European Semantic Web Conference 2009

Sketchy notes from the European Semantic Conference 2009 plus two workshops. 45 papers plus 8 in-use track plus 24 on the demo track and 8 in the phd symposium in the main conference track. A good conference. Some of the issues I found interesing was \Controlled natural language English used in wikis for making semantic information, SCOVO for dataset, the report about SPARQL not being good enough for scientic databases, where ordinary SQL has worked, the combination of tagging and ontologies. The Finnishs have large cultural ontologies. The conference generally sees the \Semantic Web as RDF, triples and OWL. Linked data was much mentioned.