Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009)
Workshop at WWW2009, Madrid, Spain
Introduction
Over the last two years, the concept and principles of Linked Data have contributed to the realisation of a Semantic Web, or Web of Data. This Web now includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, and UniProt. The availability of these and many other data sets has paved the way for an increasing number of end-user applications that build on Linked Data, support services designed to reduce the complexity of integrating heterogeneous data from distributed sources, as well as new business opportunities for start-up companies in this space.
As these developments continue apace, there is a pressing need for principled research in the areas of linking algorithms, data fusion and architectures for Linked Data applications. Building on the success of last year's LDOW workshop at WWW2008 in Beijing, the LDOW2009 workshop will provide a forum for exposing high quality, novel research and applications in these areas. In addition, by bringing together researchers in this field, the event will further shape the ongoing research agenda in the field of Linked Data.
Topics
- Data Linking and Fusion
- linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution
- Web data integration and data fusion
- evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data
- Linked Data Application Architectures
- crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web; optimizations, performance
- Linked Data browsers, search engines
- applications that exploit distributed Web datasets
- Data Publishing
- tools for publishing large data sources as Linked Data on the Web (e.g. relational databases, XML repositories)
- embedding data into classic Web documents (e.g. GRDDL, RDFa, Microformats)
- licensing and provenance tracking issues in Linked Data publishing
- business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption
Submissions
We seek three kinds of submissions:
- Full technical papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format
- Short technical and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format
- Demo description: up to 2 pages in ACM format
Submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published online at CEUR-WS.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: February 7th 2009
- Notification of acceptance: February 23rd 2009
- Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: March 7th 2009
Organising Committee
- Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd., UK
- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT, USA
- Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink Software, USA
Programme Committee (Provisional)
- Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, USA
- Andreas Harth, DERI, Ireland
- Andy Seaborne, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
- Bernard Vatant, Mondeca, France
- Cathy Dolbear, Sharp Laboratories, UK
- Chris Sizemore, BBC, UK
- David Peterson, Boab Interactive, Australia
- Denny Vrandecic, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada
- Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin, Germany
- Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway, Ireland
- Gong Cheng, Southwest University, China
- Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
- Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
- Ian Davis, Talis, UK
- Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA
- Jamie Taylor, Metaweb, US
- Jim Hendler, RPI, US
- Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
- Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
- Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, US
- Knud Möller, DERI Galway, Ireland
- Leo Sauermann, DFKI, Germany
- Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada
- Martin Hepp, [munich], Germany
- Mathieu d'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
- Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Ireland
- Michiel Hildebrand, CWI, Netherlands
- Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK
- Mike Bergman, AI3:Adaptive Information, USA
- Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
- Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
- Orri Erling, OpenLink Software, Netherlands
- Patrick Sinclair, BBC, UK
- Peter Amsell, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia
- Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University, UK
- Raphael Tröncy, CWI, Netherland
- Richard Cyganiak, DERI Galway, Ireland
- Rob Styles, Talis, UK
- Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landua, Germany
- Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
- Tom Tague, Thomson Reuters, US
- Yuzhong Qu, Southwest University, China
- Yves Raimond, BBC, UK