Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings),
due to the late publication of this year's USEWOD log data set, we
decided to publish an extra call for work in progress/late-breaking
results, reporting on very recent research pursued involving the USEWOD
data set. These abstracts, of no more than 4 pages, can be submitted
until March 28th.
Please also note the extended deadline for regular submissions, which is
now March 21st.
The new version of the USEWOD log data set for research on usage mining
and analysis in the context of the Web of Data can be retrieved via
http://usewod.org/data-sets.html.
USEWOD 2014: Building a Web Observatory for research on LOD usage
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4th Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data
at ESWC2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25th, 2014.
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/USEWOD2014/
The USEWOD workshop series has created and maintained a forum for
researchers to investigate the synergy between the Web of Data and Web
usage mining. This involves the analysis of semantic data usage but also
the exploitation of Semantic Web technologies to advance usage mining
approaches in general. Among other things, USEWOD hosts what has become
the reference data set for research on query logs of Linked Data endpoints.
This 4th edition of USEWOD will focus on this as a special theme:
building a USEWOD Web Observatory to track the distribution of research
based on the USEWOD data set. Web Observatories study a global network
of heterogeneous data repositories, each observing and analysing the
activity on the Web across a range of topics. Of course, the USEWOD data
set has been extended again and a data challenge offered.
We invite submissions on this theme (and other topics pertinent to
USEWOD), and in addition to paper presentations, the workshop will host
a live crowdsourcing activity to collect the provenance metadata that
finally brings together the root data set and as many publications that
refer to it as possible. A keynote presentation will complement the
contributed presentations and the crowdsourcing activity.
Data Challenge
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In addition to regular presentations and live crowdsourcing activity,
USEWOD2014 includes a data challenge. As in previous years, we released
a dataset of usage data (server log files) from Linked Open Data
sources. Participants are invited to present interesting analyses,
applications, alignments, etc. for these datasets, and to submit their
findings as a Data Challenge paper.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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.. Working with the USEWOD reference datasets 2011-2014: Insights,
lessons learned, challenges, and improvements for the future
.. Analysis and mining of usage logs of semantic resources and applications
.. Inferring semantic information from usage logs
.. Methods and tools for semantic analysis of usage logs
.. Representing and enriching usage logs with semantic information
.. Statistics of usage of the Linked Data Web
.. Usage-based evaluation methods and frameworks; gold standards for
evaluating web applications
.. Specifics and semantics of logs for content consumption and content
creation
.. Using semantics for recommendation, personalization and adaptation
.. Usage-based recommendation, personalization and adaptation of
semantic web applications
.. Exploiting usage logs for semantic search.
.. Data sharing, privacy, and privacy-protecting policies and techniques
Important dates
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March 7th, 2014 Submission deadline
April 7th, 2014 Acceptance notification
April 15th, 2014 Camera Ready
May 25th, 2014 Workshop
Format and submission
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We invite (1) regular research papers, (2) USEWOD Data Challenge papers,
and (3) USEWOD Provenance Proposals, describing innovative ideas about
how the USEWOD data set (and other datasets) and the papers based on it
can be interlinked on the Web in a sustainable fashion. All papers
should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS style, and we will make clear that
shorter papes are also welcome.
All accepted papers will be presented in long (20 min talk + 10 min
questions) or short (10 min talk + 5 min questions) time slots,
depending on their quality and potential for discussion. The proceedings
will be published via arXiv.org , and provenance metadata will be provided.
The workshop will consist of
* the contributed presentations of types (1), (2), and (3)
* a keynote on the USEWOD 2014 Web Observatory theme
* the live crowdsourcing activity
For the latter, workshop participants get access to a Web-based tool
that allows them to search for scientific publications, to capture
provenance information conforming to the W3C standard, and to store this
in a repository which is part of the Southampton Web Observatory. After
the workshop, we will evaluate the different provenance graphs created
by the participants and their answers to an additional questionnaire.
Via this study, we seek to better understand the different emphases
people set when capturing provenance information about scholarly work
and the different ways in which they perform their research online. This
will help us to inform Web Observatory research with how crowdsourced
content can be fed back into productive Web Observatory infrastructures.
Further information
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on the workshop website:
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/USEWOD2014/
The workshop organisers (please mail us at
[email protected]):
Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven, Belgium
Laura Hollink, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Markus Lukzak-Roesch, University of Southampton, UK
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Markus Luczak-Rösch
Senior Research Fellow
Web and Internet Science Research Group (WAIS)
Electronics & Computer Science (ECS)
University of Southampton
email: [email protected]
web: www.markus-luczak.de
