5th European Semantic Web Conference 2008

Provisional Program

Due to different circumstances (overlapping interest of attendees in workshops and tutorials, number of submissions in workshops, final duration of tutorials and workshops, etc.), some tutorials and workshops may be changed from their proposed dates. In any case, all of them will take place in June 1st and June 2nd.

June 1st:

Tutorial 1:	Pattern-based Ontology Design (Full day)	Gangemi, Presutti
Tutorial 2:	What Semantic Web researchers need to know about Machine Learning (Full day)	Grobelnik, Fortuna, Mladenic
Tutorial 3:	Linking Social Networks, Microformats, and the Semantic Web using GRDDL (Half day)	Halpin
Tutorial 4:	Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit (Full day)	Erdmann, Haase, Studer
Tutorial 5:	Transitioning Legacy Applications to Ontologies: A Hands-on Tutorial (Half day)	Boncheva, Payne, Cerbah
Tutorial 6:	Semantic Wikis (Half day)	Schaffert, Vrandecic, Dolog
Tutorial 7:	Semantic Web Rule Languages and Rule Interchange on the Web (Half day)	Giurcia, Wagner

June 2nd:

Phd Symposium	*Full day*
Workshop 1:	ESWC-08 Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense
Workshop 2:	International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08)
Workshop 3:	1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008)
Workshop 4:	1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Semantic Web
Workshop 5:	ESWC-08 Workshop on Semantic Search
Workshop 6:	1st International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications
Workshop 7:	6th International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based tools and the Semantic Web Service Challenge (EON & SWS-Challenge 2008)
Workshop 8:	3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop
Workshop 9:	4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
Workshop 10:	1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008)
Workshop 11:	3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management
Workshop 12:	First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library

June 3rd, 4th, 5th:

Main Conference

5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC08)

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Panels

Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?

Tuesday 3rd of June

Moderator: Wendy Hall (Univeristy of Southampton, UK)
Organizer: Kieron O’Hara (University of Southampton, UK)
Contact: Susan Davies, Administrator WSRI (University of Southampton, UK)
Panelists:

Stefan Decker, DERI, Galway (confirmed)
Frank van Harmelen, Free University Amsterdam (confirmed)
Kieron O’Hara, University of Southampton, UK (confirmed)
Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK (confirmed)
Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam (pending)

Web Science is an attempt to understand the scientific, technical and social factors that drive the growth of the Web. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) will provide a global forum for the first scientific research effort specifically designed to study the Web at all scales of size and complexity, and to develop a new discipline of Web Science for future generations of researchers. This panel will discuss how such a discipline can help promote the growth of the Web of Data.

Panel 2: Social Network Portability: Is the Semantic Web Ready?

Wednesday 4th of June

Moderator: Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Panelists:

Dan Brickley, ASemantics (confirmed)
Danny Ayers, Talis (pending)
Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland (confirmed)
Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink (pending)
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Inc (confirmed)
Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne (confirmed)

Over the last year there has been increasing momentum to open the social graph, making social networking data portable from services like Facebook and Myspace to each other and applications like your address book. Yet, no open standard exists to do this; the closest candidate would likely be a combination of FOAF (Friend-Of-a-Friend), a Semantic Web vocabulary for describing social networking, SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities, used to describe profiles and blogs) and OpenID. A grassroots effort called DataPortability.org focused on this very topic has attracted over a thousand developers and representatives from companies, including Myspace, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Is the Semantic Web ready to be deployed for social networking data portability? Is DataPortability.org or the W3C the right place to do this work? Could this be the first wide-scale deployment of a ``killer application'' for the Semantic Web? What research needs to be done, and what new kinds of research would opening millions of ordinary users's social data on the Semantic Web entail?