News

  • 2009-11-17: The LDOW2009 Proceedings are now online as CEUR-WS Vol-538.
  • 2009-04-19: There will be a Linked Data gathering/workshop dinner after the LDOW2009 workshop, with drinks sponsored by The Guardian. Everyone is welcome; please sign up at the ESW Wiki by 1pm on Monday 20th April if you would like to join us.
  • 2009-03-16: 21 out of the 34 submissions were accepted for presentation at the workshop. Congratulations to the authors and lots of thanks to the members of the LDOW programme committee for all their reviewing work!
  • 2009-02-12: The workshop has received 34 submissions. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their papers on March 3rd 2009.
  • 2009-02-07: Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline has been extended to February 10th 2009, 23.59 CET.

Objectives

The Web is increasingly understood as a global information space consisting not just of linked documents, but also of linked data. More than just a vision, the Web of Data has been brought into being by the maturing of the Semantic Web technology stack, and by the publication of an increasing number of datasets according to the principles of Linked Data. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF, SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL and Yago. The availability of these and many other data sets has paved the way for an increasing number of applications that build on Linked Data, support services designed to reduce the complexity of integrating heterogeneous data from distributed sources, as well as new business opportunities for start-up companies in this space.

Building on the success of last year's LDOW workshop at WWW2008 in Beijing, the LDOW2009 workshop aims to provide a forum for presenting the latest research on Linked Data and drive forward the research agenda in this area. While last year's workshop focused on the publication of Linked Data, this year's workshop will focus on Linked Data application architectures, linking algorithms and Web data fusion.

Programme

Use the links below to view individual papers, or download all papers (ZIP file, 14.1 MB). The exact timing and the length of the slots may still change. So please check again shortly before the workshop.

Introduction

Session 1: Linked Data Application Architectures

Session 2: Applying Linked Data in different Domains

Session 3: Data Linking and Fusion

Session 4: Describing Data on the Web

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data Linking and Fusion
  • linking algorithms and heuristics, identity resolution
  • Web data integration and data fusion
  • evaluating quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data
Linked Data Application Architectures
  • crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web; optimizations, performance
  • Linked Data browsers, search engines
  • applications that exploit distributed Web datasets
Data Publishing
  • tools for publishing large data sources as Linked Data on the Web (e.g. relational databases, XML repositories)
  • embedding data into classic Web documents (e.g. GRDDL, RDFa, Microformats)
  • licensing and provenance tracking issues in Linked Data publishing
  • business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption

Submissions

We seek three kinds of submissions:

  • Full technical papers: up to 10 pages in ACM format
  • Short technical and position papers: up to 5 pages in ACM format
  • Demo description: up to 2 pages in ACM format

Submissions must be formatted using the WWW2009 templates available at http://www2009.org/submission.html.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings.

Please submit your paper via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldow2009

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published online at CEUR-WS.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: February 10th 2009, 23.59 CET (extended from February 7th 2009)
  • Notification of acceptance: March 3rd 2009
  • Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: March 9th 2009
  • Workshop date: April 20th 2009

Organising Committee

Programme Committee

Contact

For further information about the workshop, please contact the workshops chairs at ldow2009@events.linkeddata.org