Hyderabad, India
News

* 2010-12-20: The Call for Papers for the LDOW2011 workshop has been published.

Objectives

The Web has developed into a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. In 2010, we have seen significant growth in the size of the Web of Data, as well as in the number of communities contributing to its creation. In addition, there is intensive work on applications that consume Linked Data from the Web.

The LDOW2011 workshop in Hyderabad follows the LDOW2008 workshop in Beijing, the LDOW2009 workshop in Madrid, and the LDOW2010 workshop in Raleigh. As with the previous workshops, LDOW2011 is open to covering all topics related to Linked Data publication and consumption, including principled research in the areas of user interfaces for the Web of Data as well as on issues of quality, trust and provenance in Linked Data. We also expect to see a number of submissions related to current areas of high Linked Data activity, such as government transparency, life sciences and the media industry. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for exposing high quality, novel research and applications in these (and related) areas. In addition, by bringing together researchers in this field, we expect the event to further shape the ongoing Linked Data research agenda.
Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
Foundations of Linked Data

* Web architecture and dataspace theory
* dataset dynamics and synchronisation
* analyzing and profiling the Web of Data

Data Linking and Fusion

* entity consolidation and linking algorithms
* Web-based data integration and data fusion
* performance and scalability of integration architectures

Write-enabling the Web of Data

* access authentication mechanisms for Linked Datasets (WebID, etc.)
* authorisation mechanisms for Linked Datasets (WebACL, etc.)
* enabling write-access to legacy data sources (Google APIs, Flickr API, etc.)

Data Publishing

* publishing legacy data sources as Linked Data on the Web
* cost-benefits of the 5 star LOD plan

Data Usage

* tracking provenance of Linked Data
* evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data
* licensing issues in Linked Data publishing
* distributed query of Linked Data
* RDF-to-X, turning RDF to legacy data

Interacting with the Web of Data

* approaches to visualising Linked Data
* interacting with distributed Web data
* Linked Data browsers, indexers and search engines

Submissions

We seek three kinds of submissions:

1. Full technical papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format
2. Short technical and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format
3. Demo descriptions: up to 2 pages in ACM format

Submissions must be formatted using the WWW2011 templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not operate a double-blind review process.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings.

Please submit papers via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2011
Proceedings

Proceedings will be published online at CEUR-WS.
Important Dates

* Submission deadline: 8th February, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 25th February, 2011
* Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 10nd March, 2011
* Workshop date: 28th or 29th March, 2011

Organising Committee

* Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
* Tom Heath, Talis, UK
* Tim Berners-Lee, W3C/MIT, USA
* Michael Hausenblas, Linked Data Research Centre, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

Provisional Programme Committee (not confirmed yet)

* Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Andreas Langegger, University of Linz, Austria
* Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics, UK
* Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna, Austria
* Christopher Brewster, Aston Business School, UK
* Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics, UK
* David Huynh, MetaWeb, USA
* Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Ed Summers, Library of Congress, USA
* Erik Wilde, School of Information UC Berkeley, USA
* Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
* Gong Cheng, Southeast University, China
* Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Harith Alani, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
* Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK
* Ian Davis, Talis, UK
* Ian Dickinson, Epimorphics, UK
* Ian Millard, University of Southampton, UK
* Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium, USA
* Jeni Tennison, Jeni Tennison Consulting, UK
* Jens Lehmann, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Joshua Tauberer, University of Pennsylvania, USA
* Juan Sequeda, UT Austin, USA
* Jun Zhao, Oxford University, UK
* Kai-Uwe Sattler, University of Ilmenau, Germany
* Knud Moeller, DERI Galway, Ireland
* Leigh Dodds, Talis, UK
* Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Mariano Consens, University of Toronto, Canada
* Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
* Mathieu d'Aquin, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Matthew Rowe, KMi, The Open University, UK
* Michael Bergman, Structured Dynamics, USA
* Michiel Hildebrand, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Mischa Tuffield, Garlik, UK
* Nick Humfrey, BBC, UK
* Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
* Oktie Hassanzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada
* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
* Orri Erling, OpenLink Software, Netherlands
* Patrick Sinclair, BBC, UK
* Peter Ansell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France
* Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Rob Styles, Talis, UK
* Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, UK
* Simon Schenk, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Soeren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
* Susie Stephens, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, USA
* Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
* York Sure, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
* Yuzhong Qu, Nanjing University, China
* Yves Raimond, BBC, UK

Contact

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at ldow2011@events.linkeddata.org