Linked Science

First course worldwide on Linked Science will be held at the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Muenster, Germany during the winter semester 2011/2012. This Linked Science course is arranged as a seminar, and the title is "Spatiotemporal and Semantic Modeling for Linked Science".

The seminar teaches both basics and shows recent advancements of Linked Spatiotemporal Data and Linked Science. The seminar is combined of lectures and demo-sessions showing through examples how spatiotemporal information can be modeled, semantically described and published as Linked Data. The major emphasis is on scientific datasets.

In the course we will also discuss spatiotemporal and semantic reasoning techniques to enrich the data. Students will also  learn how the data can be connected with the help of the SPARQL package for R for statistical analysis, and how and which visualization techniques and tools are available for interacting with the data. Each student will choose a topic for the seminar to create and use Linked Scientific Data of some discipline (e.g. arts, biology, health, history, cultural heritage) within the University of Muenster.

The program of the First International Workshop on Linked Science (LISC2011) collocated with ISWC 2011 (to be held on October 24th in Bonn, Germany) is now announced:

9AM - 9:45 AM Session 1: Opening

Opening Remarks. 15'

Invited Talk: Damian Gessler  30' "Semantic Web for Science: Lessons of the iPlant Collaborative and SSWAP"

9:45 – 10:30 AM Session 2: Applications---Successes and Challenges

Linked Data for Network Science. Paul Groth and Yolanda Gil.  (30' - 12 pages)

Linking the Outcomes of Scientific Research: Requirements from the Perspective of Geosciences . Stephan Mäs, Matthias Müller, Christin Henzen and Lars Bernard. (15' - 6 pages) 

10:30 AM Coffee break

11 AM - 11:45 AM Session 3: Semantic Integration

Interactively Mapping Data Sources into the Semantic Web. Craig A. Knoblock, Pedro Szekely, Jose Luis Ambite, Shubham Gupta, Aman Goel, Maria Muslea, Kristina Lerman and Parag Mallick. (30' - 12 pages)

Similarity between semantic description sets: addressing needs beyond data integration. Todd Vision, Hilmar Lapp, Paula Mabee, Monte Westerfield and Judith Blake. (15' - 4 pages)

11:45 - 12:30 PM Session 4: Collaborations and languages

Supporting Scientific Collaboration Through Class-Based Object Versioning.  Johnson Mwebaze. (30' - 12 pages)

Glottolog/Langdoc: Defining dialects, languages, and language families as collections of resources. Sebastian Nordhoff and Harald Hammarström. (15' - 6 pages)

12:30 -2 PM Lunch

2 PM - 2:30 PM Session 5: Sources

The knowledge-driven exploration of integrated biomedical knowledge sources facilitates the generation of new hypotheses.  Vinh Nguyen, Olivier Bodenreider, Todd Mining and Amit Sheth. (15' - 5 pages)

Where did you hear that? Information and the Sources They Come From?   Jim Mccusker, Timothy Lebo, Li Ding, Cynthia Chang, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva and Deborah L. Mcguinness. (15' - 5 pages)

2:30 - 3 PM  Discussion about topics for break-out groups; group organization

3 - 4 PM Break-out sessions

4 PM Coffee break 

4:30 PM  Results of the break-out sessions

  The proceedings of LISC2011 have now been published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings:

During the last few days and weeks we (Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Keßler, Alexander Savelyev and Tomi Kauppinen) created a Linked Data set about the people, papers and proceedings  of the COSIT (Conference on Spatial Information Theory) series.

The result is now opened and can be interacted with at Spatial.LinkedScience.org! We look forward to maintain the portal as a community effort in order to serve back the community, i.e. the researchers of the Spatial Information and Geographic Information Science. 

The following eight papers have been accepted to be presented at the 1st International Workshop on Linked Science (LISC2011), Oct 24th, 2011 in Bonn, Germany. We received 16 submissions by the deadline--thus  the acceptance rate was 50%. 

Linked Data for Network Science Paul Groth and Yolanda Gil. 

The knowledge-driven exploration of integrated biomedical knowledge sources facilitates the generation of new hypotheses Vinh Nguyen, Olivier Bodenreider, Todd Mining and Amit Sheth. 

Glottolog/Langdoc: Defining dialects, languages, and language families as collections of resources Sebastian Nordhoff and Harald Hammarström. 

Linking the Outcomes of Scientific Research: Requirements from the Perspective of Geosciences Stephan Mäs, Matthias Müller, Christin Henzen and Lars Bernard. 

Supporting Scientific Collaboration Through Class-Based Object Versioning Johnson Mwebaze, Danny Boxhoorn and Edwin Valentijn. 

Similarity between semantic description sets: addressing needs beyond data integration Todd Vision, Hilmar Lapp, Paula Mabee, Monte Westerfield and Judith Blake.

Interactively Mapping Data Sources into the Semantic Web Craig A. Knoblock, Pedro Szekely, Jose Luis Ambite, Shubham Gupta, Aman Goel, Maria Muslea, Kristina Lerman and Parag Mallick. 

Where did you hear that? Information and the Sources They Come From Jim Mccusker, Timothy Lebo, Li Ding, Cynthia Chang, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva and Deborah L. Mcguinness. 

We had a breakout session at Science Online London 2011 with the question "Can we develop something like schema.org to encourage data sharing and reuse?". This story combines the preparation of the session, presentation given at the session and results. Follow @LinkedScience to hear how the results gets implemented and published as a science schema. Presentation and results of this science schema breakout session now available at:

The Linked Science Core vocabulary is designed for describing a research setting and to interconnect it to other related things and components (researcher, data, hypothesis, etc.). 

You may check LSC online at http://linkedscience.org/lsc/ns/. There will be a breakout session at the Science Online London 2011 (#solo11) to develop a schema or a vocabulary for science, and we will use LSC as a basis for stimulating the imagination for doing so.

The 1st International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 (LISC 2011) will be collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany October 24th, 2011! 

In the LISC 2011 we will discuss and present results of new ways of publishing, sharing, linking, and analyzing scientific resources motivated by driving scientific requirements, as well as reasoning over the data to discover interesting new links  and scientific insights.

The following publication will be published in the The Executable Paper Grand Challenge at ICCS 2011 to explain ideas about Linked Open Science:

Tomi Kauppinen and Giovana Mira de Espindola. Linked Open Science---Communicating, Sharing and Evaluating Data, Methods and Results for Executable Papers. The Executable Paper Grand Challenge, in proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2011). Elsevier Procedia Computer Science series, Singapore, June, 2011.