ERCIM News 96 on "Linked Open Data" - Call for contributions

Call for short article contributions (cf. http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call)


    ERCIM News No. 96 (January 2014)

DEADLINE: Thursday 21 November 2013

Please read the guidelines below before submitting an article

The sections of ERCIM News 96 are :

  * Joint ERCIM Actions
  * Special theme: "*Linked Open Data*"
  * *Research and Innovation*
  * Events
  * In Brief

The *Special Theme* and the*Research and Innovation* sections contain
articles presenting a panorama of European research activities. The
Special Theme focuses on a sector which has been selected by the editors
from a short list of currently "hot" topics whereas the Research and
Innovation section contains articles describing scientific activities,
research results, and technical transfer endeavours in any sector of
ICT, telecommunications or applied mathematics. Submissions to the
Special Theme section are subjected to an external review process
coordinated by invited guest editors whereas submissions to the Research
and Innovation section are checked and approved by the ERCIM News
editorial board.

Special Theme: "*Linked Open Data*"

Guest editors:

  * Sören Auer: University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS
  * Irini Fundulaki: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH

This ERCIM News special theme invites short articles on new approaches,
achievements and applications in the area of Linked Data. The W3C
Linking Open Data Initiative has boosted the publication and
interlinkage of a large number of datasets on the web resulting in the
emergence of a Web of Data. The dynamic growth of Linked Data stimulates
new research in various areas such as data management, semantic web and
web engineering. In this special issue, we aim to provide an overview on
a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art and newly emerging approaches
related to Linked Data. Technical articles are solicited on topics
related to all stages of the Linked Data management life cycle. Since
the Linked Data principles cannot only be applied to openly published
data on the Web, but also to data published within an organization's
intranet, we also invite contributions regarding the deployment of
Linked Data technologies in Intranet settings.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  * Searching the Web of Data
  * Transformation, mapping and publishing of Linked Data
  * Storage, query processing and optimization for (distributed) RDF
  * Architectures and applications for consuming Linked Data
  * Indexing and crawling the Web of Data
  * Linked Data evolution, enrichment, repair, change management
  * Web Data quality assessment and trustworthiness
  * Linked Data integration (entity resolution, instance and schema
    matching)
  * Reasoning on Linked Open Data
  * Benchmarking RDF and graph database engines
  * Linked Data summarization
  * Visualization of Linked Open Data
  * Linked Data applications (e.g. life sciences, enterprise data
    integration, digital humanities)
  * Management of Licenses for Linked Open Data

Articles have to be sent to the local editor for your country (see About
ERCIM News <http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/about-ercim-news>) or to the
central editor peter.kunz@ercim.eu <mailto:peter.kunz@ercim.eu>

Reviewing:
Articles submitted to the special theme are subject to a review process.


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