Hey folks,

Some of you who are more into Semantic Web, Microformats, or Mashups might be interested in this workshop. Note that for those people not into writing academic papers, there is also a Scripting Challenge (with prize) that doesn't require attendance at the workshop and only requires a short paper for submission. Please pass on to anyone you think may be interested.

Cheers :)

Tom.

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3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2007/

co-located with 4th European Semantic Web Conference June 6, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria

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Scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, JSP and ActionScript are playing a central role in current development towards flexible, lightweight web applications following the AJAX and REST design paradigms. These languages are the tools of a generation of web programmers who use them to quickly create server and client-side web applications. Many deployed Semantic Web applications from the FOAF, RSS/ATOM, blog and wiki communities, as well as many innovative mashups from the Web 2.0 and Open Data movements are using scripting languages and it is likely that the process of RDF-izing existing database-backed websites, wikis, weblogs and CMS will largely rely on scripting languages.

The workshop aims to bring together developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages. Last years Scripting for the Semantic Web workshop in Budva, Montenegro focused on giving an overview about the support for Semantic Web technologies within scripting languages. The special focus of this year's workshop is the role of scripting languages in the process of populating the Web with linked RDF data as well as to showcase innovative scripting applications that consume RDF data from the Web. The second focus of the workshop is to show how Web 2.0 applications and mashups can benefit from Semantic Web technologies.

The workshop will include a scripting challenge (conducted for the 2nd time) which will award a prize to the most innovative scripting application.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure

* Semantic Web frameworks and APIs for scripting languages * RDF repositories and query languages implemented using scripting languages * Reasoning engines implemented using scripting languages * Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks * Approaches to crawling Web data and querying distributed data on the Web

Applications

* Semantic Web applications using scripting languages * Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications, such as RDFa and GRDDL * Mashups that provide RDF views on Web 2.0 data sources such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon or eBay * Wikis, weblogs and data syndication systems 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 * Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web development * Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications

Scripting Challenge

The workshop includes a scripting challenge which will award a prize (an Apple iPod Video or alternatively Euro 200 cash) to the most innovative small scripting application or mashup. The application must be implemented using a scripting language and Semantic Web technologies. It should access, visualize or combine information from different sources in new unforeseen ways. Authors of Scripting Challenge submissions are not required to attend the workshop personally. Please refer to Tom Heath for further information about the Scripting Challenge.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 30, 2007 Notication of acceptance: April 28, 2007 Camera-ready paper submission: May 7, 2007 Workshop date: June 6, 2007

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany and University of Pennsylvania, USA * Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany * Tom Heath, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), United Kingdom

SUBMISSIONS

We seek three kinds of submissions: * Full papers - should not exceed ten pages in length. * Short papers - are expected up to 5 pages. * Scripting Challenge Submissions - 2 page description of the application, ideally accompanied with the source code and a link to an online demo.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig, Germany * Danny Ayers, Independent Author, Italy * Dave Beckett, Yahoo!, USA * Uldis Bojars, DERI, Ireland * Dan Brickley, Semantic Web Vapourware, UK * Richard Cyganiak, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Stefan Decker, DERI, Ireland * Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, UK * Edd Dumbill, Useful Information Company, UK * Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Frauenhofer Gesellschaft - ISST, Germany * Daniel Krech, University of Maryland, USA * Peter Mika, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Libby Miller, @Semantics, UK * Benjamin Nowack, appmosphere web applications, Germany * Alberto Reggiori, @Semantics, UK * Sebastian Schaffert, salzburg research, Austria * Vlad Tanasescu, KMi, The Open University, UK * Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany * Gregory Williams, University of Maryland, USA

FURTHER INFORMATION

Updated information about the workshop is found on the workshop website http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2007/

For further information, please send email to sfsw@semanticscripting.org