Great news! IFLA has created a Semantic Web Special Interest Group. Details below. -Jodi

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> From: Emmanuelle Bermes <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 30 March 2012 13:26:49 GMT+02:00
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> Subject: IFLA's Semantic Web Special Interest Group
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) has been created within
> IFLA (International Federation of Libraries Associations and
> Institutions).
> This group is intended to gather library professionals interested in
> Semantic Web technologies, and to undertake whatever tasks are needed
> to develop, enhance and facilitate the adoption of semantic Web
> technologies in the library community.
> To know more about the SWSIG, see [1].
> 
> The SIG has its own Web page hosted by IFLA at [2]. The page will
> provide news about the activities of the group, as well as information
> regarding Linked Data and Semantic Web in libraries in general. News
> from the group can be suscribed via RSS [2].
> The group will meet during each IFLA congress for the 3 coming years,
> starting with the 78th IFLA Congress in Helsinki (11-17 August 2012).
> If you are interested in joining the group or receiving updates
> regarding the group's activities by email, please contact me.
> 
> Emmanuelle BERMES
> Convenor of the Semantic Web SIG
> Information Technology Section, IFLA
> 
> [1] http://www.ifla.org/en/about-swsig
> [2] http://www.ifla.org/en/swsig
> [3] http://www.ifla.org/en/rss/group/6155
>