Greg Bates of Programmable Web reports, “The Gray Lady is getting her code on. In Andre Behrens’s New York Times blog, Open, billed as ‘All the code that’s fit to print,’ he recounts events on coding and science held in 2012. Two of the notable events were the well-attended one on Big Data and Smarter Scaling and their Open Source Science Fair. Three speakers graced the Big Data event: Andrew Montalenti the CTO of Parse.ly… James Boehmer, Manager of Search Technology at the New York Times; and Allan Beaufour, CTO of Chartbeat.” Read more

The Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a Development Data Challenge this weekend in London. According to the organization, “This weekend in London, coders, designers, development experts, data wranglers and interested citizens and invited for the Development Data Challenge in London. Join us at the Guardian for a weekend of data wrangling, visualising and challenging questions. Bringing together hacks and hackers, developers and development experts, we want to answer interesting and difficult questions about international development – and in the process, demonstrate the value of the amazing amount of new data that is now available.” Read more

With the increase in the number of #SemTechBiz events taking place in a calendar year, we understand that tracking the deadlines can be tricky. There are several approaching for various events and stakeholders, so we present the most pressing ones below:

April 26 – Register for SemTechBiz – San Francisco by April 26, and save up to $300

April 30 – SemTechBiz Start-Up Contest Application Deadline — Free for registered attendees & speakers to apply!

April 30 – Call For Presentations deadline for SemTechBiz – London

June 3-7 – SemTechBiz – San Francisco! See you there!

June 11 – Call For Presentations deadline for SemTechBiz – New York

Sponsorships for all the SemTechBiz events are still available (even San Francisco — some promotional opportunities are already sold out, so hurry!)

A new linked data event will be happening this spring in New York. According to the event website, “New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will host the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) from May 31st to June 2nd, 2012 in New York City. ‘Linked Open Data’ is an approach to the creation of digital resources that emphasizes connections between diverse information on the basis of published and stable web addresses (URIs) that identify common concepts and individual items. LAWDI, funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for Humanities, will bring together an international faculty of practitioners working in the field of Linked Data with twenty attendees who are implementing or planning the creation of digital resources.” Read more

The W3C has announced a workshop on Linked Enterprise Data in December. The announcement states, “Linked Data technology offers huge potential for enterprise applications such as the integration and the management of data within and across enterprises. The distributed nature of Linked Data enables loose-coupling for data sharing within and between organizations. With Linked Data, enterprises have a unique opportunity to cooperate in their use of shared data without the costs of extensive coordination.” Read more