The Semantic Web Education and Training Workshop has been held in Beijing together with the First Asian Semantic Web Conference.

This workshop aims at gathering and confronting experiences about teaching, disseminating and providing training on the Semantic Web, including both practical activities on teaching (academy) and training (industry). Reports about initiatives in these directions are solicited. Especially valuable will be examples of transnational cooperation it these areas (including reports about experiences gathered in summer schools).

The Workshop on Semantic Web Applications And Tools has been held in Beijing together with the First ASWC.

With the help of W3C on the world standards of RDF, OWL, Semantic Web Rule Language and Semantic Web Serivces, there emerges many interesting applications based on Semantic Web technologies, such as eHealth, eGovernment, eTourism, Semantic Blogging, Semantic Wiki, Semantic e-Business, eCommerce, Semantic Grid, eCommunity, eLearning, eScience and so on. Some predict a killer application may finally bootstrap the Semantic Web. Some predict small Semantic Webs within specific application domains and environments may take form first and evolve and interconnect to each other later to form the one Semantic Web. Whichever is true, applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web technologies and vision is critically important for the widespread adoption and bootstrapping of Semantic Web. On the other hand, building applications that use Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most software developers. They need to deal with new kinds of artifacts (e.g. ontologies, rules, and facts), new kinds of operations (e.g. mapping, transformation, SPARQL query and reasoning) on these artifacts and probably new kinds of user interactions and visualizations. Hence, tools to help deal with these artifacts and operations in Semantic Web application development is in high demand. This workshop brought together both Semantic Web applications and Semantic Web tools researchers and developers to present and discuss the latest progress in each area, to identify the gap between the applications and needed tools, and to possibly blueprint the roadmap of the Semantic Web applications and their supporting tools. This workshop targeted at both academic and industrial audience and tried to identify the gap of applying Semantic Web technology to real life cases and of applying Semantic Web tools to building applications.