Simone Braun was invited to present MATURE's approach on People Tagging for Collaborative Competence Management at the workshop "Social Software @ Work", Düsseldorf. The interdisciplinary workshop was organized by the Heinrich-Heine University with the goal to bring together researchers and practitioners around the topic Social Software. The workshop provided a great forum for lively discussions about People Tagging and Collaborative Competence Management in practice.

MATURE has supported the Summer School for technology-enhanced learning for the second time. It was organized by the STELLAR Network of Excellence in Terchova (Slovakia), with speakers and young researchers, working in the disparate fields of expertise which promote the advancement of TEL at the workplace. 

Simone Braun presented on ontology maturing, evaluation, and lessons learnt at this year's ODBASE 2008 conference, which is one of the five complementary conferences of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops.

MATURE organized this year's OntoContent workshop, which forms part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences 2008 conjoint with the QSI workshop. This year, a total of 20 papers were submitted to OnToContent+QSI out of which we accepted 8 for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings.

Simone Braun chaired the event and provided a short introduction into MATURE and the approach of Ontology Maturing as a dynamic perspective on ontologies.

This year's International Semantic Web Conference took place in Karlsruhe where it was co-organized by FZI together with the University of Karlsruhe.