LISC 2013 - 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 (LISC2013) - Supporting Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments

Scientific communication has a long history of relying heavily upon publications and presentations, producing an estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year. The results described in these articles are often backed by large amounts of diverse data produced by complex experiments, computer simulations, and observations of physical phenomena. Because of this avalanche of data, it is increasingly hard to validate, reproduce, reuse and leverage scientific findings. In addition, although publications, methods and datasets are very related, they are not equally accessible nor seamlessly interlinked. One notable exception is molecular biology research where journals require deposit of sequences in data banks as a condition of publication. Even where data is discoverable and accessible, significant challenges remain in data reuse and sharing, in facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and synthesis of data across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines.
In the 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science (LISC2013) we aim to discuss and present results of new ways of applying Semantic Web technologies to the publishing, sharing and interlinking of scientific data and methods, and to the reasoning over such resources to discover interesting new links to validate, reuse and reproduce scientific research. The theme of this year’s workshop is “Supporting Reproducibility, Scientific Investigations and Experiments”. We will focus on scientific investigations and experiments that use Linked Data and semantic technologies to represent their data and methods and enable their knowledge discovery, reuse and validation.
LISC2013 will be a mixture of paper and demo presentations and break-out sessions. Workshop participants will also be expected to contribute informally to discussions as well as bring up their own topics of interest. LISC2013 is a continuation of the 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011) and 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 (LISC2012).