1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) in connection with 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece.
From the Call for Papers:
The CHALLENGE of the Semantic Web is to allow the Web to move from a dissemination platform to an interactive platform for networked information. The Semantic Web promises to “fundamentally change our experience of the Web”.
In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in general; however, most of that information remains locked up in discrete documents, which are poorly interconnected to one another and to the Web.
The connectivity tissues provided by RDF technology and the Social Web have barely made an impact on scientific communication nor on ebook publishing, neither on the format of publications, nor on repositories and digital libraries. The worst problem is in accessing and reusing the computable data which the literature represents and describes.
No, I am not going to say that topic maps are the magic bullet that will solve all those issues or the ones listed in their Questions and Topics of Interest.
What I do think topic maps bring to the table is an awareness that semantic interoperability isn’t primarily a format or computational problem.
Every new (and impliedly universal) format or model simply compounds the semantic interoperability problem.
By creating yet more formats and/or models between which semantic interoperability has to be designed.
Starting with the question of what subjects need to be identified and how they are identified now could lead to a viable, local semantic interoperability solution.
What more could a client want?
Local semantic interoperability solutions can form the basis for spreading semantic interoperability, one solution at a time.
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PS: Forgot the important dates:
Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: February 28, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Acceptance Notification: April 1
Camera Ready Version: April 15
SePublica Workshop: May 29 or May 30 (to be announced)