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<p class="MsoNormal">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full-Day Workshop in conjunction with ISWC 2013, the 12th International Semantic Web Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">21-25 October 2013, in Sydney, Australia <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*Workshop Summary*<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The goal of this workshop is to explore and strengthen the relationship between the Semantic Web and statistical communities, to provide better access to the data held by statistical offices. It will focus on ways in which statisticians
can use Semantic Web technologies and standards in order to formalize, publish, document and link their data and metadata.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The statistical community has recently shown an interest in the Semantic Web. In particular, initiatives have been launched to develop semantic vocabularies representing statistical classifications and discovery metadata. Tools are also
being created by statistical organizations to support the publication of dimensional data conforming to the Data Cube specification, now in Last Call at W3C. But statisticians see challenges in the Semantic Web: how can data and concepts be linked in a statistically
rigorous fashion? How can we avoid fuzzy semantics leading to wrong analyses? How can we preserve data confidentiality?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will also cover the question of how to apply statistical methods or treatments to linked data, and how to develop new methods and tools for this purpose. Except for visualisation techniques and tools, this question is relatively
unexplored, but the subject will obviously grow in importance in the near future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CfP: http://datalift.org/en/event/semstats2013/cfp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Web Site: http://www.datalift.org/en/event/semstats2013<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deadline for paper submission: Friday, 12 July 2013<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joachim Wackerow<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Department: Monitoring Society and Social Change<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Team: Social Science Metadata Standards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Fax: +49 (0)621 1246 100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">E-mail: joachim.wackerow@gesis.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">www.gesis.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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