3rd edition of the SALAD workshop at the ESWC 2014

----- We welcome submissions to the 3rd edition of the SALAD workshop at the ESWC 2014 ----


Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data - SALAD
http://salad2014.linkedservices.org

SALAD ingredients
Who? people from the Semantic Web/Linked Data, Web services, and REST communities
What? novel ideas, concepts, and applications that combine Linked Data and Web APIs / services
When? ESWC workshop on May 26, 2014 – submission deadline: March 15, 2014
How? an interactive workshop with lots of discussion, accepted paper presentations and an opening keynote
Where? Crete, Greece at the ESWC conference (http://2014.eswc-conferences.org)

⚖ Recipe
Current developments on the Web have been marked by the increased use and popularity of Linked Data and Web APIs. However, these two technologies remain mostly disjunct in terms of developing solutions and applications in an integrated way. Therefore, we aim to explore the possibilities of facilitating a better integration of Web APIs and Linked Data, thus enabling the harvesting and provisioning of data through applications and services on the Web. In particular, we focus on investigating how resources exposed via Web APIs can be used together with Web semantic data, as means for enabling a shared use and providing a basis for developing rich applications on top.

✎ Shopping list
The main goal of this workshop is to explore the possibilities of enabling a more integrated and automated use of Web APIs, given the context of the growing importance of Linked Data and applications, benefiting from the available resources. Relevant topics include:
  - integrated use of Linked Data and Web APIs
  - moving from individual APIs and data sets towards integrated solutions
  - differences and parallels between Linked Data and Web APIs
  - semantically discovering, searching, and browsing Web APIs
  - describing Web APIs and Linked Data
  - intelligent clients for Linked Data and APIs
  - methods for automatically dealing with failures in Web APIs
  - approaches for the creation of Web API directories 
The above list is not exhaustive and we therefore actively encourage participants to be creative. 
A final goal is to provide future initiatives with the devised ideas and visions to stimulate innovation in this research area.

Our keynote speaker this year is Steve Klabnik (http://www.steveklabnik.com/).  

♨ Preparation instructions
Would you like to show your work at the SALAD workshop? Great!
We offer several opportunities to participate in SALAD:
- long papers: up to 8 pages
- short papers: up to 4 pages
- demos: up to 2 pages
- food for thought: 1 page / slide / web page / image / movie

Paper submissions will should be formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Submissions will be made using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=salad2014

eMail: salad2014@easychair.org

Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be included in a separate ESWC workshop papers volume.

⌚ Preparation time
Submission: March 15, 2014. 
Notification: April 1, 2014 
Camera ready: April 15, 2014.
Workshop: May 26, 2014.

Organizers
Maria Maleshkova, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ruben Verborgh, iMinds – Multimedia Lab – Ghent University
Steffen Stadtmüller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California

Programm Committee
Erik Wilde (EMC, USA)
María-Esther Vidal (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)
Jürgen Umbrich (DERI Galway, Ireland)
Thomas Steiner (Google, Germany)
Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
Barry Norton (The British Museum, UK)
Michael Mrissa (University of Lyon, France)
Erik Mannens (Ghent University)
Jacek Kopecky (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Kjetil Kjernsmo (University of Oslo, Norway)
Martin Junghans (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Andreas Harth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Armin Haller (CSIRO, Australia)
Carlos Pedrinaci (The Open University, UK)
Peter Haase (fluidOps, Germany)
Sudhir Agarwal (Stanford University, US)