<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion<span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. <br>
Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim <br></span></span><br>==============================</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span>CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br>
<span>==============================</span></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><br><span>1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 136); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>SERES</span></span></span></span> 2010)</span> <br>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/</a></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span>at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference<br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div>
<br>Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at the <span>1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 136); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>SERES</span></span></span></span> 2010). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span> </span><span> </span><span><a href="http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org</font></a></span><br>
<br><span>November 7, 2010, in Shanghai, China</span><br></div><span>==============================</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Ontologies
and Linked Data vocabularies are being actively developed and used by
numerous applications. Several domains are making their vocabularies
available for others to reuse. In addition, good practices when
developing ontologies are often followed, particularly for producing
reusable modules. The Semantic Web is a modular and highly federated
environment of reusable knowledge sources; these provide the meaning so
that SW applications change our experience of the web. Within this
context, the need for repositories delivering the added value that makes
the SW a concrete step beyond our current experience of the web is
palpable. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 136); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>SERES</span></span></span></span> addresses issues around semantic repositories within the context of the SW. </p>
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The number of ontologies being built and made available for reuse has
increased steadily in the last few years. Semantic Web search engines
such as <a href="http://swoogle.umbc.edu/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Swoogle</font></a> and <a href="http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Watson</font></a> currently
index several tens of thousands of them; there are also systems
specifically designed to support the publication of ontologies, e.g. <a href="http://kmi-web06.open.ac.uk:8081/cupboard" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Cupboard</font></a>, <a href="http://bioportal.bioontology.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">NCBO Bioportal</font></a>, and <a href="http://www.yso.fi/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">ONKI</font></a>. Some tools also support editing features, e.g. <a href="http://neologism.deri.ie/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Neologism</font></a>, <a href="http://knoodl.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Knoo</font></a><a href="http://knoodl.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">dl</font></a>.
While being a foundation for the Semantic Web, this new environment
where ontologies are shared and interlinked online also poses new
challenges; fostering thus a number of research projects aiming to
understand, amongst others, ontology reuse, storage, publication,
versioning, quality control, evaluation, retrieval and modularization.
For instance, as part of the <a href="http://neon-project.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">EU NeOn project</font></a> new
tools supporting Knowledge Engineering in the age of “networked
ontologies” have been developed, while in the EU OASIS project
approaches from software engineering and formalization are now also
being applied to inter-connect ontologies. Moreover, despite initial
efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable <i>amongst themselves</i>.
Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web
resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for
gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and
uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are
still poorly supported; for instance, modularization, versioning, and
the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering
environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle.</p>
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By the same token, there are several domains making available knowledge
resources; for instance, digital libraries such as Pubmed Central offer a
large collection of biomedical abstracts and, in some cases, open
access to the full document. Some researchers are starting to bridge the
gap between clinical and experimental data and literature; such
connection is being built via ontologies, some approaches have had
BioPortal as their ontology repository. Linked Data is also being
explored as a means for publishers to expose their content. Knowledge
management over documents is actively aiming to make real the notion of
self-descriptiveness; being this intrinsically related to various
resources over the web providing meaning for atomic component in
documents –words, tables, figures, maps, etc. In order for these systems
to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers
and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization
of repositories providing semantics. In addition, it is now critical to
achieve interoperability <i>between</i> these repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. SERES10 intends to provide such a forum.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3pt;"><b>Questions addressed by SERES10:</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can semantic repositories support the realization of the SW?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Semantic
repositories, ontology repositories, knowledge repositories, where are
the boundaries? How are they interacting? Are they changing our
experience of the web?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How
are domain specific knowledge repositories, such as biomedical digital
libraries, interconnecting knowledge in meaningful manners?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How are e-government initiatives using and delivering semantics and knowledge repositories? </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories support novel semantic applications?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How
can ontology repositories encourage the development of high quality
ontologies that are used routinely by relevant communities?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories provide semantics for applications?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories contribute to the reuse of ontologies across different domains and applications?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories interoperate with one another to support scalability, availability and distributed reasoning?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can provenance and intellectual property information be managed in and across ontology repositories?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in relevant ontology repositories be made comprehensible for users?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How
can branching, versioning, mappings, dependencies and
configurations/compositions be managed in and across ontology
repositories?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How
can ontology repositories interoperate with related applications such
as ontology editors, automated reasoners, and rule engines?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can modularity be better supported in and across ontology repositories; similarly, how could modularization be formalized?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories support distributed reasoning?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific metadata/semantic infrastructures?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3pt;"><b>Workshop Audience</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3pt; text-align: justify;">We
want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the
design, development and application of semantic web technology, semantic
registries and repositories, knowledge management systems, knowledge
repositories, repository editors, modularization techniques, versioning
systems and issues around federated ontology systems. As some
repository-related tools are already under development, and repositories
are a crucial part of business infrastructure, we also address
progressive Chief Technology Officers interested in using these
technologies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">IMPORTANT DATES</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
<span>==============================</span></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><br><span> Paper Submission Deadline August 20, 2010, 23.50 Hawaii time</span><br><span> Acceptance Notification September 17, 2010</span><br>
<span> Camera Ready October 7, 2010</span><br><span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 136); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>SERES</span></span></span></span> Workshop (tentative date) November 7, 2010</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Arial;">SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span>==============================</span><br></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
<span>system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system</span><br><span>descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">
<span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</font></a></span></span></p>
<div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span>Proceedings</span><span> </span><span>of</span><br><span>the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of</span><br>
<span>the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a</span><br><span>poster session.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><br> <br><span>Please submit your paper via EasyChair at</span><br></div><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seres10" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61);" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seres10</a></span> <div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<br><br><span>Submissions that do not comply with the formatting of LNCS or that exceed the</span><br></div><span>12 page limit (research papers) or 5 page limit (position papers and systems descriptions) will be rejected without review.</span><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<br><br><span>We note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have</span><br><span>a double-blind review process in place.</span><br><br><span>Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted</span><br>
</div><span>papers have to be presented at the workshop and they will be included in the</span><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><br><span>workshop proceedings that are published online at CEUR-WS.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
<b>Program Committee</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;"> Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.</p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.</p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Fabian Neuhaus, University of Maryland, USA.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Aleman-Bonarges Meza, Universidad Politecnica de Victoria, Mexico</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Christoph Lange, Jacobs University, Germany.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Sandro Hawke, W3C.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.25in;">Peter Haase, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Leyla Garcia, Bundeswehr University, Germany. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">Benjamin Good, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0.25in; line-height: 10px;">
Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester, UK</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">
<font face="Times"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"> </p><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><b>Organizing Committee</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alexander Garcia, University of Bremen</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mathieu d'Aquin, </font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University</span></span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mike Dean, </font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Principal Engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies</span></span></div>
</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kenneth Baclawski, </font><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University</span></span></div>
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