[open-bibliography] SWIB11 Call for Participation (Semantic Web in Libraries, 28.-30.11. in Hamburg

Fri May 20 11:25:57 UTC 2011

After the success of the "Semantic Web in Libraries" (SWIB) events in 2009 and 2010, the SWIB11 will take place in Hamburg from 28 to 30 November 2011. The conference will again be organised by the NorthRhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), Cologne, and the German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre forEconomics (ZBW), Kiel and Hamburg.

A rising number of actors in librarianship and its related fields areexperimenting with Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data (LOD). The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010, whereas the amount of data relevant for libraries grew by nearly 1000%. The W3C has created a "Linked Library Data" group to observe this development, whose first report is due to be published in August. The "Semantic Web Special Interest Group" established by IFLA shows that this topic has shown up on their radar as well. At the same time, the principles and workflows of traditional scientific communication and publication are under scrutiny with a view to a consistently web-based data and service infrastructure comprising the entire research and publication process. Concepts like "nano-publications", "Semantic Publishing", "Open Data", "Enhanced Publications" or "Research Objects" mark the re-orientation of academic work, away from monolithic, comparatively unflexible and barely interlinked reference points towards a distributed, comparatively granular data infrastructure which is continuously accessible to researchers and into which their contributions recognizably return.

These are the questions and topics which we would like to discuss with you at the conference:

* How do I find my way around the LOD cloud and how do I achieve maximum visibility for my assets?
* How do we produce useful links to and between newly published datasets?
* Where do we find best practice examples for LOD-based applications which show the added value created by linking assets, in particulardomain-overlapping assets?
* What are the trends in scholarly communication? What are the consequences of the transformation of traditional research and publication processes for libraries and what are the opportunities Linked Open Data can offer here?
* Library Authority Files and their potential as LOD for library applications or research information systems
* What could or should a future Linked Open Data infrastructure look like? Are there trends to adapt library applications or research environments to the Semantic Web and to support their users in RDF
  publishing?
* Open licences as a prerequisite for LOD-based infrastructures
* What kind of support is to be expected from W3C, international and national bodies for future development?

These are our topics for SWIB11. Do you have an interesting project or research topic that should be presented at the conference? We would like to receive suggestions and proposals for contributions (with a brief abstract, no more than one page) until 20 June 2011. The conference will be held in German, but contributions in English are welcome. Please send them electronically to:

Joachim Neubert
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu

or

Adrian Pohl
hbz
Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de

Website: http://swib.org/swib11
Twitter: #swib11

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