-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Volume 5, Issue 3, Datum: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:03:40 -0400 Von: Tonya Davis tonya.davis@wright.edu Antwort an: Tonya Davis tonya.davis@wright.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org CC: Dr. Sheth amit.sheth@wright.edu

The contents of the latest issue of International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 5, Issue 3, July-September 2009 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1552-6283 EISSN: 1552-6291 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijswis

Editor-in-Chief: Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA Impact factor of this journal: 1.8 Special Issue: Linked Data

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE: Special Issue on Linked Data Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

For more than a decade, researchers, and practitioners have been working to evolve the World Wide Web into a Web of data—an information space in which data can be reused and recombined in new contexts and for new tasks with a far greater degree of automation than was previously possible. In the past two years, we have witnessed a large number of theoretical and practical contributions to the field, which is most obvious in the growth of Linked Data. This special issue documents the most significant results from the various branches of research in the field, in the form of archival-quality articles.

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PAPER ONE: Linked Data - The Story So Far Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK Tim Berners-Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

The term “linked data” refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. These best practices have been adopted by an increasing number of data providers over the last three years, leading to the creation of a global data space containing billions of assertions— the Web of data. In this article, the authors present the concept and technical principles of linked data and situate these within the broader context of related technological developments. They describe progress to date in publishing linked data on the Web, review applications that have been developed to exploit the Web of data, and map out a research agenda for the linked data community as it moves forward.

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PAPER TWO: Community-Driven Linked Data Authoring and Production of Consolidated Linked Data Aman Shakya, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics and the University of Tokyo, Japan Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

User-generated content can help the growth of linked data; however, we lack interfaces enabling ordinary people to author linked data. People have multiple perspectives on the same concept and different contexts, and not enough ontologies exist to model various data. The authors propose an approach to enable people to share various data through an easy-to-use social platform and all users to define their own concepts and multiple conceptualizations. Further, concepts are grouped semi-automatically by similarity. The authors also implement social software, called StYLiD, to realize our approach. It serves as a platform motivating people to bookmark and share different things. This article also uses experimental observations to support the validity of the approach.

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PAPER THREE: Searching Linked Objects with Falcons: Approach, Implementation and Evaluation Gong Cheng, Southeast University, China Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, China

Along with the rapid growth of the data Web, searching linked objects for information needs and for reusing have become an emergent for ordinary Web users and developers, respectively. To meet the challenge, the authors present falcons object search, a keyword-based search engine for linked objects. To serve various keyword queries for each object, the system constructs a comprehensive virtual document including not only associated literals but also the textual descriptions of associated links and linked objects. The resulting objects are ranked by considering both their relevance to the query and their popularity. For each resulting object, a query-relevant structured snippet is provided to show the associated literals and linked objects matched with the query. Web-scale class-inclusion reasoning is performed to discover implicit typing information.

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PAPER FOUR: A URI is Worth a Thousand Tags: From Tagging to Linked Data with MOAT Alexandre Passant, National University of Ireland, Ireland Philippe Laublet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France John G. Breslin, National University of Ireland, Ireland Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Although tagging is a widely accepted practice on the social Web, it raises various issues like tags ambiguity and heterogeneity, as well as the lack of organization between tags. The authors believe that Semantic Web technologies help solve many of these issues, especially considering the use of formal resources from the Web of data in support of existing tagging systems and practices. In this article, the authors present the MOAT—meaning of a tag—ontology and framework and detail motivations and benefits of the approach, both in an enterprise 2.0 ecosystem and on the Web.

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*********************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.infosci-journals.com. ************************************* Mission of IJSWIS:

The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) is an archival journal that publishes high quality original manuscripts in all aspects of Semantic Web that are relevant to computer science and information systems communities. IJSWIS is an open forum aiming to cultivate the Semantic Web vision within the information systems research community. The main focus is on information systems discipline and working towards the delivery of the main implications that the Semantic Web brings to information systems and the information/knowledge society.

Coverage of IJSWIS: The journal’s area of interest is a superset of topics covered in conferences such as International Semantic Web Conference, European Semantic Web Conference, Asian Semantic Web Conference, the World Wide Web—Semantic Web track, and others. Topics to be discussed in the journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

Beyond Semantic Web (e.g., extending meaning with perception and experience) Enterprise application integration

From e-government to e-democracy

Integration with other disciplines Intelligent systems Metadata-driven (bottom-up) versus ontology-driven (top-down) SW development New Semantic Web enabled business models New Semantic Web enabled information systems New Semantic Web enabled tools for the citizen/ learner/ organization/ business Ontologies, folksonomies, and associated knowledge representation issues Real world applications towards the development of the knowledge society Semantic enabled business intelligence Semantic Web applications on the Web, enterprises, desktops, personal and mobile devices, e-science and e-government applications, and associated issues of provenance, trust, privacy, security, quality, scalability, and performance Semantic Web data management Semantic Web issues, challenges, and implications in each of the IS research streams Semantics and human computer interfaces including visualization and mashups Semantics in business processes and distributed computing and services Social Semantic Web and people Web standards

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijswis.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Amit Sheth at amit.sheth@wright.edu