OWLED 2007: Looking good, looking large
by Bijan Parsia
The list of accepted submissions for OWLED is up (this is pretty close to the number of submissions total; OWLED is not a competative forum; that’s not the point!). Notifications with reviews went out on Saturday: Thanks to the reviewers and the two PC chairs (Christine Golbreich and Aditya Kalyanpur) for jobs well done.
In spite of the unusually short time between last year’s OWLED and this year’s call for papers, we had a record number of submissions….a 1/3 increase over last year with plenty of new faces. I find that very heartening.
Interestingly, this year’s Description Logic Workshop also had a record number of submissions; in fact, they over doubled last year’s number of submissions. Together, these indicate that there is increasing interest in Web Ontologies and the underlying technologies.
Time to build on this momentum, folks! There are still plenty of infrastructure (language, tooling, people) and mindshare improvements to be made. OWLED is a good place to try to coordinate efforts but it is not the only place. However, OWLED is definitely an activist event, so if you want to meet a lot of people who are really engaged in OWL per se, it’s the right place to be.
On a related note, we finished moving the OWL 1.1 documents to a Google code project and related website. Nearly all reported bugs with the specification are now in the issues list, and the wiki contains preliminary lists of OWL 1.1 tools and ontologies. Contributions welcome!