Final Call for Position Papers (deadline 15 December):

1st ExpertFinder Workshop
Berlin, January 16, 2007
co-located with the KnowledgeWeb General Assembly

http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/

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The ExpertFinder initiative is pleased to announce its first workshop focusing
on research issues and application in the area of devising
vocabulary extensions
and best practices to annotate personal home pages, pages of institutions,
conferences, publication indexes, etc. with adequate semantic metadata to find
experts on particular topics.

We consider this area a highly relevant application field in the
middle ground of
Social Networking and Semantic Web technologies. Many efforts have
already been put
into devising related vocabularies and enabling technologies. In order
to get closer to real-world applications and industrial uptake, alignment
of these efforts is necessary, which is the mission of the ExpertFinder
initiative, see also:

http://www.rdfweb.org/topic/ExpertFinder

Introduction:
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ExpertFinder is an international collaborative initiative with the aim of
devising vocabulary and rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best
practices and recommendations towards standardization in order to annotate
personal home pages, pages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes,
etc. with adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on
particular topics.

With the present workshop we are seeking position papers from
various organisations
engaged in this area. In particular, we are looking for research contributions
and practical applications which can address social and industrial needs by
facilitating computer agents in the identification of and communication with
relevant expertise and socially interlinking individuals, companies and public
institutions.

Use cases for such technologies cover a wide range: generation and maintenance
of institutional websites and metadata, human resource management, reviewer
selection in scientific events, trust and security, enhancing technology
platforms such as for instance CORDIS with metadata, topic-based email
addressing with intelligent filtering, etc.
(see also http://rdfweb.org/topic/ExpertFinderUseCases )

Submission Information:
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We encourage the submission of Position Papers which should describe your
organisation and interests or overlaps of interest with at least one of the
following topics:

* Collaborative expert finding with semantic web technologies
* RDF vocabularies and Ontologies for social networking
* Enabling technologies such as rules extensions for interlinking metadata,
recommendation algorithms, semantic search engines, etc. and their use
in present projects and use cases (ideally related to the use cases
mentioned above)
* Best practices and standardization for Semantic Web metadata annotation
or enriched Web content in general (e.g. microformats, etc.).
* Possible impact of Social Networking and Semantic Web Technologies
to Industry.

Papers should try to answer the following three questions:
* What current research or applications relevant to the ExpertFinder
idea are you pursuing?
* What future plans or vision do you share with ExpertFinder?
* What practical obstacles or research challenges are to be
overcome to make ExpertFinder vision come real?

Full references should be provided as well as the names and email addresses
of all authors. Submissions will be evaluated by the workshop organisers
for relevance.

Registration and Important Dates:
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For every accepted position paper at least one of the authors is expected
to attend the workshop. A position paper is not required for participation,
however due to limited space, registration will be required. Registration
information will be announced on the workshop website once the number of
accepted position papers is known.

Papers should be crisp (no more than three pages at 12pt text) and can be
submitted in PDF or HTML format.

The presenters of position papers will be asked to give a 10 min presentation
highlighting their ideas. Both position papers and presentation slides will
be published on the public website of the initiative.

Position papers are due by December 15, 2006 and should be submitted
per email to

expertfinderworkshop@ag-nbi.de

Notification of acceptance will be made by December 19, 2006.

Goals of the Workshop:
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The aim of the workshop is for participants to present their work and ideas in
the area and to discuss and agree on future directions and cooperations:
Initiative members will present the background to the ExpertFinder initiative,
an overview of the state of the art and propose directions for joint
alignment of
research, development and standardization efforts in the area to
maximize value
and achieve a critical mass.

Each accepted proposal will make a short presentation of their ideas
and we will
try to interactively gather relations and collect missing pieces to
make the ExpertFinder
vision become real. This means that most of the time will be
allocated for open discussion
among all participants or split into subgroups in order to work out
a concrete research
agenda and to consolidate and align current efforts.

Venue and Date:
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The workshop will take place in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday, January
16 2007 parallel
to the General Assembly of the EU Network of Excellence
KnowledgeWeb. All KnowledgeWeb
partners and Industry Board members will have the opportunity to
attend the workshop.
For travel information, see the General Assembly website:
http://www.ag-nbi.de/conf/KWEB07/

Organizers:
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Dr Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Dr Anna V. Zhdanova, University of Surrey, UK
Lyndon J B Nixon, FU Berlin, Germany
Malgorzata Mochol, FU Berlin, Germany

The organizers are grateful for sponsorship by the EU NoE Knowledge Web and
the Knowledge Nets project, which is part of the InterVal-Berlin
Research Centre
for the Internet Economy, funded by the German Ministry of Research (BMBF).

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