Best paper award -Sepublica, ESWC workshop

1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011)
 http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org
 at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)

 http://www.eswc2011.org

 May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
 Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK.
 “Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”

 SUBMISSION DEADLINE February 28

BEST PAPER AWARD

ELSEVIER BEST SEMANTIC PAPER AWARD

The Best Paper Award is presented to the author(s) deemed to have 
written the paper covering the most innovative and feasible proposal 
concerning semantic publishing in the workshop. All submissions to the 
SePuBlica workshop will be considered, and a panel of experts will rate 
the papers according to originality of the idea, feasibility and 
 presentation. The Best Paper award is sponsored by Elsevier as an 
incentive for researchers working on defining the next generation of 
scientific publishing concepts.  The Best Paper Award will be handed out
 at the end of the SePuBlica workshop.

As a cash prize, the Best Paper Award will receive: US$ 750

The runner-up will be awarded a prize of US$ 250.

 

SEPUBLICA

 The MISSION of the SePublica workshop is to bring together researchers

 and practitioners dealing with different aspects of Semantic

 Technologies in the Publishing Industry. How is the Semantic Web
 impacting the publishing industry? How is our experience of
 publications changing because of Semantic Web technologies being
 applied to the publishing industry?

 The CHALLENGE of the Semantic Web is to allow the Web to move from a
 dissemination platform to an interactive platform for networked
 information. The Semantic Web promises to “fundamentally change our
 experience of the Web”.

 In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and
 retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing
 industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for
 scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in

 general; however, most of that information remains locked up in
 discrete documents, which are poorly interconnected to one another and
 to the Web.

 The connectivity tissues provided by RDF technology and the Social Web

 have barely made an impact on scientific communication nor on ebook
 publishing, neither on the format of publications, nor on repositories
 and digital libraries. The worst problem is in accessing and reusing

 the computable data which the literature represents and describes.

 • Consider research publications: Data sets and code are essential
 elements of data intensive research, but these are absent when the
 research is recorded and preserved in perpetuity by way of a scholarly

 journal article.
 • Or consider news reports: Governments increasingly make public
 sector information available on the Web, and reporters use it, but
 news reports very rarely contain fine-grained links to such data

 sources.

 QUESTIONS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

 • What does a network of truly interconnected papers look like?
 How could interoperability across documents be enabled?
 • How could concept-centric social networks emerge?

 • Are blogs and wikis new means for scholarly communication?
 • What lessons can be learned from humanities and social science publishers
 (i.e. going beyond scientific publishing towards scholarly publishing)?

 • How could we move beyond the PDF?
 How can we embed and link semantics in EPUB and other e-book formats?
 • How are digital libraries related to semantic e-science?
 What is the relationship between a paper and its digital library?

 • How could we realize a paper with an API?
 How could we have a paper as a database, as a knowledge base?
 • How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?
 How could such and interface be delivered in a contextual manner?

 • How could RDF(a) and ontologies be used to represent the knowledge encoded
 in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?
 • What ontologies do we need for representing structural elements in a document?

 • How can we capture the semantics of rhetorical structures in
 scholarly communication, and of  hypotheses and scientific evidence?

 AUDIENCE

 • researchers from diverse backgrounds such as argumentative

 structures, scholarly communication, multi-modality in publications,
 digital libraries, semantics in publications, and ontology
 engineers.
 • practitioners active in the publishing industry, repositories of

 experimental information and document standards.

 IMPORTANT DATES

 Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: February 28, 23:59 Hawaii Time
 Acceptance Notification: April 1
 Camera Ready Version: April 15

 SePublica Workshop: May 29 or May 30 (to be announced)

 SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

 Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5
 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be
 submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted

 according to the LNCS format

 http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

 We encourage the submission of semantic documents. LaTeX documents in

 the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT
 (http://salt.semanticauthoring.org) or sTeX
 (http://trac.kwarc.info/sTeX/)

. We also invite submissions in

 XHTML+RDFa or in the format or YOUR semantic publishing tool.
 However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors must additionally
 export them to PDF.  For submissions that are not in the LNCS PDF
 format, 400 words count as one page. Submissions that exceed the page

 limit will be rejected without review.

 Depending on the number and quality of submissions, authors might
 be invited to present their papers during a poster session.

 Please submit your paper via EasyChair at

 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2011

 The author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not have a

 double-blind review process in place.

 Submissions will be peer reviewed by three independent
 reviewers. Accepted papers have to be presented at the workshop
 (requires registering for the ESWC conference and the workshop) and
 will be included in the workshop proceedings that are published online

 at CEUR-WS.

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Christopher Baker, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada
 • Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA
 • Oscar Corcho, Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

 • Stéphane Corlosquet, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
 • Joe Corneli, Open University, UK
• Michael Dreusicke, PAUX Technologies, Germany
• Henrik Eriksson,  Linköping University, Sweden
 • Benjamin Good, Genomic Institute, Novartis, USA

 • Tudor Groza, University of Queensland, Australia
• Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany
 • Sebastian Kruk, knowledgehives.com, Poland
 • Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research, Austria

 • Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK
 • Matthias Samwald, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
 • Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
 • Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
 • Robert Stevens, Manchester University, UK

 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 • Alexander García Castro, University of Bremen, Germany
 • Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
 • Anita de Waard, Elsevier, USA/Netherlands
 • Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA

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