Archive for May, 2010

In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on “Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management by the Masses” (EKAW 2010) there is a call for papers.

This workshop will not focus on the overall topic of social web applications, e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook and so on, since there are already various initiatives on the topic (e.g. the ICWSM conference as well as various workshops SDOW, etc.) but our main focus will be research conducted on tagging systems, based on the three aforementioned areas. Then, we encourage the submission of research papers that deal with the following topics of interest (but not limited to):

• Semantic Tagging and Linked Data
• Semantics of tagging systems
• Tagging systems versus controlled vocabularies
• Extreme tagging methodologies
• Tagging systems in enterprise environments
• Information retrieval in tagging systems
• Tagging and augmented reality
• Best practices for tagging
• Social aspects of tagging
• Prospective views on the future of tagging systems
• Evolution of tagging systems
• Dynamics of tagging systems
• Ontology learning from tagging systems
• Datasets and baseline for evaluating semantic tagging systems
• Social Network analysis based on tagging systems
• Tag and Resource recommendation
• Tags in genuine Web 2.0 applications vs tags in streamed data (e.g. Twitter)
• User profiles from tagging information
• People-tagging
• Multilingual tagging systems
• User-feedback in tagging systems

The deadline of the submissions is 11th of July 2010, the workshop will be held at the 14th of october.

For any further information feel free to check the homepage of the workshop.

SA-REST is a simple and open microformat for enhancing Web resources with additional semantic information. In addition to HTML and XHTML, the SA-REST approach can also be used to enrich Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. SA-REST is one of several open microformat standards.

Although mashups fully embrace the idea of customization on the Web, read-write is another story. The complexity of application development using Javascript makes it hard for average developers to create new mashups and to customize the existing ones. To solve this problem, several companies are developing tools for mashup creation that require little or no programming knowledge. These tools, exemplified by Yahoo! pipes, IBM’s QEDwiki and Google’s Mashup Editor, facilitate the selection of some number of RESTful Web services or other Web resources and chain them together by piping one service’s output into the next service’s input while filtering content and making slight format changes.

SA-REST is a microformat to add additional meta-data to (but not limited to) REST API descriptions in HTML and XHTML. Developers can directly embed meta-data from various models such an ontology, taxonomy or a tag cloud into their API descriptions. The embedded meta-data can be used to improve search (for example: perform faceted search for APIs), data mediation (in conjunction with XML annotation) as well as help in easier integration of services to create mashups.

SA-REST submission to W3C can be found here: http://www.w3.org/Submission/SA-REST/

More information about SA-REST can be found here: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SA-REST

We proudly present the winners of the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge 2010 and want to thank all participants for their great ideas.

CONGRATULATIONS!

• 1st Place: Phratris
  Giuseppe Attardi and the GaLOAp Team,
  Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa
• 2nd Place: Semantic Facebook Sticker Album
  Tobias Bürger and Sebastian Schaffert,
  Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
• 3rd Place: Massacre
  Stefan Thaler,
  STI, University of Innsbruck