Solicited review(s): Name Surname, University, Country

Abstract. We introduce a new LOD (Linked Open Data) Cloud member COLINDA (COnference LInked DAta) which exposes information about scientific events like conferences and workshops for the period from 2007 up to 2011. COLINDA includes also time and venue information of the scientific events which is interlinked to the GeoNames Linked Data set. The main sources of COLINDA are WikiCfP and Eventseer. COLINDA holds information about conferences from all over the world and contains information about 6000 scientific events generating around 140000 triples. More then 25000 new conferences are to come. This paper provides an introduction on the conference linked dataset,and demonstrates its applicability for adoption of web 2.0 into science also known as Research 2.0 or Science 2.