2011/6/17 Adrian Pohl <pohl_at_hbz-nrw.de>
> Due to several requests the submission deadline to the third conference
> "Semantic Web in Libraries" (SWIB), 28.-30.11.2011 in Hamburg has
> been extended to June, 30th 2011.
>
> Here, once again, the call for proposals:
>
> After the success of the "Semantic Web in Libraries" (SWIB) events in
> 2009 and 2010, the SWIB11 will take place in Hamburg from 28 to 30
> November 2011. The conference will again be organised by the North
> Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), Cologne, and the
> German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for
> Economics (ZBW), Kiel and Hamburg.
>
> A rising number of actors in librarianship and its related fields are
> experimenting with Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data
> (LOD). The LOD cloud as a whole grew by 300% in 2010, whereas the
> amount of data relevant for libraries grew by nearly 1000%. The W3C
> has created a "Linked Library Data" group to observe this development,
> whose first report is due to be published in August. The "Semantic Web
> Special Interest Group" established by IFLA shows that this topic has
> shown up on their radar as well. At the same time, the principles and
> workflows of traditional scientific communication and publication are
> under scrutiny with a view to a consistently web-based data and
> service infrastructure comprising the entire research and publication
> process. Concepts like "nano-publications", "Semantic Publishing",
> "Open Data", "Enhanced Publications" or "Research Objects" mark the
> re-orientation of academic work, away from monolithic, comparatively
> unflexible and barely interlinked reference points towards a
> distributed, comparatively granular data infrastructure which is
> continuously accessible to researchers and into which their
> contributions recognizably return.
>
> These are the questions and topics which we would like to discuss with
> you at the conference:
>
> * How do I find my way around the LOD cloud and how do I achieve
> maximum visibility for my assets?
> * How do we produce useful links to and between newly published
> datasets?
> * Where do we find best practice examples for LOD-based applications
> which show the added value created by linking assets, in particular
> domain-overlapping assets?
> * What are the trends in scholarly communication? What are the
> consequences of the transformation of traditional research and
> publication processes for libraries and what are the opportunities
> Linked Open Data can offer here?
> * Library Authority Files and their potential as LOD for library
> applications or research information systems
> * What could or should a future Linked Open Data infrastructure look
> like? Are there trends to adapt library applications or research
> environments to the Semantic Web and to support their users in RDF
> publishing?
> * Open licences as a prerequisite for LOD-based infrastructures
> * What kind of support is to be expected from W3C, international and
> national bodies for future development?
>
> These are our topics for SWIB11. Do you have an interesting project or
> research topic that should be presented at the conference? We would
> like to receive suggestions and proposals for contributions (with a
> brief abstract, no more than one page) until 20 June 2011. The
> conference will be held in German, but contributions in English are
> welcome. Please send them electronically to:
>
> Joachim Neubert
> ZBW
> Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
> E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu
>
> or
>
> Adrian Pohl
> hbz
> Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
> E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de
>
> Website: http://swib.org/swib11
> Twitter: #swib11
>
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