Alexandre Passant

We're glad to announce that the second edition of the SPOT workshop - Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web - will be held at ESWC2010.

More than ever, the Semantic Web is becoming reality as it is an integrated component of the Web we are browsing everyday - be it the Open Linked Data movement that nowadays exposes over 10 billion triples of RDF or the annotated and structured information available on Web pages used by major search engines, such as Yahoo! SearchMonkey and Google. Moreover, social data about people and their interaction is made available in machine-understandable format in projects like FOAF or SIOC. Facing this amount of data, privacy and trust consideration is an important step to take right now. The challenging research questions arising from this movement include:

• How do people know that the data gathered from several sources for reasoning purposes can be trusted?
• How can one avoid that personal data exposed on the Semantic Web will be combined with other available semantic data in a way that sensitive information may be revealed?
• How shall a safe reasoning process look like that does not end up in a conflict only because a single Semantic Web peer exposed a contradiction?

As last year, we expect both theoretical and practical contributions (including demos) on these hot topics.
For more information about the workshop, deadlines, etc. please check the SPOT2010 website.

I'm happy to announce that the proceedings of the upcoming ESWC2009 Worshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT2009) have just been published via CEUR-WS (ISSN: 1613-0073) on Vol-447.

The proceedings include the 9 papers that have been selected for the workshop (from a total of 16 submissions - a big thanks to all the PC members for their work !) as well as the abstract of the keynote that will be given by Prof. Piero Bonatti and a workshop preface. This is the opportunity to read them before the event in order to engage discussions at the workshop if you'll attend it. In any case you will get an overview of recent research trends on the topic, papers varying from theoretical approaches to software implementations on the topics of trust and privacy on the (Social and Semantic) Web.

Due to multiple requests, we just extended the deadline for the
SPOT2009 - Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web workshop at ESWC09 to 11 March 2009, 11:59pm UTC

Hence, you have a few days left to submit your (short and long) papers as well as demo and application reports, whatever they are theorical or practical contributions to the field of trust and privacy on the Web.

Please note that this is a hard deadline which will not further be extended.

Still working on SparqlPress, I just adapted foaf-output for it, as a part of the future export capabilities of the plugin. It exports users in a group, or individually.