5th Linked Data on the Web Workshop at WWW2012 in Lyon, France
News from Apr 24, 2012
Together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee (W3C/MIT, USA), Tom Heath (Talis Information Ltd, UK) and Michael Hausenblas (DERI, Irland), Christian Bizer organizied the 5th Linked Data on the Web Workshop at the 21st World Wide Web Conference in Lyon, France.
The Web is continuing to develop from a medium for publishing textual documents into a medium for sharing structured data. In 2011, the Web of Linked Data grew to a size of about 32 billion RDF triples, with contributions coming increasingly from companies, governments and other public sector bodies such as libraries, statistical bodies or environmental agencies. In parallel, Google, Yahoo and Bing have established the schema.org initiative, a shared set of schemata for publishing structured data on the Web that focuses on vocabulary agreement and low barriers of entry for data publishers. These developments create a positive feedback loop for data publishers and highlight new opportunities for commercial exploitation of Web data. In this context, the LDOW2012 workshop provides a forum for presenting the latest research on Linked Data and driving forward the research agenda in this area.
The workshop was attended by around 170 people. Thanks a lot to the authors of the presented papers, the members of the LDOW programme committee, as well as to all participants for making LDOW2012 such a great success.
All papers and presentation slides from the workshop are available on the LDOW2012 website. Some photos from the workshop are found below.
LDOW2012 follows the successful LDOW2008 workshop in Beijing, the LDOW2009 workshop in Madrid, the LDOW2010 workshop in Raleigh, and LDOW2011 workshop in Hyderabat, Inda.
Panel discussion about the relationship between Linked Data, RDFa, Microdata, Microformats and Web APIs. Panelists from left to right:Peter Mika (Yahoo!), Yves Raimond (BBC), Ivan Herman (W3C), Tim Berners-Lee (W3C).
