Fwd: FINAL CALL Workshop: Developing a Set of Provenance Principles for Linked Open Data
Paola Di Maio
From: Pignotti, E. <e.pig...@abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Workshop: Developing a Set of Provenance Principles for Linked Open Data
To:
Dear All,
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Workshop: Developing a Set of Provenance Principles for Linked Open Data
Please note that we have re-structured the workshop to a single day event.
We also have funds available to contribute towards expenses occurred attending the event.
Please get in touch with me for forward details.
Could you please circulate the email below to people you think might be interested?
Kind Regards,
Edoardo Pignotti
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eScience Institute Mini-Theme on Provenance and Linked Open Data
Workshop: Developing a Set of Provenance Principles for Linked Open Data
June 27th, 2011 10:00 – 17:30 (Dinner early evening)
Location: e-Science Institute, Edinburgh
The e-Science Institute is pleased to announce a workshop titled "Developing a Set of Provenance Principles for Linked Open Data" as part of the eSI mini-theme on Provenance and Linked Open Data (http://www.esi.ac.uk/research-themes/18). This workshop is intended for academics, researchers, PhD students, industry members, data archivists, libraries, museums, government agencies and other parties interested in provenance and Linked Open Data.
Additional information about the workshop at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1216/ and http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Developing_a_Set_of_Provenance_Principles_for_Linked_Open_Data
Registration:
If you would like to attend this event please apply to attend using the link below:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/registration/index.cfm?id=1216
Workshop Purpose/Aims:
Recently the concept of the Web of Linked Data has emerged as a means to expose, share, and connect information on the Web. According to the rating system for publishing open data (http://tinyurl.com/388x47v), 5-star open data must be expressed in a machine-readable format using open standards (such as RDF) with links to other people’s data. While this approach provides better context for supporting intelligent reasoning, publishing the provenance of open data is essential in order to enable better assessment of important attributes such as trustworthiness and quality.
In this workshop, we aim to bring together experts in Linked Data with experts in Provenance to explore principles for publishing provenance of Linked Open Data. This workshop will build on our previous workshop “Understanding Provenance and Linked Open Data” (see http://tinyurl.com/3mlyfoo for materials produced during the workshop) during which we identified a number of relevant issues and challenges (http://tinyurl.com/3gqo7dl). A small number of use-cases illustrating these issues have also been defined (see http://tinyurl.com/3gdj6j2).
The schedule is currently being finalised, but the activities of the workshop will include:
- Review of the issues identified during the previous workshop;
- Review of the use-cases developed during the previous workshop;
- Development of a set of principles for publishing Provenance of Linked Open Data;
- Inform the development of a roadmap for future directions.
About the eSI mini-theme on Provenance and Linked Open Data:
The eSI mini-theme (January - June 2011) is lead by Dr Edoardo Pignotti (Computing Science, University of Aberdeen) and is comprised of a connected programme of visitors, workshops and events, focusing on the issue of provenance and linked open data. Themes are expected to identify the research issues, rally a community of researchers and map a path of future research that will make best progress towards new methods and capabilities. Expected outcomes of this mini-theme include: a roadmap for provenance and Linked Open Data, identification of a number of use-cases, the formation of new collaborations and a journal special issue focusing on the topic.
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