WDSW 2012 - First International Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web

First International Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web
co-located with the 9th Extended Semantic Web conference ? May 27-31, 2012, Heraklion, Greece
Objectives of the workshop
Our current mind set as Semantic Web engineers is to focus on centralized and very powerful solutions centered (and depending on …) around Web hosted servers and (mobile) clients accessing it. As a direct consequence of that, the usage of Linked Data depends on the availability of a Web infrastructure compassing data-centers, high speed reliable Internet connection and modern client devices. If any of this is missing, our community is not able, yet, to provide any Linked Data enabled data management solution. Still, the digital divide that is currently widely recognized separates the world into those who have access to Web-based platforms and those who don’t.
When designing Linked Data platforms we tend to forget those 4 Billion persons who don’t have access to Internet but would benefit from being able to use Linked Data.We should keep everyone in mind when we design Linked Data platforms and aim at helping to reduce this digital divide.
This workshop, organised around an morning of presentations and an hacking afternoon, as for objective to discuss the steps to take to lower the requirements for deploying Semantic Web technologies. For instance, making Semantic Web platforms usable under limited computing power and limited access to Internet. During the hacking session, a specific focus will be put on the usage of Semantic Web technology for educational software.
Topics
Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Off-line linked data synchronisation
Low resource demanding triple stores
Application of Semantic Web to disaster data management
Innovative linked data interfaces for illiterate and/or young users
De-centralised data management platforms
Collaborative, de-centralised, educational software