The ExpertFinder Initiative

Workshop Description

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://wiki.foaf-project.org/ExpertFinder

Colocated with the General Assembly of the EU Network of Excellence KnowledgeWeb

• CTIC Foundation's position on ExpertFinder initiative
  Diego Berrueta, CTIC Foundation
  Luis Polo, CTIC Foundation
  Antonio Campos, CTIC Foundation

• ResumeRDF: Expressing skill information on the Semantic Web
  Uldis Bojars, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

FOAF and SKOS for ExpertFinding

Dan Brickley, Ph.D.

Semantic Email Addressing

Charles Petrie, Ph.D.
Stanford Computer Science Department Logic Group

Preliminary agenda for the meeting

Registration Desk from ca 8:30

In order to facilitate and enable a rich interaction environment a large part of the workshop will be dedicated towards discussion using the open-space methodology. The open-space methodology facilities and enables effective on site agenda building and execution.

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

Boanerges Aleman-Meza, University of Georgia, USA

Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2006

Notification of Acceptance: December 19th, 2006

Workshop Date: January 16, 2007

Deadline submission: December 15th, 2006

Papers should be submitted per email to expertfinderworkshop@ag-nbi.de

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.

Notification of acceptance: December 19th, 2006

CfP 1st ExpertFinder Workshop, Berlin, Germany

Call for Position Papers:
1st ExpertFinder Workshop
Berlin, January 16, 2007

co-located with the KnowledgeWeb General Assembly

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.