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

News

• 2015-08-02: The proceedings of the workshop have been published as CEUR-WS Vol. 1409: LDOW 2015 - Linked Data on the Web.
• 2015-05-19: The LDOW2015 workshop was attended by around 60 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.
• 2015-04-23: The workshop programme and the accepted papers are online. Please see below for the timing of presentations at the workshop.
• 2015-03-31: 12 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.
• 2015-03-15: We have received 21 submissions for the LDOW2015 workshop which are currently being reviewed by the programme committee.
• 2015-02-03: The online submission system has been opened for submitting papers to the workshop.
• 2014-12-02: The Call for Papers of the LDOW2015 workshop has been published.

Introduction

The Web is continuing to develop from a medium for publishing textual documents into a medium for sharing structured data. In 2014, the Web of Linked Data grew to a size of about 1000 datasets with contributions coming from companies, governments and other public sector bodies such as libraries, statistical bodies or research institutions. In parallel, the schema.org initiative has found increasing adoption with large numbers of websites semantically marking up the content of their HTML pages.

The 8th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2015) aims to stimulate discussion and further research into the challenges of publishing, consuming, and integrating structured data from the Web as well as mining knowledge from the global Web of Data. In addition to its traditional focus on open web data, the special focus of this year’s LDOW workshop will be the application of Linked Data technologies in enterprise settings as well as the potentials of interlinking closed enterprise data with open data from the Web.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 15 March, 2015 (23:59 Pacific Time)
• Notification of acceptance: 6 April, 2015
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 20 April, 2015
• Workshop date: 19 May, 2015

Programme

The timing for presentations and breaks at LDOW2015 is shown below.

Session 1: Understanding Web Data

• 09:00-09:10: Workshop Introduction ( Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Sören Auer )
• 09:10-9:30: Fixing Domain and Range of Properties in Linked Data by Context Disambiguation ( Alberto Tonon , Michele Catasta , Gianluca Demartini , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux ) ( Slides )
• 9:30-9:50: Rule Mining for Semantifying Wikilinks ( Luis Galárraga , Danai Symeonidou , Jean-Claude Moissinac ) ( Slides )
• 9:50-10:10: Towards Automatic Topical Classification of LOD Datasets ( Robert Meusel , Blerina Spahiu , Christian Bizer , Heiko Paulheim ) ( Slides )
• 10:10-10:30: Interlinking: Performance Assessment of User Evaluation vs. Supervised Learning Approaches ( Mofeed Hassan , Jens Lehmann , Axel-C. Ngonga Ngomo ) ( Slides )
• 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

Session 2: Visualization and Exploration

• 11:00-11:20: DBpedia Atlas: Mapping the Uncharted Lands of Linked Data ( Fabio Valsecchi , Matteo Abrate , Clara Bacciu , Maurizio Tesconi , Andrea Marchetti ) ( Slides )
• 11:20-11:40: Keyword-Based Navigation and Search over the Linked Data Web ( Luca Matteis , Aidan Hogan , Roberto Navigli ) ( Slides )
• 11:40-12:05: Uduvudu: a Graph-Aware and Adaptive UI Engine for Linked Data ( Michael Luggen , Adrian Gschwend , Anrig Bernhard , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux ) ( Slides )
• 12:05-12:30: Use Cases for Linked Data Visualization Model ( Jakub Klímek , Jiří Helmich , Martin Nečaský ) ( Slides )
• 12:30-14:00: Lunch

Session 3: Infrastructure and Applications

• 14:00-14:25: Simplified RDB2RDF Mapping ( Claus Stadler , Joerg Unbehauen , Patrick Westphal , Mohamed Ahmed Sherif , Jens Lehmann ) ( Slides )
• 14:25-14:45: ESCO: Towards a Semantic Web for the European Labor Market ( Johan De Smedt , Martin Le Vrang , Agissilaos Papantoniou ) ( Slides )
• 14:45-15:10: Bringing Agility into Linked Data Development: An Industrial Use Case in Logistics Domain ( Pinar Gocebe , Oguz Dikenelli , Nuri Umut Kose ) ( Slides )
• 15:10-15:30: Normalizing Resource Identifiers using Lexicons in the Global Change Information System ( Brian Duggan , Curt Tilmes , Steve Aulenbach , Robert Wolfe , Justin Goldstein , Gerald Manipon ) ( Slides )
• 15:30-16:00: Break

Session 4: Open Discussion

• 16:00-17:00: Open Discussion: Linked Data Deployment - Status quo and next steps ( Moderated by: Christian Bizer, Sören Auer, Tom Heath )

Topics of Interest

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

Linked Enterprise Data

• role of Linked Data within enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM)
• integration of SOA and Linked Data approaches in joint frameworks
• authentication, security and access control approaches for Linked Enterprise Data
• use cases combining closed enterprise data with open data from the Web

Mining the Web of Data

• large-scale derivation of implicit knowledge from the Web of Data
• using the Web of 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 Assessment, Provenance Tracking and Licensing

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

Linked Data Applications

• application showcases including browsers and search engines
• marketplaces, aggregators and indexes for Web data
• visualization and exploration of Web data
• 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 WWW2015 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.

Proceedings

Accepted paper will be made available one this website and be published 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
• Bernhard Schandl, Gnowsis.com, Austria
• Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• 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
• Gunnar Grimnes, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
• Haklae Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
• Hannes Mühleisen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
• Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics, UK
• José Todesco, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
• Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Leigh Dodds, Freelance Technologist, UK
• Li Ding, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA
• Mathieu d'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Michael K. Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC, USA
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
• Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
• Roger Menday, Fujitsu, UK
• Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany
• Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China

Contact Information

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

Previous Workshops

• LDOW2014
• LDOW2013
• LDOW2012
• LDOW2011
• LDOW2010
• LDOW2009
• LDOW2008