• News
• Introduction
• Important Dates
• Programme
• Topics of Interest
• Submissions
• Proceedings
• Organising Committee
• Programme Committee
• Contact Information
• Previous Workshops

News

• 2013-06-06: The proceedings of the workshop have been published as CEUR-WS Vol. 996: LDOW 2013 - Linked Data on the Web.
• 2013-05-15: The LDOW2013 workshop was attended by around 100 participants. The slides of the presentations are available for download below. Lots of thanks to the presenters as well as all members of the programme committee for making the workshop another success.
• 2013-04-23: The workshop programme and the accepted papers are online. Please see below for the timing of the presentations at the workshop as well as for the download links of the accepted papers.
• 2013-03-25: 13 out of 21 submissions were accepted for presentation at the workshop. We congratulate the authors of the papers and thank all members of the program committee a lot for their timely reviews and committed discussions on the papers.
• 2013-03-08: The Submission deadline for the workshop is approaching. Please submit your contributions until 10 March, 2013 (23:59 Pacific Time).
• 2013-01-17: The Call for Papers for the LDOW2013 workshop has been published.

Introduction

Linked Data is a set of best practices for publishing structured data on the Web which focuses on setting hyperlinks between data items provided by different web servers. These hyperlinks connect the data from all servers into a single global data graph - the Web of Linked Data.

The 6th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2013) aims to stimulate further research into exploiting this global data graph to deliver transformative applications to large user bases, as well as to mine the graph for implicit knowledge. Inevitably the challenges associated with Linked Data range from lower level plumbing issues over large-scale data processing and mining, to higher level conceptual questions of value propositions and business models. LDOW2013 will provide a forum for exposing novel, high quality research and applications in all of these areas. In addition, by bringing together researchers in the field, the workshop will further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 10 March, 2013 (23:59 Pacific Time)
• Notification of acceptance: 25 March, 2013
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 15 April, 2013
• Workshop date: 14 May, 2013

Programme

The timing for presentations and breaks at LDOW2013 is shown below.

Introduction

• 13:00-13:10: Workshop Introduction ( Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee, Michael Hausenblas, Sören Auer )

Session 1: Read/Write Linked Data Web

• 13:10-13:30: R&Wbase: git for triples ( Miel Vander Sande , Pieter Colpaert , Ruben Verborgh , Sam Coppens , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle ) ( Slides )
• 13:30-13:50: OSLC Resource Shape: A language for defining constraints on Linked Data ( Arthur Ryman , Arnaud Le Hors , Steve Speicher ) ( Slides )
• 13:50-14:10: Hydra: A Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs ( Markus Lanthaler , Christian Guetl ) ( Slides )
• 14:10-14:30: Reasoning over SPARQL ( Sam Coppens , Miel Vander Sande , Ruben Verborgh , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle )
• 14:30-15:00: Break

Session 2: RDF Data Processing

• 15:00-15:20: Similar Structures inside RDF-Graphs ( Anas Alzogbi , Georg Lausen ) ( Slides )
• 15:20-15:40: LHD: Optimising Linked Data Query Processing Using Parallelisation ( Xin Wang , Thanassis Tiropanis , Hugh C. Davis ) ( Slides )
• 15:40-16:00: A Hybrid Approach to Linked Data Query Processing with Time Constraints ( Steven Lynden , Isao Kojima , Akiyoshi Matono , Akihito Nakamura , Makoto Yui ) ( Slides )
• 16:00-16:20: Discovering Meaningful Connections between Resources in the Web of Data ( Laurens De Vocht , Sam Coppens , Ruben Verborgh , Miel Vander Sande , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle )
• 16:20-17:00: Break

Session 3: Linked Data In-Use

• 17:00-17:20: Ranking Universities Using Linked Open Data ( Rouzbeh Meymandpour , Joseph Davis ) ( Slides )
• 17:20-17:40: Connected Media Experiences: interactive video using Linked Data on the Web ( Lyndon Nixon , Matthias Bauer , Cristian Bara ) ( Slides )
• 17:40-18:00: Describing Customizable Products on the Web of Data ( Francois-Paul Servant , Edouard Chevalier ) ( Slides )
• 18:00-18:20: DDI-RDF Discovery Vocabulary: A Metadata Vocabulary for Documenting Research and Survey Data ( Thomas Bosch , Richard Cyganiak , Arofan Gregory , Joachim Wackerow ) ( Slides )
• 18:20-18:40: Beyond Data: Building a Web of Needs ( Florian Kleedorfer , Christina Maria Busch ) ( Slides )
• 18:40: Workshop Finishes

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Mining the Web of Linked Data

• large-scale approaches to deriving implicit knowledge from the Web of Linked Data
• using the Web of Linked Data as background knowledge in data mining applications

Linking and Fusion

• linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution
• increasing the value of Schema.org and OpenGraphProtocol data through linking
• Web data integration and fusion
• performance of linking infrastructures/algorithms on Web data

Quality, Trust, Provenance and Licensing in Linked Data

• profiling and change tracking of Linked Data sources
• tracking provenance and usage of Linked Data
• evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data
• licensing issues in Linked Data publishing

Linked Data Applications and Business Models

• Linked Data browsers and search engines
• Linked Data as pay-as-you-go data integration technology within corporate contexts
• marketplaces, aggregators and indexes for Linked Data
• interface and interaction paradigms for Linked Data applications
• business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption
• Linked Data applications for life-sciences, digital humanities, social sciences etc.

Submissions

We seek the following kinds of submissions:

1. Full scientific papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format
2. Short scientific and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format

Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG template (as per the WWW2012 Research Track) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not operate a double-blind review process. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the workshop and attend to present the paper.

Please submit papers via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2013

Proceedings

Accepted paper will be made available to all via this site and published online as a volume of the CEUR series of workshop proceedings.

Organising Committee

• Christian Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Tom Heath, Open Data Institute, UK
• Tim Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT, USA
• Michael Hausenblas, Linked Data Research Centre, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany

Programme Committee

• Ali Khalili, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Amapali Zaveri, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Andreas Langegger, zeb/information.technology, Austria
• Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics, UK
• Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.com, Austria
• Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil
• Denny Vrandecic, Wikimedia Deutschland, Germany
• Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Fabian Suchanek, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
• Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
• Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI, Germany
• Hak Kim, Samsung, South Korea
• Hannes Mühleisen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
• Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
• Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
• Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA
• Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Joerg Unbehauen, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Johanna Völker, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Josep Maria Brunetti, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
• Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, USA
• Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
• Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Michael Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC, USA
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Pablo Mendes, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA
• Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
• Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Robert Isele, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
• Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany
• Timofey Ermilov, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China
• Yves Raimond, BBC, UK

Contact Information

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at: ldow2013 @ events . linkeddata . org

Previous Workshops

• LDOW2012
• LDOW2011
• LDOW2010
• LDOW2009
• LDOW2008