LISC 2011 - 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011

1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC2011)
Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011)
October 23rd or 24th, 2011
Bonn, Germany

http://linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011

OBJECTIVES

Scientific efforts are traditionally published only as articles, with an estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year; the growth rate of PubMed alone is now 1 paper per minute. The validation of scientific results requires reproducible methods, which can only be achieved if the same data, processes, and algorithms as those used in the original experiments were available. However, the problem is that although publications, methods and datasets are very related, they are not always openly accessible and interlinked. Even where data is discoverable, accessible and assessable, significant challenges remain in the reuse of the data, in particular facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and synthesis of data across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines. In the LISC 2011 (1st International Workshop on Linked Science) we will discuss and present results of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing such scientific resources motivated by driving scientific requirements, as well as reasoning over the data to discover interesting new links and scientific insights.

Making entities identifiable and referenceable using URIs augmented by semantic, scientifically relevant annotations greatly facilitates access and retrieval for data which used to be hardly accessible. This Linked Science approach, i.e., publishing, sharing and interlinking scientific resources and data, is of particular importance for scientific research, where sharing is crucial for facilitating reproducibility and collaboration within and across disciplines. This integrated process, however, has not been established yet. Bibliographic contents are still regarded as the main scientific product, and associated data, models and software are either not published at all, or published in separate places, often with no reference to the respective paper.

In the workshop we will discuss whether and how new emerging technologies (Linked Data, and semantic technologies more generally) can realize the vision of Linked Science. We see that this depends on their enabling capability throughout the research process, leading up to extended publications and data sharing environments. Our workshop aims to address challenges related to enabling the easy creation of data bundles---data, processes, tools, provenance and annotation---supporting both publication and reuse of the data. Secondly, we look for tools and methods for the easy correlation, integration and synthesis of shared data. This problem is often found in many disciplines (including astronomy, biology, climate change research, geosciences, cultural heritage, etc.), as they need to span techniques, levels of theory, scales, and disciplines. With the advent of Linked Science, it is timely and crucial to address these identified research challenges through both practical and formal approaches.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite two kinds of submissions:
- Research papers. These should not exceed 15 pages in length.
- Position papers. Novel ideas, experiments, and application visions from multiple disciplines and viewpoints are a key ingredient of the workshop. We therefore strongly encourage the submission of position papers. Position papers should not exceed 5 pages in length.

Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science guidelines for proceedings available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-.... Papers should be submitted in PDF format. All submissions will be done electronically via the LISC2011 web submission system.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
Information about registration will appear soon on the ISCW2011 Web pages.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

In both categories, papers are expected in (but not restricted to) the following topics:

- Key research life cycle challenges in enabling linked science and proposed solution strategies
- Interrelationship of existing traditional solutions and new linked science solutions
- Formal representations of scientific data
- Ontologies for scientific information
- Reasoning mechanisms for linking scientific datasets
- Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
- Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
- Semantic similarity in science applications
- Semantic integration of crowd sourced scientific data
- Connecting scientific publications with underlying research datasets
- Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
- Enrichment of scientific data through linking and data integration
- Semantic driven data integration
- Support for data publishing for sharing and reuse
- Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology, environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
- Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and strategies to address these
- Linked Data for
- dissemination and archiving of research results
- collaboration and research networks
- research assessment
- Applications for research that build on top of Linked Data
- Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science

PROCEEDINGS

We expect the workshop proceedings to be published as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (see http://ceur-ws.org).

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: August 15
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 5
- Camera ready version due: September 16

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

- Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany
- Line C. Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK
- Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Carsten Keßler, University of Muenster, Germany
- Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Eric G. Stephan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
- V. Balaji, Princeton University and NOAA/GFDL, USA
- Luis Bermudez, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
- Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, USA
- Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany
- Tim Clark, Harvard University, USA
- Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Anusuriya Devaraju, University of Münster, Germany
- Stefan Dietze, The Open University, UK
- Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, Germany
- Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
- Damian Gessler, U. of Arizona, USA
- Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- John Harney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Laura Hollink, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia
- Antoine Isaac, Europeana, The Netherlands
- Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Matt Jones, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
- Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
- Chris Lynnes, NASA, USA
- Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas El Paso, USA
- Martin Raubal, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Mark Schildhauer, UC Santa-Barbara, USA
- Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs

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Best, Tomi

Dr. Tomi Kauppinen
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~kauppinen
Muenster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL)
http://musil.uni-muenster.de/
IRTG Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information (IRTG-SIGI)
http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/
Linked Open Data University of Muenster
http://lodum.de/
Linked Science
http://linkedscience.org/
Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi)
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/
University of Muenster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/
Weseler Strasse 253
D-48151 Muenster
Germany