SALAD2017

SEMANTiCS2017 Workshop
September 14th, 2017

Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data

Services and Applications over Linked APIs and Data

Dates

Submission
July 17th, 2017
Notification
August 15th, 2017
Camera-ready
September 1st, 2017
Workshop
September 14th, 2017

Challenge

The World Wide Web has significantly evolved during the past 25 years, developing from a collection of a few interlinked static pages to a global ubiquitous platform for sharing, searching, and browsing dynamic and customisable content, in a variety of different media formats. Future developments bring the promise of a higher level of automation, distributed search and the use of intelligent personal agents, which autonomously perform tasks on behalf of the user. The foundation for these trends is laid by the ever growing number of users and websites, the increasing data volumes, but also by the use and popularity of Linked Data and Web APIs. Unfortunately, despite some initial efforts and progress towards integrated use, these two technologies remain mostly disjunct in terms of developing solutions and applications. To this purpose, SALAD aims to explore the possibilities of facilitating a better fusion of Web APIs and Linked Data, thus enabling the harvesting and provisioning of data through applications and services on the Web. In particular, we focus on investigating how both static and dynamic resources (for example, sensor data or streams) exposed via interfaces on the Web, can be used together with semantic data, as means for enabling a shared use and providing a basis for developing rich applications.

Having the actuality of the research topic in mind, this year we would like to encourage the submission of research work that employs Linked Data and Web APIs solutions in order to address challenges in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT). The vision of the IoT is to leverage Internet standards in order to interconnect all types of embedded devices (e.g., patientmonitors, medical sensors, congestion monitoring devices, traffic-light controls, temperature sensors, smart meters, etc.) and real-world objects, and thus to make them a part of the Internet and provide overall interoperability. Therefore, IoT aims to build a future of connected devices that is truly open, flexible, and scalable. In the SALAD workshop we will explore how Linked APIs and Data can be used in order to contribute towards achieving this goal.

The Workshop

With this workshop, we aim to discover new ways to embrace the opportunities that Web APIs offer in terms of data consumption, processing, and provisioning but also to investigate the possibilities of integrating them more closely with Linked Data. We want to challenge researchers towards developing integrated description and implementation approaches through both paper submissions and interactive on-site discussion and dialog. In particular we are looking for description approaches, formal models, implementation solutions, use cases, and applications that support a more automated and unified Web API and Linked Data use.

Topics

The main goal of this workshop is to explore the possibilities of enabling a more integrated and automated use of Web APIs, given the context of the growing importance of Linked Data and applications, benefiting from the available resources. Relevant topics include:

The above list is not exhaustive and we, therefore, actively encourage participants to be creative. A final goal is to provide future initiatives with the devised ideas and visions, in order to stimulate innovation in this research area.