Two Papers Accepted for OWLED 2007
by Kendall Clark
As Bijan said, the list of accepted papers for OWLED 2007 is now available. We submitted two, both of which got accepted, and both of which are related to work we’re doing for clients or for future products:
- E. Sirin and B. Parsia, SPARQL-DL: SPARQL Query for OWL-DL (PDF)
- M. Smith, A. Schain, K. Clark, A. Griffey, and V. Kolovski, Mother, May I? OWL-based Policy Management at NASA (PDF)
The cool thing about these papers, and about OWLED in general, is that they represent the collision of a fairly theoretical strain of KR with real world problems. I like that collision!
The slightly dorky thing about the 2nd paper is that it almost has as many authors as pages. I generally hate that situation so much that I thought about dropping off, even though I wrote a decent chunk. But, as Bijan reminded me, OWLED papers are often position papers, as befits an activist conference, so multi-authored papers are significant.
Despite the present mood, which is all about lightweight, RDF-based “Data Webs” (and, hey, we do that kind of work, too, a lot of it!), we’re still really excited about OWL, particularly OWL DL, precisely because it can be a very useful tool to solve real problems.
