We are pleased to announce that we accepted the following papers for publication and presentation at the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012—Tackling Big Data (LISC2012):
- Bernardo Gonçalves, Fabio Porto and Ana Maria Moura. On the semantic engineering of scientific hypotheses as linked data
- Suppawong Tuarob, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Natasha Noy, Giri Palanisamy and Line C. Pouchard. ONEMercury: Towards Automatic Annotation of Environmental Science Metadata
- Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour, Laurens Rietveld, Stefan Schlobach and Rinke Hoekstra. Linked Humanities Data: The Next Frontier?
- Christian Y. A. Brenninkmeijer, Chris Evelo, Carole Goble, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Paul Groth, Steve Pettifer, Robert Stevens, Antony Williams and Egon L. Willighagen. Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision.
- Jun Zhao, Graham Klyne, Piotr Holubowicz, Raul Palma, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Kristina Hettne, Jose Enrique Ruiz, Marco Roos, Kevin Page, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, David De Roure and Carole Goble. RO-Manager: A Tool for Creating and Manipulating Research Objects to Support Reproducibility and Reuse in Sciences
- Daniel Garijo and Yolanda Gil. Augmenting PROV with Plans in P-PLAN: Scientific Processes as Linked Data
- Nathan Wilson, Han Wang and Deborah McGuinness. Scientific Names and Descriptions for Organisms on the Semantic Web
- Kevin Page, Raúl Palma, Piotr Hołubowicz, Graham Klyne, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Don Cruickshank, Rafael González Cabero, Esteban García Cuesta, David De Roure, Jun Zhao and José Manuel Gómez-Pérez. From workflows to Research Objects: an architecture for preserving the semantics of science
- Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar and Paul Hanson. Organic Data Publishing: A Novel Approach to Scientific Data Sharing
The selection process was competitive with the acceptance rate of 47%: we received 19 submissions and accepted these 9 papers.
The 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012—Tackling Big Data (LISC2012) will be held within the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2012) in Boston, USA on November 12th, 2012.
The more detailed workshop programme will be announced in September at the workshop web pages at LinkedScience.org/events/lisc2012/ and via twitter hashtag #LISC2012 and twitter feed @LinkedScience.
