OWLED 2009OWL: Experiences and Directions
OWLED 2009The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004, and specification of its successor OWL 2 is being finalised. OWL plays an important role in an increasing number and range of applications and as experience using the language grows, new ideas for further extending its reach continue to be proposed.
The OWL: Experiences and Direction (OWLED) workshop series is a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions and modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications.
This year's 2009 OWLED workshop will be co-located with the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), and the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2009). It will be held in Chantilly, VA, USA on October 23 - 24, 2009. The workshop will concentrate on issues related to the development and W3C standardization of OWL 2, and beyond, but other issues related to OWL are also of interest, particularly those related to the task forces set up at OWLED 2007.
As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions on various topics, to be decided and published at some point in the future. We ask participants to have a look at these topics and the accepted submissions before the workshop, and to prepare single "slides" that can be presented during these discussions. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to the workshop.
Minutes of the Future of OWL session on Friday can be found on the Webont Wiki (thanks to Kendall Clark). Presentation slides are available here
Slides of several presentations are linked from the schedule
| July 31st 2009 | Titles and Abstracts due |
| August 7th 2009 | Paper Submissions due |
| September 7th 2009 | Paper acceptances sent out |
| October 9th 2009 | Camera ready versions of papers due |
| October 23-24th 2009 | OWLED 2009 Workshop |
OWLED 2009 at the Westfields Conference Center near Washington, DC, co-located with the Eighth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), and the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2009).
The closest airport to Westfields is Dulles International Airport. Reagan National Airport is also reasonably close by. More information on travel to Westfields is available from the ISWC 2009 travel page.
Registration for OWLED 2009 is being handled by ISWC 2009. The registration fee will include all meals and breaks and is US$284 for those staying at the Westfields and US$334 for those not. You can register for OWLED 2009 separately from ISWC 2009 or in combination with ISWC 2009. There are two days of workshops and tutorials between OWLED 2009 and the technical program of ISWC 2009.
For more information and to register see the ISWC 2009 registration page.
Some support for student attendance will be available for OWLED 2009. Priority will be given to students with accepted papers who would have problems attending the workshop without support. There is a fixed amount of money that will be divided amongst applicants based on the location and need of the student. Support based on paper acceptance will be per paper, not per attendee.
To apply for support send email to the general chair by 14 September 2009 providing information on your situation. Also send a letter from your supervisor stating that support is needed.
These papers have been published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 529.
We invite the submission of three kinds of papers:
| Technical papers | Technical papers can be up to 10 pages, LNCS style, can be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of accepted papers. |
| Short system descriptions | We welcome systems demonstrations and invite interested parties to submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their system. |
| Statements of interest | These statements will not received full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop, but will be available to attendees of the workshop, and will be used to help schedule the workshop. Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit at least such short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). |
Accepted papers will be made available to attendees before the workshop. There will also be open registration for the workshop. Attendees who are not submitting a technical paper are encouraged to submit a statement of interest.
All statements of interest and papers must be submitted online using the conference submission website Easychair. All submissions must be in PDF. All submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
For more information on how to submit papers, see the Call for papers.
For any question please contact OWLED steering committee.