The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) has an exciting program of thirteen one-day workshops that will be held on October 26 and 27. The deadlines for submitting papers vary. See the individual workshop pages for detailed information on their scope and structure and for information on submitting papers and participating.

• Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web
• Terra Cognita 2008
• Ontology Matching
• 3rd ExpertFinder Workshop: Personal Identification and Collaborations
• Semantic Web Services Challenge
• Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering
• Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web
• Ontology Dynamics
• Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web
• Social Data on the Web
• Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems
• Incentives for the Semantic Web
• Ontology-supported Business Intelligence

The final scheduling of the workshops, assigning them to the 26th or 27th, has not yet been done.

This year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) will host a workshop on Social Data on the Web. Submitted papers are due by July 25, 2008.

“The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media.”

Social media systems is all about information sharing, so its inevitable that it will have strong ties to Semantic Web technologies. Moreover, the ties will go both ways. Social media needs ways to annotate information objects with sharable data and meta data that can be understood by machines. Semantic computing systems focused on sharing data and ontologies can benefit from social computing systems that offer users easy ways to collaboratively develop, publish, comment on and link to their output.