<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">SePublica Semantic Publishing Workshop@ESWC (Montpellier 26-30 May); deadline 4 March</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Call for Participation: Sepublica 2013 -an ESWC Workshop</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Machine-comprehensible Documents: Bridging the Gap between Publications</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">and Data.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">** May 26-30, 2013, Montpelier, France.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Workshop Web site: </span><a href="http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/</a><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Relevant dates ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submission Deadline: March 4,2013</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Acceptance Notification: April 1,2013</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Camera-Ready: April 15,2013</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Topics ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Publishing of scholarly works is on the cusp of great change. Data is</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">now routinely published accompanied by or in some semantic form, but</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">this is not the case for scholarly works. Advances in technology have</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">made it possible for the scientific article to adopt electronic</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">dissemination channels, from paper-based journals to purely electronic</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">formats. Yet, despite the improvements in the distribution,</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">accessibility and retrieval of information, little has really changed in</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">the publishing of scholarly works compared to that of the data about</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">which scholarly works are written. The availability of data and the</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">open, digital form of scholarly works is leading to a drive to</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">semantically enable scholarly works to make the works themselves more</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">computationally useful as well as to link them intimately to the data</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">about which they are written. Sepublica is a forum in which to discuss</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">and present what is best and up and coming in semantic publishing.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">How are new technologies changing scholarly communication? How do we</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">want scholarly communication to change? Where do we want it to go?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Semantics, within publication workflows, is usually added post hoc, how</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">could we support publications to be born semantic? At Sepublica we will</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">discuss and present new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">analyzing such scientific resources as well as reasoning over the data</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">to discover new links and scientific insights. Sepublica is not,</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">however, limited to the scientific domain; the humanities, cultural</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">industries, news, commerce etc. all have published works that can</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">benefit from semantic enhancement and data to which they can link; all</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">are welcome.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">topics include, but are not limited to:</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* How could we realize a paper with an API? How could we have a</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">paper as a database, as a knowledge base?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data? How</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">could such an interface be delivered in a contextual manner?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* How are semantic scholarly works to be created?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* How are news agencies adopting technologies in support of their</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">publications? Has the delivered technology been adopted? What are the</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">experiences from news agencies been so far? Lessons learnt.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* How could semantic technologies be used to represent the knowledge</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">encoded in scientific documents and in general-interest media publications?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* What semantics and ontologies do we need for representing</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">structural elements in a document?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">* Moving from the bibliographic reference to the full content within</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">a linked</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">environment?</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Call for Papers ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sepublica 2013 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">the topics outlined above. The organizing committee is happy to discuss</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">possible submissions with authors.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches to semantic</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">publishing. We are particularly keen on submissions that are themselves</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">examples of semantic publishing of scholarly works. LaTeX documents in</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">the LNCS format can, e.g., be annotated using SALT or sTeX. We also</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">invite submissions in XHTML+RDFa or in the format of YOUR semantic</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">publishing tool. However, to ensure a fair review procedure, authors</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">must additionally produce a narrative submitted as a PDF that is</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">submitted as normal.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submission is via EasyChair</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">(</span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2013" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2013</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">).</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Papers must formatted according to the LNCS format</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Submission Types ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1. Full paper, 12 pages</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">2. Position paper, 5 pages.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">3. Software demo papers, 2 pages</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">4. Late-breaking news, 1 page.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Contact ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please email </span><a href="mailto:sepublica2013@easychair.org" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">sepublica2013@easychair.org</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> For any enquiries.</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">*** Organizing Committee ***</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Alexander Garcia Castro, </span><a href="mailto:alexgarciac@gmail.com" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">alexgarciac@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">, Florida State University</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Christoph Lange, </span><a href="mailto:math.semantic.web@gmail.com" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">math.semantic.web@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">, University of Birmingham</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Phillip Lord, </span><a href="mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">, University of Newcastle</span><br style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Robert Stevens, </span><a href="mailto:Robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">, University of Manchester</span><br clear="all">
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