2nd international workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009)

*** Submissions deadline extended until August 10th ***

CALL FOR PAPERS: SDoW2009

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2nd International Workshop on
Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009)

October 25, 2009

collocated with ISWC-2009
Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA

Paper submission: August 10, 2009

http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/

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The 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009),
co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC2009), aims to bring together researchers, developers and
practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media
websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of
these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.

Important dates
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* Submission deadline: Aug 10, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: Sep 04, 2009
* Camera-ready paper submission: Oct 02, 2009
* Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 09, 2009
* Workshop: Oct 25, 2009

Description
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Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled
by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge
representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and
inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding
information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web. It
opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important
role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that
should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both
Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks
and features are needed from data modelling and lightweight ontologies,
to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to
interlink
data between Social Media websites, levering proprietary data silos to
a Giant Global Graph.

Following the successful SDoW2008 workshop at ISWC2008, SDoW2009 aims to
bring together Semantic Web experts and Web 2.0 practitioners and users
to discuss the application of semantic technologies to data from the
Social Web.

Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
* Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services
* Data Portability and Social Network Portability
* Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web
* Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and
other approaches
* Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social
media sites
* Mining and analysis of Social Data
* Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending
lightweight ontologies/vocabularies for social media sites
* Querying and mining social semantic data
* Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative
scenarios
* Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications
* Reasoning for Social Web applications
* Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks
* Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
* Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
* Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration

Submissions
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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.


Workshop Chairs
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* John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain

Program Committee
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* Alessandra Toninelli, Università di Bologna, Italy
* Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
* Dan Brickley, FOAF project & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
* Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
* Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT, USA / W3C, USA
* Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
* Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada
* Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany
* Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
* Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Josephine Griffith, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Kotaro Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
* Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Libby Miller, BBC, UK
* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
* Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, UK
* Meena Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA
* Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Sebastien Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
* Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly, USA
* Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
* Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
* Valdis Krebs, orgnet.com, USA
* Yves Raimond, BBC, UK