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We would like to express our special thanks to all sponsors ISWC 2007 Organizing Committee General Chairs
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Local Chair
Sung-Kook Han (Wonkwang University, Korea) Program Chairs
Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Key-Sun Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA) Workshop Chairs
Harith Alani (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Tutorial Chairs
John Domingue (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University)
David Martin (SRI, USA) Semantic Web in Use Chairs
Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant, USA) Kyung-Il Lee (Saltlux Inc., Korea)
Lyndon Nixon (Free University Berlin, Germany) Semantic Web Challenge Chairs
Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Poster & Demos Chairs
Young-Tack, Park (Sonngsil University, Korea)
Mike Dean (BBN, USA) Doctoral Consortium Chair
Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Sponsor Chairs
Young-Sik Jeong (Wonkwang University, Korea)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, German) Exhibition Chairs
Myung-Hwan Koo (Korea Telecom, Korea)
Noboru Shimizu (Keio Research Institute, Japan) Publicity Chair: Masahiro Hori (Kansai University, Japan) Proceedings Chair: Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (EPFL, Switzerland Metadata Chairs
Tom Heath ( KMi, OpenUniversity, UK)
Knud Möller (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway) 2nd International ExpertFinder
Workshop (FEWS2007)
Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Ecomonics, Poland Diego Berrueta, CTIC Foundation, Spain Chris Bizer, Free University of Berlin, Germany Uldis Bojars, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland Aleman-Meza Boanerges, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, USA Irene Celino, CERIEL Politecnico di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, KMI, Open University, UK Tomasz Kaczmarek, The Poznan University of Ecomonics, Poland Uwe Keller, DERI Innsbruck, Austria Alain Leger, France Telekom, France Ning Li, University of Surrey, UK Benjamin Nowack, semsol web semantics, Germany Charles Petrie, Stanford Unviersity, USA Axel Polleres, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland Leo Sauermann, DFKI, Germany Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany Holger Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland
Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany Malgorzata Mochol, Free University of Berlin, Germany
John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland Bottom-up approaches to realizing the Semantic Web are of particular interest at this time, with “simple” vocabularies such as FOAF and SIOC gaining growing interest in the Web community, with the availability of tools for the generation and management of metadata in these formats, and demonstrative added value at little cost.
ExpertFinder is a collaborative initiative with the aim of devising vocabularies, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best practices for annotation of personal homepages, webpages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes, etc. with adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on particular topics. ExpertFinder’s goal is, in particular, to enable a Webscale infrastructure for the creation, publication and use of experts’ semantic descriptions to support expert finding scenarios such as group management, disaster response, recruitment, team building, problemsolving and on-the-fly consultation1. As members of this initiative we feel this is the right time to bring together Semantic Web experts to discuss how we can further support the use of vocabularies like FOAF or SIOC and extend them to support even richer, higher value scenarios of both personal and industrial interest. Following the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop2 during the Knowledge Web NoE general assembly in January 2007, the ExpertFinder Initiative would like to solicit research contributions from the wider Semantic Web expert community during the 2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop (FEWS2007).
The workshop organising committee thanks the ISWC/ASWC'2007 organisers who helped us tremendously by caring about most of the logistics and overall technical issues. We are grateful to our keynote speaker Dr. Harold Boley and to the members of the program committee who completed the paper reviews in a short turnaround time.
1 Descriptions of such scenarios can be found at http://rdfweb.org/topic/ExpertFinderUseCases 2 http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/
Expert Querying and Redirection with Rule Responder…………..9
Harold Boley, Adrian Paschke
Constructing Semantic Campus for Academic Collaboration …...23
Natenapa Sriharee, Ravikarn Punnarut Finding Experts Using Wikipedia …………………………..…….33
Gianluca Demartini