chairs/organizers in the end).

You can cross-post lists (if pertinent), reply to your own list or send us private messages: hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de, steve.moran@lmu.de

Decisions will be made within the next few days.

All the best, Sebastian (Hellmann) and Steven (Moran)