ISWC 2014

ISWC 2014 is taking place on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. However, I won’t have much time to relax on the lake. Look out for my tweets (@gray_alasdair).

My conference activities start on Sunday 19 October with the first workshop on Context, Interpretation and Meaning (CIM2014), which together with Harry Halpin (W3C) and Fiona McNeill (Heriot-Watt University) I am a chair. We have managed to put together an interesting selection of 5 papers – two focusing on the context of links, two on the interpretation of alignments and one on the meaning of mappings. I am a co-author on this final paper, but Kerstin Forsberg will be presenting the work (Hussain et al., 2014). We also have an exciting panel session in store with Aldo Gangemi (CNR), Paul Groth (VU University of Amsterdam) and Harry Halpin.

Also taking place on Sunday is the Linked Science Workshop (LISC). Together with Simon Jupp and James Malone of the EBI we have a paper on modelling the provenance for linksets of convenience (Jupp, Malone and Gray, 2014). A linkset of convenience is one that does not model the underlying science correctly, but provides a convenient shortcut for linking data. An example from the world of biology is a linkset that directly links genes with their protein product.

On Monday I will be working with the W3C RDF Stream Processing (RSP) Community Group. We have been having regular phone meetings for the last year and have made great progress towards defining a common community model for RDF streams and a query language for processing them. The group will largely be attending the Stream Ordering Workshop and the Semantic Sensor Networks Workshop.

Tuesday is the first day of ISWC, and it is going to be a busy one for me. In the morning I will be presenting the Open PHACTS paper on our work enabling scientific lenses for chemistry data (Batchelor et al., 2014). In the evening I will be at the poster and demonstration session showing off the Open PHACTS VoID Editor (Goble, Gray and Tatakis, 2014).

Finally, I am organising the Lightning Talks session on the last day of the conference. This is a session where you can present late breaking results or responses to work presented in the conference. Talks will be 5 minutes each and abstracts can be submitted until 8.30 am on Thursday.

After ISWC I think I’m going to need a break.

1. A Justification-based Semantic Framework for Representing , Evaluating and Utilizing Terminology Mappings
   Hussain, Sajjad and Sun, Hong and Erturkmen, Gokce Banu Laleci and Yuksel, Mustafa and Mead, Charles and Gray, Alasdair J G and Forsberg, Kerstin
   In Context Interpretation and Meaning, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2014
   

   Use of medical terminologies and mappings across them are consid- ered to be crucial pre-requisites for achieving interoperable eHealth applica- tions. However, experiences from several research projects have demonstrated that the mappings are not enough. Also the context of the mappings is needed to enable interpretation of the meaning of the mappings. Built upon these experi- ences, we introduce a semantic framework for representing, evaluating and uti- lizing terminology mappings together with the context in terms of the justifica- tions for, and the provenance of, the mappings. The framework offers a plat- form for i) performing various mappings strategies, ii) representing terminology mappings together with their provenance information, and iii) enabling termi- nology reasoning for inferring both new and erroneous mappings. We present the results of the introduced framework using the SALUS project where we evaluated the quality of both existing and inferred terminology mappings among standard terminologies.

   @inproceedings{Hussain2014CIM,
     address = {Riva del Garda, Italy},
     author = {Hussain, Sajjad and Sun, Hong and Erturkmen, Gokce Banu Laleci and Yuksel, Mustafa and Mead, Charles and Gray, Alasdair J G and Forsberg, Kerstin},
     booktitle = {Context Interpretation and Meaning},
     title = {{A Justification-based Semantic Framework for Representing , Evaluating and Utilizing Terminology Mappings}},
     url = {http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~fm206/cim14/cim20140_submission_2.pdf},
     month = oct,
     year = {2014}
   }
   
2. Capturing Provenance for a Linkset of Convenience
   Jupp, Simon and Malone, James and Gray, Alasdair J. G.
   In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Science 2014 - Making Sense Out of Data (LISC2014) co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014., pages 71–75, 2014
   

   Biological interactions such as those between genes and proteins are complex and require intricate OWL models. However, direct links between biological entities can support search and data integration. In this paper we introduce linksets of convenience that capture these direct links. We show the provenance statements required to track the derivation of such linksets; linking them back to the full biological justification.

   @inproceedings{JuppMG14,
     author = {Jupp, Simon and Malone, James and Gray, Alasdair J. G.},
     title = {Capturing Provenance for a Linkset of Convenience},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Science 2014 - Making Sense
                    Out of Data {(LISC2014)} co-located with the 13th International Semantic
                    Web Conference {(ISWC} 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014.},
     pages = {71--75},
     month = oct,
     year = {2014},
     url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1282/lisc2014_submission_7.pdf}
   }
   
3. Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry Data
   Batchelor, Colin R. and Brenninkmeijer, Christian Y. A. and Chichester, Christine and Davies, Mark and Digles, Daniela and Dunlop, Ian and Evelo, Chris T. A. and Gaulton, Anna and Goble, Carole A. and Gray, Alasdair J. G. and Groth, Paul T. and Harland, Lee and Karapetyan, Karen and Loizou, Antonis and Overington, John P. and Pettifer, Steve and Steele, Jon and Stevens, Robert and Tkachenko, Valery and Waagmeester, Andra and Williams, Antony J. and Willighagen, Egon L.
   In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8796, pages 98–113, Springer, 2014
   (Alphabetical authorship)
   

   @inproceedings{Batchelor:SciLenses:ISWC2014,
     author = {Batchelor, Colin R. and Brenninkmeijer, Christian Y. A. and Chichester, Christine and Davies, Mark and Digles, Daniela and Dunlop, Ian and Evelo, Chris T. A. and Gaulton, Anna and Goble, Carole A. and Gray, Alasdair J. G. and Groth, Paul T. and Harland, Lee and Karapetyan, Karen and Loizou, Antonis and Overington, John P. and Pettifer, Steve and Steele, Jon and Stevens, Robert and Tkachenko, Valery and Waagmeester, Andra and Williams, Antony J. and Willighagen, Egon L.},
     title = {Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry
                    Data},
     booktitle = {The Semantic Web - {ISWC} 2014 - 13th International Semantic Web Conference,
                    Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Part {I}},
     series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
     volume = {8796},
     pages = {98--113},
     publisher = {Springer},
     month = oct,
     year = {2014},
     note = {(Alphabetical authorship)},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11964-9\_7},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-11964-9\_7}
   }
   
4. Help me describe my data: A demonstration of the Open PHACTS VoID Editor
   Goble, Carole A. and Gray, Alasdair J. G. and Tatakis, Eleftherios
   In Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters & Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014., CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1272, pages 29–32, CEUR-WS.org, 2014
   (Demo paper)
   

   @inproceedings{Goble:VoIDEditor:ISWC2014,
     author = {Goble, Carole A. and Gray, Alasdair J. G. and Tatakis, Eleftherios},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ISWC} 2014 Posters {\&} Demonstrations Track a track within the 13th International Semantic Web Conference, {ISWC} 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 21, 2014.},
     editor = {Horridge, Matthew and Rospocher, Marco and van Ossenbruggen, Jacco},
     month = oct,
     note = {(Demo paper)},
     pages = {29--32},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
     title = {Help me describe my data: {A} demonstration of the Open {PHACTS} VoID Editor},
     url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1272/paper\_33.pdf},
     volume = {1272},
     year = {2014}
   }
   

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