CfP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) Workshop at WWW2010

Hi all,

 

we are happy to announce that there will be a 3rd edition of the Linked Data
on the Web workshop at WWW2010 in Raleigh.

 

After Web of Data has grown for another year, we think that it will be
exciting to bring the community together at LDOW2010 and discuss what we
have achieved so far and what will be the most important topics for the year
to come.

 

The LDOW2010 website is found at http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/

 

The Call for Papers is found below.

 

We are looking forward to see you in Raleigh.

 

Cheers,

 

Chris Bizer

Tom Heath

Tim Berners-Lee

Michael Hausenblas

 

 

 

==============  Call for Papers  ===============

 

Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) Workshop

 

at WWW2010

 

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April 27th or 28th, 2010

Raleigh, USA

 

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Objectives

 

The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting
not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. More than just a
vision, the resulting Web of Data has been brought into being by the
maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and by the publication of
large datasets according to the principles of Linked Data. To date, the Web
of Data has grown to a size of roughly 13.1 billion RDF triples, with
contributions coming increasingly from companies, government and public
sector projects, as well as from individual Web enthusiasts. In addition to
publishing and interlinking datasets, there is intensive work on Linked Data
browsers, Web of Data search engines and other applications that consume
Linked Data from the Web.

 

LDOW2010 follows the successful LDOW2008 workshop at WWW2008 in Beijing and
the LDOW2009 workshop at WWW2009 in Madrid. As the publication of Linked
Data on the Web continues apace, the need becomes more pressing for
principled research in the areas of user interfaces for the Web of Data as
well as on issues of quality, trust and provenance in Linked Data. We also
expect to see a number of submissions related to current areas of high
Linked Data activity, such as government transparency, life sciences and the
media industry. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for exposing
high quality, novel research and applications in these (and related) areas.
In addition, by bringing together researchers in this field, we expect the
event to further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda.

 

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Topics of Interest

 

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the
following:

 

1. Linked Data Application Architectures 

   * crawling, caching and querying Linked Data 

   * dataset dynamics and synchronization 

   * Linked Data mining 

 

2. Data Linking and Data Fusion 

   * linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution 

   * Web data integration and data fusion 

   * link maintanance 

   * performance of linking infrastructures/algorithms on Web data 

 

3. Quality, Trust and Provenance in Linked Data 

   * tracking provenance and usage of Linked Data 

   * evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data 

   * profiling of Linked Data sources 

 

4. User Interfaces for the Web of Data 

   * approaches to visualizing and interacting with distributed Web data 

   * Linked Data browsers and search engines 

 

5. Data Publishing 

   * tools for publishing large data sources as Linked Data on the Web (e.g.
relational databases, XML repositories) 

   * embedding data into classic Web documents (e.g. RDFa, Microformats) 

   * describing data on the Web (e.g. VoiD, Semantic Site Map) 

   * licensing issues in Linked Data publishing 

 

6. Business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption 

 

 

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Submissions

 

We seek three kinds of submissions:

 

1. Full technical papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format 

2. Short technical and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format 

3. Demo description: up to 2 pages in ACM format 

 

Submissions must be formatted using the WWW2010 templates available at
http://www2010.org/www/authors/submissions/formatting-guidelines/.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted
papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop
proceedings.

 

Please submit your paper via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2010

 

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Important Dates

 

Submission deadline: 15th February 2010, 23.59 Hawaii time 

Notification of acceptance: 8th March 2010 

Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 21st March 2010 

Workshop date: 27th or 28th April 2010 

 

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Organising Committee

 

Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 

Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK 

Tim Berners-Lee, MIT CSAIL, USA 

Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 

 

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Programme Committee

 

Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 

Andreas Langegger, University of Linz, Austria 

Andy Seaborne, Talis Information Ltd, UK 

Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 

Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria 

Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd, UK 

David Huynh, MetaWeb, USA 

Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany 

Georgi Kobilarov, Uberblic Labs, Germany 

Gong Cheng, Southeast University, China 

Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, UK 

Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK 

Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 

Ian Millard, University of Southampton, UK 

Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA 

Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation, UK 

Joshua Tauberer, University of Pennsylvania, USA 

Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, USA 

Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK 

Kai-Uwe Sattler, University of Ilmenau, Germany 

Knud Moeller, DERI Galway, Ireland 

Leigh Dodds, Talis Information Ltd, UK 

Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 

Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada 

Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany 

Mathieu d'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK 

Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, 

Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, Netherlands 

Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK 

Nick Humfrey, BBC, UK 

Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK 

Oktie Hassanzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada 

Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany 

Orri Erling, OpenLink Software, Netherlands 

Patrick Sinclair, BBC, UK 

Paul Miller, Cloud of Data, UK 

Peter Ansell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France 

Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland 

Rob Styles, Talis Information Ltd, UK 

Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK 

Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany 

Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany 

Susie Stephens, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical research & Development, USA


Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA 

York Sure, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany 

Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China 

Yves Raimond, BBC, UK 

 

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Contact

 

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops
chairs at ldow2010@events.linkeddata.org