Extended Semantic Web Conference

The Extended Semantic Web Conference (abbreviated as ESWC), formerly known as the European Semantic Web Conference, is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the Semantic Web. The event began in 2004, as the European Semantic Web Symposium. The goal of the event is "to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web".^[1]

Extended Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviation	ESWC
Discipline	Semantic Web
Publication details
Publisher	STII
History	2004–present
Frequency	Annual
Open access	no
Website	https://eswc-conferences.org/

Topics covered at the conference include linked data, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval, ontologies, reasoning, semantic data management, services, processes, and cloud computing, social Web and Web science, in-use and industrial, digital libraries and cultural heritage, and e-government.^[2]

List of conferences

Past and future ESWC conferences include:^[3]

Year	Conference	City	Country	Awards
2025	ESWC2025	Portorož	Slovenia
2024	ESWC2024	Hersonissos	Greece
2023	ESWC2023	Hersonissos	Greece
2022	ESWC2022	Hersonissos	Greece	Best Paper: Never Mind the Semantic Gap: Modular, Lazy and Safe Loading of RDF Data by Eduard Kamburjan, Vidar Norstein Klungre, and Martin Giese[4] Best Student Paper: The Problem with XSD Binary Floating Point Datatypes in RDF by Jan Martin Keil & Merle Gänßinger[5]
2021	ESWC2021		Online
2020	ESWC2020	Heraklion	Greece
2019	ESWC2019	Portorož	Slovenia	Best Paper: Hai Huang and Fabien Gandon: Learning URI Selection Criteria to Improve the Crawling of Linked Open Data[6] Best Student Paper: Matthäus Zloch, Maribel Acosta, Daniel Hienert, Stefan Dietze and Stefan Conrad: A Software Framework and Datasets for the Analysis of Graph Measures on RDF Graphs[7]
2018	ESWC2018	Heraklion	Greece
2017	ESWC2017	Portorož	Slovenia	Best Paper: Patrik Schneider, Thomas Eiter and Josiane Xavier Parreira: Spatial Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Mobility Streams[8] Best Student Paper: Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy, Christoph Lange, Sören Auer and Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data Notifications[9]
2016	ESWC2016	Anissaras, Crete	Greece	Best Paper: Géraud Fokou, Stéphane Jean, Allel Hadjali, and Michael Baron: RDF Query Relaxation Strategies Based on Failure Causes[10]
2013	ESWC2013 Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine	Montpellier	France	Best Paper: Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Lars Kolb, Norman Heino, Michael Hartung, Sören Auer and Erhard Rahm: When to Reach for the Cloud: Using Parallel Hardware for Link Discovery[11] Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata and Fabien Gandon: A Support Framework for Argumentative Discussions Management in the Web[12]
2012	ESWC2012	Heraklion	Greece	Best Paper: Uta Lösch, Stephan Bloehdorn, Achim Rettinger: Graph Kernels for RDF Data[13]
2011	ESWC2011	Heraklion	Greece	Best Paper: Carlos Buil Aranda, Oscar Corcho and Marcelo Arenas: Semantics and optimization of the SPARQL 1.1 federation extension[14]
2010	ESWC2010	Heraklion	Greece	Best Paper: Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke and Heiner Stuckenschmidt: Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation[15]
2009	ESWC2009	Heraklion	Greece	Best Paper: Olaf Hartig: Querying Trust in RDF Data with tSPARQL[16]
2008	ESWC2008	Tenerife	Spain
2007	ESWC2007	Innsbruck	Austria
2006	ESWC2006	Budva	Montenegro
2005	ESWC2005	Heraklion	Greece
2004	ESWS2004	Heraklion	Greece