SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop.  May 28, Heraklion, Greece.

SePublica 2011  was organised during the ESWC2011; we had 11 submissions and 7 accepted papers. Sepublica addresses issues similar to those that have been discussed at Forcnet (Future of Research Communication) and Linked Science. 2011 At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web media, Sepublica aims to provide researchers with a venue in which this future can be shaped.

Agenda for the Workshop 

2012 Proceedings are now available here

 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2012

Organising Committee

Benjamin Good Ph.D is a Research Associate at the Scripps Research Institute currently working on the Gene Wiki - an attempt to generate a continuously updated review article for every human gene in the context of Wikipedia.  He has served on the program committee for the Bio-Ontologies SIG at ISMB, Sepublica 2011, and OCAS @ ISWC 2011 and is a reviewer for several journals including BMC Bioinformatics, the Journal of Biomedial Informatics, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and PLoS One.

Frank van Harmelen is a full professor in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a PhD in AI from the University of Edinburgh. He is one of the designers of OWL, the W3C standard Web Ontology Language. He was the 2002 Programme Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the General Chair of the 2004 International Semantic Web Conference, and Chair of the Semantic Web track of the 2005 World Wide Web conference. He is currently scientific director of the LarKC project.

Alexander Garcia is a guest professor at Florida State University (FSU) as well as a Semantic Web business developer. Alexander has been working in Translational Research, Knowledge Management and Ontology Engineering since 2007; he has held post doctoral positions at I2R (Singapore) as well as at Uni-Bremen (Germany). Alexander has several journal and conference papers as well as book chapters. He has chaired workshops such as OCAS @ ISWC 2011 (Ontologies Coming of Age), ORES @ ESWC 2010 (Ontology Repositories and Editors), Sepublica 2011 @ ESWC.

Christoph Lange is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bremen, Germany. He is currently working on the standardization of a Distributed Ontology Language within ISO. His research is generally concerned with building a Social Semantic Web for STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Christoph Lange was a chair of Sepublica 2011 and further relevant related events, including OCAS @ ISWC 2011 (Ontologies Coming of Age), ORES @ ESWC 2010 (Ontology Repositories and Editors), the Semantic Wiki workshops at ESWC 2008 to 2010, and the AI Mashup Challenge at ESWC 2010.