Apparently, the European Semantic Web Conference will be renamed to Extended Semantic Web Conference. That is fantastic news, the original name was so boring. However, renaming to extended seems a lost opportunity to me: the organisers of all major Semantic Web conferences should come together and adopt far more exciting names. Some suggestions came up:
- “International Semantic Web Conference” to “Incredible Semantic Web Conference”
- “Asian Semantic Web Conference” to “Amazing Semantic Web Conference”
- “European Semantic Web Conference” to “Extraordinary Semantic Web Conference”
Intergalactic Semantic Web Conference?
There’s already a theme song:
“Well Now don’t you tell me to smile
You stick around I’ll make it worth your while
Got numbers beyond what you can dial
Maybe it’s because I’m so versatile”
Left by Andreas Harth on June 10th, 2009