World Wide Web Conference 2004 – Semantic Web Track

✍ Scribed by Peter Patel-Schneider; Steffen Staab

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 25 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1570-8268
• DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2004.10.004

✦ Synopsis

From May 17-22, 2004, we experienced a week of excitement about the prospects of the Semantic Web, dealing with hot topics such as social networks, trust information and semantic peer-to-peer collaborations. What made the event very special was the level of excitement about the amount of solid work presented at the conference. Out of 99 submissions to the Semantic Web track, 18 carefully selected papers were presented at the WWW-2004 conference in New York City. Contributions demonstrated the benefits of semantic technologies for web services, search, annotation and end user applications. We invited the best papers to submit extended versions for further review for this special issue. From these we have selected the three high quality papers that we present here.

The Semantic Web track featured a whole session on distributed querying. An outstanding paper on this particular topic presented here showed methods to scale the Semantic Web in two dimensions: wide distributedness and, thus, also large size of the stored data.