Workshop on
Scripting for the Semantic Web
Colocated with ESWC 2005
May 30, 2005
Heraklion, Greece
Please have a look at pictures from the workshop!
Objectives
Large parts of the current Web rely on scripting languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, ASP, JSP, ActionScript, Ruby and ColdFusion. These languages are the tools of a generation of web programmers who use them to quickly create server-side and client-side web applications. Support for scripting languages is widely deployed within the current web infrastructure: PHP for example is installed on 16 million domains. It is therefore likely that scripting languages will also play a crucial role in the Semantic Web gaining critical mass.
Scripting languages are lightweight and easy to learn, but on the other hand mature enough to be used within complex applications, as the Mozilla, Zope and CWM projects show. Many deployed Semantic Web applications, for example in the FOAF and RSS communities, are already using these languages and it is likely that the process of RDF-izing existing database-backed websites, wikis, weblogs and CMS will largely rely on scripting languages.
The workshop aims to bring together for the first time developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages. The goal of the workshop is to give an overview of the current support for Semantic Web technologies within scripting languages, to showcase innovative Semantic Web applications relying on these languages.
Program
Session 1: RDF Base Infrastructure for Scripting Languages
Chair: Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
| Time | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Opening remarks | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Christian Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin) | Introduction: Overview about the current support for Semantic Web technologies in different scripting languages. |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Libby Miller (@Semantics) | The Gargonza Project |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Radoslaw Oldakowski, Christian Bizer, Daniel Westphal (Freie Universität Berlin) | RAP: RDF API for PHP |
| (talk cancelled) | Benjamin Nowack (appmosphere web applications) | ARC: appmosphere RDF Classes for PHP Developers |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Sebastian Dietzold (University of Leipzig) | Generating RDF Models from LDAP Directories |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Denny Vrandecic (University of Karlsruhe) | Deep Integration of Scripting Languages and SemanticWeb Technologies |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Session 2: Applications
Chair: Libby Miller (@Semantics)
| Time | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Sören Auer (University of Leipzig) | Introduction: Semantic Scripting Application Domains |
| (talk cancelled) | Gregory Todd Williams | MT-Redland: An RDF Storage Backend for Movable Type |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Oscar Celma, Miquel Ramirez, Perfecto Herrera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | Getting music recommendations and filtering newsfeeds from FOAF descriptions |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Michele Barbera (Net7 – Internet Open Solutions), Francesca Di Donato (Dipartimento di scienze della politica), Giovanni Tummarello (Università Politecnica delle Marche, CNR – ISTI), Christian Morbidoni Università Politecnica delle Marche, CNR – ISTI) |
HyperJournal, PHP scripting and Semantic Web technologies for the Open Access |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Hannes Gassert (Universite de Fribourg) and Andreas Harth (Digital Enterprise Research Institute) |
From Graph to GUI: Displaying RDF Data from the Web with Arago |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sören Auer (University of Leipzig) | pOWL – A Web Based Platform for Collaborative Semantic Web Development |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Bart Pieterse (Evangelic Church of Bavaria) | Use Case: Linked Church |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Tom Heath (Open University) | Use Case: A Minimal Effort Distributed Library for KMi |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Discussion and Summary |
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Infrastructure
- Semantic Web frameworks and APIs for scripting languages
- RDF parsers and serializers for scripting languages
- RDF repositories and query languages implemented using scripting languages
- Semantic Web Service frameworks for scripting languages
- Reasoning engines implemented using scripting languages
- Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks
Applications
- Semantic Web applications using scripting languages
- Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications
- Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications using RDF
- RDF/OWL editors and authoring environments
- Semantic Web Mining and Social Network Analysis
- Scripting applications using FOAF, RSS, ATOM, DOAP, LOM, Dublin Core
- Tools and Methodologies for the Semantic Annotation of Web Data
Conceptual
- Rapid development techniques for the Semantic Web
- Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web development
- Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications
Submissions
We seek two kinds of papers: full papers that and short papers. Full papers not exceed ten pages in length. Short papers are expected to be four to six pages. Both full papers and short papers will be presendted at the workshop and included into the workshop proceedings. Papers from both categories will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop management system by April 15, 2005. Papers must be formatted according to Springer LNCS. Please see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline:
- March 30, 2005
- Notication of acceptance:
- April 28, 2005
- Camera-ready paper submission:
- May 5, 2005
- Workshop date:
- May 30, 2005
Organizing Committee
- Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Libby Miller, @Semantics, Italy
- Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Program Committee
- Danny Ayers, Independent Author, Italy
- Dave Beckett, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- Matt Biddulph, BBC, United Kingdom
- Dan Brickley, W3C, United Kingdom
- Stefan Decker, DERI, Ireland
- Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly, United Kingdom
- Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, United Kingdom
- Klaus-Peter Fähnrich, Universität Leipzig, Germany
- Axel Hecht, Mozilla Europe, Germany
- Ben Forta, Macromedia, United States
- Morten Frederiksen, MFD Consult, Denmark
- Andi Gutmans, Zend, Israel
- Chris Goad, Map Bureau, United States
- Gunnar AA. Grimnes, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Heinrich Herre, Universität Leipzig, Germany
- Masahide Kanzaki, Keio University, Japan
- Daniel Krech, University of Maryland, United States
- Jim Ley, Independent Developer, United Kingdom
- Benjamin Nowack, Independent Developer, Germany
- Uche Ogbuji, Fourthought, United States
- Sean Palmer, Independent Developer, United Kingdom
- Alberto Reggiori, @Semantics, Italy
- Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Andy Seaborne, Hewlett-Packard, United Kingdom
- Adam Souzis, Kinecta, United States
- Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Anette Weisbecker, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - IAO, Germany
For further information, please send email to sfsw@semanticscripting.org