SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/MadridBOF

BOF on a Research Agenda For Linked Data

Location: Room L1 at WWW 2009 in Madrid

Attendees

• MichaelHausenblas
• Chris Bizer
• Juan Sequeda
• OlafHartig
• SoerenAuer
• Patrick Sinclair
• TonyAbouAssaleh
• ManuelCarrasco
• JunZhao
• TimBL
• OrriErling
• YrjanaRankka
• OshaniSeneviratne
• Patrick
• Alan
• JoachimNeubert
• Gio
• Tom Heath
• MartinGaedke
• Julius Volz
• JoshuaShinavier
• ThomasTikwinski
• RalfHeese
• AlexOConnor
• Séamus Lawless
• Vincent Wade
• ChristopherGutteridge
• OktieH
• PLEASE ADD YOURSELF IF YOU WERE THERE BUT NOT LISTED

Sessions

SESSION 1: we brainstorm in the plenary and the split into two subgroups addressing TOP10 and community issues

SESSION 2: from 4:30-5:30 in the two groups, then plenary presentation

NEXT STEPS (?)

• reporting on public-lod?
• gathering feedback from the larger LOD community
• maybe move the consolidated TOP10 list to linkeddata.org (freeze it for now)

1. Brainstorming

1.1 Topics

• Privacy (addressing the problem of increasing data availability about persons)
• Multilingual datasets
• Synchronizing Datasets and Links
• Creating and maintaining links
• Evaluation, metrics, benchmarks
• Trust (measures, data provenance)
• tools to generate linked data, computer aided, default mapping, then refine
• schema-level mappings
• long-term goal: fusion
• design methodology for creating linked data
• licensing/IPR issues (legal and social implications)
• exploring vocabulary creation and usage
• linking-aware data management
• user interface/interaction and usability
• visualising linked data
• Internet of Things (devices, sensors)
• Ways to search for URIs (not only keyword based), for example for Thesauri
• Multimedia (fragments), addressing and describing parts of media items
• using NLP for extracting links
• using natural language interfaces
• social impact
• economic values and impact
• community/Web-based schema creation and maintaince
• history, logs, change sets, temporal tracking

1.2 Communities

• database community (dataspaces, distributed databases)
• Web engineering (focusing on applications)
• natural language technology
• multimedia/hypermedia (annotation, )
• CC, legal informatics school
• HCI
• REST
• application/domain-specific (business, bio, medicine, geo-info)
• Web application developers
• ontology
• knowledge management / KR
• machine learning
• information retrieval

Expected Outcomes

• from 1.1 a TOP10 list of research issues, see TOP10 list
• from 1.2 a liaisons/community cooperation list, see communities sub page