META4eSociety 2012 - International Workshop on Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (META4eSociety)

The future e-Society - renamed “OnTheMoveSociety” in the context of OTM 2012 - is a society created by extensive use of digital technologies at all levels of interaction between its members. It is a society that evolves based on knowledge and that empowers individuals by creating virtual communities that benefit from social inclusion, access to information, enhanced interaction and freedom of expression, among other. This leads to radical changes in the dynamics and the interaction between its members, determining new economic scenarios. The e-Society benefits from the ability to compress both space and time, which allows sharing large amounts of data in real time anywhere in the world.
In this context, the role of the World Wide Web and the telecommunication technologies in the way people and organisations exchange information and interact in the social cyberspace is crucial. Large amounts of structured data are being published and shared and a growing number of services and applications emerge from it. The applications must be designed in such a way to help people use their knowledge at best and generate new knowledge in return, while keeping intact their privacy and confidentiality, whether it is in e-Health, e-Government, e-Democracy or in any other area of the e-Society.
A current popular initiative adopted by a growing number of actors from transversal domains (e.g. governments, city municipalities, etc.) encourage publishing structured data (e.g. RDF) on the Web of Data. Managing such data in order to make sense of it by producing services and applications for end-user consumption from government and public bodies data is presently a huge challenge for the research community. This initiative takes into account methods for the creation and consumption of structured data and tools that make possible their application by end-users to real-life situations, as well as their evaluation. The final aim is to lower the barrier between end-users and information and communication technologies through contributions to the e-Society such as multilingual information, information visualisation, privacy and trust, rich multimedia retrieval, etc.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, professionals and experts interested to discuss, demonstrate and share best practices, ideas and results around the creation and particularly the consumption of structured data for the e-Society.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics related to methods, tools and applications for the creation and consumption of Structured Data (SD) for e-Society and their evaluation are of interest. These include (but are not limited to) best practices, case studies and tendencies related to:
Ontology Evolution from Social Processes
Exploitation of Natural Language Resources in the Creation and Consumption of SD
Automatic Multimedia Annotation
Semantic-driven Multimedia Retrieval
Mining Structured Data of Natural Language Resources from Unstructured Data
Exploiting Multilingual Terminology for SD Consumption
Database Atomisation
Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Data applied to e-Society
Scientific Visualisation of SD
SD Contribution to e-Society
Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing in e-Society
Best Practices in Consuming SD for e-Society
Lightweight Ontology Creation Methodologies for e-Society
Ontology in Use for e-Society Applications
Security, Privacy and Trust in Consuming SD
Evaluation (of above-mentioned Methodologies, Tools and Applications)
Usability and Socio-Technical Systems Theory applied to SD in e-Society
Research Projects and Live Demos regarding Applications of SD for e-Society
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: 18 May 2012
Paper Submission: 25 May 2012
Demo & Poster Abstract Submission: 25 May 2012
Acceptance Notification: 2 July 2012
Camera Ready Due: 16 July 2012
Registration Due: 16 July 2012
OTM Conferences and Workshops: 10-14 September 2012