Themes of STeP 2006

Semantic Web at Work — best practises and practical applications

The Semantic Web is a research and application area where artificial intelligence techniques, such as knowledge representation and reasoning techniques are combined with web technologies and applied to the domain of sharing and reusing knowledge and services on the web. There are already many standards in use, such as RDF and OWL, and lots of tools and methodologies are being developed for creating applications. However, at the moment the number of practical semantic web applications on the web is not very large in comparison with the wide interest in the area.

This workshop focuses on the practical aspects of making the vision of the Semantic Web through in practice. We solicit papers about applications on the web that explain and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using semantic web technologies in real life. The theme will be discussed from two viewpoints. From the application developers' viewpoint, best practices and methodologies of creating ontologies and semantic web systems is in focus. From the end-user's viewpoint, the semantic services and innovative user interface designs are discussed, as well as issues related to the content creation and harvesting processes on the web.

Selected research papers will be reviewed and published in the symposium proceedings.

For more information, please contact the session chair
Prof. Eero Hyvönen, firstname.lastname@tkk.fi