Preface

On behalf of the program committee for the ISWC 2012 Posters & Demonstrations Track, it is our great pleasure to present these proceedings, which form a collection of abstracts describing the posters and demos presented at the conference. The posters and demonstrations track of ISWC 2012 continues the established tradition of providing an interaction and connection opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their new and innovative work-in-progress. The track gives conference attendees a way to learn about novel on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. The track also provides presenters with an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting from knowledgeable sources. As in previous years, we encouraged authors of accepted full research or in-use papers to present a practical demonstration or poster with additional results. In total, there were 63 submissions, of which we accepted 18 demonstrations and 13 posters. We thank the authors of all submissions for their contributing to the program of ISWC 2012. As in 2011, the authors of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to briefly introduce their posters and demonstrations in a "minute madness" session to the audience of the conference. We further would like to thank all the members of the program committee as well as the additional reviewers who have spent lots of their valuable time within a very tight schedule in prime holiday time. We thank all of these dedicated people for their valuable discussions and feedback, and we wholeheartedly appreciate their voluntary and enthusiastic cooperation. We are convinced to have arrived at an inspiring mix of posters and demos which tackle the Semantic Web idea from various angles and are looking foward to an exciting session at the conference. Lastly, we want to thank our fellow organizers of ISWC, foremost the general chair, Abraham Bernstein, and Lalana Kagal for the local organization.