News
- May 06, 2008:
- Call for Papers is out.
- May 02, 2008:
- Workshop selected to be held as part of ISWC 2008, read more.
Aim and scope of the workshop
The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) 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 Media.
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 modeling and lightweight ontologies, to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to interlink data between Social Media websites, leveraging proprietary data silos to a Giant Global Graph.
This workshop is intended to bring together people and organisations interested in applying Semantic Web technologies to social media sites.
Call for Papers
Topics of Interest
We encourage contributions which will describe research proposals or implementations that deal with (but are not limited to) the following topics of interest:
- 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
- Ontologies for the Social Web: developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies 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
- Social Semantic Web: combining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web strategies and technologies
Submissions
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 pages description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo.
Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions will have to be made using EasyChair Conference System, and proceedings of the papers will be provided through the CEUR online service.
Important dates
- Submission deadline:
- Jul 25, 2008
- Notication of acceptance:
- Sep 05, 2008
- Camera-ready paper submission:
- Sep 26, 2008
- Camera-ready proceedings:
- Oct 03, 2008
Workshop Organization
The workshop will be co-located with the 7th ISWC in Karlsruhe (Germany), and will be held on the 26th or 27th October 2008.
The workshop will consist of:
- Opening session:
- This will permit introduction of the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes.
- Keynote speakers:
- We expect to attract at least two keynote speakers for the workshop, both from academic and industrial fields.
- Brief presentations:
- Contributors will be asked to submit a short position paper on how their contribution is relevant to semantically-enhanced social media sites, accepting questions during their presentations to support a more interactive environment.
- Parallel demonstration and poster session:
- This will involve all participants making their contribution available for examination. Posters will be accepted for contributors who are at an earlier stage of research.
- Discussion session:
- A panel-led discussion entitled "Enhancing social media sites with Semantic Web technologies: open problems and future research directions" will close the workshop.
- Communication:
- Networked communication will be encouraged during the Workshop using an IRC backchannel and other services enriched with Semantic Web capabilities.
Workshop Chairs
- John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
- Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Program Committee
- Benjamin Nowack, Appmosphere/Semsol, Germany
- Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany
- Christoph Görn, #B4mad.Net Network, Germany
- Dan Brickley, FOAF Project, World
- Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
- Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT/W3C, USA
- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
- Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada
- Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ivan Herman, CWI/W3C, Netherlands
- Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain
- Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Martin Dzbor, KMi, Open University, UK
- Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, Austria
- Paul Miller, Talis, UK
- Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Sofia Angeletou, KMi, Open University, UK
- Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
- Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
- Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Contact
For further information, please send an email to sdow2008 [at] easychair [dot] org