[Air-L] deadline extended: AAAI-SSS-09: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0

[Uldis Bojars]

Deadline of the "Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0"
symposium has been extended to 10 Oct 2008 (see below for details).

Related events: a list of papers accepted to the 1st Social Data on
the Web (SDoW 2008) workshop can be found at:
http://sdow2008.semanticweb.org/#program

(apologies for cross-posting)

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*** Extended deadline for submission 10 Oct 2008 ***

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                 AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium:
    Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0
          March 23-25, 2009, Stanford, California, USA
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Web 2.0 (aka. social web) applications such as Wikipedia, LinkedIn and
FaceBook, are well-known for fast-growing online data production via
their network effects. Meanwhile, emerging Web 3.0 applications,
driven by semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL and SPARQL, offer
powerful data organization, combination, and query capabilities.

The social web and the semantic web complement each other in the way
they approach content generation and organization. Social web
applications are fairly unsophisticated at preserving the semantics in
user-submitted content, typically limiting themselves user tagging and
basic metadata. Because of this, they have only limited ways for
consumers to find, customize, filter and reuse data. Semantic web
applications, on the other hand, feature sophisticated logic-backed
data handling technologies, but lack the kind of scalable authoring
and incentive systems found in successful social web applications. As
a result, semantic web applications are typically of limited scope and
impact. We envision a new generation of applications that combine the
strengths of these two approaches: the data flexibility and
portability of that is characteristic of the semantic web, and the
scalability and authorship advantages of the social web.

In this symposium, we are interested in bringing together the semantic
web community and the social web community to promote the
collaborative development and deployment of semantics in the World
Wide Web context. We welcome constructive papers on, for example: (i)
how semantic technologies, especially knowledge representation and
collective intelligence, can benefit social web content organization
and retrieval; (ii) how social web technologies can facilitate massive
semantic content production; and (iii) how to address the
requirements, e.g., reasoning scalability and semantic convergence
issues, which emerge from the combination.

We encourage submissions of full papers, extended abstracts,
demonstrations and posters describing research and applications that
deal with (but not limited to) the following topics on social semantic
web:

  * Collaborative and collective semantic data generation and publishing
  * Semantic tagging and annotation for social web
  * Data integration
  * Data portability
  * Data analysis and data mining
  * Privacy, policy and access control
  * Provenance, reputation and trust
  * Scalable search, query and reasoning
  * Semantically-enabled social applications: semantic wikis, semantic
desktops, semantic portals, semantic blogs, semantic calendars,
semantic email, semantic news, etc.

Submission

Interested participants should submit papers in PDF format to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_change_yes.cgi?iid=8040.
Submissions should be formatted in the AAAI Format. Full papers are
limited in 6 pages and position papers/demos are limited in 2 pages.
Selected papers from the symposium will be published as an AAAI
technical report.

Important Dates

  * October 10, 2008 (23:59 PDT) - Submission due. (extended, old one
was Oct 3, 2008)
  * November 7, 2008 - Notification of acceptance or rejection
  * March 23-25, 2009 - Symposium, Stanford University