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This is the place to discuss the current state-of-the-art regarding the handling of conference metadata and possible future developments. == Where We Are == Over the past couple of years a number of metadata chairs and SWT co-ordinators of Semantic Web conferences managed to build an impressive infrastructure. It it now possible to publish conference data such as publications, talks, etc. using stable vocabularies in a defined work flow ([http://data.semanticweb.org/documentation/user/faq read more ...]). At the recent [[ISWC2008]] we have witnessed how powerful and engaging the addition of a dedicated [http://iswc2008.crowdvine.com/ social network for a conference] can be; though still Web2.0ish and not available in RDF. However, one may ask if this is just the beginning of more - more data, more functionality, more interaction? == Where We Could Go == In the following we take the idea further and discuss the '''Conferences in the Web of Data''' (CWoD) by applying the [[Linked data]] principles. === CWoD Manifest === What follows is the 'Conferences in the Web of Data' (CWoD) manifest, a number of requirements that enable a comprehensive realisation of representing and using conference (-related) data on the Web: * EVERY participant has a URI (i.e. not only speaker, etc.) ** Even if it's just their Twitter or LinkedIn page * EVERY event has a URI (not only 'official' events such as a keynote, etc.) * Where possible, ALL events, people, etc. are interlinked with other resources on the Web (e.g. flickr photos, video captures of talks, etc.) * It should be straight-forward possible to integrate people's OpenIDs for ack the access of certain resources (blogs, Wikis, etc.) * It should be straight-forward possible to gather blogs, microblogs (identi.ca, twitter, etc.), homepages of participants **and/ or OPML files of their RSS feeds. === Exemplary Setup === Imagine an upcoming conference ''xSWC'' that uses http://data.semanticweb.org as a base to publish data about papers and people. We envision the following to implement CWoD: * using a true RDF-enabled social media platform such as http://paggr.com/ for hosting social stuff ** the FOAF profile of the participants is used as the starting point (knows, interests, etc.) ** new contacts and topics are added as participants move around the conference ** talks, meetings, etc. are automatically proposed and updated in the participant's PIM ** room locations are taken into account * integrating post-conference resources such as flickr photos, video captures of talks by interlinking them with exiting conference data (such as talks, etc.) * enabling sponsors to talk to interested parties and people * adding social events, venue information etc. * integrating discussions pre/post via SIOC * lifestream wall with real-time tweets about the current sessions (as with [http://flickr.com/photos/hirnrinde_de/3224187689/ MBC09]) * microformats on related web pages, so that, say, events can be downloaded to calendars, contacts to address books, locations to mapping tools. * shared (and widely publicised, in advance where possible) tags for the whole event, and each session or topic, to be used across sites like Flickr, Twitter etc. == Interested People == * [[Michael Hausenblas]], Semantic Web Technologies Co-ordinator of the [[ESWC2009]] * [http://bnode.org/ Benjamin Nowack] * [http://danbri.org/ Dan Brickley], FOAF project and W3C Semantic Web Interest Group chair * [http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ha/ Harith Alani], Semantic Web Technologies Co-ordinator of the [[ESWC2009]] * [http://tomheath.com/id/me Tom Heath], former ''[http://data.semanticweb.org/ns/swc/ontology#DogfoodTsar Dogfood Tsar]'' of ESWC2006 and ISWC2007+ASWC2007, so will be tracking this out of interest but probably can't actively contribute much right now. Update: hoping to produce a personalisation service for the conference programme; more info to follow. * Muhammad Aftab Iqbal * [http://isiosf.isi.it/~cattuto/ Ciro Cattuto], [http://www.sociopatterns.org/ SocioPatterns project], and general co-chair of [http://www.ht2009.org/ ACM Hypertext 2009]. Interested in mashing up real-world data from RFID badges with background and on-line information. * [http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/ Lora Aroyo], ESWC 2009 Program Co-Chair * [http://bigasterisk.com/ Drew Perttula], interested in collecting and publishing people's notes during conferences * [http://kantenwerk.org| Knud Möller], Metadata Co-chair/[http://data.semanticweb.org/ns/swc/ontology#DogfoodTsar Dogfood Tsar] at ISWC+ASWC2007, 2008 and 2009, member of the team behind http://data.semanticweb.org * [http://www.L3S.de/~kaerger| Philipp Kärger], Organizer of the [http://spot2009.semanticweb.org| SPOT workshop] at ESWC2009, interested in trust and privacy issues on the social/semantic web. Likes the idea of mapping real-life trust relationships to social platforms like "you can access my profile if we met at ESWC2009". * [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] - interested in making the above work with low-cost-of-entry tools, such as microformats and social media sites. PLEASE ADD YOURSELF HERE == Resources == * http://data.semanticweb.org/ * http://linkeddata.org/ * http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebID * http://paggr.com/about * http://sioc-project.org/ * http://sti.innoraise.com/ * http://kasei.us/2007/06/tshirt.rdf -- draft t-shirt preference ontology, born out of frustration with over/under-sized conference t-shirts in horrible colours. * http://www.sociopatterns.org/ -- real-time mining of social contacts with active RFID. == Related Reading & Inspiration == * Möller, Heath, Handschuh and Domingue (2007) [http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/tracks/in-use/papers/795 Recipes for Semantic Web Dog Food - The ESWC and ISWC Metadata Projects]. 6th International and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007+ASWC2007), Busan, Korea. -- details much of the thinking behind previous dogfood efforts at ESWC/ISWC. * Heath, Domingue and Shabajee (2006) [http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/Heath/Heath.pdf User Interaction and Uptake Challenges to Successfully Deploying Semantic Web Technologies], Workshop on Semantic Web User Interaction (SWUI2006), 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA. * [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/peoplebrowsr_launches_custom_app_for_sxsw.php Custom PeopleBrowsr for SXSW2009] (RWW post) [[Category:Conference]]
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