Call for Participation for "Semantic Web in Libraries" conference (SWIB)

[Adrian Pohl]

Hello,

you can still hand in a submission to the international conference
"Semantic Web in Bibliotheken"/"Semantic Web in Libraries" until
tomorrow. See the call for participation below.

>>> On 17.5.2012 at 14:45, "Adrian Pohl" <po...@hbz-nrw.de> wrote:
> Due to several requests the submission deadline to the forth conference
> "Semantic Web in Libraries" (SWIB), 26.-28.11.2012 in Cologne, has been
> extended to May 31, 2012. The call for proposals here once again:
>
> Call for Participation: SWIB12 "Semantic Web in Bibliotheken"
> (Semantic Web in Libraries) Conference, 26.11. - 28.11.2012, Cologne
>
> To an ever increasing extent Linked Open Data (LOD) is developing
> into a mainstream topic, with more and more organisations announcing
> LOD projects and services. Furthermore and during the last two years
> Linked Open Data has received a lot more attention from the library
> world. Examples ranging from the Library of Congress' initiative "A
> Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age", the Conference of
> European National Librarians and their vote to support the open
> licensing of their data to groups like LODLAM, IFLA'S Semantic Web
> Special Interest Group, to library system vendors and providers
> discussing and experimenting with Linked Data technology clearly
> reflect that - LOD has gained a lot of momentum in library land.
>
> The question is how to ensure that LOD won't be a temporary hype but
> that it will take hold in future infrastructures. SWIB12 will focus
> on the adaption of Semantic Web approaches in applications for
> libraries and science. In the last years lots of effort has been put
> into generating LOD datasets from legacy systems and into promoting
> the LOD approach towards a global and open information space.
> Upcoming challenges will be the strategic and technical alignment of
> catalogues and legacy systems in libraries, and authoring
> environments for scholarly communication with a data and service
> infrastructure based on Semantic Web principles.
>
> This year's SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Bibliotheken) will be
> held in Cologne from 26-28 November 2012. As in the years before,
> SWIB12 will be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library
> Service Center (hbz) and the ZBW - German National Library of
> Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. The
> conference language is English.
>
> We appreciate proposals (research reports, projects, work in
> progress, ...) on the following or related topics:
>
> * Integration of Linked Data into productive library environments
>
> * Technologies for providing, accessing and integrating Linked Data
> in a non-disruptive and lightweighted way, e.g. by means of APIs or
> WebServices
>
>
> * Enhancing authoring environments like Content Management Systems,
> blogs or wikis with Semantic Web facilities, e.g. by accessing
> Linked Open Datasets or by including semantic markup
>
> * Enhancing legacy data through integration of data from the LOD
> cloud or through FRBRizing, deduplication, crowdsourcing etc.
>
> * Applications using authority data maintained by libraries and
> possibly enriched by the community
>
> * Development of commercial or non-commercial library systems
> aligning their data models and policies with the web of data
>
> * Licensing strategies and business models for supporting the reuse
> of Linked Open Data
>
> Do you have an interesting service, research topic or project that
> you would like to present at the conference? We are looking forward
> to receiving your suggestions and proposals for contributions (with
> an abstract of 1000-1500 characters) by 20 May 2012. Please submit
> your abstract using our website at http://swib.org/swib12.
>
>
> Adrian Pohl
> hbz
> Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
> E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de
>
>
> or
>
> Joachim Neubert
> ZBW
> Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
> E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu
>
> Website: http://swib.org/swib12
> Twitter: #swib12