- From: David De Roure <dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:38:59 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hello, Those of you with experience (or indeed views) on the use of RDF for expressing hypermedia may be interested in the Hypermedia and the Semantic Web Workshop at ACM Hypertext 03 (The fourteenth conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia), August 26-30, Nottingham, UK). The July 18 deadline for position papers is approaching - see http://www.ht03.org/workshops.html#semantic for more info. Regards -- Dave International Workshop on Hypermedia and the Semantic Web ========================================================= The Semantic Web provides a range of mechanisms to express relationships between things. These vary in power of expression from the Resource Description Framework through to the three levels of the OWL Web Ontology Language, all available from W3C, while the Semantic Web research community has ventured further into rule languages and beyond. Hypermedia is also about expressing relationships between things, with models including navigational, spatial, taxonomic and temporal hypermedia. So what is the relationship between hypermedia and the Semantic Web? We believe that researchers in each community can learn from the other, and we hope that this new workshop will facilitate this flow of ideas and experience. We equally welcome paper submissions from hypertext practitioners who are using or developing Semantic Web ideas and technologies, and Semantic Web practitioners who are using or developing hypermedia ideas and technologies. Thus topics include: * application of semantic web technologies to hypermedia systems * open hypermedia and the semantic web * ontologies and taxonomic hypertext * relationship between inference and link resolution * hypermedia service description, discovery and composition< * time based hypermedia and the Semantic Web * hyperlinks versus semantic relationships * hypermedia and Semantic Grid * ontological hypertext * conceptual open hypermedia * interface/interaction issues for hypertext/semantic web systems Participants ------------ The workshop is open to both researchers and practitioners working with hypermedia systems and/or semantic web technologies. Participation in the workshop may either be: * by submission of a short position paper (of two to four A4 pages) * by submission of a workshop paper (of six to ten A4 pages) In case there are more submissions than feasible for a one-day workshop those contributions most appropriate to the workshop theme will be selected for presentation. The proceedings will then be published as a Technical report from the Electronics and Computer Science Department, University of Southampton, UK. Activities Planned ------------------ The workshop is to be organised by splitting it into sessions. Sessions will consist of brief position statements or longer paper presentations followed by discussions. A closing session will summarise the outcome of the workshop and determine any further activities to be performed. Submission Details & Authoring Guidelines ----------------------------------------- Submit your workshop or position paper not later than 18th July, 2003 encoded as PDF or HTML via e-mail to David Millard (dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk). Submitted papers will be refereed; after your presentation at the workshop you will have the possibility to update your paper and submit a final version. Important Dates --------------- * Position and Workshop papers due 18th July, 2003 * Notification of acceptance 8th August, 2003 * Position papers available at the web site 15th August, 2003 * Workshop date 30th August, 2003 * Final version of paper due 10th October, 2003 Background ---------- This new workshop builds on the tradition established within the Open Hypermedia Systems community and in particular on the Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) workshop series. It also draws on recent interest in the Hypertext community in the Semantic Web and in particular the HT01 panel "The Semantic Web: Who Needs It?". Organisers ---------- David De Roure (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He was programme co-chair of WWW2002, is co-chair of the Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid ComputingWorkshop at WWW2003, and ran successful workshops at the International World Wide Web Conferences in Darmstadt and in Paris. He has been an OHS participant for several years. Jim Hendler (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/) is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is also the director of the Semantic Web Research Group and the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. David Millard (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dem) is a Research Fellow in the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton. He has participated in the Open Hypermedia Workshops and Working Group meetings since 1997 and was the organiser of OHS2002. Jacco van Ossenbruggen (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jrvosse/) is a post doctorate researcher with the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction theme at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Sean Bechhofer (http://potato.cs.man.ac.uk/seanb/) is a Research Fellow in the Information Management Group within the University of Manchester Department of Computer Science. Contact: -------- David Millard Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK email: dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk Other Links ----------- Hypermedia and the Semantic Web Workshop Homepage http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dem/workshops/htsm2003/ ACM Hypertext 2003 http://www.ht03.org Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) Workshop Series http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dem/workshops/ohs2002/ohs2002.html HT01 panel "The Semantic Web: Who Needs It?" http://www.ht01.org/panels.html -- Prof David De Roure phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418 Grid and Pervasive Computing fax +44 (0)23 8059 2865 Dept of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
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