[okfn-discuss] [CfP] 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2014)

Thu Jan 16 21:14:37 UTC 2014

  Call for Papers: 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2014)
     Co-located with 23nd International World Wide Web Conference
                  8 April 2014, Seoul, South Korea
               http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2014/

Linked Data is a set of best practices for publishing structured data on
the Web which focuses on identifying data items with URIs and setting
hyperlinks between data items provided by different web servers. These
hyperlinks connect the data from all servers into a global data graph -
the Web of Linked Data.

The 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2014) aims to stimulate
discussion and further research into the challenges of publishing,
integrating and consuming Linked Data as well as to evaluating and
mining knowledge from the global Web of Linked Data. The challenges
associated with Linked Data management range from lower level technical
issues over large-scale data processing, quality assessment and mining,
to higher level conceptual questions of value propositions and business
models. LDOW2014 will provide a forum for exposing novel, high quality
research and applications in all of these areas. By bringing together
researchers in the field, the workshop will further shape the ongoing
Linked Data research agenda.

*Important Dates*

* Submission deadline: 16 February, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2014
* Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 16 March, 2014
* Workshop date: 8 April, 2014

*Topics of Interest*

Mining the Web of Linked Data
* large-scale derivation of implicit knowledge from Linked Data
* using the Web of Linked Data as background knowledge in data mining

Integrating Large Numbers of Linked Data Sources
* linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution
* schema matching and clustering
* data fusion
* evaluation of linking, schema matching and data fusion methods

Quality Evaluation, Provenance Tracking and Licensing
* evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data
* profiling and change tracking of Linked Data sources
* tracking provenance and usage of Linked Data
* licensing issues in Linked Data publishing

Linked Data Publishing, Authoring and Consumption
* mapping and publication of various data sources as Linked Data
* authoring and curation of Linked Data
* Linked Data consumption interfaces and interaction paradigms
* visualization and exploration of Linked Data

Linked Data Applications and Business Models
* application showcases including browsers and search engines
* marketplaces, aggregators and indexes for Linked Data
* business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption
* Linked Data as data integration technology within corporate contexts
* Applications in life-sciences, digital humanities, social sciences...

*Submissions*

We seek two kinds of submissions:
  1. Full scientific papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format
  2. Short scientific and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format
Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG template available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Accepted
papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the CEUR
workshop proceedings. At least one author of each paper has to register
for the workshop and to present the paper. Please submit papers via
EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2014

Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee and Sören Auer

LDOW2014 Workshop chairs