Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008)

News

• Mar 5, 2008: Camera-ready papers are online.
• Feb 18, 2008: The preliminary workshop program is online.
• Feb 16, 2008: 23 of the 38 submission have been accepted for the workshop which makes an acceptance rate of 60%. Thanks a lot to the LDOW program committee for their great and timely work!
• Feb 4, 2008: The LDOW workshop has received 38 submission covering the complete spectrum from Linked Data publication to Linked Data consumption as well as conceptual topics like identification, disambiguation and automated interlinkage.
• Jan 25, 2008: Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline to 11.59pm Hawaii time on Thursday 31st January 2008.

Objectives

The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of Linked Data. More than just a vision, the Web of Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and by the publication of large datasets according to the principles of Linked Data. During 2007, the size of the Web of Data has grown to several billion RDF triples which are served by a network of interlinked data sources and which cover domains such as geographic information, people, companies, online communities, films, music, books and scientific publications. In addition to publishing and interlinking datasets, there is also ongoing work on Linked Data browsers, Linked Data crawlers, Web of Data search engines and other applications that consume Linked Data from the Web.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for the Linked Data community, in which participants can:

• present and discuss approaches to publishing Linked Data on the Web;
• showcase innovative applications that consume Linked Data;
• shape the agenda and identify upcoming research issues for the next development stage of the Web of Data.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• publishing large data sources as Linked Data on the Web
  (e.g. publishing tools and wrappers, experience from practical projects)
• interlinking data on the Web
  (e.g. linkage heuristics, similarity measures)
• embedding data into classic Web documents
  (e.g. GRDDL, RDFa, microformats)
• crawling and caching Web data
• smushing and integrating data from different sources
• querying distributed data on the Web
• Linked Data browsers
• Linked Data search engines
• applications that exploit Linked Data from the Web
• characterizing and measuring the Web of Data
• assessing the quality and trustworthiness of Web data
• licensing issues in publishing Linked Data

Workshop Program

• Please note that the length and order of the slots may still change.
• Use the links below to view individual papers, or download all papers (ZIP file, 7.6MB)

Time	Paper
8:30-8:50	Workshop Introduction: Development of Linked Data and the LOD Project within the last year. Chris Bizer, Tom Heath, Kingsley Idehen, Tim Berners-Lee	Intro
Session: Populating the Web with Linked Data
8:50-9:10	Weaving SIOC into the Web of Linked Data Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Richard Cyganiak and John Breslin	Talk
9:10-9:30	Semantic Marc, MARC21 and The Semantic Web Rob Styles, Danny Ayers and Nadeem Shabir	Talk
9:30-9:50	The OAI2LOD Server: Exposing OAI-PMH Metadata as Linked Data Bernhard Haslhofer and Bernhard Schandl	Talk
9:50-10:10	A Case Study on Linked Data Generation and Consumption Jianqiang Li and Yu Zhao	Talk
10:10-10:30	Break
10:30-10:50	SparqPlug: Generating Linked Data from Legacy HTML, SPARQL and the DOM Peter Coetzee, Tom Heath and Enrico Motta	Talk
10:50-11:10	Building Linked Data For Both Humans and Machines Wolfgang Halb, Yves Raimond and Michael Hausenblas	Talk
11:10-11:30	Provenance and Linked Data in Biological Data Webs Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne and David Shotton	Talk
11:30-11:50	Open Data Commons, a License for Open Data Paul Miller, Rob Styles and Tom Heath	Talk
11:50-12:00	Browser-based Semantic Mapping Tool for Linked Data in Semantic Web Chunying Zhou, Chengli Xu, Huajun Chen and Kingsley Idehen	Demo
12:00-12:10	:me owl:sameAs flickr:33669349@N00 Alexandre Passant	Demo
12:10-1:30	Lunch
Session: Consuming Linked Data from the Web
1:30-1:50	Tabulator Redux: Browsing and Writing Linked Data Tim Berners-Lee, J. Hollenbach, Kanghao Lu, J. Presbrey, E. Prud'hommeaux and mc schraefel	Talk
1:50-2:10	Searching Semantic Web Objects Based on Class Hierarchies Gong Cheng, Weiyi Ge, Honghan Wu and Yuzhong Qu	Talk
2:10-2:20	DBpedia Mobile: A Location-Enabled Linked Data Browser Christian Becker and Chris Bizer	Demo
2:20-2:30	Browsing Linked Data with Fenfire Tuukka Hastrup, Richard Cyganiak and Uldis Bojars	Demo
2:30-2:40	Humboldt: Exploring Linked Data Georgi Kobilarov and Ian Dickinson	Demo
2:40-2:50	zLinks: Semantic Framework for Invoking Contextual Linked Data Mike Bergman and Frederick Giasson	Demo
2:50-3:10	n2Mate: Exploiting social capital to create a standards-rich semantic network David Peterson, Anne Cregan, Rob Atkinson and John Brisbin	Talk
3:10-3:30	Break
Session: Architecture and Conceptual
3:30-3:50	Automatic Interlinking of Music Datasets on the Semantic Web Yves Raimond, Christopher Sutton and Mark Sandler	Talk
3:50-4:10	URI Disambiguation in the Context of Linked Data Afraz Jaffri, Hugh Glaser and Ian Millard	Talk
4:10-4:30	Linked Data Spaces & Data Portability Kingsley Idehen and Orri Erling	Talk
4:30-4:50	Linking Enterprise Data François-Paul Servant	Talk
4:50-5:10	Meaning Of A Tag: A collaborative approach to bridge the gap between tagging and Linked Data Alexandre Passant and Philippe Laublet	Talk
5:10-5:30	An Entity Name System for Linking Semantic Web Data Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Daniele Cordioli and Giovanni Tummarello	Talk
5:30-6:00	Discussion about research and deployment agenda	Discussion

 

Submissions

We seek three kinds of submissions:

• Full technical papers - should not exceed ten pages in length.
• Short technical papers and position papers - up to 5 pages.
• Demo descriptions - 2 page description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo.

Submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates . Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included into the workshop proceedings.

Please follow this link to submit your paper.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:

January 28, 2008 Extended to: 11.59pm Hawaii time, Thursday 31st January 2008

Notication of acceptance:

February 17, 2008

Camera-ready paper submission:

March 1, 2008

Workshop date:

April 22, 2008

Workshop Chairs

• Tim Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT, USA
• Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK
• Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink Software, USA

Program Committee

• Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, USA
• Andy Seaborne, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
• Bernard Vatant, Mondeca, France
• Dan Brickley, aSemantics, UK
• Dan Connolly, World Wide Web Consortium, USA
• David Peterson, Boab Interactive, Australia
• Denny Vrandecic, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Eyal Oren, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada
• Georgi Kobilarov, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
• Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Gui-Rong Xue, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China
• Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
• Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Henry Story, Sun, USA
• Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
• Ian Davis, Talis, UK
• Ivan Hermann, World Wide Web Consortium, Netherlands
• Joerg Diederich, L3S, Germany
• Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
• Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
• Knud Möller, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Leo Sauermann, DFKI, Germany
• MacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries, USA
• Mathieu D'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Melanie Courtot, British Columbia Research Center, Canada
• Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, Austria
• Mike Bergman, AI3:Adaptive Information, USA
• Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
• Orri Erling, OpenLink Software, Netherlands
• Paul Miller, Talis, UK
• Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University, UK
• Richard Cyganiak, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Sudeshna Das, Harvard University, USA
• Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
• Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
• Yves Raimond, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Additional Reviewers

• Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Laurian Gridinoc, KMi, The Open University, UK
• Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany

Contact Details

For further information, please send a message to ldow2008 [át] events.linkeddata.org