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Fwd: WETICE-2006 CfP: International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA06
by James D. Forrester 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The below has been forwarded to me; I post it for those interested. [Begin] First Call for Papers STICA06 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications STICA06 at the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006) The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. (26th-28th June 2006) http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06 ========================================================== MOTIVATION ================== With distributed information systems and the Internet continually increasing in significance, collaboratively creating and managing information has become an essential requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations. This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as well as joint information access among geographically dispersed user communities that have emerged in the last decades: collaborative information spaces, tele-cooperation, autonomous agents or, more recently, various Web-related forms of communication and cooperation such as discussion forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs. A fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous representation of the shared information and a feasible management of such semantics-enhanced information repositories. The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic technologies. In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are formalized using Web-suitable, but in the same time semantically unambiguous representation languages, are accessible and can be shared and reused across the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web offers new opportunities for the next generation of collaborative applications: it provides us with novel means to classify information items i.e. by means of ontologies which formally represent the consensual understanding of the application users w.r.t. a particular domain of interest. Taking advantage of this technology, the first promising implementations of Semantic Web-based collaboration platforms such as Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs, to name only a few, have been proposed. This workshop aims at contributing to this young application field by providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to present innovative approaches to applying Semantic Web technologies in collaborative environments and to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to this topic. OBJECTIVES ================ The primary objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners working in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled collaboration, ranging from discovering new application scenarios, proposing new methods to apply Semantic Web and related emerging technologies to current environments, pointing out issues that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained during the deployment of collaborative methods and the realization of support systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================= We invite original academic and industry contributions which report on issues related to semantic collaboration. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -- Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing shared information -- Collaborative ontology engineering -- Semantic collaboration applications -- Collaborative Semantic Web portals -- Semantic community support systems -- Semantic Wikis -- Semantic Blogging -- Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping -- Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on semantics-aware collaborative applications -- Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic technologies -- Future research directions in the area of semantic collaboration ORGANIZERS ================= Robert Tolksdorf, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Klaus Schild Freie Universität Berlin AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme Takustr. 9 D-14195 Berlin Germany {tolk|paslaru|schild}(a)inf.fu-berlin.de SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ================== Submission of papers will take place electronically. Detailed submission instructions will be announced on the homepage of the workshop at http://nbi.inf.fu-berlin.de/conf/STICA06. The papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE format (this will also be the page limit for the proceedings). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people. The accepted papers and the summary report on the workshop will be published in the post-conference proceedings and directly mailed to the registered authors by the IEEE Computer Press after the conference. Please note that in order for an accepted paper to be published in the conference proceedings at least one of its authors is required to register and present the paper at WETICE-2006. IMPORTANT DATES ================== Deadline for paper submission: February 10, 2006 Decision to paper authors: April 7, 2006 Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 12, 2006 WETICE-2006 Workshops and On-site registration: June 26-28, 2006 [End] Hope that this is of interest to some of you. Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james(a)jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester(a)hotmail.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDqzhJkn3kUxZyJx0RAlcSAKCTlI9aXVYl1WFF/eAmDkSACeI8fACcDDaY cYYTucrQiSe0wgfMkFThiic= =rPOc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Verbose results from the Britannica vs. Wikipedia paper on nature.com
by Mathias Schindler 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, on http://fftw.org/~stevenj/Nature-reviews.doc, there is now a Microsoft Word document describing the "errors" (in a broader sense) found by the reviewing persons. With this list, it is now much easier to deal with these articles. Note that the kind of "error" varies from minor factual errors (wrong year) to some kind of overall criticism (wrong proportions for competing theories). However, it should be possible to bring the number of "errors" in those 42 articles down to a much lower number (...and we can introduce brand new ones, yeah!). Thanks for helping out. The folks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_peer_review/Nature_December… will be thankful for your efforts in this matter. At de.wikipedia, I am preparing an FAQ about this review, you might want to join or do something in your own language. There was way too much misinterpretation done by the press (mostly "in favour" of wikipedia, which is not a good thing). Mathias

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Comparison of Wikipedia with Brittannica
by Jeremy Dunck 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

" Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopaedia. But reviewers also found many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica, respectively. " http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/multimedia/438900a_m1.html http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/box/438900a_BX1.html I hope they publish more detail about this study.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: Comparison of Wikipedia with Brittannica
by Andrea Forte 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

On 12/17/05, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > Uniform style? > > >The Nature > >article mentioned that some of the reviewers thought the Wikipedia > >articles were difficult to get through, even if they were accurate, > >but no mention was made of the Brittanica's writing style. > > My guess is that the "difficulty" of an article is in direct > proportion to the number of contributors. As regards consistent style, IMHO, William Emigh and Susan Herring have one of the best pieces of research on Wikipedia that I've seen published. Using genre analysis techniques, they find that a sample of Wikipedia articles are (read: were at the time of the study) quite uniform and, statistically speaking, stylistically indistinguishable from a print encyclopedia. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/wiki.pdf -andrea

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Fwd: FW: Wikipedia and Brittannica comparison
by Jeremy Dunck 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremy Dunck <jdunck(a)gmail.com> Date: Dec 15, 2005 8:33 AM Subject: Fwd: FW: Wikipedia and Brittannica comparison To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org>, Web4Lib <web4lib(a)webjunction.org> I received this response to my inquiry for more details about the Wikipedia study. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jones, Nicola <N.Jones(a)nature.com> Date: Dec 15, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: FW: Wikipedia and Brittannica comparison To: "jdunck(a)gmail.com" <jdunck(a)gmail.com> Hello. We have received many requests for this information and are currently working to put it into a publishable format. It will be posted somewhere on our website as soon as possible. Please check back next week. Sincerely, Nicola Jones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicola Jones BSc, MJ Online news editor news(a)nature.com www.nature.com/news 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, UK telephone: +44 (0) 20 7843 4952 mobile: 07733 408 853 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Dunck [mailto:jdunck@gmail.com] Sent: 14 December 2005 20:58 To: news(a)nature.com Subject: Wikipedia and Brittannica comparison I've just read the article here: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html Will you be publishing more detail on the results? There is a horde of researchers interested in these findings.

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Security, e-portfolio, availability and language training in an Open education environment
by Gerard Meijssen 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

When building software that is to give language education, the issues associated with the training material itself is only one aspect of bringing it to a public. You have to have the material in order for the secondary issues to become relevant. This article is about some of the parts that are infrastructural to the delivery of language training as developed by the University of Bamberg and reflects discussions and thinking that grew over time. When we discussed about how to do provide access to the training material, we discussed several scenario's; individual people using the material, schools using the material as exercise material and even having a full language course in "Wikiversity". The consequence of all this is that people from many organisations will have a need to gain access to the educational process data that is needed. To me it is obvious that this is certainly as complicated as the development of the language training software itself, it is equally obvious that it is best to link into existing programs. When these programs are part of an international effort to make educational resources available on the Internet we are onto a winner. There are several components that are required. Security for access. Security for the educational process data. Availability to the data and the software. And it is at least as important that the software can be found by the educators and by students. The last few days I have been looking into this and I found that there are many projects that are Open/Free and that can fit the requirements that exist. In this it was quite fortunate that I was at the I&I conference in the Netherlands where I learned many of the necessary buzz words. For authentication the a-select project is really great. It allows for the federation of trust and it does it in such a way that even commercial banks cooperate in this project. Storing the educational process data is operational information that may fit in an e-portfolio, this in turn is part of the IMS framework. For finding the existence of the material, there is good old advertising but having standards like IEEE LOM on our side makes abundant sense. In a way it may be premature to consider all this for the language training. But given the amount of time that it will take to implement all this I am afraid it is not really. The point that is driven home by making use of these standards is that indeed we care about the sustainability of the effort that is put into the development of the language learning software. As the Wikimedia Foundation is at this time considering the implementation of single login for within its resources, it is an opportune moment to see if the WMF can be persuaded to look into the a-select authorisation system. Because of its ability to federate security, it has the necessary hooks to give teachers access to their students and not more than that. I spoke with Brion, the main developer of the Mediawiki software and he can be persuaded to look into this. I will need assistance to make a good pitch to him. It must be clear that by implementing A-select within the WMF environment we are talking about serious scalability; 80.000 people doing 10 or more edits a month is just a tip of an iceberg. The iceberg is Alexa.com <http://Alexa.com> stating that we are the 36^th website of the world with all that it implies.. The operational education data is part of a students "portfolio", what I have not understood yet is if the level where we need this data is to low level but when skills are acquired it does make sense when it finds its way into a students portfolio. The current approaches to portfolios are not going to the detailed level of the individual training modules. This is however relevant as it has its impact on the amount of time / training necessary to acquire a skill. By having the data and software on WMF servers, I expect we will host it with an organisation that is neutral to many organisations and is there for the long haul. We can create the greatest software, have it in the greatest infrastructure but people will still have to find it. IEEE LOM is a standard that is really there for finding educational material. At the I&I conference I learned how much the Dutch education is getting into this. Edustandaard is a Dutch implementation of the IEEE LOM standard. Many companies that supply schools with software are interested in having Mediawiki support IEEE LOM natively. Certainly when there is cooperation to make this work this will become a reality. Resources: http://entree.kennisnet.nl/ http://www.a-select.org/ http://e-portfolio.kennisnet.nl/ http://www.imsglobal.org/ep/index.html http://trefpunttalen.kennisnet.nl/ http://contentketen.kennisnet.nl/programma/edustandaard http://www.edustandaard.nl/ http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/ Thanks, GerardM

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URGENT: Call of Paper KnowRight 2006 DEADLINE 15.11.05
by Patrick Danowski 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Hallo alltogehter, found this Call of Paper and thought it will be kewl if someone can present the view of the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline for submissions is the 15.11.05 but when you signal interest it can be extendet. Contact: Erich Schweighofer,U.Vienna&WZRI, A Erich.Schweighofer(a)univie.ac.at I have absolutly no time in moment to do it myself. Please write me a short massage if you will do it ;-) PatrickD ----------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Contributions KnowRight 2006 Knowledge Rights – Legal, Societal and Related Technological Aspects http://KnowRight06.ocg.at University of Vienna (Juridicum - Law Faculty Building) 16 - 17 February 2006 Organized by: Austrian Computer Society (OCG) jointly with IRIS (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium) http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2006/ CONFERENCE OUTLINE This conference will resume the general interest of the KnowRight Conferences, held since 1995, on the interaction of Intellectual Property Rights, related Information Rights, Ethical Problems, and Information Dependent Technology. It will be supported by the Austrian Computer Society and will be held in tandem with the IRIS conference (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion). It will provide strong emphasis on the social environment in which the intellectual and information property system, information services, mobile applications, e-commerce and the electronic civil society evolve. The concept of an ”Information Society” or "Knowledge Society" is neither well defined nor are its foundations and implications well understood. Governments and authorities in many countries and regions (e.g. the EU) are still discussing options to establish and regulate at least special aspects of an Information Society. Increasingly it becomes harder to master future technologies with traditional laws based on national or regional methods and concepts. We have to develop new forms of international legal regimes and practices. They should empower coordinated means to avoid abuse of such new technologies.. Fairness should be preserved in the emerging non-local availability of up to now local resources. Open Source and Open Content are investigated as examples of dynamic innovations of legal concepts. The conference will discuss which requirements - such as safety and security of related methods and media - must be fulfilled and how these requirements may be enforced. Which regulations and preventive measures should be promoted in the light of conflicting interests. Regulating the flow of information must guarantee that clashes between individual rights (e.g. of intellectual/ industrial property, privacy and data protection) and collective demands (e.g. for security, universal access as well as preserving and expanding the heritage of mankind) are treated and resolved in human ways. Information in the public domain on the wired or unwired communication channels should deserve special attention. Commercial interests should be balanced with moral and civic obligations. MAJOR CONFERENCE TOPICS Intellectual Property • Status of IP law for e-products and e-services • Bundle of WIPO Treaties: To be enlarged? • TRIPS: Efficient against large scale IP infringements? • Competition and regulation in the music and video industry • Media and entertainment law - responsibility and liability of IPproviders • Rules for mobile applications • Private use and fair use of intellectual property • Rights management systems • Open source and open content • Open access: Copyright restrictions for science and research • Copyright and copyleft • Global trademarks • Software patents Access to and Reuse of Public Sector and Private Information • Freedom of information and data protection • Access to public documents • Legal framework of public sector information reuse • Socioeconomic conditions of PSI reuse • Extent of and limitations on database protection in Europe • Long term archiving of public and private information Network Security • Technological proposals and implementations • Embedding regulation into hard- and software • Regulations and their development • Privacy and identification - electronic identities • Authentification, authorisation and remuneration • Electronic signatures • Fraud on the internet: Tech-tools and legal framework • Online policing Data protection • Pervasive computing • Automatic “forgetting” of database • Retention of data • Legal means against violation of data protection Information Ethics • Information in the public domain - balancing commercial interests with moral and civic obligations • Fair use concept at the global level: equitable use of global and local knowledge • Access to personal data: protecting citizens' and users’ security and privacy versus public interest • Equity in the access to information (tariffs, fees, taxes) • Special regulation for developing countries? • Free speech and censorship • Minors access to violence and adult content • Age verification and privacy • Responsibility of internet professionals Don't feel restricted if your innovative topic fits the general purpose of the conference but none of the special items on the list. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (co-chairs bold) John Bing, Univ. of Oslo, NO, - jonb(a)jus.uio.no (Jon Bing) Walter Blocher, Vienna U Busin Adm, AT walter.blocher(a)wu-wien.ac.at Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris II, FR - bourcier(a)msh-paris.fr Alfred Büllesbach, Bremen,DE Alfred.Buellesbach(a)daimlerchrysler.com Gunter Ertl, Regional Court of Appeal, AT - g.ertl(a)kabsi.at Fernando Galindo, Univ. of Zaragoza, ES, cfa(a)posta.unizar.es Jens Gaster, European Commission, EU - Jens.Gaster(a)cec.eu.int Thomas Hoeren, U.of Münster, DE, - Hoeren(a)uni-muenster.de Bernt Hugenholtz, Univ. of Amsterdam, NL, hugenholtz(a)ivir.nl Dietmar Jahnel, University of Salzburg, AT - Dietmar.Jahnel(a)sbg.ac.at Veith Risak, Univ.of Salzburg & Bratislava AT,CZ - risak(a)ocg.or.at Ahti Saarenpaa, Univ. Helsinki FI, Ahti.Saarenpaa(a)ulapland.fi Peter P Sint, Austrian Academy of Science, A - sint(a)oeaw.ac.at (Coordinator) A Min Tjoa, Univ. of Vienna, AT, tjoa(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at Erich Schweighofer,U.Vienna&WZRI, A Erich.Schweighofer(a)univie.ac.at David Vaver, Univ.of Oxford, UK - david.vaver(a)st-peters.oxford.ac.uk Peter Wahlgren, Univ. Stockholm, SE, Peter.Wahlgren(a)juridicum.su.se Andreas Wiebe,Vienna U.Busin Adm.AT andreas.wiebe(a)wu-wien.ac.at SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS Papers should be of high quality, original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. Authors of papers are asked to submit an abstract or a full text version (strongly recommended) of the respective contribution (abstract: 2-4 pages including main references, full text: 8 to 10 pages). The guidelines for the final version are available at http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/paper.html. Submissions of contributions to the conference be handed in as printout and in electronic form to Austrian Computer Society Wollzeile 1-3 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe DEADLINES • Submission of full papers or abstracts: 15 November 2005 • Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2005 • Final paper: 20 December 2006 (some extensions may be negotiated) Due to the tight timetable and the target to have the published proceedings available during the conference try to send the papers by the beginning of November. CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will take place in the University of Vienna (Juridicum - Law Faculty building) in the city centre. CONFERENCE LANGUAGE The conference language willl be English. PARTICIPATION If you are interested in participation or to keep informed on the further development contact the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) KnowRight 2006 Wollzeile 1-3 A-1010 Vienna E-Mail: KR06(a)ocg.at Phone: +43 1 512 02 35, Fax: +43 1 512 02 35 9 or visit the conference webpages: http://KnowRight06.ocg.at (or http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2006/ ) REGISTRATION AND PROCEEDINGS Authors should have registered by 10 Jan. 2006. Participation including conference proceedings and social event: EUR 70,-- The proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society and will appear in the books@ocg series.

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Reserach Portal for Meta
by Patrick Danowski 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello alltogehter, we all know we have a problem on meta. We have there a lot of information but it's hard to find tham, if you don't know exactly what you are looking for. Exspecialy in the research / new idea area it's hard to find the new things, new projects and so on. The question is how we can solve that. I think one possible answer is to build a Reserach Portal on Meta like theme portals in the wikipedia. What do you think? And the more importend question who will help with that? I'm not the best portal builder :-) Patrick (PatrickD)

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Missed the Wiki Symposium (WikiSym 2005)?
by Dirk Riehle 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Interested in wiki research and practice? If you want to learn more, please check out the conference proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis, the first of its kind, at: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2005/proceedings . If you missed the conference, you can still read up on the talks of the likes of Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, at http://ws2005.wikisym.org . The whole symposium has been documented on a wiki, so you can learn about the results of workshops and BoFs, and how the talks, panels, etc. went! Wikis are are a new breed of (web-based) content management system, primarily used to support collaborative work. (But not just that; the fundamental flexibility of wikis has found its applications in software development, workflow management, knowledge management, education, and more.) If you are curious now, we would like to invite you to join the wikisym-announce mailing list at www.wikisym.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wikisym-announce . The list is moderated and will be the primary place to announce WikiSym 2006, the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis, to be held in the 2nd half of 2006. WikiSym 2005 is an archival, peer-reviewed conference, sponsored by the ACM. For the WikiSym 2005 committee, Dirk Riehle Chair, WikiSym 2005 Interested in wikis? Please go to http://www.wikisym.org! Take a Geek's Tour of Silicon Valley! http://www.ageekstour.com Dirk Riehle | +49 172 184 8755 | http://www.riehle.org

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Wikipedia mining for Q&A research
by Jochen Leidner 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Liebe Wikipedia Community, For those of you who are interested in artificial intelligence and who speak some German, under http://www.lsv.uni-saarland.de/answergatherer/ we have developed a Web experiment based on (German) Wikipedia for the purpose of data gathering to improve the state-of-the-art in automatic question answering. The basic idea is to gather question-answer pairs - relying on the Wikipedia volunteer community - and then to use techniques of machine learning to build better Q&A systems. If you happen to know any German speakers who might want to contribute, please point them to the above URL (people can win book vouchers). We are considering launching a similar experiment for English. Regards, Jochen Leidner -- Jochen Leidner <jochen.leidner(a)lsv.uni-saarland.de> Research Associate Chair for Speech Signal Processing Building C 7 1, office 0.17 University of the Saarland at Saarbrücken

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