Of possible interest. Submissions due Feb 29 -- and keep an eye out for the proceedings.
Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [email protected] > From: Alexander Garcia Castro <[email protected]> > Date: 22 February 2012 02:57:42 GMT > To: W3C HCLSIG hcls <[email protected]> > Subject: Semantic Web and Ontologies in Scholarly Communication > > http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ > SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. > > At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and > scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print > media and Web media, Sepublica aims to provide researchers with a venue in > which this future can be shaped. Consider research publications: Data sets > and code are essential elements of data intensive research, but these are > absent when the research is recorded and preserved by way of a scholarly > journal article. Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make > public sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but > news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data sources. At > Sepublica we will discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, > linking, and analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over > the data to discover new links and scientific insights. > > > > Workshop Format > > We are planning to have a full day workshop with two main sessions. During > the first part of the workshop accepted papers will be presented; the second > part of the workshop will address by means of focus groups two main > questions, namely “what do we want the future of scholarly communication to > be?” and “how could data be preserved and delivered in an interactive manner > over scholarly communications?”. These focus groups will be followed by a > panel discussion. As an outcome of these activities we will have a communique > that will be the editorial for the workshop proceedings, > > > Dates > > * workshop papers submission deadline: Feb 29 > > * workshop papers acceptance notification: April 1 > > * workshop papers camera ready: April 15 > > Submission > > > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2012 > > Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For > system/demo descriptions, a paper of minimum 2 pages, maximum 5 pages should > be submitted. Late-breaking news should be one page maximum. All papers and > system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format. For > submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF format, 400 words count as one page. > Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review. > > Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might be invited > to present their papers during a poster session. > > The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a > double-blind review process in place. > Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers; > late-breaking news get a light review w.r.t. their relevance by two > reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop (requires > registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop). > > > > Issues to be addressed > > Representation: > Formal representations of scientific data; ontologies for scientific > information > What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document? > How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in scholarly > communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence? > Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information > How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded in > scientific documents and in general-interest media publications? > Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets > Technological Foundations: > Ontology-based visualization of scientific data > Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information > Linked Data for dissemination and archiving of research results, for > collaboration and research networks, and for research assessment > How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a paper as a > database, as a knowledge base? > How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data? How could such > and interface be delivered in a contextual manner? > Applications and Use Cases: > Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and > socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental > monitoring, cultural heritage, etc. > Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to > address these > Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science > > -- > Alexander Garcia > Florida State University Visiting Professor > http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ > http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html > http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac >
