Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (and Desktop)
also a good workshop for Semantic Desktop related UI work ;)
Due to multiple requests, the paper submission deadline has been
extended to 24th November, 2008 (11:59pm Hawaii time)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the
Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)
In conjunction with IUI 2009
Sanibel Island, Florida
8th February 2009
http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/
OBJECTIVES
The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted
in even more data created, published and consumed by users. This vast
amount of data is available in various formats (text, image, video,
etc.), can be presented on different platforms, and most importantly,
contains linkages between different entities on the Web. The ability to
easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and
Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not
least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across
heterogeneous data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual
human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the
modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the
Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and
the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is
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