Dissemination

This page contains pointers to dissemination activities of the WonderWeb Project. You can find here:

• Selected publications in key journals, conferences and meetings. Publications arising from the project have appeared in a number of peer-reviewed publications and conferences &mdash a full, detailed listing appears on the the publications page. A selection of key publications are listed here;
• Details of cross-project activities;
• Keynotes and invited presentations play an important role in disseminating the work of the project. Members of the project have given a number of keynotes and invited talks;
• Tutorials can help in educating the community about recent developments. Several tutorials have been given to conferences and both academic and industrial institutions.

Publications

Publications arising from the project have appeared in a number of peer-reviewed publications and conferences. See the publications page for detailed information. We present a selection below.

Journal of Web Semantics

The Journal of Web Semantics is a new peer-reviewed journal covering developments in the Semantic Web. The first issue included a paper describing some of the background to the definition of the new Web Ontology Language OWL.

• Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, and Frank van Harmelen. From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The making of a web ontology language. Journal of Web Semantics, 1(1):7-26, 2003. [ download ]

World Wide Web Conference

The World Wide Web Conference is one of the leading arenas for presentation of work relating to the Web. It includes a track dedicated to the Semantic Web.

WWW2003, held in Budapest, accepted 77 papers from 602 submitted. This acceptance rate of 12.8% makes it one of the most competitive conferences in the area. The WonderWeb project presented 5 papers at the main conference and one at the alternate Track.

Ian Horrocks was chair of the Semantic Web Track at WWW2003 and several other project members served on the Program Committee.

• Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Three theses of representation in the semantic web. In Proc. of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), pages 39-47. ACM, 2003.
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• Benjamin N. Grosof, Ian Horrocks, Raphael Volz, and Stefan Decker. Description logic programs: Combining logic programs with description logic. In Proc. of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), pages 48-57. ACM, 2003.
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• Lei Li and Ian Horrocks. A software framework for matchmaking based on semantic web technology. In Proc. of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), pages 331-339. ACM, 2003.
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• Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, and Raphael Volz. On deep annotation. In Proceedings of the 12th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2003, Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003. ACM Press, 2003.
  
• Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Ljijana Stojanovic, Rudi Studer, and Raphael Volz. An infrastructure for searching, reusing and evolving distributed ontologies. In Proc. of WWW-2003, Budapest, Hungary, 05 2003.
  
• Raphael Volz, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab, and Boris Motik. KAON SERVER - A Semantic Web Management System. In Proc. of WWW-2003, Budapest, Hungary, 05 2003.
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WWW2004, held in New York in June 2004, was similarly competitive, with 74 papers accepted from 506 submissions (14.6%). The WonderWeb project presented 3 papers in New York, along with representation on panel discussions and presentations at the developers day.

Steffen Staab was deputy chair of the Semantic Web Track at WWW2004 and several other project members served on the Program Committee.

• Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider A Proposal for an OWL Rules Language In Proc. of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), ACM, 2004.
• Sean Bechhofer, Jeremy J. Carroll OWL DL: Trees or Triples In Proc. of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), ACM, 2004.
• Peter Mika, Daniel Oberle, Aldo Gangemi and Marta Sabou Foundations for Service Ontologies: Aligning OWL-S to DOLCE In Proc. of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), ACM, 2004.

International Semantic Web Conference

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) has quickly established itself as a key forum for the presentation of research relating to the Semantic Web. It includes a track for industrial papers, targeted specifically at the use of SW technology within industry.

ISWC2003, the Second Internation Semantic Web Conference, was held in Florida. It received 283 submissions, of which 58 were accepted, including 9 in the industrial track. WonderWeb presented 6 papers at this conference, including a paper in the industrial track co-authored with members of the industrial board.

Ian Horrocks was program chair of ISWC2003. Steffen Staab was responsible for metadata and markup — in a novel move, the conference required all abstracts to be annotated with semantic markup describing the content of the papers. Several other project members served on the Program Committee.

• Jeff Pan and Ian Horrocks. RDFS(FA) and RDF MT: Two semantics for RDFS. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870, pages 30-46. Springer, 2003.
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• Jeff Pan and Ian Horrocks. Web ontology reasoning with datatype groups. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870, pages 47-63. Springer, 2003. [ download ]
• Michael Uschold, Peter Clark, Fred Dickey, Casey Fung, Sonia Smith, Stephen Uczekaj Michael Wilke, Sean Bechhofer, and Ian Horrocks. A semantic infosphere. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870, pages 882-896. Springer, 2003. [ download ]
• Sean Bechhofer, Phillip Lord, and Raphael Volz. Cooking the Semantic Web with the OWL API. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870. Springer, 2003.
  
• Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisfiability. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870, pages 17-29. Springer, 2003. [ download ]
• Debbie Richards and Marta Sabou. Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S description of an RDF-Store. In Proc. of the 2003 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), LNCS Vol. 2870, pages 274-289. Springer, 2003. [ download ]

ISWC2004 was held in Hiroshima in November. Frank van Harmelen was the General Chair of the conference. Again, there was a strong showing from project members.

• M. Sabou. From Software APIs to Web Service Ontologies: a Semi-Automatic Extraction Method. In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004., LNCS Vol. 3928, Springer, 2004.
• Marc Ehrig and Steffen Staab. In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004., LNCS Vol. 3928, Springer, 2004. QOM - quick ontology mapping
• Dmitry Tsarkov, Alexandre Riazanov, Sean Bechhofer, and Ian Horrocks. Using Vampire to reason with OWL. In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004., LNCS Vol. 3928, Springer, 2004.
• Sean Bechhofer and Raphael Volz. Patching syntax in owl ontologies. In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004., LNCS Vol. 3928, Springer, 2004.
• H. Stuckenschmidt and M. Klein. Structure-based partitioning of large concept hierarchies. In Proceedings of the Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004., LNCS Vol. 3928, Springer, 2004.

Cross-Project Activities

The infrastructure produced within WonderWeb is being adopted by a number of Industrial Advisory Board members such as Boeing, IBM, Sun and Nomos. In addition, organisations like the UN/FAO are investigating the use of the WonderWeb foundational ontologies. Universities including Oxford, Bremen, Leipzig, Queensland and Torino are taking up WonderWeb technology and it is occupying a key position in other EU and national projects like SEKT, MONET, GEODISE, CO-ODE and MyGrid.

The tools produced from the project are available as open source projects and have now seen tens of thousands of downloads.

• KAON tools. To date, the KAON tools have had over 14,000 downloads from the Sourceforge site.
• OWL API
  • Sourceforge site. The OWL API has had over 3,000 downloads.
  • Supporting documentation
  • The WonderWeb OWL Validator is a publicly available service for validation and species recognition of OWL ontologies. It is implemented using the WonderWeb API. This has proved to be a particularly useful community resources, and to date, there have been over 21,000 validation requests made to the service from almost 1,500 different hosts.
  • The EU projects SEKT, together with DIP and Knowledge Web form the SDK-cluster of projects. This cluster is aiming to develop a common API for their ontology-based applications and tools. The WonderWeb OWL API is one of the important starting points for that "SDK ontology API".
• OilEd. The OilEd ontology editor continues to generate interest and a steady stream of downloads (more than 6000 to date).
• Change Detection. The change detection methods developed within the project have been included in the Protege Ontology Editor. Protege is arguably the most widely used ontology editor with an organized user community (mailing lists, workshops). It is used in numerous projects from different domains including medicine, law and engineering.
• Service Ontologies. Members of WonderWeb have contributed to the definition of service ontologies such as OWL-S. Work on alignment of service ontologies with upper level ontologies such as DOLCE has also contributed to this effort.

Keynotes and Invited Presentations

Keynotes and invited presentations play an important role in disseminating the work of the project. Members of the project have given a number of keynotes and invited talks:

• A Core Ontology of Services. Daniel Oberle, Stanford Medical Informatics Institute & Knowledge Systems Labs, Stanford University, US, May 2004
• The Semantic Web - From Vision to Technology. Heiner Stuckenschmidt. euroSDR workshop on Ontologies and Schema Translation Services, Paris, FR, April 2004
• The Semantic Web (and the Web Ontology Language). Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Care2x Meeting at the 15th FFIT Conference, Flensburg, DE, February, 2004.
• Ontologies and Topic Maps, Steffen Staab. XML Topic Maps Workshop organized by ZGDV Darmstadt, DE April 2003
• Logical Foundations for the Semantic Web. Ian Horrocks. University of Glasgow, UK, March, 2003.
• OWL: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web. Sean Bechhofer, Workshop on Semantics and Services, Telematica Institute, Enschede, NL, March 2003.
• The Semantic Web - New Ways to Integrate and Present Information, Steffen Staab, Ontology for Biology, European Media Lab, Heidelberg, DE, November, 2002 (Part of the program "Integrated Approaches to Functional Genomics")
• Semantic Web - Infrastructure and Application. Heiner Stuckenschmidt. 'Informatik Kollocquium', University of Bremen, DE, November 2002
• Ontology Engineering, Steffen Staab. Informatics colloquium, Humboldt University Berlin, DE, October, 2002
• Reasoning with Expressive Description Logics: Logical Foundations for the Semantic Web. Ian Horrocks. CISA Edinburgh, UK, August, 2002.
• Logical Foundations for the Semantic Web. Ian Horrocks. CADE-18, Copenhagen, DK, July 2002.
• Ontology Engineering, Steffen Staab. Fifth International Baltic Conference on DB and IS, Tallinn, EE, June, 2002
• Semantic Web Langauges - Beauties or Beasts? Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Meeting of the 'Vereniging Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap', Utrecht, NL, June, 2002
• Technological Foundations of the Semantic Web, Steffen Staab. AIK-Symposium on Semantic Web, Karlsruhe, DE, April, 2002

Tutorials

Tutorials can help in educating the community about recent developments. Several tutorials have been given to conferences and both academic and industrial institutions:

• WWW2004, New York, US. Information Integration on the World Wide Web. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ubbo Visser and Holger Wache.
• ISWC2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, US. OWL and description logics. Ian Horrocks, Peter Patel Schneider, Sean Bechhofer
• ISWC2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, US. Ontology-Based Information Integration. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ubbo Visser and Holger Wache
• IJCAI-03, Acapulco, MX. Ontology-Based Information Integration. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ubbo Visser and Holger Wache
• DERI, Innsbruck, AT. OWL and description logics. Ian Horrocks, Sean Bechhofer
• Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, UK. OWL and description logics. Ian Horrocks
• ADBIS-2003 - 7th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Informations Systems, September, 2003, Dresden, DE. Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web. Steffen Staab
• WM-2003, 2nd German Conference on Knowledge Management, Luzern, CH, April 2003. Semantic Web. Steffen Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• Midyear: A Tech Update, Western Caribbean, November, 2002, organised by W3C and GeekCruises. Semantic Web. Steffen Staab
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI-2002, Lyon, FR, July 2002. Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications. Steffen Staab, Alexander Mädche
• ISWC2002, Chia, Sardinia, IT, June, 2002. Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications. Steffen Staab, Alexander Mädche