Call For Contributions

For a long time, the vision of a Semantic Web has been largely ignored by the database research community. This has changed in the last few years. There is a wealth of structured data on the web, including HTML or XML tables, embedded RDF and microformats, linked data of large RDF collections, social graphs, smart sensors for collective intelligence, and more. The vision of Web contents being automatically "semantified" has been substantiated in a variety of projects on identifying entities and facts in Web contents, knowledge base construction, entity search and search service composition, crowdsourcing for entity linkage, or reasoning over structured but uncertain Web data.

The next phase of scaling up to the epic proportions of the entire Web and other kinds of Big Data poses major challenges that naturally call for the expertise of the database research community, where scalable engineering and principled methods for data quality are long-standing traditions.

The DESWEB workshop on "Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web" aims to bring together these historically separated communities: Semantic Web people and database systems researchers. There is great potential for mutual learning and cross-fertilization. Given recent developments on Web-scale semantic graphs and related trends, freeing up these synergies to tackle the challenges ahead is more important than ever.

Call for regular paper submissions

The DESWEB workshop solicits papers (of up to 6 pages in the IEEE format) on research results and ongoing projects in this thematic area. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Structured data on the web

  • Scalable triple stores and query processing

  • Ontologies and data integration

  • Linked data and entity resolution

  • Knowledge graphs

  • Reasoning over web data and services

  • Semantic authoring and crowdsourcing

  • Provenance of and trust in web data

and all other topics at the crossroads of Semantic Web and Data Engineering research.

The submission deadline for this kind of contributions is Monday, October 29, 2012.

Call for submissions with late-breaking results or on visions and challenges

We also encourage the submission of short papers (of up to 2 pages in the IEEE format) with late-breaking results or on visions and challenges. The emphasis of such papers should be on radical ideas rather than established approaches, difficult and open problems rather than solutions, or research opportunities off the beaten paths rather than mainstream topics.

The submission deadline for this kind of contributions is Friday, November 30, 2012.