2nd Workshop on
Scripting for the Semantic Web

Don't miss the Workshop presentations, to see the Scripting Challenge submissions live and the nomination of the winner on June 12 in Budva! For those unable to attend: Workshop proceedings are online at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-181.

Objectives

Scripting languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, ASP, JSP and ActionScript are playing a central role in current development towards flexible, lightweight web applications following the AJAX and REST design paradigms. These languages are the tools of a generation of web programmers who use them to quickly create server and client-side web applications. Scripting languages are lightweight and easy to learn, but on the other hand mature enough to be used within complex applications. Many deployed Semantic Web applications from the wiki, blog, FOAF and RSS communities, as well as many innovative mashups from the Web 2.0 and Open Data movements are using scripting languages and it is likely that the process of RDF-izing existing database-backed websites, wikis, blogs and content management systems will largely rely on scripting languages.

The workshop aims to bring together developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages. Last year's workshop in Hersonissos/Crete focused on giving an overview about the support for Semantic Web technologies within scripting languages. The special focus of this year's workshop is to showcase innovative Semantic Web applications relying on script languages and to give an overview about currently emerging Web 2.0 mashups and their interrelations with the Semantic Web.

The workshop includes a scripting challenge which will award an Apple iPod Nano (or alternatively € 200 cash) as a price to the most innovative scripting application. The price is kindly sponsored by @semantics.

Program

Session 1: RDF Base Infrastructure for Scripting Languages
Chair: Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin

Time	Author	Title
9:00 - 9:10		Opening remarks
9:10 - 9:30	Christian Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin)	Introduction: Update on Semantic Web Toolkits for Scripting Languages.
9:30 - 9:50	Marian Babik, Ladislav Hluchy (Slovak Academy of Sciences)	Deep Integration of Python with Web Ontology Language
9:50 - 10:10	Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru (DERI Galway)	ActiveRDF: object-oriented RDF in Ruby
10:10 - 10:30	Sebastian Dietzold, Sören Auer (Universität Leipzig)	Access Control on RDF Triple Stores from a Semantik Wiki Perspective
10:30 - 10:45	Break

Session 2: Applications
Chair: Libby Miller, @Semantics

Time	Author	Title
10:45 - 11:05	Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, Sven Schwarz, Leo Sauermann (DFKI Kaiserslautern)	RDFHomepage or “Finally, a use for your FOAF file”
11:05 - 11:25	Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Michele Nucci, Onofrio Panzarino (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona)	Brainlets: "instant" Semantic Web applications
11:05 - 11:45	Milorad Tošić, Valentina Milićević (University of Niš)	The Semantics of Collaborative Tagging System

Session 3: Semantic Scripting Challenge
Chair: Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig

Time	Author	Title
11:45 - 12:30	Alexandre Passant	FOAFMap: Web 2.0 meets the Semantic Web Demo: http://foafmap.net/
	Jie Yang, Mitsuru Ishizuka	Lego-Note: To Generate Semantic Web Content by Graphic Tagging Demo: http://dom-sensus.sourceforge.net/htm/updateOn-2006-3-13.htm
	Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes	RDFRoom - In an Angular Place Demo: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~grimnes/2006/03/RDFRoom
	Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, Sven Schwarz, Leo Sauermann	RDFHomepage Demo: http://rdfhomepage.opendfki.de/
	Vlad Tanasescu, John Domingue	A Semantic Google Maps Based Emergency Management Graphical User Interface Demo: http://irs-test.open.ac.uk/sgis-dev/
	Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru	Faceted browsing of RDF data Demo: http://faceteer.m3pe.org/

 

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
• Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications using RDF
• Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications
• 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
  

Scripting Challenge

• The workshop includes a scripting challenge which will award a price to the most innovative small scripting application or mashup. The application must be implemented using a scripting language and Semantic Web technologies. It should access, visualize or combine information from different sources in new unforeseen ways. Authors of Scripting Challenge submissions are not required to attend the workshop personally. Please refer to Sören Auer for further information about the Scripting Challenge.

Submissions

We seek three kinds of submissions:

• Full papers - should not exceed ten pages in length.
• Short papers - are expected up to 5 pages.
• Scripting Challenge Submissions - 2 page description of the application, ideally accompanied with the source code and a link to an online demo.

Full papers, short papers and will be presented at the workshop and included into the workshop proceedings. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers.
Scripting challenge submissions may be presented at the workshop by their authors. The descriptions of the submissions will be included into the workshop proceedings.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the workshop management system by March 30, 2006. Papers must be formatted according to Springer LNCS. Please see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details. Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS, ISSN 1613-0073.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:

March 30, 2006

Notication of acceptance:

April 28, 2006

Camera-ready paper submission:

May 12, 2006

Workshop date:

June 12, 2006

Workshop Chairs

• Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Libby Miller, @Semantics, Italy
• Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Program Committee

• Danny Ayers, Independent Author, Italy
• Dave Beckett, Yahoo!, USA
• Matt Biddulph, Independent developer, UK
• Dan Brickley, Semantic Web Vapourware, UK
• Stefan Decker, DERI, Ireland
• Edd Dumbill, Useful Information Company, United Kingdom
• Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, United Kingdom
• Klaus-Peter Fähnrich, Universität Leipzig, Germany
• Morten Frederiksen, MFD Consult, Denmark
• Chris Goad, Map Bureau, United States
• Gunnar AA. Grimnes, DFKI, Germany
• Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Frauenhofer Gesellschaft - ISST, Germany
• Daniel Krech, University of Maryland, United States
• Jim Ley, Independent Developer, United Kingdom
• Lutz Maicher, Universität Leipzig, Germany
• Benjamin Nowack, appmosphere web applications, Germany
• Sean Palmer, Independent Developer, United Kingdom
• Alberto Reggiori, @Semantics, Italy
• Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Giovanni Tummarello, Universita' Politenica delle Marche, Italy

For further information, please send email to sfsw@semanticscripting.org

Information about last year's scripting workshop is still available at 1st Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web!