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On June 20 and 21, the W3C Semantic Annotations for WSDL (SAWSDL) Working Group is meeting at DERI Galway for its first face-to-face meeting. The SAWSDL WG was started recently in order to bring together the diverse Semantic Web Service research groups and build a standard that will serve as the common ground for describing Web Services semantically. The working group has members from such major Semantic Web Services research centers as DERI, University of Maryland, IBM and many others.

The 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference will be held in Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006. It will present the latest results in research and application in semantic web technologies (including knowledge markup languages, Semantic Web services, ontology management and more).
ESWC 2006 will also feature a special industry-oriented event providing European industry with an opportunity to become even more familiar with these technologies. It will offer a tutorial program, focusing on the latest in Semantic Web technologies.
ESWC 2006 is co-located with a meeting of the Knowledge Web network of excellence . Workshops and meetings of other European Commission 6th Framework Programme projects involved in the semantic web and semantic web technologies will be able to showcase their developments.
For full conference details, please log on to the ESWC2006 website.

For the Canadian SWWS, the Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) is inviting original, relevant (context of the semantic Web), high quality papers from all over the world. Some of the contributions may be full papers, short papers or tutorials proposals. Tutorials should be based on simple concepts, applications and tools of interest to a wide range of public.

The 'New Wave' investigates the next wave of capability for the web, the semantic and pervasive web, and how these will transform society over the next decade. It will scrutinize the cyber future for business and industry and show how the commercial world is adopting and adapting the latest academic and industrial research.

The strong growth in wireless communications and the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices have created a global computing environment that plays a key role in the daily activities of millions of people. Users communicate, work, and confer using a wide range of devices all connected via an array of communication networks that provide voice and data access regardless of geographic position.
This infrastructure aggregation presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: scale, variable and intermittent connectivity, provision of location-dependent applications, bandwidth/power consumption, device size limitations, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks.
Conventional issues in data management have to be thought and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including semantics of data, location-centric data services, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability techniques, security of data, as well as privacy questions have to be addressed. MDM'06 focuses on challenges and opportunities for data management and access technology in the evolving world of mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing.

The central event of eGalway week will be the Broadband Conference & Expo on Wednesday 26th of April in the Radisson Hotel. At this, Internet Service Providers, eBusinesses and the Public sector will demonstrate the many uses of the Internet and the services and products people can avail of online. The Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, will be addressing the conference. There is no charge to attend the event in the Radisson and we are invited to attend.

The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop common a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services. The intent of this challenge is to explore the trade-offs among existing approaches. Additionally we would like to figure out which parts of problem space may not yet be covered. The workshops aim to provide a forum for discussion based on a common application. This Challenge workshops seeks participation from industry and academic researchers developing software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability to automate mediation, choreography and discovery processes between Web services.

The organizing committee of the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-WBC 2006) workshop is soliciting contributions as full, short or position papers. These papers may describe complete or work in progress about emerging theories, applications, technologies and tools of interest and value to Web-based communities.
Keynote speech by an expert in the field (to be announced). Selected papers to be published in the proceedings of the workshop and best papers to appear in related jounal recommended by the main conference organizers.
Submission Deadline (papers): November 25 th, 2005, Notification of acceptance: December 25th 2005, Final Manuscripts: January 10th, 2006.