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

News

• 2014-07-01: The proceedings of the workshop have been published as CEUR-WS Vol. 1184: LDOW 2014 - Linked Data on the Web.
• 2014-04-15: The LDOW2014 workshop was attended by around 80 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.
• 2014-03-15: LDOW2014 will feature a Keynote Talk by Ramanathan Guha (Google):

  Title: Schema.org - Update

  Abstract: A significant fraction of the pages on the web are generated from structured databases. A longstanding goal of the semantic web initiative is to get webmasters to make this structured data directly available on the web. The path towards this objective has been rocky at best. While there have been some notable wins (such as RSS and FOAF), many of the other initiatives have seen little industry adoption. Learning from these earlier attempts has guided the development of Schema.org, which appears to have altered the trajectory. Two years after its launch over 4 million Internet domains are are using schema.org markup. In this talk, we recount the history behind the early efforts and try to understand why some of them succeeded while others failed. We will then give an update on Schema.org, its goals, accomplishments and where it is headed. We will also discuss some of the interesting research problems being addressed in the context of this effort (Slides from the talk).

• 2014-03-14: The workshop programme and the accepted papers are online. Please see below for the timing of presentations at the workshop.
• 2014-03-05: 13 out of 19 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.
• 2014-02-17: We have received 19 submissions for the LDOW2014 workshop which are currently being reviewed by the programme committee.
• 2013-11-16: The Call for Papers for the LDOW2014 workshop has been published.

Introduction

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

The 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2014) aims to stimulate discussion and further research into the challenges of publishing, integrating and consuming Linked Data as well as to evaluating and mining knowledge from the global Web of Linked Data. The challenges associated with Linked Data management range from lower level technical issues over large-scale data processing, quality assessment and mining, to higher level conceptual questions of value propositions and business models. LDOW2014 will provide a forum for exposing novel, high quality research and applications in all of these areas. By bringing together researchers in the field, the workshop will further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 16 February, 2014 (23:59 Pacific Time)
• Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2014
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 16 March, 2014
• Workshop date: 8 April, 2014

Programme

The timing for presentations and breaks at LDOW2014 is shown below.

Session 1: Introduction and Keynote

• 09:00-09:10: Workshop Introduction ( Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Sören Auer, Tim Berners-Lee )
• 09:10-10:00: Keynote: Schema.org Update ( Ramanathan Guha ) ( Slides )
• 10:00-10:30: Question & Answer session with Tim Berners-Lee
• 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

Session 2: Integration

• 11:00-11:20: RML: A Generic Language for Integrated RDF Mappings of Heterogeneous Data ( Anastasia Dimou , Miel Vander Sande , Pieter Colpaert , Ruben Verborgh , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle ) ( Slides )
• 11:20-11:40: Knowledge Base Augmentation using Tabular Data ( Yoones A. Sekhavat , Francesco di Paolo , Denilson Barbosa , Paolo Merialdo ) ( Slides )
• 11:40-12:00: AIDA-light: High-Throughput Named-Entity Disambiguation ( Dat Ba Nguyen , Johannes Hoffart , Martin Theobald , Gerhard Weikum ) ( Slides )
• 12:00-12:20: Web-Scale Querying through Linked Data Fragments ( Ruben Verborgh , Miel Vander Sande , Pieter Colpaert , Sam Coppens , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle ) ( Slides )
• 12:30-14:00: Lunch

Session 3: Exploration

• 14:00-14:20: DBpedia Viewer - An Integrative Interface for DBpedia leveraging the DBpedia Service Eco System ( Denis Lukovnikov , Dimitris Kontokostas , Claus Stadler , Sebastian Hellmann , Jens Lehmann ) ( Slides )
• 14:20-14:40: Linked Data Query Wizard: A Novel Interface for Accessing SPARQL Endpoints ( Patrick Hoefler , Michael Granitzer , Eduardo Veas , Christin Seifert ) ( Slides )
• 14:40-15:00: Programmable Analytics for Linked Open Data ( Bo Hu , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues )
• 15:00-15:20: Will Linked Data Benefit from Inverse Link Traversal? ( Stefan Scheglmann , Ansgar Scherp )
• 15:30-16:00: Break

Session 4: Linked Data Applications

• 16:00-16:20: daQ, an Ontology for Dataset Quality Information ( Jeremy Debattista, Christoph Lange , Sören Auer ) ( Slides )
• 16:20-16:40: Publishing L2TAP Logs to Facilitate Transparency and Accountability ( Reza Samavi , Mariano P. Consens )
• 16:40-17:00: Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data ( Thomas Steiner , Hannes Mühleisen , Ruben Verborgh , Pierre-Antoine Champin , Benoît Encelle , Yannick Prié ) ( Slides )
• 17:00-17:20: Social Web Meets Sensor Web: Linked crowdsourced observation data ( Dong-Po Deng , Guan-Shuo Mai , Tyng-Ruey Chuang , Lemmens Rob ) ( Slides )
• 17:20-17:40: Application of the Linked Data Visualization Model on Real World Data from the Czech LOD Cloud ( Jakub Klímek , Jiří Helmich , Martin Nečaský ) ( Slides )
• 17:40: Close

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 derivation of implicit knowledge from the Web of Linked Data
• using the Web of Linked Data as background knowledge in data mining

Integrating Large Numbers of Linked Data Sources

• linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution
• schema matching and clustering
• data fusion
• evaluation of linking, schema matching and data fusion methods

Quality Evaluation, Provenance Tracking and Licensing

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

Linked Data Publishing, Authoring and Consumption

• mapping and publication of various data sources as Linked Data
• authoring and curation of Linked Data
• Linked Data consumption interfaces and interaction paradigms
• visualization and exploration of Linked Data

Linked Data Applications and Business Models

• application showcases including browsers and search engines
• marketplaces, aggregators and indexes for Linked Data
• business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption
• Linked Data as pay-as-you-go data integration technology within corporate contexts
• 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 WWW2014 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=ldow2014

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
• Sören Auer, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany, Germany
• Tim Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT, USA

Programme Committee

• Ali Khalili, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics, UK
• Ansgar Scherp, Kiel University and Leibniz Information Center for Economics, Germany
• Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.com, Austria
• Christoph Lange, University of Bonn, Germany
• Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Dan Brickley, Google, UK
• Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Erik Wilde, School of Information UC Berkeley, USA
• Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
• Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
• Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• 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
• Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics, UK
• Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA
• Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, USA
• Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
• Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Knud Möller, Datalysator, Germany
• Li Ding, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA
• Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mathieu d'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Michael Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC, USA
• Michiel Hildebrand, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Olaf Hartig, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
• Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Robert Isele, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Roger Menday, Fujitsu, UK
• Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany
• Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany
• Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China
• Yves Raimond, BBC, UK

Contact Information

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at: ldow2014 @ events . linkeddata . org

Previous Workshops

• LDOW2013
• LDOW2012
• LDOW2011
• LDOW2010
• LDOW2009
• LDOW2008