Re: Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) at ESWC2008 - deadline approaching

Hi - is anyone interested/working on a solution that creates something 
analogous to domain name servers?  I had an idea for 'infoservers' that would 
answer 'who knows' queries instead of 'who is' queries.   So that way 
registration would be in a distributed mesh with shared authority (the answer 
to a WHOKNOWS query could be multiple servers, possibly with qualifiers).  
Also I wanted to extend the info:// protocol for concept addressing, with a 
mechanism that lets anyone extend anyone else's concept.

I kind of started to write these things up here http://abra.info/Mapping.pdf 
but I'm not an academic and would love to partner with someone who knows more 
about what they're doing.  (Or just find out if anyone is already doing these 
things)  

thanks

--Golda

On Friday 29 February 2008 5:11, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
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>  ==================================================================
> 
>                         CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
>                        ESWC 2008 Workshop
> 
>        Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008)
>         --------------------------------------------
>         Entity-centric Approaches to Information and
>                Knowledge Management on the Web
> 
>                  Tenerife, Spain - June 1 2008
> 
>                 http://www.okkam.org/IRSW2008
> 
>  ==================================================================
> 
>  The recent developments of the Semantic Web - and the fast rise of Web
>  2.0 applications - make more and more evident that the problem of
>  identity and reference through URIs is perhaps the single most
>  important issue for fostering the Semantic Web on a global scale. In a
>  nutshell: the effective use of the Semantic Web on a global scale
>  requires the systematic reuse of stable and global URIs. This in turn
>  requires that there exist decentralized agreement on how URIs can be
>  used to identify and refer to the same object. So far, uniqueness of
>  URIs and reference have often been taken for granted. Initiatives like
>  Linked Data, OntoWorld and the large number of proposals aiming at
>  using popular identifiers (e.g. Wikipedia's) as "canonical" URIs
>  (especially for "real world" objects that aren't accessible on the
>  Web) show that a solution to this issue is both urgent and relevant.
> 
>  Solving this issue would enable and foster the decentralized and open
>  publication of data on the Semantic Web, would allow better and faster
>  semantic search engines, would be the basis for a new generation of
>  Semantic Web browsers, would start the development of smarter
>  applications on the Web. Other vertical (and often commercial)
>  initiatives (like XRIs, LSID, DOI, etc.) prove that there is also a
>  practical and business potential in a standard solution.
> 
>  So far, there is little agreement on how this problem should be
>  addressed and solved. On the one hand we need to address technical
>  issues:
> 
>     *      How do we make sure that people and applications can find
>  and reuse pre-existing URIs for different types of entity?
>     *      Is HTTP the most appropriate addressing scheme for these URIs?
>     *      Should URIs for commonly identified entities, like people,
>  organizations or countries, be managed by a central service? If so,
>  under what conditions?
>     *      Are centralized registries of URIs for different types of
>  entities necessary? Can such a registries be built in a decentralized
>  manner while still linking data?
> 
>  There are also issues of trust and security:
> 
>     * What if the same URI is used to make contradictory or undesired
>  statements about an entity?
>     * Do people or groups really want that a single URIs is
>  consistently used to represent knowledge about them on the Web, one
>  that could be used to effectively gather data about them?
>     * What is an acceptable level of security for any kind of URI registry?
>     * Where is the boundary between describing entities and violating
>  their privacy?
> 
>  Despite the high level of awareness in the community, the potential
>  for the integration of information currently published on the Semantic
>  Web is still mostly unexploited. FOAF profiles do not have canonical
>  and reusable URIs for pointing to people one knows (only ad hoc
>  solutions are available, like the email hashcode); the most popular
>  ontology editors mint new URIs for any newly started OWL project;
>  social networks are not easily portable.
> 
>  Starting from such a situation, this workshop aims at collecting
>  contributions which can roughly be grouped as follows:
> 
>     * Foundations: formal and conceptual theories of identity and
>  reference for the Semantic Web
>     * Vision papers: visionary solutions to the problems of identity
>  and reference
>     * Project papers: descriptions of research & development projects
>  in this area
>     * Experiences: contributions from research and industry that
>  illustrate case studies or approaches to deal with the issues of
>  identity and reference
>     * Critical viewpoints: discussions of advantages and disadvantages
>  of previously proposed approaches.
> 
>  We especially encourage contributions from groups or organizations
>  which are working on identification schemes for large semantic data
>  collections,  in order to compare the different practical solutions
>  that have been developed to integrate Semantic Web data..
> 
>  Workshop's anticipated outcome:
> 
>  The anticipated outcome of the workshop is to assess the state of the
>  art in the area, as well as to discuss the approach and critically
>  evaluate the next steps in pursuing this topic. There is the potential
>  for creating the core of a consortium for future R&D projects on the
>  topic for both
>  academia and industry.
> 
>  Submission Details
>  ------------------
> 
>  All submissions will undergo a thorough peer-review process by
>  an international program committee, made up of leading members of
>  different communities from "Web 2.0", Semantic Web and Information
>  Retrieval researchers and companies.
> 
>  Accepted contributions will be included on the ESWC2008
>  Conference CD as well as made available as CEUR Online Proceedings
> 
>  We invite submissions of two types:
> 
>    1. full papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS format)
>    2. extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in LNCS format).
> 
>  The authors of accepted abstracts will be requested to produce a full
>  paper by the time the camera-ready version is due. Accepted
>  contributions will be presented at the workshop. Additionally, some
>  submissions may be accepted as posters.
> 
>  Submissions should be formatted in Springer LNCS format
>  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and submitted in PDF
>  format.
>  The submission site can be reached through the webpage
>  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irsw2008
> 
>  Please note that at least one author of an accepted paper must
>  register for the ESWC 2008 conference
>  Important Dates
> 
>     * Paper/abstract submission: March 7, 2008
>     * Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2008
>     * Camera ready Paper submission: April 18, 2008
>     * Workshop: June 1, 2008
> 
> 
>  Organization
>  ------------
>  Chair
>   Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento
>  Program Co-Chairs
>   Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento
>   Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway
>   Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh
> 
> 
>  Program Committee:
> 
>  Karl Aberer             EPFL
>  Chris Bizer             Freie Universität Berlin
>  David Booth             HP
>  Werner Ceusters         University of Buffalo
>  Richard Cyganiak        DERI Galway
>  Anita De Waard          Elsevier
>  Stefan Decker           DERI Galway
>  Hugh Glaser             University of Southampton
>  Andreas Harth           DERI Galway
>  Tom Heath               Talis Information Ltd
>  Kingsley Idehen       OpenLink Software
>  Pierre Levy             University of Ottawa
>  Alexander Löser         SAP Research
>  Antonio Mana            University of Malaga
>  Christian Morbidoni     Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
>  Claudia Niederée        L3S Research Center
>  Alan Ruttenberg Science Commons US
>  Matthias Samwald        DERI Galway
>  Leo Sauermann           DFKI
>  Henry Thompson          University of Edinburgh UK
>  Marco Varone            ExpertSystem    IT
>  Bernard Vatant          Mondeca FR
> 

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