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                    CALL FOR PAPERS: SDoW2009

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                  2nd International Workshop on 
                Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009)

                        October 25, 2009
       
                   collocated with ISWC-2009
      Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA
   
                Paper submission: July 24, 2009

               http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/

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The 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009), 
co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference 
(ISWC2009), aims to bring together researchers, developers and 
practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media 
websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of 
these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.

Important dates
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* Submission deadline:            Jul 24, 2009
* Notification of acceptance:     Aug 30, 2009
* Camera-ready paper submission:  Oct 02, 2009
* Camera-ready proceedings:       Oct 09, 2009
* Workshop:                       Oct 25, 2009

Description
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Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled 
by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge 
representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and 
inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding 
information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web. It 
opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important 
role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that 
should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both 
Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks 
and features are needed from data modelling and lightweight ontologies, 
to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to
interlink 
data between Social Media websites, levering proprietary data silos to 
a Giant Global Graph.

Following the successful SDoW2008 workshop at ISWC2008, SDoW2009 aims
to 
bring together Semantic Web experts and Web 2.0 practitioners and users 
to discuss the application of semantic technologies to data from the 
Social Web.

Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

*  Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
* Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services
* Data Portability and Social Network Portability
* Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web
* Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and 
  other approaches
* Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social 
  media sites
* Mining and analysis of Social Data
* Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending 
  lightweight ontologies/vocabularies for social media sites
* Querying and mining social semantic data
* Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative 
  scenarios
* Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications
* Reasoning for Social Web applications
* Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks
* Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
* Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
* Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration

Submissions
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The following types of contributions are welcomed:

* Full technical papers, up to 12 pages.
* Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages.
* Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the 
  application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo.


Workshop Chairs
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* John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain

Program Committee
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* Alessandra Toninelli, Università di Bologna, Italy
* Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
* Dan Brickley, FOAF project & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
* Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
* Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT, USA / W3C, USA
* Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
* Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada
* Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany
* Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
* Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Josephine Griffith, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Kotaro Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Matthew Rowe, Univ. Of Sheffield, UK
* Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
* Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Sebastien Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly, USA
* Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
* Valdis Krebs, orgnet.com, USA
* Yves Raimond, BBC, UK

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