2nd CfP: Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) at ESWC 2008

Hi all,

just a quick reminder that the submission deadline for the ESWC 2008 
Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) workshop is approaching quickly, 
but there is still enough time to prepare submissions.

SFSW submission deadline: March 7, 2008

The workshop seeks high-quality submissions on all aspects of using 
scripting languages within Semantic Web applications ranging from 
populating the Semantic Web with data from existing systems to 
applications that do surprising things with data from the Semantic 
Web.

The special focus of this years workshop is the creation of Semantic 
Web data through social interactions, as well as applications that 
integrate socially-created data across communities. Therefore, we 
especially encourage work on providing Semantic Web access to 
socially-created content bases, as well as approaches that facilitate 
data integration across different content bases using Semantic Web 
technologies.

I'm sure will have a great workshop and I'm looking forward to meeting 
the whole scripting community in person at ESWC 2008 again :-)

Cheers,

Chris


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web 
http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/

co-located with
5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) June 1, 2008, 
Tenerife, Spain

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OBJECTIVES
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The workshop aims to bring together developers who are building 
applications and infrastructure for the Semantic Web using scripting 
languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, JSP and 
ActionScript. These languages are the tools of a generation of Web 
programmers who use them to quickly create server and client-side web 
applications. Many deployed Semantic Web applications from the FOAF, 
RSS/ATOM, blog and wiki communities, as well as many innovative 
mashups from the Web 2.0 and Open Data movements are using scripting 
languages, and it is likely that the process of RDF-izing existing Web 
applications and database-backed Web sites will continue to rely 
heavily on scripting languages.

This year's fourth workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web aims to 
continue the tradition of successful ESWC scripting workshops. Last 
years Scripting for the Semantic Web workshop in Innsbruck, Austria 
(http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2007/) focused on the role of 
scripting languages in populating the Web with Linked Data, as well as 
showcasing innovative scripting applications that consume Linked Data 
from the Web.

The special focus of this years workshop is the creation of Semantic 
Web data through social interactions, as well as applications that 
integrate socially-created data across communities. Therefore, we 
especially encourage work on providing Semantic Web access to 
socially-created content bases, as well as approaches that facilitate 
data integration across different content bases using Semantic Web 
technologies.

The workshop will include a scripting challenge which will award an 
industry sponsored prize to the most innovative scripting application.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure
- Semantic Web frameworks and APIs for scripting languages
- RDF repositories and query languages implemented using scripting 
languages
- Reasoning engines implemented using scripting languages
- Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks
- Approaches to providing Linked Data views on socially-created 
content bases
- Approaches to crawling Web data and querying distributed data on the 
Web

Applications
- Semantic Web applications using scripting languages
- Approaches to using Semantic Web technologies for integrating data 
across socially-created content bases and user communities
- Mashups that combine Linked Data from the Web with data from Web 2.0 
data sources such as Google, Yahoo, flickr, Amazon or eBay
- Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications 
using RDF
- Scripting applications for visualizing Web data
- Semantic Web Mining and Social Network Analysis
- Approaches to RDF-izing existing web-content, such as RDFa, 
microformats, GRDDL
- Mashups that demonstrate the novel capabilities of Semantic Web 
technologies

Conceptual
- Rapid development techniques for the Semantic Web
- Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web 
development
- Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications


SCRIPTING CHALLENGE
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The workshop includes a scripting challenge which will award an 
industry sponsored prize to the most innovative small scripting 
application or mashup. The application must be implemented using a 
scripting language and Semantic Web technologies. It should access, 
visualize or combine data from heterogeneous sources in a novel way. 
Authors of Scripting Challenge submissions are not required to attend 
the workshop personally. Please contact Gunnar Grimnes (gunnar.grimnes 
{at} dfki.de) for further information about the Scripting Challenge.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: March 7, 2008
Notication of acceptance: April 4, 2008
Camera-ready paper submission: April 18, 2008
Workshop date: June 1, 2008


WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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* Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
* Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany and University of 
Pennsylvania, USA
* Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany
* Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, United Kingdom


SUBMISSIONS
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We seek three kinds of submissions:
* Full papers - up to 12 pages in length.
* Short papers - up to 6 pages in length.
* Scripting Challenge Submissions - 2 page description of the 
application, ideally accompanied with the source code and a link to an 
online demo.


FURTHER INFORMATION
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Updated information about the workshop is found on the workshop 
website
http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/

For further information, please send email to sfsw2008 {at} 
semanticscripting.org

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Chris Bizer
Freie Universität Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838 54057
Mail: chris@bizer.de
Web: www.bizer.de

Received on Monday, 25 February 2008 12:45:17 UTC