SemStats 2016 Call for Contributions

[Sarven Capadisli]

# SemStats 2016 Call for Contributions


## Document ID
http://semstats.org/2016/call-for-contributions


## Keywords
ISWC2016, SemStats, Linked Data, SDMX, Statistics, Statistical database,
Data integration


## Event
4th International Workshop on Semantic Statistics co-located with 15th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)


## Location
Kobe, Japan


## Date
October 17, 2016 or October 18, 2016


## Important dates
* Submission deadline: July 7th, 2016, 23:59PM Hawaii time
* Notifications to authors: July 31st 2016, 23:59PM Hawaii time


## Workshop Summary
The goal of this workshop is to explore and strengthen the relationship
between the Semantic Web and statistical communities, to provide better
access to the data held by statistical offices. It will focus on ways in
which statisticians can use Semantic Web technologies and standards in
order to formalize, publish, document and link their data and metadata,
and also on how statistical methods can be applied on linked data. It is
the fourth workshop in a series that started at the International
Semantic Web Conference in 2013 (SemStats 2013) and run since every year
at ISWC (SemStats 2014 and SemStats 2015).


## Topics
The workshop will address topics related to statistics and linked data.
This includes but is not limited to:

### How to publish linked statistics?
* What are the relevant vocabularies for the publication of statistical
data?
* What are the relevant vocabularies for the publication of statistical
metadata (code lists and classifications, descriptive metadata,
provenance and quality information, etc.)?
* What are the existing tools? Can the usual statistical software
packages (e.g. R, SAS, Stata) do the job?
* How do we include linked data production and publication in the data
lifecycle?
* How do we establish, document and share best practices?

### How to use linked data for statistics?
* Where and how can we find statistics data: data catalogues, dataset
descriptions, data discovery?
* How do we assess data quality (collection methodology, traceability,
etc.)?
* How can we perform data reconciliation, ontology matching and instance
matching with statistical data?
* How can we apply statistical processes on linked data: data analysis,
descriptive statistics, estimation, correction?
* How to intuitively represent statistical linked data: visual
analytics, results of data mining?


## Submissions
This workshop is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience of researchers
and practitioners involved or interested in Statistics and the Semantic
Web. All contributions must represent original and unpublished work that
is not currently under review. Contributions will be evaluated according
to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity,
and relevance to the workshop.

The workshop will welcome the following types of submissions:
* Full and short papers (up to 12 and 6 pages)
* Challenge papers (up to 12 pages)
* Demo papers (up to 6 pages)


## Awards
This year, SemStats will award prizes, thanks to the generous sponsoring
of the CASD:
* The best contribution to the workshop will win €1000.
* The best challenge paper will win €500

Please visit http://semstats.org/2016/call-for-contributions for more
information. If you are interested in submitting a contribution but
would like more preliminary information, please contact
semsta...@easychair.org.



-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i