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I-Semantics Conference and Linked Data Cup

Christoph — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:40:16 +0000

I-Semantics is a very nice conference on applied semantic web research, excellent for networking with the European research community and industry.

Call for Papers

I-SEMANTICS 2012 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 5 – 7 September 2012

including Call for Submissions 5th Linked Data Cup

Latest News:

Wolters Kluwer Germany main sponsor of I-SEMANTICS 2012
I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS
Important Dates (Research & Application Papers & I-Challenge)
- Abstract Submission Deadline : April 2, 2012
- Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
- Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
Important Dates (I-Challenge)
- Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
- Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track)
- Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012

Scope

I-SEMANTICS 2012 is the 8th International Conference within the I-SEMANTICS series. I-SEMANTICS 2012 brings together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate and Social Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2012 is proud to announce the new format “I-CHALLENGE”, which brings to you the 5th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. As in the past years the I-SEMANTICS Conference will be complemented by I-KNOW, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management, aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.

Topics

As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry, I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year’s conference include but are not limited to:

The Web of Data
- (Large scale) triplification of existing (structured) data
- Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the Web of Data
- Querying, searching and browsing over the Web of Data
- Data integration and interlinking for the Web of Data
- User interaction and innovative visualizations for the Web of Data
- Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on the Web of Data
- (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) Linked Data resources
- Recommender systems making use of the Web of Data
- Integrating microposts into the Web of Data
- Linked Enterprise Data and (Open) Linked Government Data
- Connecting the Web of Data with real world sensor data
- Location-based services and mobile semantic applications
Quality of Semantic Data on the Web
- Provenance information for the Web of Data
- Large scale ontology inspection and repair
- Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation
- Maintenance of Linked Data models
- Trust, privacy and security in Semantic Web applications
Corporate Semantic Web
- Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules
- Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems
- Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments
- Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations
- Enterprise trust and reputation management
Semantic Content Engineering
- Collaborative ontology engineering
- Ontology modularity, alignment and merging
- Ontology design patterns and life cycle management
- Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition
- Quality criteria for collaboratively generated semantic content
- Semantic annotation and tagging
- Making sense of microposts
- Semantic content management systems
Semantic Multimedia
- Semantic-driven multimedia applications
- Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
- Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining
- Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents
- Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data access
- Smart visualization and browsing of multimedia documents
- User-generated semantic metadata for multimedia documents
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
- Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage
- Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
- Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
- Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
- Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations
(Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets
- Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing
- Business and governance models for data commerce
- Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and utilization
- Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data and/or large scale semantic systems
- Case studies for sector-specific (Linked) Data strategies

I-SEMANTICS Submission Information

All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2012 will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please note: Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published within CEUR-WS. Optional publication of PhD papers in CEUR-WS is under discussion.

Research/Application Papers

Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). The publication will be available under the following ISBN: 978-1-4503-1112-0

Research papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including references and an optional appendix.

Important Dates (Research & Application Papers)

Abstract Submission Deadline (strict): April 2, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012

Posters, Demos & PhD Track

The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters, demonstrations, and PhD track submissions. The Posters, Demonstrations & PhD Track complements the Research Paper Track and offers an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.

The informal setting of the Posters, Demonstrations & PhD Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a 2-3 page description that allows us to judge the quality of the presentation. Submissions to this track must be in the Springer LNCS format, i.e. please do NOT use the ACM template here.

The objective of the PhD Track is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with experienced researchers (“mentors”) and fellow students. It addresses PhD students at an early stage of their doctoral studies, who want to receive feedback from internationally recognized researchers. Ideally, participants will have a well-defined problem statement and precise questions to discuss with their mentor. Applicants should be PhD students (from any country), conducting ongoing research in the areas of semantic technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web.

PhD track submissions should consist of up to 1.500 words and contain the following:

Name, affiliation and contact details of the PhD student
Name(s) of the supervisor(s)
Summary of the research project, including:
Problem: research questions, motivation, state of the art and relevance for the fields of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Semantic Web
Approach: (planned) approach and methodology
Current status / timeline: current status of the work and any results that have already been reached plus outlook to future work
A list of key questions that the PhD student wants to discuss during the event

Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers; each submission will receive detailed feedback. The program committee will select participants who will give a short presentation about their research project during the I-SEMANTICS PhD Track. Main focus of the event is on discussion, support and solving open questions.

Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track)

Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012

I-CHALLENGE

For the first time in 2012 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE, consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster Award, the Best PhD Paper Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be voted by the conference audience via online voting. (Please expect more details for all the Best Paper Awards in the weeks to come.) Information on the Linked Data Cup can be found below:

Linked Data Cup 2012

The yearly organised Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge) awards prizes to the most promising innovation involving linked data. Four different technological topics are addressed: triplification, interlinking, cleansing, and application mash-ups. The Linked Data Cup invites scientists and practitioners to submit novel and innovative (5 star) linked data sets and applications built on linked data technology.

Although more and more data is triplified and published as RDF and linked data, the question arises how to evaluate the usefulness of such approaches. The Linked Data Cup therefore requires all submissions to include a concrete use case and problem statement alongside a solution (triplified data set, interlinking/cleansing approach, linked data application) that showcases the usefulness of linked data. Submissions that can provide measurable benefits of employing linked data over traditional methods are preferred.

Note that the call is not limited to any domain or target group. We accept submissions ranging from value-added business intelligence use cases to scientific networks to the longest tail of information domains. The only strict requirement is that the employment of linked data is very well motivated and also justified (i.e. we rank approaches higher that provide solutions, which could not have been realised without linked data, even if they lack technical or scientific brilliance).

Evaluation Criteria

The submissions will be initially evaluated with a well-known five star ranking system. Furthermore, entries will be assessed according to the extent to which they

motivate the relevancy of their use case for their respective domain;
justify the adequacy of linked data technologies for their solution;
demonstrate that all alternatives to linked data would have resulted in an inferior solution;
provide an evaluation that can measure the benefits of linked data

Topics

Ideas for topics include (but are not limited to):

Improving traditional approaches with help of linked data
Linked data use in science and education
Linked data supported multimedia applications
Linked data in the open source context
Web annotation
Generic applications
Internationalization of linked data
Visualization of linked data
Linked government data
Business models based on linked data
Recommender systems supported by linked data
Integrating microposts with linked data
Distributed social web based on linked data
Linked data sensor networks

Submission and Reviewing

Submissions to the Linked Data Cup will be reviewed by members of the Linked Data Cup Board and invited experts from the Linked Data community. Submissions should consist of 4 pages and must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting as accepted submissions will be published in the I-SEMANTICS 2012 proceedings in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please read the submission page for detailed information on how to submit.

Important Dates (Linked Data Cup)

Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012

I-SEMANTICS Committee

Scientific Chair
- Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
Program Chairs
- H. Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon)
- Valentina Presutti (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome)
Track Chairs
- I-CHALLENGE:
  - Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig)
  - Jörg Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
- PhD Track Chair: Katrin Weller (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
- Poster Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart)
Industry Chair
- Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
Conference Chair
- Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company / University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria)
Program Committee

Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS) Workshop at WWW 2012

Christoph — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

In conjunction with World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW 2012) Lyon, France, 17 April 2012

http://www.swcs2012.org

Important dates

Paper Submission: 6th February 2012
Author Notification: 8th March 2012
Camera ready: 29th March 2012
Workshop: 17th April 2012

Goal and Motivations

Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces such as semantic wikis, semantic social networks, semantic forums, etc. are social semantic software with the mission to bring together human agents and software agents in order to foster knowledge-intensive collaboration, content creation and management, annotated multimedia collection management, social knowledge diffusion and formalising, and more generally speaking ontology-oriented content management life-cycle.

The domain spans from multidisciplinary research to deployed commercial web applications and contributions from all this spectrum are encouraged. The aim of the SWCS 2012 workshop is to exchange ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from theoretical studies and practical usage of semantic web collaborative spaces.

Topics

Contributions to this workshop will address one or more of the following topics:

Representing and reasoning on semantics in social web platforms:
- reconciling formal semantics and social semantics
- semantic social network analysis, community detection and community building
- analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions
- combining, transforming, translating formal and informal knowledge
- coping with disagreement, inconsistencies
- semantics in social/human computing, and vice versa
- change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic changes
- connecting knowledge and social interaction
- from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous interactions in SWCS
- optimising, distributing, scaling SWCS
- managing and exploiting the emergence of models and their semantics
Interacting with and within SWCS:
- browsing, navigating, visualizing
- editing linked open data, schemas, rules, etc.
- ergonomics of SWCS, interaction design and usability studies
- object-centered sociality, knowledge-centered sociality
- overcoming entrance barriers and giving incentives for contributing
- provenance, traceability, permissions, trust, licensing, access control, privacy,
- making formal knowledge accessible, social knowledge evaluation
- mobile and multimodal accesses to SWCS
Return on experience and applications of semantic web collaborative spaces:
- swcs platforms in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-governement,
- enterprise workflows, document flows, business intelligence, technological watch
- corporate knowledge management or personal information management
- expert matching, team creation,
Integration, interoperability and reuse of web collaborative spaces:
- integrations and interoperability with other semantic applications and mashups
- interlinking, distributing, federating SWCS
- extending non-semantic social web platforms with semantics
- exporting and reusing semantics gained from SWCS

Steering Committee

Pascal Molli, LINA, Nantes University (FR) (chair)
Hideaki Takeda, NII National Institute of Informatics (JP)
John Breslin, DERI NUI Galway (IE)
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT)

Submissions and Proceedings

We invite the following different kinds of contributions:

full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop
short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop
demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop
poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the ACM format. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format.

For any further informations, please contact organizers via swcs2012@easychair.org.

SePublica@ESWC Workshop (May 27 or 28, Crete)

Christoph — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

an ESWC 2012 Workshop. May 27 or 28, Hersonissos, Greece.

http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/

At SePublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web media, SePublica aims to provide researchers with a venue in which this future can be shaped.

Important Dates

submission deadline: Feb 29
acceptance notification: April 1
camera ready: April 15

The Future of Scholarly Communication and Scientific Publishing

Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the research is recorded and preserved by way of a scholarly journal article. Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data sources. At SePublica we will discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over the data to discover new links and scientific insights.

Workshop Format

We are planning to have a full day workshop with two main sessions. During the first part of the workshop accepted papers will be presented; the second part of the workshop will address by means of focus groups two main questions, namely “what do we want the future of scholarly communication to be?” and “how could data be preserved and delivered in an interactive manner over scholarly communications?”. These focus groups will be followed by a panel discussion. As an outcome of these activities we will have a communique that will be the editorial for the workshop proceedings,

Issues to be addressed

Representation:
- Formal representations of scientific data; ontologies for scientific information
- What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?
- How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
- Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
- How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
- Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets
Technological Foundations:
- Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
- Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
- Linked Data for dissemination and archiving of research results, for collaboration and research networks, and for research assessment
- How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
- How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data? How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
Applications and Use Cases:
- Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
- Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to address these
- Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science

Submission

submission system

Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages.
For system/demo descriptions, a paper of minimum 2 pages, maximum 5 pages should be submitted.
Late-breaking news should be one page maximum.

All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format. For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.

Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers; late-breaking news get a light review w.r.t. their relevance by two reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop (requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop).

Growing the Semantic Web with Inverse Semantic Search

Christoph — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:51:12 +0000

I recently read an interesting paper that was presented at the INSEMTIVE workshop (incentives for the semantic web). Hans-Jörg Happel addresses the problem that a lot of metadata (tags, annotations, etc.) exist in private knowledge spaces but are not shared on the semantic web – maybe because of privacy concerns, maybe because nobody has ever asked for them, whatever. His new idea is to design a search engine that knows which private metadata could improve the result set – and then asks their authors to publish them: i.e. the opposite of the “publish first, retrieve then” process of traditional IR.

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