[Asis-l] FW: First Linked Science workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded by request.  Dick Hill]

First Linked Science workshop collocated with the Tenth International
Semantic Web Conference, October 23-27, 2011, Bonn, Germany

http://data.linkedscience.org/events/lisc2011

http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/workshops/

Submission Deadline: Aug 15, 2011
Notification Due: Sep 5, 2011
Final Version Due: Sep 16, 2011

Scientific efforts are traditionally published only as articles, with an
estimate of millions of publications worldwide per year; the growth rate of
PubMed alone is now 1 papers per minute. The validation of scientific
results requires reproducible methods, which can only be achieved if the
same data, processes, and algorithms as those used in the original
experiments were available. However, the problem is that although
publications, methods and datasets are very related, they are not always
openly accessible and interlinked.  Even where data is discoverable,
accessible and assessable, significant challenges remain in the reuse of the
data, in particular facilitating the necessary correlation, integration and
synthesis of data across levels of theory, techniques and disciplines. In
the LISC 2011 (1st International Workshop on Linked Science) we will discuss
and present results of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and
analyzing such scientific resources motivated by driving scientific
requirements, as well as reasoning over the data to discover interesting new
links  and scientific insights.

Making entities identifiable and referenceable using URIs augmented by
semantic, scientifically relevant annotations greatly facilitates access and
retrieval for data which used to be hardly accessible. This Linked Science
approach, i.e., publishing, sharing and interlinking scientific resources
and data, is of particular importance for scientific research, where sharing
is crucial for facilitating reproducibility and collaboration within and
across disciplines. This integrated process, however, has not been
established yet. Bibliographic contents are still regarded as the main
scientific product, and associated data, models and software are either not
published at all, or published in separate places, often with no reference
to the respective paper.

In the workshop we will discuss whether and how new emerging technologies
(Linked Data, and semantic technologies more generally) can realize the
vision of Linked Science. We see that this depends on their enabling
capability throughout the research process, leading up to extended
publications and data sharing environments. Our workshop aims to address
challenges related to enabling the easy creation of data bundles - data,
processes, tools, provenance and annotation - supporting both publication
and reuse of the data. Secondly,  we look for tools and methods for the easy
correlation, integration and synthesis of shared data. This problem is often
found in many disciplines (including astronomy, biology, climate change
research, geosciences, cultural heritage, etc.), as they need to span
techniques, levels of theory, scales, and disciplines. With the advent of
Linked Science, it is timely and crucial to address these identified
research challenges through both practical and formal approaches.

More information is available at the URLs above.

Line

Line C. Pouchard
Staff Scientist
Extreme Scale Systems Center
Computer Science and Mathematics
DataONE Integration and Semantics WG
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367
865-574-6125
linepouchard at gmail.com