The 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2009)

Workshop at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)

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Overview

The 2nd Social Data on the Web workshop (main page) co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.

Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web. It opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks and features are needed from data modelling and lightweight ontologies, to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to interlink data between Social Media websites, levering proprietary data silos to a Giant Global Graph.

Following the successful SDoW 2008 workshop at ISWC2008, SDoW 2009 aims to bring together Semantic Web experts and Web 2.0 practitioners and users to discuss the application of semantic technologies to data from the Social Web.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies
Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services
Data Portability and Social Network Portability
Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web
Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and other approaches
Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social media sites
Mining and analysis of Social Data
Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies for social media sites
Querying and mining social semantic data
Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios
Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications
Reasoning for Social Web applications
Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks
Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation
Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Jul 24, 2009 (23:59 pm Hawaii time, GMT-10)
Notification of acceptance: Aug 30, 2009
Camera-ready paper submission: Oct 02, 2009
Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 09, 2009
Workshop: Oct 25, 2009

Workshop Chairs

John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain