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Final Program

  
 

Program at a Glance (to see the detailed programme click here)

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
Workshop 7:

6th International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based tools and the Semantic Web Service Challenge (EON & SWS-Challenge 2008) (Full day)
* this is a 1.5 days workshop, so it will be also held during the morning of June 2nd
June 2nd:
Phd Symposium Full day
Workshop 1: ESWC-08 Workshop on Advancing Reasoning on the Web: Scalability and Commonsense (Morning)
Workshop 2: International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08) (Afternoon)
Workshop 3: 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) (Morning)
Workshop 4: 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Semantic Web (Afternoon)
Workshop 5: ESWC-08 Workshop on Semantic Search (Full day)
Workshop 6: 1st International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications (Full day)
Workshop 8: 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop (Full day)
Workshop 9: 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web (Full day)
Workshop 10: 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008) (Morning)
Workshop 11: 3rd international Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management (Afternoon)
Workshop 12: First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library (Full day)
Nepomuk Nexus 19:00 - 20:00
June 3rd, 4th, 5th:
Main Conference 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC08)
To see the Detailed Program, click here
 
 

 

Panels

  
 

 

Panel 1: Does the Semantic Web Need Web Science?

Tuesday 3rd of June (4:30pm - 6:00pm)

  • Moderator: Professor Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK
  • Organizer: Kieron O’Hara (University of Southampton, UK)
  • Contact: Susan Davies, Administrator WSRI (University of Southampton, UK)
  • Panelists:
    • Professor Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland
    • Professor Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam
    • Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK
    • Professor Frank Van Harmelen, Free University Amsterdam

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 (4:30pm - 6:00pm)

  • Moderator: Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Panelists:
    • Dan Brickley, ASemantics
    • Ian Davis, Talis
    • Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland
    • Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink
    • Peter Mika, Yahoo! Inc
    • Alexander Passant, LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne

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?

Lighting Talks

Thursday, June 5th, 14:30

This year, ESWC will include a session of "Lightning Talks". The session provides an opportunity for participants to present ideas, comments, calls for collaboration, scathing polemic criticisms,... controversy and discussion are positively encouraged!! We would particularly welcome observations or comments arising from material presented during the conference.

Talks should last no longer than 2 minutes and can include 1 slide. There is no review process — if you are interested in presenting a lightning talk, please send email to lightning talks with your name, affiliation and a one sentence description of your talk. You have until 12:00 on the 5th June to register your interest.