Picking up Keith Andrews' suggestion [1], this is a MeetUp focusing on tools, services and projects dealing with Visualization, Apps-creation and Portals/Catalogs for Open [Government] Data. As this MeetUp is on the eve of Austrians first Open Government Data - Conference ( OGD2011) we expect to meet experts ans enthusiasts from Austria and abroad.

• 19.00 Come together

• 19.15 Introduction
  Martin Kaltenböck ( SWC, OGD Austria)
  The Vienna Semantic Web Meetup and the 1st  OGD2011 Conference

• 19.30 Presentations
  
  Keith Andrews ( IICM, Graz University of Technology)
  "Visualising Open Data" [2]
  
  Robert Harm ( open3)
  "Introducing DataMaps.eu - free tool for creating visualizations easily" and "Toilet Map Vienna - augmented-reality as a vis-tool for geodata
  
  Ivo Radulovski, Jürgen Mayrbäurl
  "Open Data Integration mittels Azure und Drupal“.
  
  Friedrich Lindenberg (OKFN), Thomas Schandl
  "CKAN Open Data Katalog, Thesauri mittels PoolParty für optimiertes Meta Daten Management und Open Data Search"
  
  
• 20.30 Lightning Talks
  Up to max 7-8 Talks not longer than 4 minutes each - just stand up and talk!
  
  • How a MeetUp Group join the Vienna IT Cluster
  • OpenStreetMap - StateOfTheMap - Europe
  • Crowdsourced Cartography - Manuela Schmidt (TU Wien, Forschungsgruppe Kartographie)
  • Antonia Bradford 
  • Robert Cerny on Topincs (web database software, www.cerny-online.com/topincs)

• 21.00 Meeting, Greeting, Networking and Music
  Drinks & finger food will be prepared for you.

This will be a mixed language meetup. Be prepared to listen and speak both - german and english.

[1] Keith: It needs to be much more work on providing decent user interfaces to open public data, especially if access is to be easy and intuitive for the general public. Research from the field of information visualisation gives us some pointers as to how we might address this.

[2] Abstract Keith Andrews: As more data becomes available on the web, there is an increasing need to provide intuitive user interfaces to this data, to make it more accessible to a wider audience. Recent advances in web-based information visualisation might point the way...