ISWC Workshop, SERES CfP

CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/


at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference

  http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org

November 7, 2010, in Shanghai, China
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Ontologies and Linked Data vocabularies are being actively developed and
used by numerous applications. Several domains are making their vocabularies
available for others to reuse. In addition, good practices when developing
ontologies are often followed, particularly for producing reusable modules.
The Semantic Web is a modular and highly federated environment of reusable
knowledge sources; these provide the meaning so that SW applications change
our experience of the web. Within this context, the need for repositories
delivering the added value that makes the SW a concrete step beyond our
current experience of the web is palpable. SERES addresses issues around
semantic repositories within the context of the SW.



The number of ontologies being built and made available for reuse has
increased steadily in the last few years. Semantic Web search engines such
as Swoogle <http://swoogle.umbc.edu/> and
Watson<http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/> currently
index several tens of thousands of them; there are also systems specifically
designed to support the publication of ontologies, e.g.
Cupboard<http://kmi-web06.open.ac.uk:8081/cupboard>
, NCBO Bioportal <http://bioportal.bioontology.org/>, and
ONKI<http://www.yso.fi/>.
Some tools also support editing features, e.g.
Neologism<http://neologism.deri.ie/>
, Knoo <http://knoodl.com/>dl <http://knoodl.com/>. While being a foundation
for the Semantic Web, this new environment where ontologies are shared and
interlinked online also poses new challenges; fostering thus a number of
research projects aiming to understand, amongst others, ontology reuse,
storage, publication, versioning, quality control, evaluation, retrieval and
modularization. For instance, as part of the EU NeOn
project<http://neon-project.org/> new
tools supporting Knowledge Engineering in the age of “networked ontologies”
have been developed, while in the EU OASIS project approaches from software
engineering and formalization are now also being applied to inter-connect
ontologies. Moreover, despite initial efforts, ontology repositories are
hardly interoperable *amongst themselves*. Although sharing similar aims
(providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the
methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making
them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner.
Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported; for instance,
modularization, versioning, and the relationship between ontology
repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the
entire ontology lifecycle.



By the same token, there are several domains making available knowledge
resources; for instance, digital libraries such as Pubmed Central offer a
large collection of biomedical abstracts and, in some cases, open access to
the full document. Some researchers are starting to bridge the gap between
clinical and experimental data and literature; such connection is being
built via ontologies, some approaches have had BioPortal as their ontology
repository. Linked Data is also being explored as a means for publishers to
expose their content. Knowledge management over documents is actively aiming
to make real the notion of self-descriptiveness; being this intrinsically
related to various resources over the web providing meaning for atomic
component in documents –words, tables, figures, maps, etc. In order for
these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for
researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the
realization of repositories providing semantics. In addition, it is now
critical to achieve interoperability *between* these repositories, through
common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. SERES10 intends to
provide such a forum.



*Questions addressed by SERES10:*

·                How can semantic repositories support the realization of
the SW?

·                Semantic repositories, ontology repositories, knowledge
repositories, where are the boundaries? How are they interacting? Are they
changing our experience of the web?

·                How are domain specific knowledge repositories, such as
biomedical digital libraries, interconnecting knowledge in meaningful
manners?

·                How are e-government initiatives using and delivering
semantics and knowledge repositories?

·                How can ontology repositories support novel semantic
applications?

·                How can ontology repositories encourage the development of
high quality ontologies that are used routinely by relevant communities?

·                How can ontology repositories provide semantics for
applications?

·                How can ontology repositories contribute to the reuse of
ontologies across different domains and applications?

·               How can ontology repositories interoperate with one another
to support scalability, availability and distributed reasoning?

·                How can provenance and intellectual property information be
managed in and across ontology repositories?

·                How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in
relevant ontology repositories be made comprehensible for users?

·                How can branching, versioning, mappings, dependencies and
configurations/compositions be managed in and across ontology repositories?

·                How can ontology repositories interoperate with related
applications such as ontology editors, automated reasoners, and rule
engines?

·                How can modularity be better supported in and across
ontology repositories; similarly, how could modularization be formalized?

·                How can ontology repositories support distributed
reasoning?

·                How can ontology repositories support corporate, national
and domain specific metadata/semantic infrastructures?

·                What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies
can we use? How could ontology repositories use these?



*Workshop Audience*

We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the
design, development and application of semantic web technology, semantic
registries and repositories, knowledge management systems, knowledge
repositories, repository editors, modularization techniques, versioning
systems and issues around federated ontology systems.  As some
repository-related tools are already under development, and repositories are
a crucial part of business infrastructure, we also address progressive Chief
Technology Officers interested in using these technologies.



IMPORTANT DATES
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 Paper Submission Deadline   August 20, 2010, 23.50 Hawaii time
 Acceptance Notification       September 17, 2010
 Camera Ready                   October 7, 2010
 SERES Workshop (tentative date)               November 7, 2010



SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
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Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For
system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and
system
descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Proceedings of
the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality
of
the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a
poster session.



Please submit your paper via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seres10

Submissions that do not comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed
the
12 page limit (research papers) or 5 page limit (position papers and systems
descriptions) will be rejected without review.

We note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not
have
a double-blind review process in place.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted
papers have to be presented at the workshop and they will be included in the
workshop proceedings that are published online at CEUR-WS.



*Program Committee*



Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA.

 Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.

 Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany.

Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland.

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.

Fabian Neuhaus, University of Maryland, USA.

Aleman-Bonarges Meza, Universidad Politecnica de Victoria, Mexico

Christoph Lange,  Jacobs University, Germany.

Sandro Hawke, W3C.

Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA.

Peter Haase, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description
Methods, Germany.

Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada

Leyla Garcia, Bundeswehr University, Germany.

Benjamin Good, USA

Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK




*Organizing Committee*

Alexander Garcia, University of Bremen
Mathieu d'Aquin,  Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University
Mike Dean, Principal Engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies
Kenneth Baclawski, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University

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