Call For Participants: Scottish Linked Data Workshop 2014 (10:45-18:00, 25 Mar, Aberdeen)

[Pan, Dr Jeff Z.]

Apologies for cross-posting

The Scottish Linked Data Workshop 2014 will be held at the University of Aberdeen on March 25th, 2014. The purpose of this workshop is to inform users of some existing applications of Linked Data as well as some recent research results on understanding and exploiting Linked Data.

Registration (free, lunch included) is now available on the event website: qr.net/pE8U.

Here is the current workshop programme:

Meston Building Rm 203, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK

Tuesday, 25th March, 2014

10:45	11:00	Welcome and Introduction
11:00	12:15	Session 1: Applications and Use Cases of Linked Data (Chair: Jeff Z. Pan)
11:00	11:15	Linked Open Data in Local Government (Ian Watt, Aberdeen City Council)
11:15	11:45	Expanding the use of Linked Data in the BBC (Sofia Angeletou, BBC)
11:45	12:15	Discussion
12:15	13:15	Lunch
13:15	14:30	Session 2: Data and Requirements Understanding (Chair: Ian Watt)
13:15	13:30	Query generation over Linked Data (Honghan Wu, University of Aberdeen)
13:30	13:45	Goal driven summarisation for Linked Data (Panos Alexopoulos, iSOCO)
13:45	14:00	Towards Competency Question-driven Ontology Authoring (Yuan Ren, University of Aberdeen)
14:00	14:30	Discussion
14:30	14:45	Coffee break
14:45	16:00	Session 3: Applications and Use Cases of Linked Data (Chair: Honghan Wu)
14:45	15:00	Using Linked Data in Swirrl (Bill Roberts, Swirrl)
15:00	15:15	Extracting and Exploiting Linked Data in Social Media (Matthew Rowe, University of Lancaster)
15:15	15:45	Discussion
15:45	16:00	Coffee break
16:00	17:30	Session 4: Demos (Chair: Bill Roberts)
16:00	16:15	Query generation over Linked Data (Honghan Wu, University of Aberdeen)
16:15	16:30	Goal driven summarisation for Linked Data (Panos Alexopoulos, iSOCO)
16:30	16:45	Answering "what if ..." questions in ontology authoring (Artemis Parvizi, University of Aberdeen)
16:45	17:00	Accessing Data Through Ontologies with ONDA (Alessandro Faraotti, IBM)
17:00	17:15	Reasoning Driven Configuration of Linked Data Content Management Systems (Hai Nguyen, University of Aberdeen)
17:15	17:45	Discussion
17:45		End of Workshop

Best wishes,

Jeff

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