Report from ESWC 2009

Ian Jacobi

18 June 2009

SPOT2009

• FOAF+SSL relatively successful, little feedback, but getting notice
• Philipp Kärger, et al. presented an approach for natural language policies using Protune
• Peyman Nasirifard, et al. presented findings about deanonymizing FOAF data
• Matt Rowe and Jonathan Butters presented findings on judging trust in an individual from their position in the community
• Claudia Wagner presented an architecture akin to the Semantic Clipboard, which focused on the subject of semantic reblogging
• Harry Halpin presented his views on provenance, mostly relating to annotating changes to data.

ESWC 2009, Itself

• Continued talks about ontologies, and need to organize unstructured data or data in RDBs, especially with mobile technologies
• Not too much provenance and privacy in the main conference, rather applications
• However: Olaf Hartig won Best Research Paper with paper on tSPARQL
• A fair amount of excitement about Web 2.0 and social networking, despite lack of privacy talk

In Summary

• SPOT2009 a success
• Privacy, Trust, and Accountability are starting to get some notice
• FOAF+SSL seems to be getting more interest in distributed identity, and may lead back to privacy/trust/acct.
• Work still needed to promote the need for such

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