SDoW2009

SDoW2009
Social Data on the Web 2009
Subevent of	ISWC2009
Start	October 25 2009 (iCal)
End	October 25 2009
Homepage:	Homepage
Location
City:	Washington, D.C.
Country:	USA
Important dates
Submissions due:	July 24 2009
Notification:	August 3 2009
Camera ready due:	October 02 2009
Event in series SDoW

The 2nd Social Data on the Web workshop (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.

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.

In 2009, the acceptance rate of SDoW2009 was 52% (12 accepted papers out of 23 submissions).

Topics

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 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

Important Dates

Submission deadline

Jul 24, 2009 (23:59 pm Hawaii time, GMT-10)

Notification of acceptance

Aug 30, 2009

Camera-ready paper submission

Oct 02, 2009

Camera-ready proceedings

Oct 09, 2009

Workshop

Oct 25, 2009

Workshop Chairs

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