Call for Papers: ISWC 2010 Workshop on the Role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management, SWPM 2010

The 2nd International Workshop on the Role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM 2010) will be held at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference in Shanghai, China on November 7, 2010.

The growing eScience infrastructure is enabling scientists to generate scientific data on an industrial scale. Similarly, using the Web as the platform, the Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative has created a vast amount of information that can be leveraged by Semantic Web application in a variety of real world scenarios. The importance of managing various forms of metadata has long been recognized as critical in the Semantic Web. In this workshop we focus specifically on metadata that describes the origins of the data. The term provenance from the French word “provenir”, meaning “to come from", describes the lineage or origins of a data entity. Provenance metadata is essential to correctly interpret the results of a process execution, to validate data processing tools, to verify the quality of data, and to associate measures of trust to the data. The primary objective of this workshop is two-fold, (1) to explore the role of Semantic Web in addressing some of the critical challenges facing provenance management and (2) the role of provenance in real world Semantic Web applications.

Deborah McGuinness, RPI will be a keynote speaker.

Submission of papers due: August 27, 2010

Website: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SWPM-2010