Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research
policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a
policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to
participate in studies.
At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying
group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much
the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots.
The policy proposal can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research
The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal
is being described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group
Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia
community, we would like additional input about the proposal,
and would welcome additional help improving it.
Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
--
Bryan Song
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota
(Apologies for cross-postings)
CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany
Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page
Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a
platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to
connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in
particular and on free knowledge in general.
The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for
Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will
take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open
to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats,
ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper
presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster
presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young
doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit
extended abstracts.
For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of
extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia
and free knowledge.
== Dates ==
* Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012
* Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
* Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012
== Topics of interest ==
Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details
will be available soon on the conference website:
http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process
=== Wikipedia Analytics ===
* Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool
* Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data"
* Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles
=== Wikipedia Global ===
* Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias
* Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies
* Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons
=== Sharing Cultures and Practices ===
* Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based
peer production
* Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative
peer production
* Wiki theory and wiki practices
=== Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia ===
* Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia
* Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open
collaborative settings
* Using information visualization as information instrument to users
and contributors
=== Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge ===
* Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access
to free knowledge
* Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination
in Wikipedia
* The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other
collaborative forms of knowledge production
== Submission Guidelines ==
Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer
review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a
case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one
author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a
full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the
organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online
proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In
addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors
explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this
licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order
to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt
out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any
way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from
the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to
publish at least the extended abstract online.
Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open
Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012
Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one
on the spot if you don't already have one.
--
Angelika Adam
Projektmanagerin
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 219158260
http://wikimedia.de
Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird.
Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition!
****Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach
WIKI an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und
Weiterentwicklung von Wikipedia.****
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear Research-l Readers:
I am happy to announce the creation of a new listserv dedicated to
conversations about teaching with Wikipedia in higher education. The
name of the list is, appropriately enough, teaching-with-wikipedia. My
hope is that many users of this list will find the new list to be a
good way to support teaching with Wikipedia, as well as share
resources on researching Wikipedia pedagogy. I see the purpose of this
new list as related to wiki-research-l, but materially separate enough
to support a distinct conversation.
At the moment, there is no web interface, so the best method of
joining the list is to send an e-mail to
md(a)listserv.olemiss.edu
with the command
subscribe teaching-with-wikipedia
I would be happy to answer questions directly, and/or to see you there.
Yours,
Bob Cummings
--
Dr. Robert E. Cummings
Director, Center for Writing and Rhetoric
University of Mississippi
PO Box 1848
University, MS 38677-1848
(662) 915-1989
cummings(a)olemiss.edu
Lazy Virtues: http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/156/lazy-virtues
Wiki Writing: http://www.digitalculture.org/books/wiki-writing
COLT: http://colt.olemiss.edu/
Hi all;
I saw the discussion about creating a site to compile all the literature
about wikis many times in this mailing list in the past. It was discussed
in WikiSym 2011 too.[1] As a wikipedian interested on wiki research and as
a predoctoral student, I need to make a state of the art.
I have started WikiPapers[2] a wiki using Semantic MediaWiki, which is very
powerful to establish relations between pages and to generate dynamic
lists.[3] It doesn't only include papers, but info about tools and
datasets, to replicate results.
>From time to time, I post a backup link of the entire wiki in the mainpage,
in the case you want a copy or a disaster occurs ; ) So nothing will be
lost (some previous efforts in this area finished losing all the info).
When WikiPapers grows a bit more, I guess that some cool stats about itself
could be generated, as researchers by country, most studied topics (and
those with little literature), biases between English Wikipedia analysis
and other wikis, etc.
I have added over 40 publications by now[4], you can subscribe to the RSS
feeds[5] (the Firefox dynamic bookmark is great).
I'm not sure if you want to join to the effort : ). You are more than
welcome to add your publications, tools and datasets. Any suggestion would
be great.
Regards,
emijrp
[1]
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiLit:_Collecting_the_Wiki_and_Wikipe…
[2] http://wikipapers.referata.com
[3] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_survey_papers
[4] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/List_of_publications
[5] http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/WikiPapers:RSS_feeds
The latest issue (January 2012) of the monthly Wikimedia Research
Newsletter is out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-01-30
In this issue:
1 Admins influence the language of non-admins
2 Can Wikipedia replace commercial biography databases?
3 Students predict connections between Wikipedians
4 Language analysis finds Wikipedia's political bias moving from left to right
5 Briefly
6 References
••• 11 items were covered in this issue •••
You can post suggestions and contributions for the next issue at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Newsletter
or by mail at researchnews(a)wikimedia.org
RSS feed for the newsletter:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/
Regards, Tilman
--
Tilman Bayer
Movement Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
Call for Papers
I-SEMANTICS 2012
8th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Graz, Austria, 5 - 7 September 2012
http://www.i-semantics.at
including
Call for Submissions
5th Linked Data Cup
Latest News:
=========================================================
Wolters Kluwer Germany main sponsor of I-SEMANTICS 2012
I-SEMANTICS proceedings published by ACM ICPS
Important Dates (Research & Application Papers & I-Challenge)
+ Abstract Submission Deadline : April 2, 2012
+ Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
+ Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
Important Dates (I-Challenge)
+ Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
+ Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track)
+ Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012
=========================================================
Hashtag for I-SEMANTICS 2012: #isem2012
Scope
=====
I-SEMANTICS 2012 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 8th International
Conference within the I-SEMANTICS series. I-SEMANTICS 2012 brings
together both researchers and practitioners in the areas of Semantic
Technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web in order to showcase
cutting edge research, demonstrators and applications for the Corporate
and Social Semantic Web.
I-SEMANTICS 2012 is proud to announce the new format �I-CHALLENGE�,
which brings to you the 5th Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification
Challenge), the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Award. As in the
past years the I-SEMANTICS Conference will be complemented by I-KNOW
(www.i-know.at), the 12th International Conference on Knowledge
Management, aiming to reflect the increasing importance and convergence
of knowledge management and semantic systems.
Topics
======
As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry,
I-SEMANTICS encourages scientific research and application-oriented
contributions in the field of Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web and
Linked Data. The topics of interest for this year�s conference include
but are not limited to:
The Web of Data
+ (Large scale) triplification of existing (structured) data
+ Vocabularies, taxonomies and schemas for the Web of Data
+ Querying, searching and browsing over the Web of Data
+ Data integration and interlinking for the Web of Data
+ User interaction and innovative visualizations for the Web of Data
+ Languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and
reasoning on the Web of Data
+ (Mashup) applications utilizing (large scale) Linked Data resources
+ Recommender systems making use of the Web of Data
+ Integrating microposts into the Web of Data
+ Linked Enterprise Data and (Open) Linked Government Data
+ Connecting the Web of Data with real world sensor data
+ Location-based services and mobile semantic applications
Quality of Semantic Data on the Web
+ Provenance information for the Web of Data
+ Large scale ontology inspection and repair
+ Co-reference detection and dataset reconciliation
+ Maintenance of Linked Data models
+ Trust, privacy and security in Semantic Web applications
Corporate Semantic Web
+ Corporate thesauri, business vocabularies, ontologies and rules
+ Semantic business, e-commerce and m-commerce systems
+ Semantic procurement for enterprises and governments
+ Semantics, pragmatics and semiotics in organizations
+ Enterprise trust and reputation management
Semantic Content Engineering
+ Collaborative ontology engineering
+ Ontology modularity, alignment and merging
+ Ontology design patterns and life cycle management
+ Ontology learning and knowledge acquisition + Quality criteria for
collaboratively generated semantic content
+ Semantic annotation and tagging
+ Making sense of microposts
+ Semantic content management systems
Semantic Multimedia
+ Semantic-driven multimedia applications
+ Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures
+ Content-based semantic multimedia analysis and data mining
+ Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval
+ Named entity recognition and disambiguation in multimedia documents
+ Human-computer interfaces for multimedia data access
+ Smart visualization and browsing of multimedia documents
+ User-generated semantic metadata for multimedia documents
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
+ Case studies of and benchmarks in semantic systems usage
+ Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research methodologies
+ Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
+ Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
+ Applications with clear lessons learned or evaluations
(Linked) Data Ecosystems & Markets
+ Economic foundations of data assets, markets and data crowd sourcing
+ Business and governance models for data commerce
+ Production principles and measures of data creation, curation and
utilization
+ Business models and economic impacts of Linked (Enterprise) Data
and/or large scale semantic systems
+ Case studies for sector-specific (Linked) Data strategies
I-SEMANTICS Submission Information
==================================
All accepted full papers and short papers of I-SEMANTICS 2012 will be
published in the digital library of the ACM ICP series. Please note:
Poster and Demo papers are planned to be published within CEUR-WS.
Optional publication of PhD papers in CEUR-WS is under discussion.
Research/Application Papers
---------------------------
Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for
publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for
formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the
conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be
accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source
files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word).
The publication will be available under the following ISBN:
978-1-4503-1112-0
Research papers report on novel research and/or applications relevant to
the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not
have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of
research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for
short papers including references and an optional appendix.
Full and short papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for
formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the
conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be
accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source
files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word).
Important Dates (Research & Application Papers)
-----------------------------------------------
+ Abstract Submission Deadline (strict): April 2, 2012
+ Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
+ Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
Posters, Demos & PhD Track
--------------------------
The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters,
demonstrations, and PhD track submissions. The Posters, Demonstrations &
PhD Track complements the Research Paper Track and offers an opportunity
for presenting late-breaking research results, ongoing research
projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
The informal setting of the Posters, Demonstrations & PhD Track
encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about
the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the
future work of the presenters, while offering participants an effective
way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to
network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should
consist of a 2-3 page description that allows us to judge the quality of
the presentation. Submissions to this track must be in the Springer LNCS
format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), i.e. please
do NOT use the ACM template here.
The objective of the PhD Track is to provide doctoral students with a
forum to present and discuss their research projects with experienced
researchers (�mentors�) and fellow students. It addresses PhD students
at an early stage of their doctoral studies, who want to receive
feedback from internationally recognized researchers. Ideally,
participants will have a well-defined problem statement and precise
questions to discuss with their mentor. Applicants should be PhD
students (from any country), conducting ongoing research in the areas of
semantic technologies, Linked Data and the Semantic Web.
PhD track submissions should consist of up to 1.500 words and contain
the following: + Name, affiliation and contact details of the PhD
student + Name(s) of the supervisor(s)
+ Summary of the research project, including: + Problem: research
questions, motivation, state of the art and relevance for the fields of
Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Semantic Web
+ Approach: (planned) approach and methodology
+ Current status / timeline: current status of the work and any results
that have already been reached plus outlook to future work
+ A list of key questions that the PhD student wants to discuss during
the event
Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers; each submission
will receive detailed feedback. The program committee will select
participants who will give a short presentation about their research
project during the I-SEMANTICS PhD Track. Main focus of the event is on
discussion, support and solving open questions.#
Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers & PhD Track)
---------------------------------------------------
+ Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012
I-CHALLENGE
===========
For the first time in 2012 we will bring to you the I-CHALLENGE,
consisting of the Best Research/Application Paper Award, the Best Poster
Award, the Best PhD Paper Award and the Linked Data Cup. While the best
paper will be selected by the program committee, the Best Poster will be
voted by the conference audience via online voting. (Please expect more
details for all the Best Paper Awards in the weeks to come.) Information
on the Linked Data Cup can be found below:
Linked Data Cup 2012
--------------------
The yearly organised Linked Data Cup (formerly Triplification Challenge)
awards prizes to the most promising innovation involving linked data.
Four different technological topics are addressed: triplification,
interlinking, cleansing, and application mash-ups. The Linked Data Cup
invites scientists and practitioners to submit novel and innovative (5
star) linked data sets and applications built on linked data technology.
Although more and more data is triplified and published as RDF and
linked data, the question arises how to evaluate the usefulness of such
approaches. The Linked Data Cup therefore requires all submissions to
include a concrete use case and problem statement alongside a solution
(triplified data set, interlinking/cleansing approach, linked data
application) that showcases the usefulness of linked data. Submissions
that can provide measurable benefits of employing linked data over
traditional methods are preferred.
Note that the call is not limited to any domain or target group. We
accept submissions ranging from value-added business intelligence use
cases to scientific networks to the longest tail of information domains.
The only strict requirement is that the employment of linked data is
very well motivated and also justified (i.e. we rank approaches higher
that provide solutions, which could not have been realised without
linked data, even if they lack technical or scientific brilliance).
Evaluation Criteria
-------------------
The submissions will be initially evaluated with a well-known five star
ranking system. Furthermore, entries will be assessed according to the
extent to which they
1. motivate the relevancy of their use case for their respective domain;
2. justify the adequacy of linked data technologies for their solution;
3. demonstrate that all alternatives to linked data would have resulted
in an inferior solution;
4. provide an evaluation that can measure the benefits of linked data
Topics
------
Ideas for topics include (but are not limited to):
+ Improving traditional approaches with help of linked data
+ Linked data use in science and education
+ Linked data supported multimedia applications
+ Linked data in the open source context
+ Web annotation
+ Generic applications
+ Internationalization of linked data + Visualization of linked data
+ Linked government data
+ Business models based on linked data
+ Recommender systems supported by linked data
+ Integrating microposts with linked data
+ Distributed social web based on linked data
+ Linked data sensor networks
Submission and Reviewing
------------------------
Submissions to the Linked Data Cup will be reviewed by members of the
Linked Data Cup Board and invited experts from the Linked Data community.
Submissions should consist of 4 pages and must be original and must not
have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the
ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting as accepted submissions will be
published in the I-SEMANTICS 2012 proceedings in the digital library of
the ACM ICP series. Please read the submission page for detailed
information on how to submit.
Important Dates (Linked Data Cup)
---------------------------------
+ Paper Submission Deadline : April 13, 2012
+ Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2012
+ Camera-Ready Paper: June 4, 2012
I-SEMANTICS Committee
=====================
Scientific Chair
----------------
+ Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
Program Chairs
--------------
+ H. Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon)
+ Valentina Presutti (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome)
Track Chairs
------------
+ I-CHALLENGE: + Sebastian Hellmann (University of Leipzig) + J�rg
Waitelonis (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering)
+ PhD Track Chair: Katrin Weller (Heinrich Heine University
D�sseldorf) + Poster Chair: Steffen Lohmann (University of Stuttgart)
Industry Chair
--------------
+ Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
Conference Chair
----------------
+ Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web Company / University of Applied
Sciences St. P�lten, Austria)
Program Committee
-----------------
Please go to:
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/scientific-track/program-committee/
--
Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen
http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
→ Workshop Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS) @ WWW 2012
Lyon, 17 April 2012. Deadline 6 February. http://www.swcs2012.org
→ SePublica Workshop @ ESWC 2012. Crete, Greece, 27/28 May 2012.
Deadline 29 Feb. http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org
→ I-SEMANTICS 2012. Graz, Austria, 5-7 September 2012
Abstract Deadline 2 April. http://www.i-semantics.at
=======================================================
ICWSM-12 Workshop on
Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS)
http://www.ramss.ws/
June 4, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland
=======================================================
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social
Streams (RAMSS)
in conjuntion with ICWSM-12, the 6th International AAAI Conference on
Weblogs and Social Media
Overview
--------
The recent increase of real-time data provided by users on social
networking services has leveraged an importance gain of the real-time
processing of social streams. Processing the streams in real-time can help
enhance search engines, news media, and many other systems by feeding them
with fresh knowledge about current affairs. Performing such analysis in
real-time is of utmost importance for early reporting of breaking news,
events, trends, and any other knowledge related to current affairs.
However, analyzing social streams in real-time makes the task more
challenging as it requires making decisions without clue of what will be
next in the stream.
The RAMSS workshop aims to bring together experts in the real-time analysis
and mining of social streams, as well as to further develop and exchange
knowledge around these tasks. Given the novelty of the research field, the
workshop also aims to encourage attendees to build a discussion forum to
share on the current state of the research field, as well as to propose
solutions for the shortcomings.
Topics of interest
------------------
To the end of going further in the above research, the workshop seeks
contributions that analyze and mine social streams as they become publicly
available, and encourages experts and interested attendees to take part.
The workshop aims to be specific in the real-time analysis and mining of
social streams, but it is open to a wide variety of tasks that can be
applied to those streams. Topics of interest include (but are not limited
to):
* Real-time search in social streams.
* Summarization of social streams as it comes out.
* Early detection of trends, news, and events.
* Real-time recommendation of information, who to follow, etc.
* Real-time classification and clustering.
* Real-time social network analysis.
* Behavioral prediction.
* Real-time sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
* Real-time user modeling.
* Real-time natural language learning, processing and understanding.
We also welcome contributions discussing potential research directions,
evaluation frameworks, publicly available datasets and case studies on
industrial applications.
Important dates
---------------
* Paper Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012.
* Notification to Authors: March 16, 2012.
* Camera-Ready Versions Due: April 2, 2012.
* Workshop day: June 4, 2012.
Paper Submission
----------------
Submissions must be anonymous. Papers must be sent in a PDF file, and
written in English. Participants are invited to submit: (1) a short
position or demonstration paper of 4 pages in length or (2) a full-length
technical paper of up to 10 pages in length. Submissions must follow the
AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Papers
will be reviewed by at least three PC members, and accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings.
Submissions can be made through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramss2012
For inquieries, please contact: contact(a)ramss.ws
Organizing Committee
--------------------
* Arkaitz Zubiaga, City University of New York, USA
* Damiano Spina, UNED, Spain
* Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
* Mor Naaman, Rutgers University, USA
Program Committee
-----------------
* Omar Alonso, Microsoft, USA
* Alejandro Bellogín, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
* Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Research, Spain
* Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
* Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft, USA
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* David F. Gleich, Purdue University, USA
* Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
* Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands
* Christian Körner, TU Graz, Austria
* Danielle H. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Donald Metzler, Information Sciences Institute, USA
* Meenakshi Nagarajan, IBM Research, USA
* Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
* Vivek Singh, University of California Irvine, USA
* Marc A. Smith, Connected Action, USA
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/
SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece.
At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication
and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between
print media and Web media, Sepublica aims to provide researchers with a
venue in which this future can be shaped. Consider research
publications: Data sets and code are essential elements of data
intensive research, but these are absent when the research is recorded
and preserved by way of a scholarly journal article. Or consider news
reports: Governments increasingly make public sector information
available on the Web, and reporters use it, but news reports very rarely
contain fine-grained links to such data sources. At Sepublica we will
discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and
analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over the data
to discover new links and scientific insights.
Workshop Format
We are planning to have a full day workshop with two main sessions.
During the first part of the workshop accepted papers will be presented;
the second part of the workshop will address by means of focus groups
two main questions, namely “what do we want the future of scholarly
communication to be?” and “how could data be preserved and delivered in
an interactive manner over scholarly communications?”. These focus
groups will be followed by a panel discussion. As an outcome of these
activities we will have a communique that will be the editorial for the
workshop proceedings,
Dates
* workshop papers submission deadline: Feb 29
* workshop papers acceptance notification: April 1
* workshop papers camera ready: April 15
Submission
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2012
Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages.
For system/demo descriptions, a paper of minimum 2 pages, maximum 5
pages should be submitted. Late-breaking news should be one page
maximum. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted
according to the LNCS format. For submissions that are not in the LNCS
PDF format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the
page limit will be rejected without review.
Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might be
invited to present their papers during a poster session.
The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a
double-blind review process in place.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers;
late-breaking news get a light review w.r.t. their relevance by two
reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop
(requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop).
Issues to be addressed
Representation:
Formal representations of scientific data; ontologies for
scientific information
What ontologies do we need for representing structural
elements in a document?
How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in
scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?
Integration of quantitative and qualitative scientific information
How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the
knowledge encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media
publications?
Connecting scientific publications with underlying research
data sets
Technological Foundations:
Ontology-based visualization of scientific data
Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
Linked Data for dissemination and archiving of research
results, for collaboration and research networks, and for research
assessment
How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a
paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?
How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?
Applications and Use Cases:
Case studies on linked science, i.e., astronomy, biology,
environmental and socio-economic impacts of global warming, statistics,
environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, etc.
Barriers to the acceptance of linked science solutions and
strategies to address these
Legal, ethical and economic aspects of Linked Data in science
CfP: WWW2012 Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS2012)
In conjunction with World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW 2012)
Lyon, France, 17 April 2012
http://www.swcs2012.org
==Important dates==
Paper Submission: 6th February 2012
Author Notification: 8th March 2012
Camera ready: 29th March 2012
Workshop: 17th April 2012
==Goal and Motivations==
Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces such as semantic wikis, semantic
social networks, semantic forums, etc. are social semantic software
with the mission to bring together human agents and software agents in
order to foster knowledge-intensive collaboration, content creation
and management, annotated multimedia collection management, social
knowledge diffusion and formalising, and more generally speaking
ontology-oriented content management life-cycle.
The domain spans from multidisciplinary research to deployed
commercial web applications and contributions from all this spectrum
are encouraged. The aim of the SWCS 2012 workshop is to exchange
ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from theoretical
studies and practical usage of semantic web collaborative spaces.
==Topics==
Contributions to this workshop will address one or more of the
following topics:
Representing and reasoning on semantics in social web platforms:
* reconciling formal semantics and social semantics
* semantic social network analysis, community detection and community
building
* analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions
* combining, transforming, translating formal and informal knowledge
* coping with disagreement, inconsistencies
* semantics in social/human computing, and vice versa
* change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic
changes
* connecting knowledge and social interaction
* from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous
interactions in SWCS
* optimising, distributing, scaling SWCS
* managing and exploiting the emergence of models and their semantics
Interacting with and within SWCS:
* browsing, navigating, visualizing
* editing linked open data, schemas, rules, etc.
* ergonomics of SWCS, interaction design and usability studies
* object-centered sociality, knowledge-centered sociality
* overcoming entrance barriers and giving incentives for contributing
* provenance, traceability, permissions, trust, licensing, access
control, privacy,
* making formal knowledge accessible, social knowledge evaluation
* mobile and multimodal accesses to SWCS
Return on experience and applications of semantic web collaborative spaces:
* swcs platforms in e-science, e-learning, e-health, e-governement,
* enterprise workflows, document flows, business intelligence,
technological watch
* corporate knowledge management or personal information management
* expert matching, team creation,
Integration, interoperability and reuse of web collaborative spaces:
* integrations and interoperability with other semantic applications and
mashups
* interlinking, distributing, federating SWCS
* extending non-semantic social web platforms with semantics
* exporting and reusing semantics gained from SWCS
==Steering Committee==
* Pascal Molli, LINA, Nantes University (FR) (chair)
* Hideaki Takeda, NII National Institute of Informatics (JP)
* John Breslin, DERI NUI Galway (IE)
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research (AT)
== Submissions and Proceedings ==
We invite the following different kinds of contributions:
* full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent
research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or
methodologies; authors of accepted full papers will be able to
present their work in a 15 minute talk at the workshop
* short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new
ideas that are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers
will be able to present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk
at the workshop
* demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software
prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop
* poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in
the poster and demo session during the workshop
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted
according to the ACM format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please
submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swcs2012.
For any further informations, please contact organizers via
swcs2012(a)easychair.org
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Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen
http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
My up-to-date presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/langec