OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop Series
OWL: E
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IRECTIONS
OWLED
ORKSHOP
ERIES
Overview
The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is playing an important role in
an
increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of
research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations and
language extensions. This level of experience with OWL means that
the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be
applied, adapted and extended to fulfil current and future
application demands.
The aim of the OWL:Experiences and Directions Workshop series is to
establish
an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in
industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL can
describe real and potential applications, share experience and
discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications.
The workshops aim at bringing all these groups
together in order to pool their expertise,
measure the state of need against the state of the art, and set
an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based
technologies into new applications.
The OWLED Workshop series is organised by the
OWLED
Steering Committee
who are responsible for carrying out policy determined at OWLED
business meetings, and otherwise assisting the organizers of OWLED
workshops.
History
The
first
OWLED Workshop
was held in
Galway, Ireland, on November 11-12 2005, just after
ISWC-2005
. The
workshop gathered a significant representation of theoreticians, tool
builders, vendors, users and customers of OWL-based technologies in
both industry and government organizations. At the workshop,
the attendees identified some deficiencies and infelicities in OWL
and decided to propose an extension of the language with a set of novel
features, grounded on recent theoretical advances in logic-based
Knowledge Representation and motivated by different application needs.
It was agreed that this extension, called
OWL
1.1
, should go forward to W3C as a
Member Submission
and the builders of many of the most widely used
Semantic Web tools, such as
RACER
FaCT++
Pellet
Protégé
and
Swoop
expressed a commitment to support the new features in the near
future.
The
second
OWLED Workshop
was held in
Athens, Georgia, USA, on November 10-11 2006, just after
ISWC-2006
. The
workshop again gathered a significant representation of theoreticians,
tool
builders, vendors, users and customers of OWL-based technologies in
both industry and government organizations. After reviewing the OWL 1.1
Member Submission
it was agreed that this should be the starting point for a new W3C
Working Group whose goal would be to deliver a
W3C Recommendation
based on OWL 1.1. Prototypical implementations of OWL 1.1 tools were
also demonstrated, including
FaCT++
Pellet
Protégé
and
Swoop
The
third OWLED Workshop
was held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 6-7 June 2007, in parallel with
ESWC-2007
The workshop coincided with the announcement of the announcement of the
W3C OWL
WG
, chartered to turn the OWL 1.1
Member Submission
into a W3C recommendation.
At the workshop it was decided to start a number of
Task Forces
, where
members of the OWL community can interact to gather information on,
requirements for, and designs of additions to the OWL language.
The
fourth OWLED
Workshop
, an interim OWLED to fill the long gap between
OWLED 2007
and
OWLED 2008
was held in the Washington, DC, USA metropolitan area, on 1-2 April 2008,
adjacent to the second face-to-face meeting of the
W3C OWL WG
At the workshop it was decided to set up a
Wiki
for the OWLED
community.
The
fifth OWLED
Workshop
was held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 26-27 October 2008,
with the
Seventh International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)
, just after the fourth
face-to-face meeting of the
W3C OWL WG
At the workshop there was discussion on how to push Description Graphs
into the mainstream of OWL.
The
sixth OWLED
Workshop
was held 23-24 October 2009, in conjunction with
the
Eighth International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
The
seventh OWLED
Workshop
was held 21-22 June 2010, in conjunction with
the
2010 Semantic Technology Conference
The
eigth OWLED
Workshop
was held 5-6 June 2011, in conjunction with
the
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
The
nineth OWLED
Workshop
was held 27-28 May 2012, in conjunction with
the
2012 Extended Semantic Web Conference
The
tenth OWLED Workshop
was held 26-27 May 2013, in conjunction with
the
2013 Extended Semantic Web Conference
The papers presented at most OWLED workshops can be accessed as CEUR workshop proceedings.
Currently there are CEUR volumes for
OWLED 2005
OWLED 2006
OWLED 2007
OWLED 2008 DC
OWLED 2008
OWLED 2009
OWLED 2010
OWLED 2011
OWLED 2012
General Workshop Organization
The basic idea at OWLED workshops is to have a venue where interaction
is not only encouraged, but actively encouraged.
The best venues for OWLED are ones that encourage the participants to
congregate in a single small area for coffee breaks and lunch.
The reviewing schedule for OWLED workshops is as tight at it can be,
with papers due about three months before the workshop.
The workshop accepts most papers, screening for relevance and
comprehensibility.
Reviewing is at a level suitable for a workshop, not a
conference—constructive criticisms are welcome, but the workshop
accepts a wide variety of types of papers, including theoretical
results, language and feature designs both syntactic and semantics, tool
descriptions, survey results, and position papers. Especially welcome
are reports from user communities on how they use OWL or what they need
from OWL.
Some papers are presented as full presentations (of only 15 minutes) and
some papers are presented as short advertisements (less than 5 minutes)
for posters. Each session ends with a discussion period of about 15
minutes. Posters are presented during coffee breaks.
Links to OWL:Experiences and Directions Workshops
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2013
Montpellier, France
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2012
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2011
San Francisco, CA, USA
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2010
San Francisco, CA, USA
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2009
Washington, DC (metro), USA
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2008
Karlsruhe, Germany
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2008 DC
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2007
Innsbruck, Austria
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006
Athens, Georgia, USA
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2005
Galway, Ireland