Call for participation - Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers at JCDL

I'm organizing a JCDL workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries
and Readers. Consider submitting demos, posters, and research papers (by May
1st), and feel free to write me or the organizing committee (
stlrworkshop2011@gmail.com) with any questions.

-Jodi
http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 1st Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers
STLR 2011
June 16 (PM) - 17 (AM) 2011
http://stlr2011.weebly.com/

Co-located with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
2011
Ottawa, Canada

While Semantic Web technologies are successfully being applied to library
catalogs and digital libraries, the semantic enhancement of books and other
electronic media is ripe for further exploration. Connections between
envisioned and emerging scholarly objects (which are doubtless social and
semantic) and the digital libraries in which these items will be housed,
encountered, and explored have yet to be made and implemented. Likewise,
mobile reading brings new opportunities for personalized, context-aware
interactions between reader and material, enriched by information such as
location, time of day and access history.

This full-day workshop, motivated by the idea that reading is mobile,
interactive, social, and material, will be focused on semantically enhancing
electronic media as well as on the mobile and social aspects of the Semantic
Web for electronic media, libraries and their users. It aims to bring
together practitioners and developers involved in semantically enhancing
electronic media (including documents, books, research objects, multimedia
materials and digital libraries) as well as academics researching more
formal aspects of the interactions between such resources and their users.
We also particularly invite entrepreneurs and developers interested in
enhancing electronic media using Semantic Web technologies with a
user-centered approach.

We invite the submission of papers, demonstrations and posters which
describe implementations or original research that are related (but are not
limited) to the following areas of interest:

- Strategies for semantic publishing (technical, social, and economic)
- Approaches for consuming semantic representations of digital documents and
electronic media
- Open and shared semantic bookmarks and annotations for mobile and
device-independent use
- User-centered approaches for semantically annotating reading lists and/or
library catalogues
- Applications of Semantic Web technologies for building personal or
context-aware media libraries
- Approaches for interacting with context-aware electronic media (e.g.
location-aware storytelling, context-sensitive mobile applications, use of
geolocation, personalization, etc.)
- Applications for media recommendations and filtering using Semantic Web
technologies
- Applications integrating natural language processing with approaches for
semantic annotation of reading materials
- Applications leveraging the interoperability of semantic annotations for
aggregation and crowd-sourcing
- Approaches for discipline-specific or task-specific information sharing
and collaboration
- Social semantic approaches for using, publishing, and filtering scholarly
objects and personal electronic media

Organizing Committee

Alison Callahan (Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada.)

Dr. Michel Dumontier
<http://dumontierlab.com/index.php?page=people>(Department of Biology,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

Jodi Schneider <http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html> (Digital Enterprise
Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway, Ireland)

Dr. Lars Svensson (German National Library)

Program committee
Each submission will be independently reviewed by 2-3 program committee
members.
Committee members: TBA

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: May 1st 2011
Acceptance notification: June 1st 2011
Camera-ready version: June 8th 2011

Submission instructions:

Please use PDF format for all submissions. Semantically annotated versions
of submissions, and submissions in novel digital formats, are encouraged and
will be accepted in addition to a PDF version.

All submissions must adhere to the following page limits:
Full length papers: maximum 8 pages
Demonstrations: 2 pages
Posters: 1 page

Use the ACM template for formatting:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Submit using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stlr2011

Questions? Email stlrworkshop2011@gmail.com