[Pellet-users] Last CFP: CK 2009 - Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management and Linking of Structured Knowledge, collocated with ISWC 2009

[Timothy Redmond]

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            CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND DEMOS

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     Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management
           and Linking of Structured Knowledge

                  October 25, 2009
                    Collocated with ISWC-2009
     Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA
       Paper submission: August 10, 2009  (13 days from today)

     http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/

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Objectives
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Many have argued that the next generation of the Web (Web 3.0) will  
grow out of an integration between Semantic Web and Social Web (Web  
2.0) technologies.Can ontology management benefits from social web?  
Can Wikipidia be a style of collaborative ontology authoring? How to  
exploit user feedback for constructing structured knowledge? In these  
and many other questions lie the opportunity and the challenge to  
integrate knowledge bases approaches to social web ones. This  
integration involves several very different aspects of technology and  
social practice. Recent workshops and journal special issues have been  
devoted to methods for extracting ontologies and other structured  
knowledge from resources such as Wikipedia and other loosely  
structured data; or on using Semantic Web representations to describe  
the social structures and interactions in Web 2.0; or on mapping  
existing data using semantic technologies. In this workshop, we want  
to focus on another aspect of linkage between Social Web and Semantic  
Web techniques:  collaborative and distributed methods for  
constructing and maintaining ontologies, terminologies, vocabularies,  
and mappings between them, throughout their entire life cycle.


Topics of interest
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They include (but are not limited to):
- Collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge
- Collaborative creation of ontology mappings
- Efficient methods for maintenance and evolution of structured  
knowledge that was created collaboratively
- Individual and group incentives for collaborative knowledge  
construction and maintenance
- Ontology repositories, knowledge bases, and their utility in the  
Social Web.
- Metadata management
- User interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured  
knowledge
- Inconsistency management and user-specific views of ontologies
- Workflows for collaborative construction and linking of structured  
knowledge
- Evaluation of collaborative tools: methods, metrics, and  
experimental reports


Submission guidelines
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Papers submitted to the workshop must follow the same submission  
guidelines of the ISWC'09 conference. Submissions must be in PDF  
format in Springer format (for instruction see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0)
We solicit in this workshop two types of contributions:

1. Research papers analysing the process of collaborative  
construction, management and linkage of structured knowledge; the  
requirements for supporting technologies and the field of exploitation  
of such knowledge. Formatted papers must not be longer than 10 pages.

2. Demos papers describing relevant tools and prototypes. Formatted  
papers must not be longer than 2 pages.


Important dates
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Paper submission: 10 August 2009
Notification : 31 August 2009
Workshop : 25 October 2009


Organizing committee
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Tania Tudorache (co-chair), Stanford University
Gianluca Correndo (co-chair), University of Southampton
Natasha Noy, Stanford University
Harith Alani, University of Southampton
Mark Greaves, Vulcan inc.

Program Committee
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Mathieu D'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, UK
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Ken Baklawski, Northeastern University, US
Simone Braun, FZI, Germany
Raul Garcia Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Vinay Chaudhri, SRI international, USA
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Sean Falconer, University of Victoria, Canada
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy
John Graybeal, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA
Peter Mika, Yahoo Research, Spain
Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Marta Sabou, Knowledge Media Institute, UK
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK
Gerd Stumme, Universität Kassel, Germany
Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, Ireland
Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Germany
Anna Zhdanova, FTW, Austria


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