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Eric Miller Interview Volume 1 Issue 2 SIGSEMIS July 2004 Bulletin Theme: “SW Challenges http://www.sigsemis.org for KM” The Official Bimonthly Newsletter of AIS Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems SIGSEMIS © 2004 Inside Bulletin EDITORIAL… Editorial................................1 For the second time AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin is on air. We would like to thank SIGSEMIS Activities ...........2 Eric Miller Interview...........3 you for your warm receipt of the first issue which gives us a motive to IJSWIS Announcement ....11 continue our volunteer hard work towards more activities and services for our Dialogue Column..............18 research community. Our portal site at www.sigsemis.org had 1650 unique Special Issue Theme..........23 visitors (and same number of AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin 1(1) downloads) from Research in Progress over 50 countries. Inside this issue you can find many interesting things. A Column...............................68 call for papers for our SIG Official Peer Reviewed Journal which will be Special Section: DERI........73 published by IDEA Group (inaugural issue 1/2005). I invite you to consider Chris Bussler Interview....74 this publication outlet as an interesting and high quality journal in which we Regular Columns ..............93 will put all of our efforts in order to meet your high standards for quality and Semantic Search to communicate high impact research. Technologies ......................93 SW Technologies ...............99 Methodologies for SW....103 The special theme that is discussed in this issue is Semantic Web Challenges SW Basics..........................113 for Knowledge Management: towards the Knowledge Web. We would like to SW Calendar ....................115 thank all the contributors of the short articles and especially the directors and SW Research Centers......119 Professors Christoph Bussler and Dieter Fensel of Digital Enterprise Research Projects Corner ................123 Institute (DERI) who contributed to the special section of DERI presentation. Students Corner...............125 We do believe that you will be amazed by the quality of the work (done and in Books Corner ...................128 progress) at this Leading Institute.We would like to welcome our four new Job Vacancies ...................130 regular columnists: Peter Alesso (Semantic Search Technology Column), Jessica SW Challenge ..................131 Chen Burger (Semantic Web Technologies), Matteo Cristani (Methodologies for the SIG Board Members........132 Good summer........................ Semantic Web Column), and Madhu Therani (Semantic Web Basics Column) and to invite you reading their interesting columns. TOP NEWS In the second issue you will find two excellent interviews: Prof. Christoph CFP for ECIS 2005 Bussler from DERI and Eric Miller, Activity Lead of W3C Semantic Web SW and IS track Activity, comment on the current and the future role of the Semantic Web. Finally we would like to communicate one more interesting piece of news: Our AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin SIGSEMIS track in ECIS-2005 (http://www.ecis2005.de/semantic.html), Editor Regensburg Germany, for which you can find the relevant call for papers in Miltiadis Lytras Page 2. EB members Gottfried Vossen Lina Zhou We are looking forward to your active participation and collaboration to our Gerd Wagner initiative: SIG SEMIS is an open forum: We invite you to join us Ambjorn Naeve (http://www.aisnet.org/sigs.shtml) and to share your thoughts and William Grosky perspectives. York Sure And all the SIGBoard We would like finally to wish all the best to the new President of AIS Rick Members (see page 136) Watson and to declare that we share and we are great supporters of his dream for Association for Information Systems (www.aisnet.org). On behalf of SIG SEMIS Board, Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras Athens University of Economics and Business Department of Management Science and Technology ELTRUN - The Research Center, URL://www.eltrun.gr AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 2, July 2004, page 1/136 AIS SIGSEMIS ACTIVITIES By SIG Board ECIS 2005 Semantic Web and Information Systems Track [ http://www.ecis2005.de/semantic.html ] The 13th European Conference on Information Systems will be held in Regensburg, Germany. It is organized by the Institute for Management of Information Systems at the University of Regensburg. The ECIS will take place from May 26 to 28, the Doctoral Consortium from May 23 to 25. [more info: http://www.ecis2005.de/index.html] Track Chairs: Gottfried Vossen, University of Münster, Germany Miltiadis Lytras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Track Committee Richard Benjamins (Intelligent Software Components), William Grosky (University of Michigan), Lakshmi S. Iyer (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Henry Kim (York University), Kinshuk (Massey University), Ralf Klischewski (University of Hamburg), Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University), Ambjorn Naeve (Royal Institute of Technology-KTH), Demetrios Sampson (University of Piraeus), Amit Sheth (CTO Semagix, University of Georgia), York Sure (University of Karlsruhe), Kim Veltman (Maastricht McLuhan Institute), Gerd Wagner (Eindhoven University of Technology), Lina Zhou (University of Maryland) Call For Papers The Semantic Web (SW) poses new challenges to Information Systems. A first observation concerning the current situation is that the field of SW is dominated by rather technical approaches exhibiting a lack of multidisciplinary contributions and insights. From this perspective this track attempts to fill this gap, with a special emphasis on demystifying the Semantic Web and revealing novel opportunities for value exploitation. With the common practice of considering the Semantic Web as a technology-driven phenomenon, we will contribute to a scientific debate, which reveals the practical implications and the research challenges of SW in the context of Information Systems. Our approach should go beyond the traditional research agenda of Information Systems and critical themes will be analyzed through a Semantic Web perspective in horizontal and vertical pillars. The main objective is to communicate high quality research findings in the leading-edge aspects of Semantic Web and Information Systems convergence. This statement distinguishes this track from traditional SW tracks: Traditionally, the Semantic Web is treated as a technological phenomenon with the main emphasis on technologies, languages and tools without similar attention given to theoretical constructions or linkages to multidisciplinary references: Our focus is on the Information Systems Discipline and we are working towards the delivery of the main implications that the Semantic Web brings to Information Systems and the Information/Knowledge Society. Suggested topics: - Semantic Web Issues, Challenges and Implications in each of the IS research streams - Towards the development of the Knowledge society - New Semantic Web enabled Tools for the citizen/ learner/ organization/ business - New Semantic Web enabled Business Models - New Semantic Web enabled Information systems and knowledge repositories - Integration with other disciplines - Intelligent Systems - Standards - Semantic enabled business intelligence - Enterprise Application Integration - Metadata-driven (bottom-up) versus ontology-driven (top-down) SW development AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 2, July 2004, page 2/136 BEST PAPER will be invited for publication in AIS SIGSEMIS official peer reviewed journal: International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems. An Interview with Eric Miller Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative “Together, we make the Semantic Web a reality...” Eric Miller Semantic Web Activity Lead W3C World Wide Web Consortium 200 Technology Square, NE43-350 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA URL://http://www.w3.org/People/EM/ Miltiadis: Eric we are delighted you agreed to this interview. Let start by asking you to provide me your general idea on how W3C's SW Activity is going? Eric: In short, fantastic! It's been a very exciting past few years for the Semantic Web It's been a very Activity in terms of standards work, deployment and wide scale uptake of these exciting past few technologies. There is much still to do, but the quality of the work, the passion of the years for the people, and the benefits we're seeing for the Web make for an extremely exciting time. Semantic Web Activity in terms of Miltiadis: What does your role as the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative involve? standards work, deployment and Eric: My responsibilities include the architectural and technical leadership in the design wide scale uptake and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. This involves working with W3C of these members so that both working groups in the Semantic Web activity, as well as other technologies. W3C activities, produce Web standards that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally my responsibilities include fostering support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by demonstrating the benefits and means of participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work. Miltiadis: Your work in W3C concerning specifications is considered as of critical importance for the evolution of SW. In what phase are we now? “We internally Eric:
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