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> Resent-From: public-xg-...@w3.org > From: Tomi Kauppinen <tomi.kauppi...@uni-muenster.de> > Date: 9 June 2011 04:44:26 EDT > To: public-xg-...@w3.org > Subject: CfP: Linked Science 2011 @ ISWC 2011 > > CALL FOR PAPERS > 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011) > Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) > October 23rd or 24th, 2011 > Bonn, Germany > > http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011 > > OBJECTIVES > > Scientific efforts are traditionally published only as articles, with an > estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year; the growth rate of > PubMed alone is now 1 paper per minute. The validation of scientific results > requires reproducible methods, which can only be achieved if the same data, > processes, and algorithms as those used in the original experiments were > available. However, the problem is that although publications, methods and > datasets are very related, they are not always openly accessible and > interlinked. Even where data is discoverable, accessible and assessable, > significant challenges remain in the reuse of the data, in particular > facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and synthesis of data > across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines. In the LISC 2011 (1st > International Workshop on Linked Science) we will discuss and present results > of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific > resources motivated by driving scientific requirements, as well as reasoning > over the data to discover interesting new links and scientific insights. > > Making entities identifiable and referenceable using URIs augmented by > semantic, scientifically relevant annotations greatly facilitates access and > retrieval for data which used to be hardly accessible. This Linked Science > approach, i.e., publishing, sharing and interlinking scientific resources and > data, is of particular importance for scientific research, where sharing is > crucial for facilitating reproducibility and collaboration within and across > disciplines. This integrated process, however, has not been established yet. > Bibliographic contents are still regarded as the main scientific product, and > associated data, models and software are either not published at all, or > published in separate places, often with no reference to the respective paper. > > In the workshop we will discuss whether and how new emerging technologies > (Linked Data, and semantic technologies more generally) can realize the > vision of Linked Science. We see that this depends on their enabling > capability throughout the research process, leading up to extended > publications and data sharing environments. Our workshop aims to address > challenges related to enabling the easy creation of data bundles---data, > processes, tools, provenance and annotation---supporting both publication and > reuse of the data. Secondly, we look for tools and methods for the easy > correlation, integration and synthesis of shared data. This problem is often > found in many disciplines (including astronomy, biology, climate change > research, geosciences, cultural heritage, etc.), as they need to span > techniques, levels of theory, scales, and disciplines. With the advent of > Linked Science, it is timely and crucial to address these identified research > challenges through both practical and formal approaches. > > SUBMISSIONS > > We invite two kinds of submissions: > - Research papers. These should not exceed 12 pages in length. > - Position papers. Novel ideas, experiments, and application visions from > multiple disciplines and viewpoints are a key ingredient of the workshop. We > therefore strongly encourage the submission of position papers. Position > papers should not exceed 5 pages in length. > > > Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer > Science guidelines for proceedings available at > http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Papers should be > submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the > LISC2011 web submission system. > > At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. > Information about registration will appear soon on the ISCW2011 Web pages. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > > In both categories, papers are expected in (but not restricted to) the > following topics: > > - Key research life cycle challenges in enabling linked science and proposed > solution strategies > - Interrelationship of existing traditional solutions and new linked science > solutions > - Formal representations of scientific data > - Ontologies for scientific information > - Reasoning mechanisms for linking scientific datasets > - Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information > - Ontology-based visualization of scientific data > - Semantic similarity in science applications > - Semantic integration of crowd sourced scientific data > - Connecting scientific publications with underlying research datasets > - Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information > - Enrichment of scientific data through linking and data integration > - Semantic driven data integration > - Support for data publishing for sharing and reuse > - Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and > socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental > monitoring, cultural heritage, etc. > - Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to > address these > - Linked Data for > - dissemination and archiving of research results > - collaboration and research networks > - research assessment > - Applications for research that build on top of Linked Data > - Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science > > PROCEEDINGS > > We expect the workshop proceedings to be published as CEUR Workshop > Proceedings (see http://ceur-ws.org). > > IMPORTANT DATES > > - Paper submission deadline: August 15 > - Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5 > - Camera ready version due: September 16 > > > WORKSHOP CHAIRS > > - Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany > - Line C. Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA > > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > - Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK > - Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands > - Carsten Keßler, University of Muenster, Germany > - Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA > - Eric G. Stephan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA > - Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK > > PROGRAMME COMMITTEE > > - Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany > - V. Balaji, Princeton University and NOAA/GFDL, USA > - Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA > - Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, USA > - Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany > - Tim Clark, Harvard University, USA > - Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland > - Anusuriya Devaraju, University of Münster, Germany > - Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK > - Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, Germany > - Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA > - Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, > Knoxville, USA > - Damian Gessler, U. of Arizona, USA > - Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands > - John Harney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA > - Laura Hollink, TU Delft, The Netherlands > - Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia > - Antoine Isaac, Europeana, The Netherlands > - Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA > - Matt Jones, UC Santa-Barbara, USA > - Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany > - Chris Lynnes, NASA, USA > - Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA > - Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA > - Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA > - Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland > - Mark Schildhauer, UC Santa-Barbara, USA > - Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - - >
