==== *Final* Call for Challenge: 2nd Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems Challenge====
or bundle recommendations for items from multiple domains, e.g. a movie accompanied by a music album similar to the soundtrack of the movie. These relations may not be extracted from rating correlations within a joined movie-music rating matrix. In this task, we will request participants to exploit user preferences and domain knowledge about movies, in order to provide book recommendations. Making this task highly challenging, we will provide the list of books available in the test set, but we will provide little information about the users’ book preferences. Thus, we encourage not (only) to use collaborative filtering strategies based on correlations between movie and book preferences, but to investigate approaches that exploit LOD relating both movies and books domains. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the challenge’s requirements, and will have to be presented at the conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC’15, and will be invited to submit a chapter to a post-proceedings book published by Springer (Communications in Computer and Information Science series). For each task we will select: * the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest score in the evaluation * the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program Committee with the reviewing process HOW TO PARTICIPATE We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. lod-recsys-challenge-2...@googlegroups.com * Make your result submission - Register your group using the registration web form available at http://dee020.poliba.it:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html. - Choose one or more tasks among Task1, Task2 and Task3 (see Tasks). - Build your Recommendation System using the training data described in section Dataset. - Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation service as described in section Evaluation. - Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last result submission made before March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET. * Submit your paper The following information has to be provided: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks and the results evaluation. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 12 pages in length. All submissions should be provided via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2015-challenges IMPORTANT DATES * Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET: Paper and Results Submission due * Thursday, April 16, 2015, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance and submission of task results * May 31- June 4, 2015: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-15 CHALLENGE CHAIRS * Iván Cantador – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Tommaso Di Noia – Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy * Vito Claudio Ostuni – Pandora Media, Inc. USA * Matthew Rowe – University of Lancaster, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Labs, Barcelona, Spain * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Miriam Fernández, The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK * Ignacio Fernández-Tobías, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany * Julia Hoxha, Columbia University, USA * Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Alexandre Passant, Clarity.fm, USA * Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece * Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria TECHNICAL CHAIR * Paolo Tomeo, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATORS * Elena Cabrio, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France * Milan Stankovic, Sépage Université Paris-Sorbonne, France -- Thanks Matthew
==== 2nd Call for Challenge: 2nd Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems Challenge====
or bundle recommendations for items from multiple domains, e.g. a movie accompanied by a music album similar to the soundtrack of the movie. These relations may not be extracted from rating correlations within a joined movie-music rating matrix. In this task, we will request participants to exploit user preferences and domain knowledge about movies, in order to provide book recommendations. Making this task highly challenging, we will provide the list of books available in the test set, but we will provide little information about the users’ book preferences. Thus, we encourage not (only) to use collaborative filtering strategies based on correlations between movie and book preferences, but to investigate approaches that exploit LOD relating both movies and books domains. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the challenge’s requirements, and will have to be presented at the conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC’15, and will be invited to submit a chapter to a post-proceedings book published by Springer (Communications in Computer and Information Science series). For each task we will select: * the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest score in the evaluation * the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program Committee with the reviewing process HOW TO PARTICIPATE We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. lod-recsys-challenge-2...@googlegroups.com * Make your result submission - Register your group using the registration web form available at http://dee020.poliba.it:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html. - Choose one or more tasks among Task1, Task2 and Task3 (see Tasks). - Build your Recommendation System using the training data described in section Dataset. - Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation service as described in section Evaluation. - Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last result submission made before March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET. * Submit your paper The following information has to be provided: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks and the results evaluation. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 12 pages in length. All submissions should be provided via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2015-challenges IMPORTANT DATES * Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET: Paper and Results Submission due * Thursday, April 16, 2015, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance and submission of task results * May 31- June 4, 2015: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-15 CHALLENGE CHAIRS * Iván Cantador – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Tommaso Di Noia – Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy * Vito Claudio Ostuni – Pandora Media, Inc. USA * Matthew Rowe – University of Lancaster, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Labs, Barcelona, Spain * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Miriam Fernández, The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK * Ignacio Fernández-Tobías, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany * Julia Hoxha, Columbia University, USA * Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Alexandre Passant, Clarity.fm, USA * Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece * Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria TECHNICAL CHAIR * Paolo Tomeo, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATORS * Elena Cabrio, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France * Milan Stankovic, Sépage Université Paris-Sorbonne, France -- Thanks Matthew
==== Call for Challenge: 2nd Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems Challenge====
or bundle recommendations for items from multiple domains, e.g. a movie accompanied by a music album similar to the soundtrack of the movie. These relations may not be extracted from rating correlations within a joined movie-music rating matrix. In this task, we will request participants to exploit user preferences and domain knowledge about movies, in order to provide book recommendations. Making this task highly challenging, we will provide the list of books available in the test set, but we will provide little information about the users’ book preferences. Thus, we encourage not (only) to use collaborative filtering strategies based on correlations between movie and book preferences, but to investigate approaches that exploit LOD relating both movies and books domains. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the challenge’s requirements, and will have to be presented at the conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC’15, and will be invited to submit a chapter to a post-proceedings book published by Springer (Communications in Computer and Information Science series). For each task we will select: * the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest score in the evaluation * the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program Committee with the reviewing process HOW TO PARTICIPATE We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the challenge. lod-recsys-challenge-2...@googlegroups.com * Make your result submission - Register your group using the registration web form available at http://dee020.poliba.it:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html. - Choose one or more tasks among Task1, Task2 and Task3 (see Tasks). - Build your Recommendation System using the training data described in section Dataset. - Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation service as described in section Evaluation. - Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last result submission made before March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET. * Submit your paper The following information has to be provided: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks and the results evaluation. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding 12 pages in length. All submissions should be provided via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2015-challenges IMPORTANT DATES * Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 23:59 CET: Paper and Results Submission due * Thursday, April 16, 2015, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance and submission of task results * May 31- June 4, 2015: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-15 CHALLENGE CHAIRS * Iván Cantador – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Tommaso Di Noia – Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy * Vito Claudio Ostuni – Pandora Media, Inc. USA * Matthew Rowe – University of Lancaster, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Labs, Barcelona, Spain * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Miriam Fernández, The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK * Ignacio Fernández-Tobías, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany * Julia Hoxha, Columbia University, USA * Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany * Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Alexandre Passant, Clarity.fm, USA * Mariano Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece * Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria TECHNICAL CHAIR * Paolo Tomeo, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATORS * Elena Cabrio, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France * Milan Stankovic, Sépage Université Paris-Sorbonne, France -- Thanks Matthew
Deadline Extension (5th June): IJSWIS -Special Issue on Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data
*** Deadline Extension: 5th June 2012 ** Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data Special issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node%2F41 Editors: Matthew Rowe, Aba-Sah Dadzie ABOUT -- Visualising and easing the interpretation of semantic web data is now one of the largest challenges facing the Semantic Web community. The growth of the Web of Linked Data has shifted research from being primarily focused on producing semantic web data to consuming it, not only are we beginning to eat our own dog food, we are starting to offer it to others outside of the community to taste and adapt to their needs. Mainstream adoption is, however, still limited by a lack of understanding of the Semantic Web Technology stack. Questions like What makes the Semantic Web different from the World Wide Web, What is an ontology? and What is semantic metadata? are commonplace when presenting non-semantic web savvy users with semantic data. Work is required that allows lay-users to consume and interact with semantic web data without a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the Semantic Web stack. In providing such approaches reuse and consumption of semantic web data will be achieved in areas such as education, social awareness and governmental transparency, all areas where data is currently available and encoded as Linked Data and/or using other semantic representations. We invite submissions that illustrate interactive visualisation of semantic web data, to support activities such as exploratory knowledge discovery and browsing of linked data, in order to aid understanding of the very large amounts of highly interlinked, high-dimensional data, and therefore demonstrate the power and utility of the semantic web. The volume of semantic web data now available and the rate at which it is being produced also provide challenges to data consumers and semantic web developers. Without performing a depth-first exploration of a given dataset it is hard to know what the dataset may contain, its size, its attributes or whether it is useful for what a given consumer needs. Analytics, supported by interactive visualisation, plays a vital role in this situation by generating overviews and improving the interpretation of statistical analysis that describes dataset properties. Such an approach provides consumers with abstract or high-level descriptions of what is available and helps to point to what could be useful to carrying out their tasks successfully. We solicit work that illustrates the application of visual analytics to semantic web data. Examples include graph summarisation, network-based analytics and plot layouts that provide density and connectivity assessments, used in co-ordination with other visual analytics techniques that highlight specific attributes, such as time and location. Ontologies form a vital component of the Semantic Web, allowing community-specific terms and colloquial use of language to be expressed using commonly agreed formal terms or concepts. Ontologies further ease the definition of the (often multiple) relationships between concepts. Despite such formal constructs, presenting ontological concepts and their relations in a coherent and legible form still remains a challenge. While support for formal knowledge representation is available for technical audiences it is unclear if we are close to an agreed community-standard or practice for such presentation to other end users? How should the presentation be adapted given the audience (technical or lay) in order to convey the value of its information content to them? We invite submissions that provide novel and innovative ways to visualise ontologies, concept hierarchies and the dependencies between distributed ontologies, and contrast existing ontology visualisation approaches. TOPICS -- We invite submissions covering the following topics: *Visualisation of Semantic Web Data --Browsing Linked Data --Visual exploratory knowledge discovery and information retrieval (from Linked Data and other Semantic Web Data --Ontology visualisation --Big data visualisation --Including solutions for managing user cognitive load *Interacting with Semantic Web Data --Novel interaction paradigms --Intuitive support for editing or publishing to the Semantic Web *Visual Analytics of Semantic Web Data --Graph and network-theoretic analysis --Geo/socio-temporal and topical analysis --Statistical analysis --Visualising (and communicating) uncertainty, validity, dynamicity --Business-driven analytics (to derive competitive advantage) ---as a tool for sharing knowledge within
2nd CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data
== Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data Special issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node%2F41 == Editors: Matthew Rowe , Aba-Sah Dadzie ABOUT -- Visualising and easing the interpretation of semantic web data is now one of the largest challenges facing the Semantic Web community. The growth of the Web of Linked Data has shifted research from being primarily focused on producing semantic web data to consuming it, not only are we beginning to eat our own dog food, we are starting to offer it to others outside of the community to taste and adapt to their needs. Mainstream adoption is, however, still limited by a lack of understanding of the Semantic Web Technology stack. Questions like ‘What makes the Semantic Web different from the World Wide Web?’, ‘What is an ontology?’ and ‘What is semantic metadata?’ are commonplace when presenting non-semantic web savvy users with semantic data. Work is required that allows lay-users to consume and interact with semantic web data without a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the Semantic Web stack. In providing such approaches reuse and consumption of semantic web data will be achieved in areas such as education, social awareness and governmental transparency, all areas where data is currently available and encoded as Linked Data and/or using other semantic representations. We invite submissions that illustrate interactive visualisation of semantic web data, to support activities such as exploratory knowledge discovery and browsing of linked data, in order to aid understanding of the very large amounts of highly interlinked, high-dimensional data, and therefore demonstrate the power and utility of the semantic web. The volume of semantic web data now available and the rate at which it is being produced also provide challenges to data consumers and semantic web developers. Without performing a depth-first exploration of a given dataset it is hard to know what the dataset may contain, its size, its attributes or whether it is useful for what a given consumer needs. Analytics, supported by interactive visualisation, plays a vital role in this situation by generating overviews and improving the interpretation of statistical analysis that describes dataset properties. Such an approach provides consumers with abstract or high-level descriptions of what is available and helps to point to what could be useful to carrying out their tasks successfully. We solicit work that illustrates the application of visual analytics to semantic web data,. Examples include graph summarisation, network-based analytics and plot layouts that provide density and connectivity assessments, used in co-ordination with other visual analytics techniques that highlight specific attributes, such as time and location. Ontologies form a vital component of the Semantic Web, allowing community-specific terms and colloquial use of language to be expressed using commonly agreed formal terms or concepts. Ontologies further ease the definition of the (often multiple) relationships between concepts. Despite such formal constructs, presenting ontological concepts and their relations in a coherent and legible form still remains a challenge. While support for formal knowledge representation is available for technical audiences it is unclear if we are close to an agreed community-standard or practice for such presentation to other end users? How should the presentation be adapted given the audience (technical or lay) in order to convey the value of its information content to them? We invite submissions that provide novel and innovative ways to visualise ontologies, concept hierarchies and the dependencies between distributed ontologies, and contrast existing ontology visualisation approaches. Submissions should be suitable for a highly ranked archival journal (IJSWIS is among the top journals in WWW). TOPICS -- We invite submissions covering the following topics: -Visualisation of Semantic Web Data --Browsing Linked Data --Visual exploratory knowledge discovery and information retrieval (from Linked Data and other Semantic Web Data --Ontology visualisation --Big data visualisation --Including solutions for managing user cognitive load -Interacting with Semantic Web Data --Novel interaction paradigms --Intuitive support for editing or publishing to the Semantic Web -Visual Analytics of Semantic Web Data --Graph and network-theoretic analysis --Geo/socio-temporal and topical analysis --Statistical analysis --Visualising (and communicating) uncertainty, validity, dynamicity --Business-driven
2nd CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data
== Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data Special issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node%2F41 == Editors: Matthew Rowe , Aba-Sah Dadzie ABOUT -- Visualising and easing the interpretation of semantic web data is now one of the largest challenges facing the Semantic Web community. The growth of the Web of Linked Data has shifted research from being primarily focused on producing semantic web data to consuming it, not only are we beginning to eat our own dog food, we are starting to offer it to others outside of the community to taste and adapt to their needs. Mainstream adoption is, however, still limited by a lack of understanding of the Semantic Web Technology stack. Questions like ‘What makes the Semantic Web different from the World Wide Web?’, ‘What is an ontology?’ and ‘What is semantic metadata?’ are commonplace when presenting non-semantic web savvy users with semantic data. Work is required that allows lay-users to consume and interact with semantic web data without a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the Semantic Web stack. In providing such approaches reuse and consumption of semantic web data will be achieved in areas such as education, social awareness and governmental transparency, all areas where data is currently available and encoded as Linked Data and/or using other semantic representations. We invite submissions that illustrate interactive visualisation of semantic web data, to support activities such as exploratory knowledge discovery and browsing of linked data, in order to aid understanding of the very large amounts of highly interlinked, high-dimensional data, and therefore demonstrate the power and utility of the semantic web. The volume of semantic web data now available and the rate at which it is being produced also provide challenges to data consumers and semantic web developers. Without performing a depth-first exploration of a given dataset it is hard to know what the dataset may contain, its size, its attributes or whether it is useful for what a given consumer needs. Analytics, supported by interactive visualisation, plays a vital role in this situation by generating overviews and improving the interpretation of statistical analysis that describes dataset properties. Such an approach provides consumers with abstract or high-level descriptions of what is available and helps to point to what could be useful to carrying out their tasks successfully. We solicit work that illustrates the application of visual analytics to semantic web data,. Examples include graph summarisation, network-based analytics and plot layouts that provide density and connectivity assessments, used in co-ordination with other visual analytics techniques that highlight specific attributes, such as time and location. Ontologies form a vital component of the Semantic Web, allowing community-specific terms and colloquial use of language to be expressed using commonly agreed formal terms or concepts. Ontologies further ease the definition of the (often multiple) relationships between concepts. Despite such formal constructs, presenting ontological concepts and their relations in a coherent and legible form still remains a challenge. While support for formal knowledge representation is available for technical audiences it is unclear if we are close to an agreed community-standard or practice for such presentation to other end users? How should the presentation be adapted given the audience (technical or lay) in order to convey the value of its information content to them? We invite submissions that provide novel and innovative ways to visualise ontologies, concept hierarchies and the dependencies between distributed ontologies, and contrast existing ontology visualisation approaches. Submissions should be suitable for a highly ranked archival journal (IJSWIS is among the top journals in WWW). TOPICS -- We invite submissions covering the following topics: -Visualisation of Semantic Web Data --Browsing Linked Data --Visual exploratory knowledge discovery and information retrieval (from Linked Data and other Semantic Web Data --Ontology visualisation --Big data visualisation --Including solutions for managing user cognitive load -Interacting with Semantic Web Data --Novel interaction paradigms --Intuitive support for editing or publishing to the Semantic Web -Visual Analytics of Semantic Web Data --Graph and network-theoretic analysis --Geo/socio-temporal and topical analysis --Statistical analysis --Visualising (and communicating) uncertainty, validity, dynamicity --Business-driven
CFP: Posters, Demos and Late-Breaking Work @ Making Sense of Microposts 2012 workshop, WWW2012
/vocabulary modelling and learning from Microposts * Integrating Microposts into the Web of Linked Data 2. Social/Web Science studies * Analysis of Micropost data patterns * Political and polemical aspects of Microposts * Citizen empowerment through information availability * Motivations for creating and consuming Microposts * Relevance of Microposts and factors that influence them * Community/network analysis of Micropost dynamics * Ethics/privacy implications of publishing and consuming Microposts * Microposts in the corporate environment 3. Context * Utilising context (time, location, sentiment) * Contextual inference mechanisms * Social awareness streams and Online Presence * Event Detection and monitoring through Microposts 4. Applying Microposts * User profiling/recommendation/personalisation approaches using Microposts * Public opinion mining (i.e. political consensus, brand/product opinions) * Collective intelligence in inferring trends and making predictions * Expertise finding * Business analysis/market scanning * Urban sensing and location-based applications * Emergency systems and response WORKSHOP STRUCTURE --- A keynote address will open the day. This will be followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, more in-depth interaction between workshop participants. Key points raised during the keynote and the participant presentations will guide an open forum / panel discussion which will be used to conclude the workshop, with an aim to form a more permanent discussion group. SUBMISSION TYPES in the 2nd Call * Posters: 2 page descriptions * Demos: 2 page descriptions * Mock-up interfaces: 2 page description AND one of: - storyboard (max A3) - video (90 second limit) Written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords. Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2012. Where a submission includes additional material submission should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: 02 Apr 2012 Notification of acceptance: 07 Apr 2012 Camera-ready deadline: 14 Apr 2012 Workshop - 16 Apr 2012 (Registration open to all) (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) CONTACT --- E-mail: msm2...@easychair.org Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910 Twitter hashtag: #msm2012 ORGANISERS --- Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK Milan Stankovic, Hypios/University Paris-Sorbonne, France Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- Fabian Abel, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Uldis Bojars, University of Latvia, Latvia John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland A. Elizabeth Cano, University of Sheffield, UK Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Danica Damljanovic, University of Sheffield, UK Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK Guillaume Ereteo, INRIA, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Andres Garcia-Silva, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Jon Hickman, Birmingham City University, UK Seth van Hooland, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Jennifer Jones, University of the West of Scotland, UK Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK Philippe Laublet, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Julie Letierce, DERI, Galway, Ireland Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Pablo Mendes, Freie Universitat of Berlin, Germany Jose M. Morales del Castillo, Universidad de Granada, Spain Alexandre Passant, DERI, Galway, Ireland Danica Radovanovic, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Yves Raimond, BBC, UK Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria Andreas Sonnenbichler, KIT, Germany Raphael Troncy, Eurecom, France Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria Shenghui Wang, Vrije University, The Netherlands Katrin Weller, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, U -- Dr Matthew Rowe Research Associate Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/rowe/ -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
[Deadline Extension] CFP 2nd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2012)
to conclude the workshop, with an aim to form a more permanent discussion group. SUBMISSIONS * Full papers: 8 pages * Short and position papers: 4 pages * Demos: 2 pages * Mock-up interfaces: 2 page description AND one of: - storyboard (max A3) - video (90 second limit) Written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords. Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2012. Where a submission includes additional material submission should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Abstracts: 03 Feb 2012 Paper Submission deadline (Extended!): 10 Feb 2012 Notification of acceptance: 06 Mar 2012 Camera-ready deadline: 23 Mar 2012 (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) Workshop program issued: 08 Mar 2012 Proceedings published (CEUR): 31 Mar 2012 Workshop - 16 Apr 2012 (Registration open to all) Note: Authors of accepted papers will be able to take advantage of the early-bird price for conference registration for a couple of days following notification of acceptance. CONTACT --- E-mail: msm2...@easychair.org Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910 Twitter hashtag: #msm2012 ORGANISERS --- Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK Milan Stankovic, Hypios/University Paris-Sorbonne, France Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Sheffield, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- Fabian Abel, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Uldis Bojars, University of Latvia, Latvia John Breslin, NUIG, Ireland A. Elizabeth Cano, University of Sheffield, UK Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Danica Damljanovic, University of Sheffield, UK Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, UK Guillaume Ereteo, INRIA, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Andres Garcia-Silva, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Jon Hickman, Birmingham City University, UK Seth van Hooland, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Jennifer Jones, University of the West of Scotland, UK Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK Philippe Laublet, Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Julie Letierce, DERI, Galway, Ireland Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Pablo Mendes, Freie Universitat of Berlin, Germany Jose M. Morales del Castillo, Universidad de Granada, Spain Alexandre Passant, DERI, Galway, Ireland Carlos Porcel, University of Jaen, Spain Danica Radovanovic, Oxford Internet Institute, UK Yves Raimond, BBC, UK Harald Sack, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria Andreas Sonnenbichler, KIT, Germany Daniel Torres Salinas, Universidad de Granada, Spain Raphael Troncy, Eurecom, France Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex, UK Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria Shenghui Wang, Vrije University, The Netherlands Katrin Weller, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK -- Dr Matthew Rowe Research Associate Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/rowe/ -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data
Hello We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the following special issue. == Special Issue on Visualisation of and Interaction with Semantic Web Data Special issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node%2F41 == Editors: Matthew Rowe , Aba-Sah Dadzie ABOUT -- Visualising and easing the interpretation of semantic web data is now one of the largest challenges facing the Semantic Web community. The growth of the Web of Linked Data has shifted research from being primarily focused on producing semantic web data to consuming it, not only are we beginning to eat our own dog food, we are starting to offer it to others outside of the community to taste and adapt to their needs. Mainstream adoption is, however, still limited by a lack of understanding of the Semantic Web Technology stack. Questions like ‘What makes the Semantic Web different from the World Wide Web?’, ‘What is an ontology?’ and ‘What is semantic metadata?’ are commonplace when presenting non-semantic web savvy users with semantic data. Work is required that allows lay-users to consume and interact with semantic web data without a deep knowledge of the intricacies of the Semantic Web stack. In providing such approaches reuse and consumption of semantic web data will be achieved in areas such as education, social awareness and governmental transparency, all areas where data is currently available and encoded as Linked Data and/or using other semantic representations. We invite submissions that illustrate interactive visualisation of semantic web data, to support activities such as exploratory knowledge discovery and browsing of linked data, in order to aid understanding of the very large amounts of highly interlinked, high-dimensional data, and therefore demonstrate the power and utility of the semantic web. The volume of semantic web data now available and the rate at which it is being produced also provide challenges to data consumers and semantic web developers. Without performing a depth-first exploration of a given dataset it is hard to know what the dataset may contain, its size, its attributes or whether it is useful for what a given consumer needs. Analytics, supported by interactive visualisation, plays a vital role in this situation by generating overviews and improving the interpretation of statistical analysis that describes dataset properties. Such an approach provides consumers with abstract or high-level descriptions of what is available and helps to point to what could be useful to carrying out their tasks successfully. We solicit work that illustrates the application of visual analytics to semantic web data,. Examples include graph summarisation, network-based analytics and plot layouts that provide density and connectivity assessments, used in co-ordination with other visual analytics techniques that highlight specific attributes, such as time and location. Ontologies form a vital component of the Semantic Web, allowing community-specific terms and colloquial use of language to be expressed using commonly agreed formal terms or concepts. Ontologies further ease the definition of the (often multiple) relationships between concepts. Despite such formal constructs, presenting ontological concepts and their relations in a coherent and legible form still remains a challenge. While support for formal knowledge representation is available for technical audiences it is unclear if we are close to an agreed community-standard or practice for such presentation to other end users? How should the presentation be adapted given the audience (technical or lay) in order to convey the value of its information content to them? We invite submissions that provide novel and innovative ways to visualise ontologies, concept hierarchies and the dependencies between distributed ontologies, and contrast existing ontology visualisation approaches. Submissions should be suitable for a highly ranked archival journal (IJSWIS is among the top journals in WWW). TOPICS -- We invite submissions covering the following topics: -Visualisation of Semantic Web Data --Browsing Linked Data --Visual exploratory knowledge discovery and information retrieval (from Linked Data and other Semantic Web Data --Ontology visualisation --Big data visualisation --Including solutions for managing user cognitive load -Interacting with Semantic Web Data --Novel interaction paradigms --Intuitive support for editing or publishing to the Semantic Web -Visual Analytics of Semantic Web Data --Graph and network-theoretic analysis --Geo/socio-temporal and topical analysis --Statistical analysis
CFP: SWJ Special Issue on the Semantics of Microposts (Deadline Extension: 29th November 2011)
. IMPORTANT DATES Initial Submission (Extended): 29th Nov 2011 Author Notification: 15 Jan 2012 2nd Round Submission: 15 Mar 2012 (subject to change) Final Notification: 31 May 2012 (subject to change) OPEN REVIEW PROCESS All papers must demonstrate the validity of the approach taken and include an objective review of the state of the art and the contribution made to improve on this. All submissions are subject to an open review process, and will be made publicly available on the journal's website. Further, in addition to solicited reviews by members of the editorial board, public reviews and comments are welcome by any researcher and can be uploaded using the journal website. Submission and reviewing guidelines may be found in full at: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/reviewers See also, the author guidelines at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors THE GUEST EDITORS The guest editors were also the co-organisers of the ESWC 2011 workshop 'Making Sense of Microposts'. Dr. MATTHEW ROWE is a postdoctoral researcher working at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. His current work explores automated techniques to predict discussion levels on Social Web platforms as part of the EU funded projects ROBUST and WeGov. On ROBUST he is the leader of a work package responsible for modelling user behaviour and community evolution. His PhD thesis explored automated techniques for the disambiguation of identity web references, where such techniques were supported with data leveraged from the Social Web. He has an extensive publication record including papers in the Journal of Web Semantics and the European Semantic Web Conference. He has reviewed papers for many conferences and journals including the Journal of Web Semantics and the World Wide Web journal. Matthew was involved in the organisation of the 'Essential HCI for the Semantic Web' Tutorial at ESWC 2010, and he is the coordinator of the Semantic Technologies activity at ESWC 2011. Web page: http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/rowe e-mail: m.c.r...@open.ac.uk Mr. MILAN STANKOVIC has been conducting Social Semantic Web research since the early days of the field. His pioneering work on Semantic Online Presence set the ground for many research initiatives working to make online presence systems (including Twitter) a part of the Semantic Web, and make the most use of them and their underlying semantics. As a result of his continuing dedication to making sense of Twitter, Milan has published a number of papers on the topic at high impact workshops such as SDoW 2008, SDoW 2010, LDoW 2010, as well as in Springer Journals. He is currently a researcher at hypios - a Social Semantic facilitator of Open Innovation. Web page: http://milstan.net e-mail: mils...@hypios.com Dr. ABA-SAH DADZIE is a research associate with the Organisations, Information Knowledge Group at The University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on user-centred knowledge management that exploits Semantic Web technology and visual analytics. In previous projects, X-Media, IPAS and XSPAN, she explored methods for identifying links across and integrating distributed data, to enable effective, intuitive knowledge discovery, retrieval, enrichment and use. She also contributed to the EU project WeKnowIt. She currently works on the EU project SmartProducts, where she is looking at ontology-guided, proactive knowledge discovery and integration from domain, online and other community-driven resources to enhance interaction within smart environments. Aba-Sah was a co-organiser and assistant tutor for the 'Essential HCI for the Semantic Web' Tutorial at ESWC 2010, and a co-organiser of the 'Knowledge Acquisition from Social Networking Sites' Tutorial at EKAW 2010. She has published work at major conferences including ESWC, ISWC and IEEE VAST, in addition to high impact journals. She also acts as a peer reviewer for a number of major conferences. Aba-Sah previously worked as a lecturer and in management in industry. Web page: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~aba-sah e-mail: a.dad...@dcs.shef.ac.uk Dr. MARIANN HARDEY is newly appointed to the Marketing Group at Durham Business School, Durham University. She is a social media professional with a strong background in sociology and the social consequences of digital communications technology, in particular Social Network Sites. Mariann is an academic in the main, but also works on commercial consulting projects and is the BBC North East commentator for social media and digital networks. Before Facebook, she read literature at the University of Sussex and later undertook a research MA followed by a PhD at the University of York. In her work Mariann seeks to identify and understand how real social relationships are mediated through digital social networks and Web 2.0 applications. Mariann is, therefore, a member of a new generation of academics and researchers who have not only grown up with digital technology, but are pushing new research
Discogs Linked Data
Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs (the music/record site)? I know that Leigh Dodds did some work about a year ago [1] but it appears that the data incubator page for the dataset is not active. There is also a SPARQL endpoint to the data at [2] but no access to a dump of the triples. Thinking about setting up a dataset describing Discogs, but would not do so if this has been done already and the dataset is regularly updated. thanks Matthew Rowe, MEng PhD Student OAK Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield m.r...@dcs.shef.ac.uk [1] http://discogs.dataincubator.org/ [2] http://api.talis.com/stores/discogs/services/sparql
Re: linking facebook data
Hi First just want to say Li that your app is cool. Good job. Hello, Am cc'ing the foaf-dev mailing (sorry for cross posting)... I just had a look at your fb graph API - foaf rdf service[1], firstly cool stuff, but I have a few points I will address below. I recall Matthew Rowe[2] making a similar service a few years ago which spat out foaf data for a user's fb account, and I recall fb getting annoyed. Am guessing they mentally might have shifted since danbri's good work in getting them involve with SW tech (great work once again by danbri ... *tonnes of applause), I guess we will find out soon ... Indeed it appears that their opinion of 'open data' has shifted. Facebook refused to list the FOAF Generator, which Mischa mentions, in their application directory as they were concerned about having 'their' data exported from Facebook for use by 3rd parties. You can use it here: http://ext.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u0057/FoafGenerator With the above app you are able to export your entire social graph from fb, thus capturing all your relationships in RDF using FOAF. I guess that with the Open Graph Protocol you can't get such information. I just built a demo that provides dereferenable HTTP URIs (with RDF/XML data) for Facebook data using data retrieved from the recently announced Graph API by Facebook. see http://sam.tw.rpi.edu/ws/face_lod.html In the demo, I observed inconsistent term usage between the Facebook data API (JSON) and open graph protocol vocabulary. There is also some good potential to get the Facebook terms mapped to FOAF and DCterms terms. Please see my blog at http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2010/04/28/putting-open-facebook-data-into-linked-data-cloud/ . Comments are welcome. best, -- Li Ding http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/ Matthew Rowe, MEng PhD Student OAK Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield m.r...@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Re: LOD Camp at WWW2010....
Do you not think that is quite expensive? I am interested in attending the linked open data camp, but I am not registered for the main conference - instead attending workshops and the web science conference. Is there any chance to have a similar fee to the FutureWeb event? thanks On 21 Apr 2010, at 08:45, Marie-Claire Forgue wrote: Hello Ed, I just looked at the WWW2010 registration page (http://www2010.org/www/attendees/register/), and it reads: April 26-30 ; 1-day pass ; $495 – Regular ; $295 – Student The 75USD (student rate) is for the FutureWeb event. Best regards, - Marie-Claire. On 21/04/2010 09:39, Ivan Herman wrote: Ed, I have forwarded your question to Marie-Claire Forgue who handles the practicalities... Stay tuned! Ivan On Apr 20, 2010, at 18:56 , Ed Summers wrote: Hi Ivan, So it looks like students could go to the entire day of Linked Open Data Camp by paying $75.00? //Ed On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Ivan Hermani...@w3.org wrote: This is just a reminder that there will be an LOD camp at the WWW Conference next week in Raleigh: http://www.w3.org/2010/04/w3c-track.html you should sign up on http://esw.w3.org/topic/LODCampW3CTrack you can also add your favourite topic right now on the wiki page, or leave for the discussion over there... Ivan Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf -- Marie-Claire Forgue +33 4 92 38 75 94 Head of W3C European Communications and Business Development+33 4 92 38 78 22 (fax) mailto:m...@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/+33 6 76 86 33 41 (mob) Matthew Rowe, MEng PhD Student OAK Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield m.r...@dcs.shef.ac.uk
