Re: how to consume linked data

[Toby Inkster]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 07:41, Graham Klyne wrote:

Interesting...  I'm doing work at the moment with CIDOC-CRM (http:// 
cidoc.ics.forth.gr/) and its expression in OWL (http:// 
www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Services/cidoc-crm/ 
versions.html).


Have you seen Simon Reinhardt's recent OWL2 version?

http://bloody-byte.net/rdf/cidoc-crm/index.html

--
Toby A Inkster

Re: how to consume linked data

[Danny Ayers]

Olaf, comments?

2009/9/25 Leo Sauermann :
> Uh, I thought the answer to danny's question is semwebclient by Olaf Hartig
> and others.
>
> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
>
> In general, I thought that Olaf Hartig would be the first contact for such
> things...
>
> best
> Leo
>
>
> It was Danny Ayers who said at the right time 24.09.2009 09:59 the following
> words:
>>
>> The human reading online texts has a fair idea of what is and what
>> isn't relevant, but how does this work for the Web of data? Should we
>> have tools to just suck in any nearby triples, drop them into a model,
>> assume that there's enough space for the irrelevant stuff, filter
>> later?
>>
>> How do we do (in software) things like directed search without the human
>> agent?
>>
>> I'm sure we can get to the point of - analogy -  looking stuff up in
>> Wikipedia & picking relevant links, but we don't seem to have the user
>> stories for the bits linked data enables. Or am I just
>> imagination-challenged?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Danny.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> _
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>
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> Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
> Dr. Walter Olthoff
> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
> Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
> Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
> _
>
>



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Re: how to consume linked data

[Danny Ayers]

2009/9/25 Juan Sequeda :
> Linked Data is out there. Now it's time to develop smart (personalized)
> software agents to consume the data and give it back to humans.

I don't disagree, but I do think the necessary agents aren't smart,
just stupid bots (aka Web services a la Fielding).

> try also using SQUIN (www.squin.org)

Thanks, not seen before.


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Re: how to consume linked data

[Danny Ayers]

2009/9/25 Kjetil Kjernsmo :
> On Friday 25. September 2009 10:15:34 you wrote:
>> sorry if I sound negative, I reckon the semweb is a done deal now, the
>> many-eyeballs arrived.
>
> Thanks for asking the right questions, Danny, I believe it is critical for
> the success that someone does!

Thanks, but I'm not even sure they are the right questions.

>> but - where should we take it?
>
> What I'd like to do with it, is to solve problems for people when combining
> data sets that are cannot be solved by conventional means, i.e. today the
> number of people who are interested in a particular combination of datasets
> goes down whereas the cost generally goes up, so it doesn't scale.

Yes, but please bear with me now - do we have to wait for another
generation arriving on the Web? There must be ways we can kick-start
this stuff.

> I think there is a critical piece of technology that is missing in our
> arsenal, namely a (free software) programming stack that makes a large
> group of developers, who are likely to have little prior understanding of
> semweb, to go "yeah, I can do that".

Like bengee's ARC2 stack - PHP?

> I think the work done by the Drupal folks is a right step in this
> direction, for the kind of stuff that people use a CMS for. But I think
> that we also need a stack, probably built around the MVC pattern, that can
> be used for more generic purposes.

Absolutely. If we can re-use existing patterns we can get people involved.

> I haven't got anywhere with my ideas on this topic though...

Me neither :)

I should insert a Star Trek quote here, but can't think of one.

Cheers,
Danny.



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Re: how to consume linked data

[Juan Sequeda]

Linked Data is out there. Now it's time to develop smart (personalized)
software agents to consume the data and give it back to humans.

try also using SQUIN (www.squin.org)

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Leo Sauermann wrote:

> Uh, I thought the answer to danny's question is semwebclient by Olaf Hartig
> and others.
>
> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/
>
> In general, I thought that Olaf Hartig would be the first contact for such
> things...
>
> best
> Leo
>
>
> It was Danny Ayers who said at the right time 24.09.2009 09:59 the
> following words:
>
>  The human reading online texts has a fair idea of what is and what
>> isn't relevant, but how does this work for the Web of data? Should we
>> have tools to just suck in any nearby triples, drop them into a model,
>> assume that there's enough space for the irrelevant stuff, filter
>> later?
>>
>> How do we do (in software) things like directed search without the human
>> agent?
>>
>> I'm sure we can get to the point of - analogy -  looking stuff up in
>> Wikipedia & picking relevant links, but we don't seem to have the user
>> stories for the bits linked data enables. Or am I just
>> imagination-challenged?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Danny.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> _
> Dr. Leo Sauermann   
> http://www.dfki.de/~sauermann
> Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH
> Trippstadter Strasse 122
> P.O. Box 2080   Fon:   +43 6991 gnowsis
> D-67663 Kaiserslautern  Fax:   +49 631 20575-102
> Germany Mail:  leo.sauerm...@dfki.de
>
> Geschaeftsfuehrung:
> Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
> Dr. Walter Olthoff
> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
> Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
> Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
> _
>
>
>

Re: how to consume linked data

[Leo Sauermann]

Uh, I thought the answer to danny's question is semwebclient by Olaf 
Hartig and others.


http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/

In general, I thought that Olaf Hartig would be the first contact for 
such things...


best
Leo


It was Danny Ayers who said at the right time 24.09.2009 09:59 the 
following words:

The human reading online texts has a fair idea of what is and what
isn't relevant, but how does this work for the Web of data? Should we
have tools to just suck in any nearby triples, drop them into a model,
assume that there's enough space for the irrelevant stuff, filter
later?

How do we do (in software) things like directed search without the human agent?

I'm sure we can get to the point of - analogy -  looking stuff up in
Wikipedia & picking relevant links, but we don't seem to have the user
stories for the bits linked data enables. Or am I just
imagination-challenged?

Cheers,
Danny.

  



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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer 
Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH

Trippstadter Strasse 122
P.O. Box 2080   Fon:   +43 6991 gnowsis
D-67663 Kaiserslautern  Fax:   +49 631 20575-102
Germany Mail:  leo.sauerm...@dfki.de

Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
_

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

[Eugenio Tacchini]

At 16.15 25/09/2009 +0200, you wrote:

Dear Juan:

Juan Sequeda wrote:


So I guess there isn't an answer to Eugenio's question then.


The answer is: I don't know a URI that, as of today, already appears 
in Yahoo with more details based on RDFa mark-up, but that will 
change very soon.

If Peter has one, I would be happy to kearn of it, of course.

Note that

-  is was only something like five weeks ago that Yahoo officially 
activated the enhanced display functionality and
- that the current re-crawling/update cycles at all major search 
engines are in the order of magnitude of 2 - 8 weeks, depending on 
your page popularity.


I think I'm missing the point, Yahoo announced the first support for 
microformats more or less one year and half ago, and for RDFa one 
year ago 
(http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/09/searchmonkey_support_for_rdfa_enabled.html 
), am I wrong?




E. 

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

[Martin Hepp (UniBW)]

Dear Juan:

Juan Sequeda wrote:

So I guess there isn't an answer to Eugenio's question then.


The answer is: I don't know a URI that, as of today, already appears in 
Yahoo with more details based on RDFa mark-up, but that will change very 
soon.

If Peter has one, I would be happy to kearn of it, of course.

Note that

-  is was only something like five weeks ago that Yahoo officially 
activated the enhanced display functionality and
- that the current re-crawling/update cycles at all major search engines 
are in the order of magnitude of 2 - 8 weeks, depending on your page 
popularity.


Since most early adopters are not among the pages with the highest 
page-rank, it is quite natural that it will take a few weeks or months 
to see the real impact of this innovation.


I personally think that

http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/product.html

will be among the first pages to showcase the effect, because it was one 
of the first pages with proper mark-up that went online (and still it 
took me a few hits to get the mark-up fully Yahoo-compliant).


As a side comment: I am reading a bit of impatience from in between the 
lines of your message.


After more than 100 Mio euro of European and US research funding, eight 
years of research, and a large share of all academic papers in the field 
with rather limited impact, it would be pretty unfair by anyone from the 
core Semantic Web research cohort to be impatient over delays in the 
order of magnitude of weeks with Yahoo SearchMonkey or GoodRelations to 
deliver.



Martin

Juan Sequeda wrote:

So I guess there isn't an answer to Eugenio's question then.

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Eugenio Tacchini wrote:

  

At 10.24 21/09/2009 +0200, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:



Hi Juan, Eugenio:


  

Where can we see search results in Yahoo that come from the RDF of


Bestbuy
  

and Goodrelations?


First, note that currently, only the standard Yahoo search results are by
default enhanced by structured meta-data, i.e., you do not appear in the
"local business" directory by Yahoo automatically. I spoke with Yahoo about
that recently and they said that inclusion in those special Yahoo pages
would be a future option, assumed that the amount of data out there is of
sufficient quantity and quality.

You can check the appearance of a particular page using

   * wwwurl:

as the search parameter at http://www.yahoo.com.

  

[...]
Hi Martin and thanks for your reply.

My question was probably more basic: I just wanted to know some good
examples to show during a seminar I have to give in a faculty of economics.
So is there a *real* business Web site (not a demo) which provides RDFa
data crawled by Yahoo? I just would like to see the RDFa in the source of
the site and the enanched result in Yahoo; it would be ok even without a
good relation-enanchement.

Cheers,

Eugenio







  


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http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:   mfhepp 
twitter: mfhepp


Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
=

Webcast:
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/

Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://tr.im/rAbN

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"

http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp

Talk at 


Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe

Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Tutorial materials:
CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey 
http://tr.im/grcec09


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Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

[Eugenio Tacchini]

Even a google RDFa enanched result would be ok

E.


At 15.13 24/09/2009 -0500, you wrote:

So I guess there isn't an answer to Eugenio's question then.

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Eugenio Tacchini 
<euge...@favoriti.it> wrote:

At 10.24 21/09/2009 +0200, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
Hi Juan, Eugenio:


>Where can we see search results in Yahoo that come from the RDF of Bestbuy
>and Goodrelations?

First, note that currently, only the standard Yahoo search results 
are by default enhanced by structured meta-data, i.e., you do not 
appear in the "local business" directory by Yahoo automatically. I 
spoke with Yahoo about that recently and they said that inclusion in 
those special Yahoo pages would be a future option, assumed that the 
amount of data out there is of sufficient quantity and quality.


You can check the appearance of a particular page using

   * wwwurl:

as the search parameter at 
<http://www.yahoo.com>http://www.yahoo.com.



[...]
Hi Martin and thanks for your reply.

My question was probably more basic: I just wanted to know some good 
examples to show during a seminar I have to give in a faculty of economics.
So is there a *real* business Web site (not a demo) which provides 
RDFa data crawled by Yahoo? I just would like to see the RDFa in the 
source of the site and the enanched result in Yahoo; it would be ok 
even without a good relation-enanchement.


Cheers,

Eugenio

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

[Eugenio Tacchini]

I hope it is just because people are busy :) there is a lot of hype 
around this and it would be surprising to see that there isn't any 
real example available.


Cheers,

Eugenio


At 15.13 24/09/2009 -0500, you wrote:

So I guess there isn't an answer to Eugenio's question then.

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Eugenio Tacchini 
<euge...@favoriti.it> wrote:

At 10.24 21/09/2009 +0200, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
Hi Juan, Eugenio:


>Where can we see search results in Yahoo that come from the RDF of Bestbuy
>and Goodrelations?

First, note that currently, only the standard Yahoo search results 
are by default enhanced by structured meta-data, i.e., you do not 
appear in the "local business" directory by Yahoo automatically. I 
spoke with Yahoo about that recently and they said that inclusion in 
those special Yahoo pages would be a future option, assumed that the 
amount of data out there is of sufficient quantity and quality.


You can check the appearance of a particular page using

   * wwwurl:

as the search parameter at 
<http://www.yahoo.com>http://www.yahoo.com.



[...]
Hi Martin and thanks for your reply.

My question was probably more basic: I just wanted to know some good 
examples to show during a seminar I have to give in a faculty of economics.
So is there a *real* business Web site (not a demo) which provides 
RDFa data crawled by Yahoo? I just would like to see the RDFa in the 
source of the site and the enanched result in Yahoo; it would be ok 
even without a good relation-enanchement.


Cheers,

Eugenio

Re: how to consume linked data

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

On Friday 25. September 2009 10:15:34 you wrote:
> sorry if I sound negative, I reckon the semweb is a done deal now, the
> many-eyeballs arrived.

Thanks for asking the right questions, Danny, I believe it is critical for 
the success that someone does!

> but - where should we take it?

What I'd like to do with it, is to solve problems for people when combining 
data sets that are cannot be solved by conventional means, i.e. today the 
number of people who are interested in a particular combination of datasets 
goes down whereas the cost generally goes up, so it doesn't scale. 

I think there is a critical piece of technology that is missing in our 
arsenal, namely a (free software) programming stack that makes a large 
group of developers, who are likely to have little prior understanding of 
semweb, to go "yeah, I can do that". 

I think the work done by the Drupal folks is a right step in this 
direction, for the kind of stuff that people use a CMS for. But I think 
that we also need a stack, probably built around the MVC pattern, that can 
be used for more generic purposes. 

I haven't got anywhere with my ideas on this topic though...


Kjetil

CFP: Oct. 2nd AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence

[Harry Halpin]

Just a reminder as the deadline approaches..

AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence

March 22-24, 2010, Stanford, CA

http://www.foaf-project.org/events/linkedai

Keynote: R.V. Guha (Google)

The goal of Linked Data is to enable people to share structured data
on the Web as easily as they can share documents today. The basic
assumption behind Linked Data is that the value and usefulness of data
increases the more it is interlinked with other data. Linked Data is
simply about using the Web to create typed links between data from
different sources. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets
as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat,
MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF,
SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL, Virtual Observatories, and Yago.

The availability of this linked data creates a new opportunity for the
exploitation of AI techniques that have historically played central
role in knowledge representation, information extraction, information
integration, and cognitive agents. The symposium is aimed at bringing
together the researchers working on Linked Data and AI. Our hope is to
create a new community interested in utilizing AI techniques such as
ontologies, machine learning, data fusion, etc. in exploring the
linked open data. Successful submissions will address at least some
aspect of both areas.

The symposium will cover topics such as:

   * Light Weight Ontologies for Linked Data
   * Lightweight representation languages for capturing linked data
   * Lightweight ontologies to specify semantics in linked data
   * Conceptual modeling techniques for representing linked data
   * Ontology community evolution and maintenance environments for
use with linked data
   * Ontology-enabled environments and tools for Linked Data

Semantic Publishing

   * Tools for publishing large data sources using light weight
ontologies on the Web (e.g. relational databases, XML repositories)
   * Curating policies and approaches for linked data
   * Embedding linked data with semantics into classic Web documents
(e.g. GRDDL, RDFa, Microformats)
   * Licensing and provenance tracking issues in Linked Data
publishing Provenance languages and tools for Linked Data
   * Business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption

Exploiting Linked Data

   * User interaction and usability issues surrounding linked data
   * Visualization techniques for exploring linked data
   * Evidence-weighing techniques for socially-grounded claims (FOAF, OpenID)
   * Use of machine learning algorithms for linking and identity resolution
   * Inference and techniques for answering questions using linked data
   * Exploiting rich knowledge bases in conjunction with the linked data

Linked Data Application Architectures

   * Crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web;
optimizations, performance
   * Linked Data browsers
   * Linked Data search engines and search interfaces
   * Building intelligent agents that exploit linked data

The symposium will feature contributed papers, invited talks, and panels, and
will include "self-organized" sessions in the barcamp / un-conference style.

Website: http://www.foaf-project.org/events/linkedai

Important Dates:

* October 2, 2009: Submissions due to organizers
* November 6, 2009: Notification of acceptance sent by organizers
* January 22, 2010: Accepted camera-ready copy due to AAAI

Submissions:

We welcome short and long papers, position statements, videos, and
demo proposals. Please submit your paper of 2-8 pages in PDF AAAI
submission format [http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php]
to the Linked Data and AI submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linkedai2010


Organizing Committee:

Dan Brickley (Vrihe Universiteit Amsterdam)
Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International)
Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh)

Program Committee:

Ji Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Chris Bizer (Freie Universitat Berlin)
Paolo Bouqeut (Trento)
Dan Connolly (W3C)
Richard Cyganiak (DERI)
Li Ding (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
An Hai Doan (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Orri Erling (Openlink Software)
Richard Fikes (Stanford University)
R.V. Guha (Google)
Pat Hayes (IMHC)
Tom Heath (Talis)
Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University)
Ivan Herman (W3C)
Raphael Hoffmann (University of Washington at Seattle)
David Israel (SRI International)
Lalana Kagal (MIT)
Peter Mika (Yahoo!)
Libby Miller (BBC)
Renee Miller (University of Toronto, Canada)
Steve Minton (Fetch Technologies)
Enrico Motta (Open University)
Peter Murray-Rust (Cambridge University)
Mark Musen (Stanford University)
Axel Polleres (DERI)
York Sure (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences)
Nova Spivack (Radar)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southhampton)
Jamie Taylor (Metaweb)
Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft)
Chris Welty (IBM)
Michael Witbro

Re: how to consume linked data

[Danny Ayers]

Many thanks for responses, stuff to think about.

Yihong got to /root of my question, "...miss the main purpose why we
want to have data linked in the first place"

why are places like itsy, youtube and redtube (yup, pr0n still lives)
more compelling, given what we know?

people *are* getting the data out, but it seems to me there's a gap
between that and stuff that actually improves people's quality of
life.

sorry if I sound negative, I reckon the semweb is a done deal now, the
many-eyeballs arrived.

but - where should we take it?




-- 
http://danny.ayers.name

CFP: 1st Workshop on Mobile Social Semantic Web (in ASWC 2009)

[Kim, Haklae]

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message]

===
  Call for Papers
===
  1st Workshop on Mobile Social Semantic Web
(MSSW 2009)
 http://semanticweb.org/wiki/MSSW2009

In conjunction with
The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference
(ASWC 2009)
6-9 December 2009
 Shanghai, China
 http://www.aswc2009.org/
===

Overview


The mobile space involves interaction between millions of mobile
phones, sensor devices and Websites. As part of the ubiquitous
computing paradigm, it has become one of the most important
information spaces in our modern society. Following the fast
development of diverse mobile phones and sensor devices, users are now
able to create and maintain their profiles in the mobile space,
informing other users of their interests and life styles. The
combination of social software, semantic technologies, and mobile
phones and sensor devices will open up new services and business
opportunities.

This phenomenon is further accelerated by the abundant sensor and
social data on the Web. Nowadays, huge number of people of different
backgrounds participate in online social Websites, such as MySpace,
Facebook, and Twitter. The integration of these social networking
functions with mobile devices has led to even more interactions on the
mobile space. As a result, the problem of interoperability of social
data on the Web has also found its way into the mobile space. Semantic
Web technologies have already been applied in mobile sensors networks
to annotate sensor data. As the mobile space becomes a platform of
online social interactions, it is necessary to make new efforts to
integrate the Social Semantic Web and Semantic Sensor Web, so as to
facilitate social exchange on the mobile space.

Although many efforts from both Social Semantic Web and Semantic
Sensor Web allow us to produce and consume meaningful data, mobile
environments and applications need different or enhanced approaches to
handing both social data and sensory data. The goal of this workshop
is to provide a platform for discussing research topics underlying the
concepts of Social Semantic Web on mobile devices and sensors.
Participants can look forward to:

* discuss approaches to facilitate social semantic data on mobile devices;
* present innovative social mobile applications;
* perform critical research and present practical issues associated
with Social Semantic Web on mobile environments.

By bringing together representatives of academia and industry, the
workshop also provides a venue for identifying new research problems
and disseminating results of research and practices.

 

Topics of Interests
---

The aim of this workshop is to cover all aspects that relate to
research and practical issues of Social Semantic Web and Mobile Web.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Social content sharing and distribution services on mobile devices
* Ontologies for Mobile Web: developing and using ontologies on mobile
environments
* Enriching social data with semantic on application stores (Apple,
Nokia, RIM, etc.)
* Producing use cases of Social Semantic Web on application stores
* Social and semantic microblogging
* Social Semantic Web on mobile devices: encouraging Social Web and
Semantic Web technologies
* Mobile Social Search
* Social Tagging and Folksonomies on mobile devices
* Linked Data on Mobile Web
* Mobile user interfaces
* Social networks and Mobile Web
* Mobile Semantic Mash-ups


Submission Details
--

The following types of contributions are welcomed:

* Full technical papers, up to 12 pages.
* Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages.
* Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the application,
ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo.

Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of the
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS). Submissions will be made using EasyChair Conference System 
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mssw2009).

 

Important dates
---

* Submission deadline: October 22 2009
* Notification to authors: November 2 2009
* Camera ready: November 9 2009
* Workshop: December 7 2009

 

Workshop Co-Chairs
--

* Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland,
* Haklae Kim, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea
* Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
* Ching-man Au Yeung, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

 

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Re: how to consume linked data

[Graham Klyne]

Dan Brickley wrote:

This doc-typing idiom never got heavily used in FOAF, beyond the type
PersonalProfileDocument, which FOAF defines. Mostly we just linked
FOAF files together (initially with seeAlso and IFPs, lately using
URIs more explicitly).

I think there are many other reasons why characterising typical RDF
document patterns makes sense, related to the frustration of dealing
with documents when all you know is "they have triples in them". We
don't have good mechanisms for doing so yet, ie. for characterising
these higher level patterns. But various folk are heading in same
direction, some using SPARQL, others OWL or XForms, or DC Application
Profile definitions

Without some hints about what we're pointing at with our links,
crawlers don't have much to go on. Merely knowing that the information
at the other end of the link is "more RDF", or that it describes a
thing of a certain type, might not be enough. There are a lot of
things you might want to know about a person, or a place, and at many
different levels of detail. For apps eg running in a mobile/handheld
environment, they can't afford to speculatively download everything..


Interesting...  I'm doing work at the moment with CIDOC-CRM 
(http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/) and its expression in OWL 
(http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Services/cidoc-crm/versions.html). 
 Something I've noticed is that the extension/refinement mechanism provided by 
CIDOC-CRM is based on  what they call Types (though I think it's more like 
skos:Concept), so that the core properties tend be be very predictable.  There 
are some areas where I've used new properties to capture finer-grained 
information, but they tend to be at the margins (e.g. putting numeric values on 
date-ranges) rather than in the core (e.g. this object was made in this time 
period).


Maybe there's scope for using SKOS in a doc-typing idiom?

#g