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CFP Architecture and Philosophy of the Web:Architecture and Philosophy of the Web: http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/irw2006/ Co-located Workshop at WWW2006, Second Call for Papers: Goal and Theme: Our goal for this workshop is to explore the nature of identification, meaning, and reference on the Web, building on current work in Web architecture, the Semantic Web and informal community-based tagging (folksonomy), as well as current practice in XML and theory in The greater goal of the workshop is to examine the architecture and philosophical basis of the Web by carefully inspecting how fundamental aspects of the Web can be clearly recognized and possibly improved. URIs are the primary mechanism for reference and identity on the Web. To be useful, a URI must provide access to information which is sufficient to enable someone or something to uniquely identify a particular thing and the thing identified might vary between contexts. There is no doubt that as a mechanism for identifying web pages the URI has been wildly successful. Currently, URIs can also be used to identify namespaces, ontologies, and almost anything. However, important questions about the interpretation, use, and meaning of URIs have been left unanswered, questions that have important ramifications for everything from search engines to philosophy. As soon as matters get complicated, there is little or no consensus on issues of identification and reference on the Web. Put simply, given a URI, how should the nature of its intended referent be known in an interoperable and preferably automatic manner? This is not an easy question to answer: for example, the Semantic Web and folksonomies present two distinctly differing viewpoints. On the Semantic Web a URI nominally identifies a single resource, while Topics Of Interest, but not limited to: * The nature of URIs and resources on the Web Important Dates: Submission Due Date: February 17th 2006 Notification of Acceptance: March 31st 2006 Workshop Date: May 22nd 2006 Submissions must conform to the ACM formatting guidelines for WWW2006 and must not exceed 10 pages, including all text, references, Paper Presentation: Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. At least one author of each paper therefore should register for the main conference before the early registration deadline. After each Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop and made available online. We plan to invite accepted authors to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for an upcoming publication on this topic. Workshop Co-Chairs: * Pat Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Programme Committee: * Joshua Allen, Microsoft |
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