IESD 2015 - International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2015)

IESD’15 will provide a forum to discuss approaches for exploring semantic data, including structured and unstructured data. Semantic data is available widely and semantic data exploration is becoming a key activity in a range of application domains, such as government organisations, education, life science, cultural heritage, and media. Several novel interfaces and interaction means for exploration of semantic data are being proposed, for example semantic data browsers, ontology/content visualisation environments and semantic wikis. Although on the rise, the current solutions are still maturing and need to take into account human factors to make exploration intuitive or employ necessary computational models to inject personalisation and aid the intuitiveness and improve the effectiveness of exploration tasks. Lessons also can be learned from the commonalities and differences in exploration requirements between different domains. Hence, greater benefits can be achieved by bringing together expertise from different communities, including HCI, Semantic Web, and personalisation with the potential application domain demands. IESD’15 will continue, following the success of the past three workshops, including at ISWC 2014 (https://iesd14.wordpress.com), bringing together different disciplines related to semantic data exploration and form an international community to identify the major challenges and research directions. 43 experts from 16 countries belonging to HCI, Semantic Web and personalisation community are invited as PC members. At the time of submission, 24 PC members are already confirmed