[AISWorld] CFC on Open Data - The ENGAGE EU Project experts scientific committee

Wed Feb 8 11:31:45 EST 2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ON
Open Data for Science and Society
Forward-Looking, Visionary Approaches for Public Sector Information Sharing
and Utilisation

AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Open data provide an unprecedented opportunity for societies to move towards
transparency, evidence-based decisions, enhanced cohesion, public engagement
and trust. Public sector information may be offered as "open data" in many
forms and through different media: from simple datasets describing traffic
or unemployment, to web services linking and mashing information from
different sources, to interactive visualization of complex phenomena, to
citizen-based data gathering and transmission. This way, new information is
made available to scientists, citizens and enterprises for developing and
offering value-adding services, thus forming a supply chain around publicly
available open data.

In this context, the ENGAGE project (http://www.engage-project.eu ), funded
by the European Commission under the e-Infrastructures Programme, aims at
the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating
distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data
curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting
scientific collaboration and governance-related research from
multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the
deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. 

Objectives of the Call:
With this call for contributions, ENGAGE aims to attract high-quality
innovative contributions, in the form of short papers that depict sound
positions and views for advancing the provision, usage and final utilization
of open data by scientists of all scientific domains, citizens and
businesses. Topics of this call include but are not fully limited to the
following:
. Justification of requirements for public sector information, orienting
from any scientific domain
. Examples and best practices of open data utilization for scientific
purposes
. Visionary ideas on open data utilization within society
. Metadata schemas for open and linked data management
. Methods and tools for open data acquisition, curation, management and
publication
. Methods and tools for integrating and combining open data from distributed
heterogeneous sources
. Methods and tools for combining linked open data with in-house or open
structured information systems in the 'deep web'
. Information systems and services for open data gathering and provision
. New approaches for public sector information visualization
. Collaborative governance approaches involving the use of open data
. Open data and citizen participation in information gathering /
crowdsourcing
. New governance and business models for open data
. Legal provisions and open issues at national and European level, regarding
re-use of governmental data
. International cooperation in the field of open and linked data
Excellent contributors should provide multi-disciplinary approaches,
possibly combining information science with social sciences, management,
finance, engineering or law, to allow uptake of open data by diverse
scientific domains, for modeling or solving complex societal problems.

Award Scheme:
Up to 5 authors of the best papers submitted under this call will be invited
to join the ENGAGE Experts Scientific Committee. Members of this committee
have a key role in providing their expertise in specific research areas, in
participating in the workshops that will be conducted during the project,
and in presenting their comments and feedback to the project deliverables.
Beside the prestige and the opportunity to shape the EU research agenda on
Open Data, each member of the Expert Scientific Committee will receive a sum
of 2,500 EUR to fund participation in the activities of the project.

Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words, following the LNCS
format:
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?S
GWID=0-0-45-72919-0 
Submissions by more than one author are welcome; however only the
coordinating author (as indicated in the submission) of the selected paper
will be invited to join the ENGAGE Expert Scientific Committee.
Please submit your contribution via e-mail to contact at engage-project.eu
together with a short biography of 150 words for each of the authors. All
selected contributions will be published in the ENGAGE website after the
announcement of results.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of position papers: 15th March 2012
Announcement of results and best papers: 15th  April 2012
More information can be found at www.engage-project.eu

CFC Editing and Review Committee
Yannis Charalabidis, University of Aegean, Greece
Matthias Fluegge, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facility Council, UK
Nikos Houssos, EuroCRIS, The Netherlands
Fotis Karayannis, Microsoft Innovation Centre, Greece
Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece
Spyros Mouzakitis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
John Psarras, National Technical University of Athens (coordinator), Greece
Antonis Ramfos, Intrasoft International, Belgium
Avi Yaeli, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
Anneke Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 

Dr. Yannis Charalabidis
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Assistant Professor, Governance Information Systems
Information Systems Lab, ICS Department, University of Aegean 
email: yannisx at aegean.gr web: www.icsd.aegean.gr/is-lab

Chief Research Scientist, eGovernment & eBusiness
Decision Support Systems Lab, National Technical University of Athens
email: yannisx at epu.ntua.gr web: www.epu.ntua.gr

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