Second CfP: 2nd international workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009), colocated with ISWC2009
Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and mailing lists. *** Submissions deadline extended until August 10th *** CALL FOR PAPERS: SDoW2009 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: August 10, 2009 http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/ 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 --- * Submission deadline:Aug 10, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 04, 2009 * Camera-ready paper submission: Oct 02, 2009 * Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 09, 2009 * Workshop: Oct 25, 2009 Description --- 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 -- 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 --- 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 --- * 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 - * 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 * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * 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 * Libby Miller, BBC, UK * Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Geonames oddities
Hi, I was looking at geonames the other day... If you look at the RDF for England: http://sws.geonames.org/6269131/about.rdf you'll see it has a parentFeature relationship that points to UK (fair enough). But, the childrenFeatures relationship then points to an RDF file http://sws.geonames.org/6269131/contains.rdf that contains a list of features. This seems (to me) to be a very odd way of doing things? Anyone else? John Dr John Goodwin Research Scientist, Research, Ordnance Survey C530, Romsey Road, SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom, SO16 4GU Phone: +44 (0) 23 8030 5756 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk| john.good...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this email This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Romsey Road Southampton SO16 4GU Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Re: Recipe for Shops: Showing up in Yahoo and in the Web of Data in One Turn
Seth, Something like pyRDFa [1] ? Cheers, Michael [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/ -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html From: Seth Russell russell.s...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:35:28 -0800 To: martin.h...@ebusiness-unibw.org Cc: semantic-web at W3C semantic-...@w3c.org, Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Recipe for Shops: Showing up in Yahoo and in the Web of Data in One Turn Resent-From: Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:36:12 + Thanks for the example :) It looks quite doable. Do you know if someone has written a validator page for this RDFa kind of markup? We need something like http://validator.w3.org/feed/ . There is nothing like instant feedback ... a page that you can go to and paste in your URL and get back a web version of the triples that it creates as well as any errors. -- Seth Russell www.speaktomecatalog.com On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW)martin.h...@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote: Dear all: I just completed a recipe meant for larger audiences (Web developers, SEO companies) on how a business can enrich its pages using RDFa+GoodRelations so that the data - shows up in Yahoo AND - it at the same time useful for comprehensive RDF applications. The recipe is at http://tr.im/rAbN It tries to combine pure recipes from the RDF world with the Web developer's how-tos provided by Yahoo. Any feedback is very welcome. Best Martin Hepp -- -- martin hepp e-business web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: mh...@computer.org phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) skype: mfhepp twitter: mfhepp Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data! Webcast: http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp Tool for registering your business: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/ Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe Project page and resources for developers: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Tutorial materials: Tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Tutorial_ESWC2009
Early Bird Registration ends 31st July - 5th i-Semantics 2009/4th AIS SigPrag Int. Pragmatic Web
[Call for Participation - apologies for cross-posting] Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to participate in the 5th International http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/ Conference on Semantic Systems (i-Semantics 2009) and the 4th http://www.pragmaticweb.info/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=51I temid=1 AIS SigPrag International Pragmatic Web Conference Track (ICPW 2009) which will be held at together with the i-Know 2009, 2 - 4 September 2009, Messecongress|Graz, Austria. i-Semantics 2009: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/ Pragmatic Web: http://www.pragmaticweb.info/index.php?option=com_content http://www.pragmaticweb.info/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=51I temid=1 task=viewid=51Itemid=1 The early-bird registration will end 31 July 09 - http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/registration We are building a highly interesting program. Highlights of the program - - 3 Keynotes x Peter Kropsch (CEO Austrian Press Agency) When technologies are drivers, integrated concepts are needed for success! x Paolo Traverso (Director of the Center for Information Technology - IRST) Towards a Future Internet of Services and Content x Professor Eric Tsui (Associate Director of the Knowledge Management Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) KM education, adoption and research in Hong Kong: The KMRC perspective - 4th AIS SigPrag Pragmatic Web Conference Track x Pragmatic Web Panel Discussion x Pragmatic Web Tutorial by Ronald Stamper (Professor (retired) University of Twente) about Organizational Semiotics and Pragmatic Web - 3rd International Cooperation-Event - LINKED OPEN DATA Triplification Challenge - Exibition - Semantic Web Industry Day - Podiumsdiskussion - Paper Presentations All together we received 128 submissions from which 20 full papers and 9 short papers were selected for i-Semantics 2009 and 5 full papers and 5 short papers were selected for the Pragmatic Web conference track. You will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and learn more about Semantic Web, Pragmatic Web, Corporate Semantic Web, Linked Open Data Web, Social Semantic Web, Organizational Semiotics, as well as practical developments, standards and experiences in latest industry technologies in these fields. The full i-Semantics/Pragmatic Web program is available at: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/program The registration page is available at: http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/registration We are looking forward to welcome you in Graz! Your i-Semantics/Pragmatic Web team
Sig.ma - live views on the web of data
Dear Web of Data enthusiasts, we are very happy to share with you today the first public version of Sigma, http://sig.ma , a browser, a mashup engine and an API for the web of data. here is blog post with screencast, sample sigma embedded mashup etc. http://blog.sindice.com/2009/07/22/sigma-live-views-on-the-web-of-data/ Sig.ma is heavily based on Sindice but also takes important hints from Yahoo BOSS, the OKKAM service and likely several others soon cheers Giovanni, also on behalf of all - Michele Catasta, Richard Cyganiak and Szymon Danielczyk who worked specifically on this but also .. and of the Data Intensive Infrastructure Group, DERI as a whole. http://di2.deri.ie/team/
