Dear <title name>,
We invite you to join us as a member of the Program Committee for our proposed workshop for ISWC 2014: Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology.
Please let us know if you will be able to join us on the Program Committee. We look forward to your participation and a very interesting workshop.
Thank you,
Leo Obrst on behalf of:
Workshop Chairs:
Mike Bennett,
Hypercube Ltd.
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Mike Dean,
Raytheon-BBN
Program Committee Chairs:
Elie Abi-Lahoud, University College Cork – Ireland
Andrea R. Westerinen, Nine Points Solutions, LLC
Proposed ISWC 2014 Workshop: BIG DATA AND SEMANTIC WEB MEET APPLIED ONTOLOGY
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Since the origin of the Semantic Web, ontologies have played key roles in its design and deployment. Yet the collaboration between the Semantic Web and Applied Ontology communities has remained limited. Within Big Data applications,
ontologies appear to have little impact. Principal problems suggest nevertheless that “concepts without data are empty, data without concepts are blind” (Kant paraphrased).
This interdisciplinary workshop is organized by
the Semantic Web Applied Ontology Special Interest Group of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Continuing the theme of
Ontology Summit 2014, it aims at building bridges between the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, and Applied Ontology communities. The three communities bring a wide array of real challenges
(such as heterogeneity, schema quality, performance, and scalability) and technologies (such as automated reasoning tools) that are relevant to ontology research. The Applied Ontology community can offer a large body of common reusable content (ontologies)
and analysis techniques. Ontology engineering bottlenecks are critical to address for all communities.
We invite submissions on the development and application of ontologies for Semantic Web, Linked or Big Data projects that focus on analyzing challenges, synthesizing new insights and disseminating knowledge across field boundaries.
MOTIVATION:
Often the communities of Applied Ontology and the Semantic Web (including Linked Data) seem to think they have nothing
in common, whereas some of us believe they share many common goals, common technologies, and a common interest in well-engineered applied ontologies.
Many of those in the Applied Ontology community promote and use Semantic Web technologies and reasoning methods in everyday practice; similarly, many in the Semantic Web community advocate more rigorous and principled ontologies based on ontological
analysis. All the communities share the need for a common semantic understanding and a formal representation of the domain at hand. The
Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Big Data communities also have challenges to do with large scale applications and linking of vast heterogeneous data, so the communities also have different foci.
The motivation of this workshop is to bring all perspectives to the table, thus creating a forum for the multiple communities to work collaboratively in tackling the Big Data and common problems.
TOPICS:
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
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Tackling the semantic heterogeneity, complexity, and variety problems in Big Data with ontologies and reasoning
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Ontology-driven open data integration
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Ontological analysis and related formal methodologies for the Semantic Web and Linked Data
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Developing common reusable semantic content
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Agile ontology deployment and evolution for the Semantic Web and Linked Data
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Overcoming ontology engineering bottlenecks
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Providing and enhancing community semantic resources (ontology registries and repositories, vocabulary-ontology mappings, data and ontology transformations, automated ontology acquisition
and maintenance, etc.)
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Making use of ontologies: tools, services, and techniques
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Lightweight, intensive, and hybrid reasoning using ontologies, vocabularies, and rules
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Collaborative ontology development and usage requirements for
large-scale internet and intranet ontology applications
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Ways to use ontologies and linked data for participatory governance of large systems
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
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Paper presentation and position papers
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Invited talk: TBD
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Panel discussion (e.g., co-Champions of the Ontology Summit 2014 tracks)
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Demos (e.g., extensions of Ontology Summit 2014 hackathon projects, etc.)
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Summary of the Day and Recommendations
AUDIENCE:
The intended audience is developers and users of Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies, applied ontologists
and vocabulary developers, developers and users of Big Data in scientific and application domains, and governmental, commercial, and academic managers and analysts who seek to apply Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies utilizing ontologies to their specific
domains, specific data sources, and their current or emerging applications.
We estimate 30 on-site attendees at the workshop and 60 (total) if cost-free remote participation is supported
as well.
CHAIR(S):
Workshop Chairs:
Mike Bennett,
Hypercube Ltd.
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Mike Dean,
Raytheon-BBN
Program Committee Chairs:
Elie Abi-Lahoud, University College Cork – Ireland
Andrea R. Westerinen, Nine Points Solutions, LLC
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Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation,
Information Semantics
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