Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics on Semantic Statistics

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Call For Papers: Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics on Semantic Statistics

Submission Deadline: 15th December, 2016

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-semantic-statistics

Topics of interest include the following:

 . The application of Semantic Web technologies and standards to the formalization, publishing, analysis and linking of statistical and census datasets and metadata;
 . The application of statistical methods to Linked Data;
 . Vocabularies and ontologies to support the publishing, discovery, linking and re-use of statistical metadata (code lists and classifications, descriptive metadata, provenance and quality information, etc.);
 . Facilitating the re-use of national census datasets via RDF/linked open data approaches using vocabularies and ontologies (e.g. RDF data cubes);
 . Using statistical approaches (e.g. R, SAS, Stata) to derive semantic reasoning, inferencing and classification rules;
 . Representing and inferring the quality of linked data using statistically rigorous methods;
 . Comparisons, analytics, alignment and enrichment of statistical (census) data and associated concepts using semantics;
 . Improving statistical matching and linkage methods using semantic information;
 . Methods for performing data reconciliation, ontology matching, instance matching on statistical data;
 . Representing, correlating and analysing Linked Statistical data.