From: "James G. Britt" Date: 2005-02-08T06:23:09+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web I just came across this via Lambda the Ultimate, and thought it was worth a mention here. Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web Colocated with ESWC 2005 May 30, 2005 Heraklion, Greece Large parts of the current Web rely on scripting languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, ASP, JSP, ActionScript, Ruby and ColdFusion. These languages are the tools of a generation of web programmers who use them to quickly create server-side and client-side web applications. Support for scripting languages is widely deployed within the current web infrastructure: PHP for example is installed on 16 million domains. It is therefore likely that scripting languages will also play a crucial role in the Semantic Web gaining critical mass. Scripting languages are lightweight and easy to learn, but on the other hand mature enough to be used within complex applications, as the Mozilla, Zope and CWM projects show. Many deployed Semantic Web applications, for example in the FOAF and RSS communities, are already using these languages and it is likely that the process of RDF-izing existing database-backed websites, wikis, weblogs and CMS will largely rely on scripting languages. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time developers of the RDF base infrastructure for scripting languages with practitioners building applications using these languages. The goal of the workshop is to give an overview of the current support for Semantic Web technologies within scripting languages, to showcase innovative Semantic Web applications relying on these languages. ... We seek two kinds of papers: full papers that and short papers. Full papers not exceed ten pages in length. Short papers are expected to be four to six pages. Both full papers and short papers will be presented at the workshop and included into the workshop proceedings. Papers from both categories will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2005/ James Britt