Accepted papers and presentations

Motivation

With distributed information systems and the Internet continually increasing in significance, collaboratively creating and managing information has become an essential requirement for the success of (virtual) organizations. This situation has led to a plethora of platforms supporting cooperation as well as joint information access among geographically dispersed user communities that have emerged in the last decades: collaborative information spaces, telecooperation, autonomous agents or, more recently, various Web-related forms of communication and cooperation such as discussion forums, community portals, Wikis and blogs.

A fundamental requirement for an effective collaboration is the availability of technologies and tools which provide an explicit and unambiguous representation of the shared information and a feasible management of such semantics-enhanced information repositories.  The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked an important stage in the evolution of semantic technologies.  In this context the knowledge components i.e. ontologies are formalized using Web-suitable, but in the same time semantically unambiguous representation languages, are accessible and can be shared and reused across the World Wide Web. 

The Semantic Web offers new opportunities for the next generation of collaborative applications: it provides us with novel means to classify information items i.e. by means of ontologies which formally represent the consensual understanding of the application users w.r.t. a particular domain of interest. Taking advantage of this technology, the first promising implementations of Semantic Web-based collaboration platforms such as Semantic Web portals, semantic Wikis and blogs, to name only a few, have been proposed. This workshop aims at contributing to this young application field by providing a forum for practitioners and researchers to present innovative approaches to applying Semantic Web technologies in collaborative environments and to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to this topic.

Objectives

The primary objective of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners working in different emerging aspects of semantics-enabled collaboration, ranging from discovering new application scenarios, proposing new methods to apply Semantic Web and related emerging technologies to current environments, pointing out issues that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained during the deployment of collaborative methods and the realization of support systems.

Topics of interest

• Methodologies for collaboratively creating and managing shared information
• Collaborative ontology engineering
• Semantic collaboration applications
• Collaborative Semantic Web portals
• Semantic community support systems
• Semantic Wikis
• Semantic Blogging
• Semantic Mindmapping and Conceptmapping
• Case studies, lessons learned and experience reports on semantics-aware collaborative applications
• Studies on the value added to collaboration by semantic technologies
• Future research directions in the area of semantic collaboration

Organizers

Program Committee

• Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig
• David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig
• Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
• Matteo Bonifacio, University of Trento
• Alberto J. Cañas, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
• Björn Decker, FhG IESE
• John Domingue, Open University
• Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Nicola Henze, Universität Hannover
• Martin Hepp, DERI Innsbruck
• Peter Mika, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Sofia Pinto, University of Lisbon
• Dirk Riehle, Bayave Software GmbH
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research
• Hans Peter Schnurr, Ontoprise
• Adam Souzis, Liminal Systems
• Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universität Mannheim
• York Sure, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
• Christoph Tempich, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI

Submission and Proceedings

Important dates

This workshop is sponsored by the EU Network of Excellence KnowledgeWeb and the BMBF funded project Wissensnetze.