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The Best Papers of ISWC2013 have been announced at the closing ceremony!

The finalist Semantic Web challenge entries have been selected and will present today starting at 14:20 in Bayside 202 - 203.

The ISWC2013 metadata includes open access download links to each individual paper of the conference.

You are coordially invited to the ASWC birds-of-a-feather meeting, the Semanic Web meetup and unconference Monday afternoon in the Grand Lodge, Sydney Masonic Conference & Function Centre!

Students, postgraduates and early-career researchers are invited to apply to attend the fifth ISWC Mentoring Lunch to be held on Thursday, October 24th, 2013 at 12.40pm. If you are interested, please apply soon as places are limited!

The Industry Track Chairs have released a preliminary program for the Industry Track. We have also a special ticket for everyone who only wants to attend the Industry Day on Wednesday 23rd of October, which gives access to all sessions on the day, including the Poster & Demo session and the Tuesday 22th of October Workshops/Tutorials!

The Poster and Demo Track Proceedings are now available online at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1035/, including a one-file download version.

The block booking and deals of hotel accommodation for ISWC 2013 end on September 20th. Please book your accommodation before the deadline to make use of the deals! 

This year's conference program will feature some new ideas, in particular, (1) merging the paper presentations by subject across the three conference tracks; (2) paper presentations are shortened to 20 mins; (3) we provision for significantly more break times with real coffee; (4) there will be at most 3-parallel sessions; (5) and a dedicated workshop summary session; (6) and last but not least we will have the conference dinner

All ISWC conferences (2001 to 2013) are covered by the newly published ISWC 2013 metadata! Please join us enhancing the metadata and building cool apps for ISWC2013.

Due to the deadline extensions of some workshops, the demo and poster session and the student travel grants we have extended the early registration by one week to the 23rd of August, 23:59 AEST.

This year CSIRO is organising a beach walk on Bondi, one of Sydney's iconic beaches!

More information about the walk, including instructions on how to sign-up, can be found on the Social Activities page.

A newly introduced track this year will give all the brave musicians in the Semantic Web community the opportunity to entertain the ISWC crowd during the Sydney Harbour Cruise. Check out the Call for details how to get involved.

The call for student volunteers for ISWC2013 is now open! For more details, and to apply, please visit Student Volunteers. Applications are due by 7th October, 2013.

The Research Track accepted 45 papers in total for a 21.5% acceptance rate, the In-Use track accepted 16 papers with a 20% acceptance rate, and the Evaluation Track, in its 2nd year of existence, accepted 10 papers for a 37% acceptance rate. See the list of all accepted papers here.

We are delighted to announce that the ISWC 2013 Poster and Demo Track will have a series of new exciting features.

The chairs of the tutorial track have published the list of accepted tutorials. In total 9 tutorials were accepted, 3 Full Day and 6 Half Day tutorials. More details about the tutorials will follow once the presenters have set up their websites.

We have finalised some of the block booking rates we arranged for ISWC attendees with hotels around Darling Harbour. Check out the accommodation page for more details.

The Workshop Chairs have just released the list of accepted workshops. We will have 9 half-day and 8 full-day workshops ranging from Agriculture to Music to Wasabi and much more.

The organisers of the Posters and Demos Track have just released the full Program Committee for their track.

The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) is currently working with both Google and the CORE ranking team to get the quality and standing of the International Semantic Web Conference series adequately reflected by their respective rankings. For more information please visit the SWSA website.

This year ISWC introduces a Super Saver registration rate for everyone who can't wait to get to Sydney in October. Save 40% on the On-Site registration fee. Register Now!

Prof. Jane Hunter, Leader of the eResearch Lab at the University of Queensland has been confirmed as the first keynote speaker at ISWC 2013, playing the local champion of the semantic Web in Australia.

Raphaël Troncy and David Ratcliffe take on the role of student coordinators.

Please see the individual calls for more details!

• Poster & Demo
• Industry track

Information about these and other calls for papers can be found on the Call for Submissions page.

To get everyone prepared for next year while attending ISWC 2012 the organisation committee has confirmed the important dates for submitting Research Papers, Posters and Demos, Tutorials, Workshop Proposals and the Semantic Web Challenge for ISWC 2013.