The semantic web is building upon over a decade of academic R&D. Now is the time when we start to see the impact. We want to showcase the sites that really move the semantic web forward with cool stuff that impact our lives.

Read on for the categories, judges and how to apply...

Photo courtesy Flickr and MoBikeFred

Award Categories

We have three categories of Awards:

1. Public Good. This will encompass areas such as Gov 2.0, sustainability, economic development etc.

2. Business. This can be for consumer, small biz, enterprise or any area. The criteria is that this should be a potentially good money-making service/product. (Stressing '"potentially" as these will be early stage and often pre-revenue).

3. Semantic Web. This encompasses anything that benefits the whole Semantic Web ecosystem. This can be tools, infrastructure, open source, standards, etc.

Judges

We have three Judges:

1. Christine Connors. information scientist, semantic web & linked data advocate, volunteer librarian

2. James Hendler. SemWeb guru, Web Science evangelist, general web geek

3. David Siegel. All about pull, the semantic web, Internet, business, and dark chocolate. Follow me into the semantic future!

How To Apply

The Impact Awards will be announced at our next conference in Boston on Nov 16th & 17th, details here:

To nominate a site for the Impact Awards send an email to semanticweb@mediabistro.com detailing:

1. Which Category you want the site to be considered for.

2. URL of the site

3. Why this site will have Impact (500 words or less with a 140 character summary).