3rd CFP: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012) Workshop at WWW2012

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Call for Papers:


  Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2012)


  Workshop at WWW2012


  http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/

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16 April, 2012 Lyon, France


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Objectives


The Web is continuing to develop from a medium for publishing textual  
documents into a medium for sharing structured data. In 2011, the Web  
of Linked Data grew to a size of about 32 billion RDF triples, with  
contributions coming increasingly from companies, governments and  
other public sector bodies such as libraries, statistical bodies or  
environmental agencies. In parallel, Google, Yahoo and Bing have  
established the schema.org initiative, a shared set of schemata for  
publishing structured data on the Web that focuses on vocabulary  
agreement and low barriers of entry for data publishers. These  
developments create a positive feedback loop for data publishers and  
highlight new opportunities for commercial exploitation of Web data.


In this context, the LDOW2012 workshop provides a forum for presenting  
the latest research on Linked Data and driving forward the research  
agenda in this area. We expect submissions that discuss the deployment  
of Linked Data in different application domains and explore the  
motivation, value proposition and business models behind these  
deployments, especially in relation to complementary and alternative  
techniques for data provision (e.g. Web APIs, Microdata, Microformats)  
and proprietary data sharing platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter,  
Flickr, LastFM).


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Topics of Interest



Topics of interest for the LDOW2012 workshop include, but are not  
limited
to:



* Linked Data Deployment

     * case studies of Linked Data deployment and value propositions  
in different application domains

     * application showcases including aggregators, search engines and  
marketplaces for Linked Data

     * business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption

     * analyzing and profiling the Web of Data


* Linked Data and alternative Data Provisioning and Sharing Techniques

     * comparison of Linked Data to alternative data provisioning and  
sharing techniques

     * implications and limitations of a public data commons on the  
Web versus company-owned sharing platforms

     * increasing the value of Schema.org and OpenGraphProtocol data  
through data linking



* Linked Data Infrastructure

     * crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web

     * linking algorithms and identity resolution

     * Web data integration and data fusion

     * Linked Data mining and data space profiling

     * tracking provenance and usage of Linked Data

     * evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data

     * licensing issues in Linked Data publishing

     * interface and interaction paradigms for Linked Data applications

     * benchmarking Linked Data tools


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Submissions


We seek the following kinds of submissions:


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

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



Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG template (as per the  
WWW2012 Research Track) available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates 
 >. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized,  
as we do not operate a double-blind review process. Submissions will  
be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted  
papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop  
proceedings.

At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the  
workshop and attend to present the paper.


Please submit papers via EasyChair at

<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2012>


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Important Dates


     * Submission deadline: 13 February, 2012, 23:59 CET

     * Notification of acceptance: 7 March, 2012

     * Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 23 March, 2012

     * Workshop date: 16 April, 2012



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Organising Committee



     * Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

     * Tom Heath, Talis Systems 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 Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

     * Andreas Langegger, University of Linz, Austria

     * Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics, UK

     * Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

     * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany

     * Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria

     * Christopher Brewster, Aston Business School, UK

     * Daniel Schwabe, PUC-RIO, Brazil

     * Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics, UK

     * Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italia

     * Erik Wilde, School of Information UC Berkeley, USA

     * Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France

     * Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany

     * Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China

     * Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

     * Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI, Germany

     * Haklae Kim, Samsung, South Korea

     * Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, UK

     * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK

     * Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

     * Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK

     * Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics, UK

     * Ian Millard, University of Southampton, UK

     * Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA

     * Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany

     * Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, USA

     * Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK

     * Kai-Uwe Sattler, University of Ilmenau, Germany

     * Knud Moeller, Talis, UK

     * Krzysztof Janowicz, UC Santa Barbara, USA

     * Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

     * Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada

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

     * Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK

     * Michael Bergman, Structured Dynamics, USA

     * Michiel Hildebrand, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands

     * Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK

     * Oktie Hassanzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada

     * Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

     * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

     * Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France

     * Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

     * Robert Isele, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

     * Roger Menday, Fujitsu, UK

     * Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

     * Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany

     * Wenwen Li, UC Santa Barbara, USA

     * Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China



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Contact


For further information about the workshop, please contact the

workshops chairs at ldow2012 [at] events [dot linkeddata [dot] org


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We are looking forward to seeing you in Lyon!


Cheers,
	Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee, Christian Bizer, and Michael Hausenblas


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Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland, Europe
Tel. +353 91 495730
http://linkeddata.deri.ie/
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Received on Monday, 30 January 2012 13:45:10 UTC