Welcome!

Semedia is a research group on Semantic Web technologies and Multimedia Metadata inside the DIBET department at Universita' Politecnica delle Marche.

Our current contributions areas are:

• Semantic Web and Peer 2 Peer/Linked data
• Semantic Web Digital Libraries
• Semantic Annotation
• Digital Humanities
• Multimedia Metadata Integration (MPEG-7/RDF)
• Semantic Desktop
• Semantic Web based Textual Encoding and Stand-Off? Markup
• Pervasive computing and devices
• Computer-Human interaction

See scientific details in the publication section.

See a list of projects in the projects section.

News and Events

March/2010 Spring School in Pisa

Christian Morbidoni is going to present SwickyNotes? and the MUruca project at the Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice (cache)
in Pisa (Italy), 22-26 March 2010 University of Pisa

February/2010 SWickyNotes is out.

SWickyNotes, the evolution of Philospace (developed in Discovery project) is now available at http://dbin.org/swickynotes/philospace/downloads.php.


__Jenuary/2010 Muruca is hatching!

SeMedia? joins NET7 and other partners in Muruca. The project revolves around the idea of providing a open-source software suite to enable easy start-up of Semantic oriented Digital Libraries.


__Dec/2009 Discovery succeeds!

The EU e-content-plus Discovery went trough its final review and collected excellent reviews from the commission.
Discovery (http://discovery-project.eu/ (cache)) started in 2006 and produces a set of technologies for managing Digital Libraries in the context of Philology and Humanities in general.
SeMedia? has been leading the development of Philospace (http://dbin.org/swickynotes/philospace/ (cache)) a Semantic Web based annotation tool for online libraries.


Jul/2007 Semedia @ ISWC 2007

Semedia (UnivPM) has a research paper accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference 2007. ("RDFSync: efficient remote synchronization of RDF models" by G. Tummarello, C.Morbidoni, R. Bachmann Gmur, O. Erling).

Dec/2006 SWAP 2006, success and prise!

This year the Semantic Web Applications and Perspective Workshop has been held in beautiful Pisa.
SWAP 2006 , Pisa 18-20 Dec. (cache)
Over 130 persons registered and the participation was consistently excellent. Again thanks to all who made this possible and see you at Swap 2007. Thanks also to those who spent words of prise about the event in the blogsphere :-)


9/Nov/2006 - DBin awarded 3rd prize @ SW Challenge 2006!

DBin was awarded 3d prize at the prestigious Semantic Web Challenge held in conjunction with the International Semantic Web conference 2006 (Athens, GA). See the official site here (cache)!

1/Sep/2006 - The Discovery project is about to start!

The EU funded Discovery EContentPlus project (cache), based on Semantic Web and Multimedia technologies including DBin, will officially start on November 1.

1/Aug/2006 - DBin is finalist in the Semantic Web Challenge 2006

DBin is finalist at the 2006 edition of the Semantic Web Challenge. Announcement of the final placement will be made at the International Semantic Web Conference in Athens, GA (USA).
Meet us there at the poster/demo session.

23/Jun/2006 - Ph.D positions available @ SEMEDIA

We announce the availability of Ph.D positions. As an incentive for excellence, we'll be offering a salary up to 50% higher than the standard. Read more.

10/Jun/2006 - DBin version 0.45 "Budva" released!

Version 0.45 offers a good stability and comes bundled with an environment (Brainlet) configured to browse and interact with the data from the European Semantic Web conference held in Budva

10/Feb/2006 - DBin Project Released!




Read our announcement, visit the project homepage!

15/Dec/2005 - SWAP 2005 (held @ University of Trento)




In December 2005, the second edition of Semantic Web Applications and Perspective workshop took place in Trento SWAP 2005 (cache). The proceedings are available for download from the event's homepage.



10/May/2005 - SeMedia? selected as GOOGLE Summer of Code mentor



We're proud to participate as mentors in Google's Summer of Code (cache) initiative, a wonderful opportunity for talented students to develop their skills and contribute to Open Source software. See our ProjectProposalPage.

Update: successful projects list is available here :SoCResults2005


10/Dec/2004 - SWAP 2004@Semedia - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives

In December 2004 we hosted SWAP 2004, an event in cooperation with W3C Italia (cache) and the Hyperl Project (cache). The proceedings are available for download from the event's homepage:

---

HowToReach