6th Workshop on Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web

Posted on May 31, 2010 5:10 pm by admin

Colocated with ESWC 2010
30th or 31st May, 2010
Crete, Greece

News

  • SFSW2010 is over, you can find impressions from the workshop here.
  • Alexandre Passant and Pablo Mendes were winning this years Scripting Challenge with their submissionsparqlPuSH: Proactive notification of data updates in RDF stores using PubSubHubbub.
  • List of accepted papers and programme are online.
  • Easychair Submission site is open!
  • Talis has very kindly sponsored the challenge with €300 for the best entry!
  • This Workshop webpage is up!
  • This year ESWC is trying new forms of co-located events, and offered us the oppertunity to be a Challenge-focussed event, instead of just a workshop. Since, we traditionally have a Scripting Challenge anyway, and the focus of the workshop has always been on hands-on working code, this seemed like a good idea. Enjoy your new Scripting for the Semantic Web Challenge 2010! The practical effect of this is that the workshop papers and challenge papers are now combined, and we require demos of all submissions!

 

Programme

SFSW2010 is a half-day workshop in the morning of 31st of May

  •  9:00 –  9:30 — Osma Suominen and Eero Hyvönen. Expressing and Aggregating Rich Event Descriptions
  •  9:30 – 10:00 — Thomas Bandholtz, Till Schulte-Coerne, Robert Glaser, Joachim Fock and Tim Keller. iQvoc – Open Source SKOS(XL) Maintenance and Publishing Tool
  • 10:00 – 10:30 —Maria Maleshkova, Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue. Semantic Annotation of Web APIs with SWEET
  • 10:30 – 11:00 — Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 11:30 — Ralf Heese, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Adrian Paschke, Radoslaw Oldakowski and Olga Streibel. One Click Annotation
  • 11:30 – 12:00 — Claus Stadler, Michael Martin, Jens Lehmann and Sebastian Hellmann. Update Strategies for DBpedia Live
  • 12:00 – 12:30 — Alexandre Passant and Pablo Mendes. sparqlPuSH: Proactive notification of data updates in RDF stores using PubSubHubbub
  • 12:30 – 13:00 — Announcing the winner of the challenge and distributing prizes

 

Accepted Papers

  • Osma Suominen and Eero Hyvönen. Expressing and Aggregating Rich Event Descriptions
  • Thomas Bandholtz, Till Schulte-Coerne, Robert Glaser, Joachim Fock and Tim Keller. iQvoc – Open Source SKOS(XL) Maintenance and Publishing Tool
  • Maria Maleshkova, Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue. Semantic Annotation of Web APIs with SWEET
  • Ralf Heese, Markus Luczak-Rösch, Adrian Paschke, Radoslaw Oldakowski and Olga Streibel. One Click Annotation
  • Claus Stadler, Michael Martin, Jens Lehmann and Sebastian Hellmann. Update Strategies for DBpedia Live
  • Alexandre Passant and Pablo Mendes. sparqlPuSH: Proactive notification of data updates in RDF stores using PubSubHubbub

 

Objectives

On the current Semantic Web there is an ever increasing need for lightweight, flexible solutions for doing publishing, presentation, transformation, integration and general manipulation of data for supporting and making use the many deployed open linked datasets and publicly available semantic applications. Communication and architectural standards such as AJAX, REST, JSON already cater to this need of flexible, lightweight solutions, and they are well supported by scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, Closure, JSP and ActionScript.

This workshop is concerned with the show-casing tools, experiences and technologies for the development of such lightweight tools, especially focusing on the use of scripting languages.

This Workshop is the 6th Scripting Workshop organized at ESWC, usually we had a separate Scripting Challenge, this year the two are merged into one track.

We invite submissions touching on any of the below topics. Each entry should consist of a paper, and every entry must include a downloadable or online demo. ! Each entry will be judged by several people from a Programme Committee, as well as the Workshop Chairs. The best 5 entries will be invited to present and demo their systems at the half-day event at ESWC. For the best entry a prize will be awarded

 

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure

  • Lightweight Semantic Web frameworks and APIs
  • Lightweight implementations of RDF repositories, query languages, and reasoning engines
  • Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks
  • Approaches to crawling Web data and querying distributed data on the Web

Applications

  • Lightweight and flexible Semantic Web applications
  • Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications, such as RDFa, microformats, or GRDDL
  • Mashups that provide RDF views on Web 2.0 data sources such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, or eBay
  • Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications using RDF
  • RDF/OWL editors and authoring environments
  • Scripting applications for visualizing Web data
  • Semantic Web Mining and Social Network Analysis
  • Mashups that demonstrate the novel capabilities of Semantic Web technologies

Conceptual

  • Rapid development techniques for the Semantic Web
  • Rapid migration of web-applications to the Semantic Web
  • Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web development
  • Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications

 

Last Year’s Winners

For inspiration please have a look at the winners of the Scripting Challenge 2009:

  • First place - Olaf Hartig, Hannes Möuhleisen, Johann-Christoph Freytag - Linked Data for Building a Map of Researchers
  • Second Place - Gregoire Burel, Amparo E. Cano, Vitaveska Lanfranchi - Ozone Browser: Augmenting the Web with Semantic Overlays
  • Third Place - Domenico Gendarmi, Filippo Lanubile - Colibrary: Linking Communities of Readers on the Social Semantic Web

 

Prize!

logoTalis has kindly sponsored this years Scripting Challenge, and we will award a cash-prize of €300 to the winning entry!

 

 

Important Dates

Submissions must include a paper of up to 12 pages, formatted in the LNCS style. The paper must include details on what makes the contribution novel and interesting as well as instructions for accessing the demo. The demo must be available from the submission deadline at least until the acceptance notification, however, we would encourage participants to leave their demo up till the event is over. Demos can be downloadable or online, they do not need to be public, but access details must be included in the paper.

Submit papers through Easychair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/overview.cgi?a=a0167720609f

Submission deadline:
31st March, 2010. 23:55 Hawaii-time (UTC-10)
Notication of acceptance:
1st May, 2010
Workshop Data:
Some time 30th or 31st May, 2010 (TBD!)
Workshop Chairs
  • Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany
  • Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Gregory Todd Williams,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Programme Committee

  • Dan Brickley, The FOAF Project, UK
  • Danny Ayers, Talis, UK
  • David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
  • Benjamin Nowack, semsol, Germany
  • Claudia Müller, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, United Kingdom
  • Libby Miller, BBC, United Kingdom
  • Masahide Kanzaki, Keio University, Japan
  • Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
  • Santtu Toivonen, Idean Enterprises, Finland
  • Sebastian Tramp, AKSW, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Stefan Dietze, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Tom Heath, Talis, UK
  • Vlad Tanasescu, KMi, The Open University, UK