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Second International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2011)
October 23, 2011
Bonn, Germany
Abstract
The quantity of published Linked Data is increasing dramatically. However, applications that consume Linked Data are not yet widespread. Current approaches lack methods for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, dynamic discovery of available data and data sources, provenance and information quality assessment, application development environments, and appropriate end user interfaces. Addressing these issues requires well-founded research, including the development and investigation of concepts that can be applied in systems which consume Linked Data from the Web. Following the success of the 1st International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, we organize the second edition of this workshop in order to provide a platform for discussion and work on these open research problems. The main objective is to provide a venue for scientific discourse ? including systematic analysis and rigorous evaluation ? of concepts, algorithms and approaches for consuming Linked Data.
News
2011-08-11: The original paper submission deadline has been changed into an Abstract submission deadline and the full paper submission deadline has been extended by four days. So, submit an Abstract of your paper on August 15, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time and submit the full paper on August 19, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time.
2011-05-25: The workshop has been accepted for ISWC 2011.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time
Paper submission deadline: August 19, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time (extended from August 15, 2011)
Acceptance notification: September 6, 2011
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: September 14, 2011
Workshop date: October 23, 2011
Objectives
The term Linked Data refers to a practice for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web. Since the practice has been proposed in 2006, a grass-roots movement has started to publish and to interlink multiple open databases on the Web following the Linked Data principles. Due to conference workshops, tutorials, and general evangelism an increasing number of data publishers such as the BBC, Thomson Reuters, The New York Times, the Library of Congress, and the UK and US governments have adopted Linked Data principles. The ongoing effort resulted in bootstrapping the Web of Data which, today, comprises billions of RDF triples including millions of links between data sources. The published datasets include data about books, movies, music, radio and television programs, reviews, scientific publications, genes, proteins, medicine, and clinical trials, geographic locations, people, companies, statistical and census data, etc.
Access to Linked Data presents exciting opportunities for the next generation of Web-based applications: data from different providers can be aggregated and fragmentary information from multiple sources can be integrated to achieve a more comprehensive view. While a few applications, such as the BBC music guide have used Linked Data to significant benefit, the deployment methodology has been to harvest the data of interest from the Web to create a private, disconnected repository for each specific application. Such an approach can only be the beginning; new concepts to consume Linked Data are required in order to exploit the Web of Linked Data to its full potential. The concepts, patterns and tools necessary are very different from situations when resource identifiers are local or known a-priori, whole-repository queries are possible, access to the repository is reliable and relevant data sources are known to be trustworthy.
Several open issues that make the development of Linked Data based applications a challenging or still impossible task. These issues include the lack of approaches for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, for dynamic, on-the-fly discovery of available data, for information quality assessment, and for elaborate end user interfaces. These open issues can only be addressed appropriately when they are conceived as research problems that require the development and systematic investigation of novel approaches. The International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD) aims to provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of such approaches. Our main objective is to receive submissions that present scientific discussion (including systematic evaluation) of concepts and approaches, instead of exposition of features implemented in Linked Data based applications. For practical systems without formalization or evaluation we refer interested participants to other offerings at ISWC, such as the Semantic Web Challenge or the Demo Track. As such, we see our workshop as orthogonal to these events.
Topics of Interest
Relevant topics for COLD 2011 include but are not limited to:
Web scale data management (indexing, crawling, etc.)
Query processing over multiple linked datasets
Search in the Web of Data
Auto-discovery
of URIs,
of additional data that is not from the authoritative source of a URI,
of relevant linked datasets in general
Caching and replication
Dataset dynamics
processing change notifications,
keeping consistency,
temporal tracking of linked datasets
Reasoning on Linked Data from multiple sources
Knowledge discovery deriving insights from the Web of Data
Information quality of Linked Data
information quality assessment,
trustworthiness,
provenance
User interface research for the interaction with the Web of Data
user interaction and usability,
visualizing Linked Data,
natural language interfaces
Submissions
We seek full technical research papers with a length of up to 12 pages. In addition to these full papers, researchers are invited to submit short vision papers and short systems/demo paper with a length of up to 6 pages, respectively; vision and systems/demo papers must be clearly marked as such.
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Please submit your paper via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cold201...
Submissions that do not comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.
We note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop proceedings.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published online at CEUR-WS.
Workshop Organization
The workshop will be co-located with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Bonn, Germany, and will be held on October 23, 2011.
To attend the workshop you have to register for the conference using the ISWC registration system.
The workshop will also consist of:
Opening session: This will permit introduction of the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin, US) will give a kaynote at the workshop.
Research Track: Accepted research papers will be presented at the workshop.
Visions Track: Accepted visions papers will be presented at the workshop.
Systems/Demo Track: Accepted systems/demo papers will be presented at the workshop.
Communication: Networked communication will be encouraged during the workshop using IRC, microblogging and other services, provided with the official hashtag (#cold2011) to follow the live-stream of the event.
Organizing Committee
Juan Sequeda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Programme Committee
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, USA
Cosmin Basca, University of Zurich, Suisse
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, Ireland
Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Christina Feilmayr, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Fabien Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss, France
Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, USA
Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
Paul Groth, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Ireland
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Ralf Heese, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Ivan Herman, W3C
Katja Hose, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Hak-Lae Kim, Samsung R&D, Korea
Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ian Millard, University of Southampton, UK
Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland
Axel Polleres, DERI, Ireland
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Illmenau, Germany
Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria
Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK
Contact
For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at cold.org.ws-AT-googlemail.com
Acknowledgements
The workshop is party supported by the PlanetData project.
October 23, 2011
Bonn, Germany
Abstract
The quantity of published Linked Data is increasing dramatically. However, applications that consume Linked Data are not yet widespread. Current approaches lack methods for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, dynamic discovery of available data and data sources, provenance and information quality assessment, application development environments, and appropriate end user interfaces. Addressing these issues requires well-founded research, including the development and investigation of concepts that can be applied in systems which consume Linked Data from the Web. Following the success of the 1st International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, we organize the second edition of this workshop in order to provide a platform for discussion and work on these open research problems. The main objective is to provide a venue for scientific discourse ? including systematic analysis and rigorous evaluation ? of concepts, algorithms and approaches for consuming Linked Data.
News
2011-08-11: The original paper submission deadline has been changed into an Abstract submission deadline and the full paper submission deadline has been extended by four days. So, submit an Abstract of your paper on August 15, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time and submit the full paper on August 19, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time.
2011-05-25: The workshop has been accepted for ISWC 2011.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time
Paper submission deadline: August 19, 2011, 23.59 Hawaii time (extended from August 15, 2011)
Acceptance notification: September 6, 2011
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: September 14, 2011
Workshop date: October 23, 2011
Objectives
The term Linked Data refers to a practice for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web. Since the practice has been proposed in 2006, a grass-roots movement has started to publish and to interlink multiple open databases on the Web following the Linked Data principles. Due to conference workshops, tutorials, and general evangelism an increasing number of data publishers such as the BBC, Thomson Reuters, The New York Times, the Library of Congress, and the UK and US governments have adopted Linked Data principles. The ongoing effort resulted in bootstrapping the Web of Data which, today, comprises billions of RDF triples including millions of links between data sources. The published datasets include data about books, movies, music, radio and television programs, reviews, scientific publications, genes, proteins, medicine, and clinical trials, geographic locations, people, companies, statistical and census data, etc.
Access to Linked Data presents exciting opportunities for the next generation of Web-based applications: data from different providers can be aggregated and fragmentary information from multiple sources can be integrated to achieve a more comprehensive view. While a few applications, such as the BBC music guide have used Linked Data to significant benefit, the deployment methodology has been to harvest the data of interest from the Web to create a private, disconnected repository for each specific application. Such an approach can only be the beginning; new concepts to consume Linked Data are required in order to exploit the Web of Linked Data to its full potential. The concepts, patterns and tools necessary are very different from situations when resource identifiers are local or known a-priori, whole-repository queries are possible, access to the repository is reliable and relevant data sources are known to be trustworthy.
Several open issues that make the development of Linked Data based applications a challenging or still impossible task. These issues include the lack of approaches for seamless integration of Linked Data from multiple sources, for dynamic, on-the-fly discovery of available data, for information quality assessment, and for elaborate end user interfaces. These open issues can only be addressed appropriately when they are conceived as research problems that require the development and systematic investigation of novel approaches. The International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD) aims to provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of such approaches. Our main objective is to receive submissions that present scientific discussion (including systematic evaluation) of concepts and approaches, instead of exposition of features implemented in Linked Data based applications. For practical systems without formalization or evaluation we refer interested participants to other offerings at ISWC, such as the Semantic Web Challenge or the Demo Track. As such, we see our workshop as orthogonal to these events.
Topics of Interest
Relevant topics for COLD 2011 include but are not limited to:
Web scale data management (indexing, crawling, etc.)
Query processing over multiple linked datasets
Search in the Web of Data
Auto-discovery
of URIs,
of additional data that is not from the authoritative source of a URI,
of relevant linked datasets in general
Caching and replication
Dataset dynamics
processing change notifications,
keeping consistency,
temporal tracking of linked datasets
Reasoning on Linked Data from multiple sources
Knowledge discovery deriving insights from the Web of Data
Information quality of Linked Data
information quality assessment,
trustworthiness,
provenance
User interface research for the interaction with the Web of Data
user interaction and usability,
visualizing Linked Data,
natural language interfaces
Submissions
We seek full technical research papers with a length of up to 12 pages. In addition to these full papers, researchers are invited to submit short vision papers and short systems/demo paper with a length of up to 6 pages, respectively; vision and systems/demo papers must be clearly marked as such.
Paper submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Please submit your paper via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cold201...
Submissions that do not comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.
We note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop proceedings.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published online at CEUR-WS.
Workshop Organization
The workshop will be co-located with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Bonn, Germany, and will be held on October 23, 2011.
To attend the workshop you have to register for the conference using the ISWC registration system.
The workshop will also consist of:
Opening session: This will permit introduction of the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin, US) will give a kaynote at the workshop.
Research Track: Accepted research papers will be presented at the workshop.
Visions Track: Accepted visions papers will be presented at the workshop.
Systems/Demo Track: Accepted systems/demo papers will be presented at the workshop.
Communication: Networked communication will be encouraged during the workshop using IRC, microblogging and other services, provided with the official hashtag (#cold2011) to follow the live-stream of the event.
Organizing Committee
Juan Sequeda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Programme Committee
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, USA
Cosmin Basca, University of Zurich, Suisse
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, Ireland
Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Christina Feilmayr, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Fabien Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss, France
Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, USA
Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
Paul Groth, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Ireland
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Ralf Heese, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Ivan Herman, W3C
Katja Hose, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Hak-Lae Kim, Samsung R&D, Korea
Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ian Millard, University of Southampton, UK
Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland
Axel Polleres, DERI, Ireland
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Illmenau, Germany
Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria
Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK
Contact
For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at cold.org.ws-AT-googlemail.com
Acknowledgements
The workshop is party supported by the PlanetData project.
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