SEPUBLICA 2011 - SePublica 2011 : 1st Workshop on Semantic Publishing

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Category SEPUBLICA 2011

Deadline: February 28, 2011 | Date: May 29, 2011-May 30, 2011

Venue/Country: Hersonissos, Greece

Updated: 2011-01-13 21:32:50 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org

at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)

http://www.eswc2011.org

May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.

“Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”

SUBMISSION DEADLINE February 28

The MISSION of the SePublica workshop is to bring together researchers

and practitioners dealing with different aspects of Semantic

Technologies in the Publishing Industry. How is the Semantic Web

impacting the publishing industry? How is our experience of

publications changing because of Semantic Web technologies being

applied to the publishing industry?

The CHALLENGE of the Semantic Web is to allow the Web to move from a

dissemination platform to an interactive platform for networked

information. The Semantic Web promises to “fundamentally change our

experience of the Web”.

In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and

retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing

industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for

scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in

general; however, most of that information remains locked up in

discrete documents, which are poorly interconnected to one another and

to the Web.

The connectivity tissues provided by RDF technology and the Social Web

have barely made an impact on scientific communication nor on ebook

publishing, neither on the format of publications, nor on repositories

and digital libraries. The worst problem is in accessing and reusing

the computable data which the literature represents and describes.

? Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential

elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the

research is recorded and preserved in perpetuity by way of a scholarly

journal article.

? Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public

sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but

news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data

sources.

QUESTIONS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

? What does a network of truly interconnected papers look like?

How could interoperability across documents be enabled?

? How could concept-centric social networks emerge?

? Are blogs and wikis new means for scholarly communication?

? What lessons can be learned from humanities and social science publishers

(i.e. going beyond scientific publishing towards scholarly publishing)?

? How could we move beyond the PDF?

How can we embed and link semantics in EPUB and other e-book formats?

? How are digital libraries related to semantic e-science?

What is the relationship between a paper and its digital library?

? How could we realize a paper with an API?

How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?

? How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?

How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?

? How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded

in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?

? What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?

? How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in

scholarly communication, and of hypotheses and scientific evidence?

AUDIENCE

? researchers from diverse backgrounds such as argumentative

structures, scholarly communication, multi-modality in publications,

digital libraries, semantics in publications, and ontology

engineers.

? practitioners active in the publishing industry, repositories of

experimental information and document standards.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: February 28, 23:59 Hawaii Time

Acceptance Notification: April 1

Camera Ready Version: April 15

SePublica Workshop: May 29 or May 30 (to be announced)

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5

pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be

submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted

according to the LNCS format

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

We encourage the submission of semantic documents. LaTeX documents in

the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT

(http://salt.semanticauthoring.org) or sTeX

(http://trac.kwarc.info/sTeX/). We also invite submissions in

XHTML+RDFa or in the format or YOUR semantic publishing tool.

However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors must additionally

export them to PDF. For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF

format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page

limit will be rejected without review.

Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might

be invited to present their papers during a poster session.

Please submit your paper via EasyChair at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2011

The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a

double-blind review process in place.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent

reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop

(requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop) and

will be included in the workshop proceedings that are published online

at CEUR-WS.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

? Robert Stevens, Manchester University, UK

? Benjamin Good, Genomic Institute, Novartis, USA

? Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany

? Oscar Corcho, Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

? Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK

? Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland

? Sebastian Kruk, knowledgehives.com, Poland

? Henrik Eriksson, Linköping University, Sweden

? Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA

? Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA

? Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

? Alexander García Castro, University of Bremen, Germany

? Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

? Anita de Waard, Elsevier, USA/Netherlands

? Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA

QUESTIONS? → sepublicagooglegroups.com