5th Workshop on
Scripting and Development for the Semantic Web

Colocated with ESWC 2009
31st May, 2009
Crete, Greece


News

Accepted Papers

The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the workshop:

Scripting Challenge Submissions

We have received the following submissions for the Scripting Challenge:

Programme

We follow the coffee and lunch-breaks of the rest of the ESWC events of the day. We allow 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion for each talk.

9:00-10:30 — Session 1: Processing Web Data

  • Krextor — An Extensible XML->RDF Extraction Framework
  • Experiments with Wikipedia Cross-Language Data Fusion
  • Converging Web and Desktop Data with Konduit (App Mashup)

11:00-13:00 — Session 2: Semantic Web User Interfaces

  • Tal4Rdf: lightweight presentation for the Semantic Web
  • A Pattern for Domain Specific Editing Interfaces Using Embedded RDFa and HTML Manipulation Tools.
  • Ontology-Based Query Expansion Widget for Information Retrieval

14:30-16:00 — Session 3: Semantic Web Application Architectures

  • SKUA -- retrofitting semantics
  • RDFa in Drupal: Bringing Cheese to the Web of Data
  • Macros vs. scripting in VPOET

16:30-18:00 — Session 4: Semantic Scripting Challenge

  • Presentation of the submissions
  • Announcement of the winner

 

Objectives

On the current Semantic Web there is an ever increasing need for lightweight, flexible solutions for doing publishing, presentation, transformation, integration and general manipulation of data for supporting and making use of the increasing number of deployed open linked datasets and publicly available semantic applications. Communication and architectural standards such as AJAX, REST, JSON already cater to this need of flexible, lightweight solutions, and they are well supported by scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, JSP and ActionScript.

This workshop is concerned with the exchange of tools, experiences and technologies for the development of such lightweight tools, especially focusing on the use of scripting languages. Last year's workshop focused on the creation of Semantic Web data through social interactions as well as applications that integrate socially-created data across communities. Keeping in step with the increasing number of semantically enabled web- sites for public consumption, this year's focus is bringing the semantic web applications to the main-stream: everything from improving the user experience for browsing and accessing data, through integrating with existing non-semantic services, to quickly and cheaply porting such services to using a Semntic Web architecture.

The workshop will follow the tradition and include a scripting challenge which will award an industry sponsored prize to the most innovative scripting application.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure

  • Lightweight Semantic Web frameworks and APIs
  • Lightweight implementations of RDF repositories, query languages, and reasoning engines
  • Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks
  • Approaches to crawling Web data and querying distributed data on the Web

Applications

  • Lightweight and flexible Semantic Web applications
  • Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications, such as RDFa, microformats, or GRDDL
  • Mashups that provide RDF views on Web 2.0 data sources such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, or eBay
  • Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications using RDF
  • RDF/OWL editors and authoring environments
  • Scripting applications for visualizing Web data
  • Semantic Web Mining and Social Network Analysis
  • Mashups that demonstrate the novel capabilities of Semantic Web technologies

Conceptual

  • Rapid development techniques for the Semantic Web
  • Rapid migration of web-applications to the Semantic Web
  • Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web development
  • Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications

Scripting Challenge

As in previous years, there will be a scripting challenge. See separate challenge page for details.

Submission Instructions

We seek three kinds of submissions:

  • Full papers - should not exceed 12 pages in length.
  • Short papers - are expected up to 6 pages.
  • Scripting Challenge Submissions - 2 page description of the application, ideally accompanied with the source code and a link to an online demo.

All papers should be formatted according to LNCS.

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.

We strongly recommend the use of semantic metadata and annotations with all SFSW submissions. SALT (Semantically Annotated LaTeX) is an easy-to-use toolkit providing such functionality.

All papers have to be submitted using Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sfsw09

Important Dates

Submission deadline:
March 7, 2009March 14, 2009
Notication of acceptance:
April 4, 2009
Camera-ready paper submission:
April 18, 2009
Scripting Challenge Deadline:
May 15, 2009
Workshop date:
May 31st, 2009

Workshop Chairs

Program Committee

  • Benjamin Nowack, semsol, Germany
  • Claudia Müller, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Dan Brickley, The FOAF Project, UK
  • Danny Ayers, Talis, UK
  • David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
  • Eyal Oren, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
  • Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Bernhard Schandl, Universität Wien
  • Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, United Kingdom
  • Libby Miller, Joost, United Kingdom
  • Masahide Kanzaki, Keio University, Japan
  • Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
  • Morten Høybye Frederiksen, MFD Consult, Denmark
  • Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
  • Santtu Toivonen, Idean Enterprises, Finland
  • Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
  • Stefan Dietze, KMi, The Open University, UK
  • Tom Heath, Talis, UK
  • Uldis Bojars, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
  • Vlad Tanasescu, KMi, The Open University, UK

For further information, please send email to sfsw2009 [at] semanticscripting [dot] org

Information about last year's scripting workshop is still available at 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web!