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

News

• 2016-08-16: The proceedings of the workshop have been published as CEUR-WS Vol. 1593: LDOW 2016 - Linked Data on the Web.
• 2016-04-12: The LDOW2016 workshop was attended by around 60 participants. The slides of the presentations will be available for download soon. Lots of thanks to the presenters as well as all members of the programme committee for making the workshop another success.
• 2016-03-11: The workshop programme and the accepted papers are online. Please see below for the timing of presentations at the workshop.
• 2016-02-10: 14 out of 24 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.
• 2016-01-25: We have received 24 submissions for the LDOW2016 workshop which are currently being reviewed by the programme committee.
• 2015-11-02: The Call for Papers of the LDOW2016 workshop has been published.

Introduction

The Web is developing from a medium for publishing textual documents into a medium for sharing structured data. This trend is fueled on the one hand by the adoption of the Linked Data principles by a growing number of data providers. On the other hand, large numbers of websites have started to semantically mark up the content of their HTML pages and thus also contribute to the wealth of structured data available on the Web.

The 9th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2016) 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. The special focus of this year’s LDOW workshop will be Web Data Quality Assessment and Web Data Cleansing.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 24 January, 2016 (23:59 Pacific Time)
• Notification of acceptance: 10 February, 2016
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 1 March, 2016
• Workshop date: 12 April, 2016

Programme

The timing for presentations and breaks at LDOW2016 is shown below.

Session 1: Linked Data Publication & Consumption

• 09:00-09:10: Workshop Introduction ( Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Sören Auer )
• 09:10-9:30: Requirements on Linked Data Consumption Platform ( Jakub Klímek , Petr Škoda , Martin Nečaský ) ( Slides )
• 9:30-9:50: Structured Feedback: A Distributed Protocol for Feedback and Patches on the Web of Data ( Natanael Arndt , Kurt Junghanns , Roy Meissner , Philipp Frischmuth , Norman Radtke , Marvin Frommhold , Michael Martin )
• 9:50-10:10: Towards a Collaborative Process Platform: Publishing Processes according to the Linked Data Principles ( Tobias Weller , Maria Maleshkova )
• 10:10-10:30: Automated Metadata Generation for Linked Data Generation and Publishing Workflows ( Anastasia Dimou , Tom De Nies , Ruben Verborgh , Erik Mannens , Rik Van de Walle ) ( Slides )
• 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

Session 2: Data Linking

• 11:00-11:20: Complex Schema Mapping and Linking Data: Beyond Binary Predicates ( Jacobo Rouces , Gerard de Melo , Katja Hose ) ( Slides )
• 11:20-11:40: Discovering Spatial and Temporal Links among RDF Data ( Panayiotis Smeros , Manolis Koubarakis ) ( Slides )
• 11:40-12:00: Assessing Quantity and Quality of Links Between Link Data Datasets ( Ciro Baron Neto , Dimitris Kontokostas , Sebastian Hellmann , Martin Brümmer , Kay Mueller )
• 12:00-12:20: Improving Link Specifications using Context-Aware Information ( Andrea Cimmino , Carlos R. Rivero , David Ruiz ) ( Slides )
• 12:20-12:35: Publish and Subscribe for RDF in Enterprise Value Networks ( Marvin Frommhold , Natanael Arndt , Sebastian Tramp , Niklas Petersen )
• 12:35-14:00: Lunch

Session 3: Linked Data Processing and Curation

• 14:00-14:20: Annalist: A practical tool for creating, managing and sharing evolving linked data ( Graham Klyne , Cerys Willoughby , Kevin Page ) ( Slides )
• 14:20-14:40: KnowledgeWiki: An OpenSource Tool for Creating Community-Curated Vocabulary, with a Use Case in Materials Science ( Nishita Jaykumar , Pavankalyan Yallamelli , Vinh Nguyen , Sarasi Lalithsena , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Amit Sheth , Clare Paul )
• 14:40-15:00: Towards A Cache-Enabled, Order-Aware, Ontology-Based Stream Reasoning Framework ( Rui Yan , Brenda Praggastis , William P. Smith , Deborah L. McGuinness ) ( Slides )
• 15:00-15:20: R2RML-F: Towards Sharing and Executing Domain Logic in R2RML Mappings ( Christophe Debruyne , Declan O'Sullivan ) ( Slides )
• 15:20-15:35: Semantic Hadith: Leveraging Linked Data Opportunities for Islamic Knowledge ( Amna Basharat , Bushra Abro , I. Budak Arpinar , Khaled Rasheed )
• 15:35-16:00: 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:

Web Data Quality Assessment

• methods for evaluating the quality and trustworthiness of web data
• tracking the provenance of web data
• profiling and change tracking of web data sources
• cost and benefits of web data quality assessment
• web data quality assessment benchmarks

Web Data Cleansing

• methods for cleansing web data
• data fusion and truth discovery
• conflict resolution using semantic knowledge
• human-in-the-loop and crowdsourcing for data cleansing
• cost and benefits of web data cleansing
• web data quality cleansing benchmarks

Integrating Web Data from Large Numbers of Data Sources

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

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
• techniques and methodologies for Linked Data mining and analytics

Linked Data Applications

• application showcases including Web data browsers and search engines
• marketplaces, aggregators and indexes for Web Data
• security, access control, and licensing issues of Linked Data
• role of Linked Data within enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM)
• 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 WWW2016 Research Track) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates or in HTML5 e.g. according to the Linked Research principles. For authoring submission according to the Linked Research principles authors can use dokieli - a decentralized authoring and annotation tooling. HTML5 papers can be submitted by either providing an URL to their paper (in HTML+RDFa, CSS, JavaScript etc.) with supporting files, or an archived zip file including all the material.

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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2016

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

• Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Anja Jentzsch, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
• Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
• Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
• Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Gunnar Grimnes, Bakken & Bæck, Germany
• Hannes Mühleisen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands
• Harald Sack, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Juan Sequeda, Capsenta Labs, USA
• Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
• Kai Eckert, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
• Magnus Pfeffer, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
• Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
• Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
• Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Petar Ristoski, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Peter Haase, metaphacts, Germany
• Robert Isele, BROX IT Solutions, Germany
• Robert Meusel, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Thomas Steiner, Google, Germany
• Volha Bryl, Springer Nature, Germany

Contact Information

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at: ldow2016 @ events . linkeddata . org

Previous Workshops

• LDOW2015
• LDOW2014
• LDOW2013
• LDOW2012
• LDOW2011
• LDOW2010
• LDOW2009
• LDOW2008