SFSW 09

On the current Semantic Web there is an ever increasing need for lightweight, flexible solutions for doing publishing, presentation, transformation, integration and general manipulation of data for supporting and making use of the increasing number of deployed open linked datasets and publicly available semantic applications. Communication and architectural standards such as AJAX, REST, JSON already cater to this need of flexible, lightweight solutions, and they are well supported by scripting languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, JSP and ActionScript.

This workshop is concerned with the exchange of tools, experiences and technologies for the development of such lightweight tools, especially focusing on the use of scripting languages. Last year's workshop focused on the creation of Semantic Web data through social interactions as well as applications that integrate socially-created data across communities. Keeping in step with the increasing number of semantically enabled web- sites for public consumption, this year's focus is bringing the semantic web applications to the main-stream: everything from improving the user experience for browsing and accessing data, through integrating with existing non-semantic services, to quickly and cheaply porting such services to using a Semntic Web architecture.

The workshop will follow the tradition and include a scripting challenge which will award an industry sponsored prize to the most innovative scripting application.

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Infrastructure

 * Lightweight Semantic Web frameworks and APIs
 * Lightweight implementations of RDF repositories, query languages, and reasoning engines
 * Semantic Web publishing and data syndication frameworks
 * Approaches to crawling Web data and querying distributed data on the Web

Applications

 * Lightweight and flexible Semantic Web applications
 * Approaches to RDF-izing existing applications, such as RDFa, microformats, or GRDDL
 * Mashups that provide RDF views on Web 2.0 data sources such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, or eBay
 * Wikis, weblogs, data syndication and content management applications 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
 * Rapid migration of web-applications to the Semantic Web
 * Employment of scripting language characteristics for Semantic Web development
 * Scalability and benchmarks of Semantic Web scripting applications

Submissions
We seek three kinds of submissions:


 * Full papers - should not exceed 12 pages in length.
 * Short papers - are expected up to 6 pages.
 * Scripting Challenge Submissions - 2 page description of the application, ideally accompanied with the source code and a link to an online demo.

Full papers, short papers and will be presented at the workshop and included into the workshop proceedings. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Scripting challenge submissions may be presented at the workshop by their authors. The descriptions of the submissions will be included into the workshop proceedings.

We strongly recommend the use of semantic metadata and annotations with all SFSW submissions. SALT (Semantically Annotated LaTeX) is an easy-to-use toolkit providing such functionality.

Workshop Chairs

 * has general chair::Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
 * has general chair::Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany and University of Pennsylvania
 * has general chair::Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany

Programme Committee

 * has PC member::Benjamin Nowack, semsol, Germany
 * has PC member::Claudia Müller, University of Potsdam, Germany
 * has PC member::Dan Brickley, The FOAF Project, UK
 * has PC member::Danny Ayers, Talis, UK
 * has PC member::David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
 * has PC member::Eyal Oren, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Gregory Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
 * has PC member::Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Leigh Dodds, Ingenta, United Kingdom
 * has PC member::Libby Miller, Joost, United Kingdom
 * has PC member::Masahide Kanzaki, Keio University, Japan
 * has PC member::Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, Austria
 * has PC member::Morten Høybye Frederiksen, MFD Consult, Denmark
 * has PC member::Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Santtu Toivonen, Idean Enterprises, Finland
 * has PC member::Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Stefan Dietze, KMi, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Tom Heath, Talis, UK
 * has PC member::Uldis Bojars, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Vlad Tanasescu, KMi, The Open University, UK