Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at
the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web
(SERES 2010).
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CALL FOR
PAPERS
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at the 9th International Semantic Web
Conference
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Ontologies and
Linked Data vocabularies are being actively developed and used by numerous
applications. Several domains are making their vocabularies available for
others to reuse. In addition, good practices when developing ontologies are
often followed, particularly for producing reusable modules. The Semantic Web
is a modular and highly federated environment of reusable knowledge sources;
these provide the meaning so that SW applications change our experience of the
web. Within this context, the need for repositories delivering the added value
that makes the SW a concrete step beyond our current experience of the web is
palpable. SERES addresses issues
around semantic repositories within the context of the SW.
The number
of ontologies being built and made available for reuse has increased steadily
in the last few years. Semantic Web search engines such as Swoogle and Watson currently index
several tens of thousands of them; there are also systems specifically
designed to support the publication of ontologies, e.g. Cupboard, NCBO Bioportal, and ONKI. Some tools also support editing features,
e.g. Neologism, Knoodl.
While being a foundation for the Semantic Web, this new environment where
ontologies are shared and interlinked online also poses new challenges;
fostering thus a number of research projects aiming to understand, amongst
others, ontology reuse, storage, publication, versioning, quality control,
evaluation, retrieval and modularization. For instance, as part of the EU NeOn project new tools supporting Knowledge
Engineering in the age of “networked ontologies” have been developed, while in
the EU OASIS project approaches from software engineering and formalization
are now also being applied to inter-connect ontologies. Moreover, despite
initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly
interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims
(providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods
and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them
available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner.
Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported; for instance,
modularization, versioning, and the relationship between ontology repositories
and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology
lifecycle.
By the
same token, there are several domains making available knowledge resources;
for instance, digital libraries such as Pubmed Central offer a large
collection of biomedical abstracts and, in some cases, open access to the full
document. Some researchers are starting to bridge the gap between clinical and
experimental data and literature; such connection is being built via
ontologies, some approaches have had BioPortal as their ontology repository.
Linked Data is also being explored as a means for publishers to expose their
content. Knowledge management over documents is actively aiming to make real
the notion of self-descriptiveness; being this intrinsically related to
various resources over the web providing meaning for atomic component in
documents –words, tables, figures, maps, etc. In order for these systems to be
successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers
to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of repositories
providing semantics. In addition, it is now critical to achieve
interoperability between these repositories, through common
interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. SERES10 intends to provide such a
forum.
Questions addressed by
SERES10:
· How can semantic repositories support
the realization of the SW?
· Semantic repositories, ontology
repositories, knowledge repositories, where are the boundaries? How are they
interacting? Are they changing our experience of the web?
· How are domain specific knowledge
repositories, such as biomedical digital libraries, interconnecting knowledge
in meaningful manners?
· How are e-government initiatives using
and delivering semantics and knowledge repositories?
· How can ontology repositories support
novel semantic applications?
· How can ontology repositories encourage
the development of high quality ontologies that are used routinely by relevant
communities?
· How can ontology repositories provide
semantics for applications?
· How can ontology repositories
contribute to the reuse of ontologies across different domains and
applications?
· How can ontology repositories
interoperate with one another to support scalability, availability and
distributed reasoning?
· How can provenance and intellectual
property information be managed in and across ontology
repositories?
· How can the abundant and complex
knowledge contained in relevant ontology repositories be made comprehensible
for users?
· How can branching, versioning,
mappings, dependencies and configurations/compositions be managed in and
across ontology repositories?
· How can ontology repositories
interoperate with related applications such as ontology editors, automated
reasoners, and rule engines?
· How can modularity be better supported
in and across ontology repositories; similarly, how could modularization be
formalized?
· How can ontology repositories support
distributed reasoning?
· How can ontology repositories support
corporate, national and domain specific metadata/semantic
infrastructures?
· What measurements for describing and
comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use
these?
Workshop Audience
We want to
bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development
and application of semantic web technology, semantic registries and
repositories, knowledge management systems, knowledge repositories,
repository editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues
around federated ontology systems. As some repository-related tools are
already under development, and repositories are a crucial part of business
infrastructure, we also address progressive Chief Technology Officers
interested in using these technologies.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline
August 20, 2010, 23.50 Hawaii time
Acceptance
Notification September 17,
2010
Camera Ready
October 7, 2010
SERES Workshop
(tentative date) November 7,
2010
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
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Research papers are limited to 12 pages and
position papers to 5 pages. For
system descriptions, a 5 page paper
should be submitted. All papers and system
descriptions should
be formatted according to the LNCS format
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Proceedings of
the
workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality
of
the submissions, authors might be invited to present their
papers during a
poster session.
Please submit your paper
via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seres10
Submissions that do not comply
with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the
12 page
limit (research papers) or 5 page limit (position papers and systems
descriptions) will be rejected without review.
We note that the author list
does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have
a
double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be
peer reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Accepted
papers have to be presented at the workshop and
they will be included in the
workshop proceedings that are
published online at CEUR-WS.
Program
Committee
Natasha Noy, Stanford
University, USA.
Li Ding,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
John
Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.
Michael Kohlhase,
Jacobs University, Germany.
Raul
Palma, Poznan University, Poland.
Oscar
Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Fabian Neuhaus,
University of Maryland, USA.
Aleman-Bonarges Meza,
Universidad Politecnica de Victoria, Mexico
Christoph Lange,
Jacobs University, Germany.
Sandro Hawke, W3C.
Christopher Baker,
University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Nigam
Shah, Stanford University, USA.
Peter Haase, Institute
of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany.
Michael Gruninger,
University of Toronto, Canada
Leyla
Garcia, Bundeswehr University, Germany.
Benjamin Good, USA
Matthew Horridge,
University of Manchester, UK
Organizing
Committee
Alexander Garcia, University of
Bremen
Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media
Institute of the Open University
Mike Dean, Principal Engineer at
Raytheon BBN Technologies
Kenneth Baclawski, College of Computer
and Information Science, Northeastern University