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*** SWPM 2012: The Third International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management ***
http://sites.google.com/site/swpm2012/program

Co-located with the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC-2012 in Heraklion, Crete
http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/

Date: The workshop will take place the 28th May 2012.
Registration Website: http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/join-participant

The SWPM workshop has the following complementary objectives:

• to explore the opportunities offered by the Semantic Web technologies in the context of the management and exploitation of provenance.
• to explore the role of provenance in real-world Semantic Web applications.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

• Invited talk. Steffen Staab. Take CARE: Provenance, Policies and Your Obligations in the Future
• Updates on the W3C Provenance Working Group Specification Jun Zhao and Khalid Belhajjame. The PROVO Ontology. Olaf Hartig. PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query. Olaf Hartig

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
09:00 - 09:20 Plenary: highlights of the day (Khalid Belhajjame)

09:30 - 10:30 Session 1: Invited Talk
Chair: Khalid Belhajjame
Take CARE: Provenance, Policies and Your Obligations in the Future (talk given by Steffen Staab).

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee 1

11:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Provenance Capture
Chair: Jun Zhao

• Capturing Interactive Data Transformation Operations using Provenance Workflows: Tope Omitola, Andre Freitas, Edward Curry, Sean O'Riain, Nicholas Gibbins and Nigel Shadbol
• Evolution of Workflow Provenance Information in the Presence of Custom Inference Rules: Christos Strubulis, Yannis Tzitzikas, Martin Doerr and Giorgos Flouris.
• Capturing provenance information with a workflow monitoring extension for the Kieker framework: Peer C. Brauer and Wilhelm Hasselbring.

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Provenance and Reasoning
Chair: Jose Manuel-Jomez

• Representing Interoperable Provenance Descriptions for Web-based ETL Workflows: Andre Freitas, Benedikt Kämpgen, João Gabriel Oliveira, Sean Oriain and Edward Curry.
• Automatic Metadata Annotation through Reconstructing Provenance: Paul Groth, Yolanda Gil and Sara Magliacane
• Towards Semantic Provenance in CRISTAL: Jetendr Shamdasani, Richard Mcclatchey and Andrew Branson.

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee 2

16:00 - 16:40 Session 4: W3C Provenance Working Group Updates
Chair: Paolo Missier
Background about the WG: Paul Groth (10')
The PROV-O Ontology. Jun Zhao and Khalid Belhajjame (15')
PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query. Olaf Hartig (15')

16:40 - 17:00 Session 5: Semantic Data Management
Chair: Jose Manuel-Jomez
Semantic Data Management. Paolo Missier

17:00: Wrap up