SDoW 2010 - The 3rd international workshop Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010)

The 3rd international workshop Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010) co-located with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.

It is now widely agreed that the Semantic Web and the Social Web can benefit from each other. On the one hand, the speed at which data is being created on the Social Web is growing at exponential rate, as it offers users a variety of applications for rapidly publishing and disseminating information to a community of interest: blogs, wikis, microblogging, status notification, etc. On the other hand, the Semantic Web plays a crucial role in the management of all this networked knowledge, providing new ways to share and co-operate on the Web using formal semantics. However, while both can be efficiently combined to take into account the social aspect and the semantics of this data, there are still a variety of important issues and research questions that must be considered regarding data that arises from social interactions, such as scalability, reasoning, privacy, context-awarness, security, etc.

Following the success of SDoW2008 and SDoW2009, this workshop aims to discuss techniques, methods and applications that are appearing and that are required to manage the data from the Social Web using semantic technologies, taking into account social relations, information overload, aggregations and summaries, trust and privacy, and other related research topics.

Topics of Interest

We encourage contributions which will describe research proposals or implementations that deal with (but are not limited to) the following topics of interest:

Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services
Data Portability and Social Network Portability
Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web
Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and other approaches
Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social media sites
Mining and analysis of Social Data
Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies for social media sites
Querying and mining social semantic data
Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios
Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications
Reasoning for Social Web applications
Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks
Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration
Submissions

The following types of contributions are welcomed:

Full technical papers, up to 12 pages.
Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages.
Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo.
Paper submissions will have to be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions will be made using EasyChair Conference System, and proceedings of the papers will be provided through the CEUR online service.

Important dates

Submission deadline:
Aug 27, 2010
Notification of acceptance:
Sep 17, 2010
Camera-ready paper submission:
Oct 09, 2010
Camera-ready proceedings:
Oct 15, 2010
Workshop:
Nov 08, 2010
Workshop Organization

The workshop will be co-located with the 9th ISWC in Shanghai (China), and will be held on November 8th, 2010.

The workshop will also consist of:

Opening session:
This will permit introduction of the workshop topics, goals, participants, and expected outcomes.
Keynote speakers:
We expect to attract at least two keynote speakers for the workshop, both from academic and industrial fields.
Demonstration session:
Each demo will be given 10 minutes time.
Lightning talks:
Brief presentations about concrete topics not convered by the proceedings.
Communication:
Networked communication will be encouraged during the workshop using IRC, microblogging and other services, provided with the official hashtag (#sdow2010) to follow the live-stream of the event.
Workshop Chairs

Alexandre Passant, DERI NUI Galway, Ireland
John Breslin, DERI NUI Galway, Ireland
Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Uldis Bojārs, University of Latvia, Latvia
Program Committee

Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA, France
Axel Ngonga, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Dan Brickley, FOAF project & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Schwabe, PUC Rio, Brasil
Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany
Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain
Knud Möller, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Libby Miller, BBC, UK
Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, UK
Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Pablo Mendes, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA
Philipp Kaerger, L3S, Germany
Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland
Sebastian Tramp, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Sheila Kinsella, DERI, NUI Galway
Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK
Steve Harris, Garlik, UK
Yves Raimond, BBC, UK
Zhongli Ding, Google, USA
Venue

The workshop is hosted by the ISWC 2010 conference in Shanghai, so workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2010 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee. In the main conference Web page you can find information about how to travel or accomodation in the conference venue.

Contact

For further information, please send an email to: sdow [dot] team [at] gmail [dot] com