- From: Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:42:21 +0000
- To: "Linking Open Data" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>
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Due to many requests , we are extending the deadline for Papers and Extended Abstracts to **** March 13 ***** . Thanks for your interest! ** our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ================================================================== 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 13, 2008 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!) * 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 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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