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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
CfP: Special issue of the JWS on The Web of Data
Axel Polleres and David Huynh are editing a special issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on “The Web of Data” that will appear in the Summer 2009.
As the core of the Semantic Web matures, we see parallel trends such as microformats, RDFa, and Linked Data evolve with it, all of which complementing each other in what we may well call a machine-readable Web. Yet, scalable techniques to deal with this Web of Data in its entirety, i.e. using the "Web as the data base", as the Semantic Web was once envisioned, still misses some important puzzle pieces. Scalability here does not only include the ability to handle amounts of data at Web scale in terms of actual data processing, but also human-scalable and user-friendly tools that open the Web of Data to the current Web user.
This special issue shall encompass the recent trends of the "traditional" Web and the Semantic Web converging into the Web of Data.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
As the core of the Semantic Web matures, we see parallel trends such as microformats, RDFa, and Linked Data evolve with it, all of which complementing each other in what we may well call a machine-readable Web. Yet, scalable techniques to deal with this Web of Data in its entirety, i.e. using the "Web as the data base", as the Semantic Web was once envisioned, still misses some important puzzle pieces. Scalability here does not only include the ability to handle amounts of data at Web scale in terms of actual data processing, but also human-scalable and user-friendly tools that open the Web of Data to the current Web user.
This special issue shall encompass the recent trends of the "traditional" Web and the Semantic Web converging into the Web of Data.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Querying the Web of Data
- Searching and Browsing the Web of Data
- Reasoning for the Web of Data
- Using models of provenance and trust
- Probabilistic models for data integration
- Strategies for dealing with the natural inconsistencies on the Web
- Populating the Web of Data (information retrieval, linked data, automatic annotation, deep Web crawling, etc.)
- Principles and Structure of the Web of Data
- Data Models for the Web - RDF & its "alternatives" (GRDDL, RDFa, microformats,etc.)
- Personal/personalized Web of Data (particularly, consumer-oriented products)
- Tools & Mash-ups
- Web of Data vs. Web 2.0
- Web of Data and Social Networks
- The Web of Data as a New Medium
- Practical Stepping Stones & Strategies Towards the Web of Data
Submission guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the JWS Guide for Authors. The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system. Final decisions of accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief.About the Journal of Web Semantics
The Journal of Web Semantics is published by Elsevier since 2003. It is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. Editors-in-Chief: Tim Finin, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Steffen Staab For all editors information, see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/671322/editorialboard The Journal of Web Semantics offers to its authors and readers:- Free availability of papers on the Web at http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/
- Professional support with publishing by Elsevier staff
- Indexed by Thomson-Reuters web of science
- Impact factor 3.41: the third highest out of 92 titles in Thomson-Reuters' category "Computer Science, Information Systems"
Important Dates
We aim at an efficient publication cycle in order to guarantee up-to-dateness of the published results. We will review papers on a rolling basis as they are submitted and explicitly encourage submissions well before the final deadline.Submission deadline: | 21 January 2009 |
Reviews due: | 18 March 2009 |
Notification: | 30 March 2009 |
Final version submitted: | 27 April 2009 |
Publication: | July 2009 |
Contact Information
For any further questions regarding the special issue (appropriateness of your contribution, editorial issues, etc.), please feel free to contact the guest editors:- Axel Polleres (axel.polleres at deri org)
- David Huynh (dfhuynh at alum mit edu)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
JWS policy on special issues
The Journal of Web Semantics is happy to receive proposals for special issues devoted to a specific topic that is within it's scope. Successful proposals will focus on research or application areas of emerging significance or for which innovative and novel work is being done. The journal is generally not interested in mounting special issues primarily based on papers that have been published in the proceedings of a conference or workshop. A special issue (SI) proposal should include the following information.
- One or more people who will serve as the special-issue editors and work with the JWS editors in chief and/or an area editor to produce the issue. A short biosketch should be submitted for each. If there are more than one SI editor, please select one to be the lead point of contact.
- A concise description of the SI topic along with a justification of why a special issue is appropriate at this time.
- A description of the research communities that the SI will draw from or be of interest to.
- Any papers or authors that the SI editors intend to invite.
- Any constraints or preferences for publication date or number of pages for the SI.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
JWS receives high impact factor from Thomson Reuters
During the past year, the Journal of Web Semantics was added to the list of journals indexed by Thomson Reuters. Their most recent Journal Citation Report (2007) gives the JWS an impact factor of 3.41, which is the third highest out of the 92 titles in its category -- Computer Science, Information Systems.
Thomson Reuter's journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The 2007 impact factor is computed as the citations received in 2007 to all articles published in 2006 and 2005, divided by the number of "source items" published in 2006 and 2005.
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