SemanticDesktopWS2006

The Semantic Web holds promises for information organization and selective access, providing standard means for formulating and distributing metadata and Ontologies.

However, we miss a wide use of Semantic Web technologies on personal computers. The use of ontologies, metadata annotations, and semantic web protocols on desktop computers will allow the integration of desktop applications and the web, enabling a much more focused and integrated personal information management as well as focused information distribution and collaboration on the Web beyond sending emails. The goal is an open personal information management system and collaborative infrastructure based on Semantic Web technology build into the operating system of current machines.

Collaboration, acquisition and dissemination infrastructures like Wikis and Blogs are providing the foundation for joint collaborative knowledge creation and are essentially simplified knowledge acquisition tools. Social Software maps the social connections between different people into the technical infrastructure. Online Social Networking enables collaboration relationships as first class citizens, and allows exploiting these relationships for automated information distribution and classification.

P2P and Grid computing develops technology to interconnect large communities without centralized infrastructures for data and computation sharing, which is necessary to build heterogeneous, multi-organizational collaboration networks. The application of the mentioned technologies, especially in combination with the Semantic Web, to the desktop computer in order to improve personal information management and collaboration is the main topic of this workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


 * Architectures and frameworks for integrating the Semantic Web into a Desktop environment
 * Personal Information Management tools (calendar, address books, email, documents, ideas) that interoperate with the Semantic Web
 * Enhance searching and information retrieval on desktop computers using ontologies and metadata.
 * Means to extract metadata from desktop applications (e.g., OpenOffice etc.)
 * Knowledge Acquisition and Visualization tools for desktop applications
 * Integration and exploitation of semantic social networks into a semantic desktop environment
 * P2P models for distributed architecture enabling collaboration with Semantic Desktop nodes
 * Applications of the Semantic Desktop, e.g, eScience and eGovernment.
 * Methods employing the community factor for knowledge engineering,
 * Policies, authentication and trust within agile collaborative knowledge engineering scenarios,
 * Querying, aggregation and presentation for adaptive scenarios,
 * Joining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web strategies and technologies,
 * Applications enabling massively distributed knowledge elicitation

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SUBMISSIONS
Please follow the style guides according the Springer LNCS format: Technical papers should have max. 15 pages including references, position papers should not exceed 5 pages. Papers can be associated with a demo. Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to semdesk2006@semanticdesktop.org.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 * has OC member::Stefan Decker, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)
 * has OC member::Jack Park, SRI, (USA)
 * has OC member::Leo Sauermann, DFKI (Germany)
 * has OC member::Sören Auer, University of Pennsylvenia (USA)
 * has OC member::Siegfried Handschuh, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)

Programme committee

 * has PC member::Andreas Abecker (FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany)
 * has PC member::Christoph Tempich (AIFB, Karlsruhe)
 * has PC member::Dan Brickley (W3C, Sophia Antipolis, France)
 * has PC member::Daniel Schwabe (PUC Rio, Brasil)
 * has PC member::David O'Sullivan (DERI, NUIG, Ireland)
 * has PC member::David Schwartz (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
 * has PC member::Dirk-Willem van Gulik (Apache Foundation, Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Douglas Engelbart (Bootstrap Institute, USA)
 * has PC member::Elena Paslaru Bontas (FU Berlin, Germany)
 * has PC member::Gerald Reif (TU Vienna, Austria)
 * has PC member::Giovanni Tummarello (Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
 * has PC member::Gregoris Mentzas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
 * has PC member::Grigoris Karvounarakis (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 * has PC member::Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK)
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
 * has PC member::Jeen Broekstra (Aduna BV, Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Knud Möller (DERI, NUIG, Ireland)
 * has PC member::Malte Kiesel (DFKI, Germany)
 * has PC member::Manfred Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland)
 * has PC member::Michael Sintek (DFKI, Germany)
 * has PC member::Pat Croke (Hewlett Packard, Galway, Ireland)
 * has PC member::Peter Mika (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
 * has PC member::Simon Phipps (Sun, UK, USA)
 * has PC member::Stéphane Laurière (Mandriva, France)
 * has PC member::Thomas Roth-Berghofer (TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI, Germany)
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S, Hannover)
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer and RWTH Aachen, Germany