We're delighted to welcome you to the 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. Following last year's inaugural meeting, it is exciting to see continued interest in this fascinating concept.
At last year's conference, almost every speaker seemed to open with the words "I'm not sure what the Pragmatic Web is, but here's my take on it..." Clearly, the concept resonates in different ways with different people, and we will see an equally colourful spectrum of contributions over the next two days.
As an emergent community, clearly we are not running a mega-conference yet---but holding a small, inclusive and welcoming meeting that is not too hasty to reject unfamiliar ideas should be taken as a feature, not a bug! Balancing that, we were of course still concerned to maintain quality, so that engaging with the people and papers repays the effort. Out of the 20 full paper submissions received, the programme before you has 8 full papers, and 2 short papers, mostly reviewed by three or four people, and subsequently revised.
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Sowing the seeds of self: a socio-pragmatic penetration of the web artefact
This paper analyses the concept of the information technology artefact in a pragmatic web context with a special focus on its user interface. Assuming a communicative socio-pragmatic view of the use of Web artefacts, a distinction is made between ...
Exploring the gap between interaction and institutional orders in pragmatic web design
This paper explores the call to attend to the communication pragmatics of the pragmatic web by examining instances of institutional talk and internet based support for deliberative communication. The examples map the terrain between the intentional ...
Rule responder: RuleML-based agents for distributed collaboration on the pragmatic web
The Rule Responder project (responder.ruleml.org) extends the Semantic Web towards a Pragmatic Web infrastructure for collaborative human-computer networks. These allow semi-automated agents - with their individual (semantic and pragmatic) contexts, ...
DISCOURSIUM for cooperative examination of information in the context of the pragmatic web
This paper argues that examination of information in the context of the Pragmatic Web needs to be conducted in a discursive and structured manner. It focuses on examination dialogues and proposes a novel approach to supporting these dialogues in ...
Logical argument mapping: a cognitive-change-based method for building common ground
In this paper, I situate Logical Argument Mapping (LAM) within the broader context of IBIS-based Computer Supported Argument Visualization (CSAV) and Dialogue Mapping, and argument mapping as realized in Rationale. While the primary goal of these ...
An evaluation of the pragmatics of web-based bug tracking tools
Web-based tools are often used to support software development processes. Many of these tools are aimed toward a development process that relies implicitly on particular supported roles and activities. Developers may already understand how the tool ...
A practical method for courseware evaluation
As more courseware becomes available, choosing the right functionality for a particular e-learning community is becoming more problematic. Systematic methods for evaluating courseware functionality components in their context of use are required. Of ...
Towards pragmatic patterns for clinical knowledge management
We present a research program for identifying, modeling, and making use of generic pragmatic patterns for clinical knowledge management that support evidence-based medicine (EBM). Part of this program is SOMWeb, a system based on Semantic Web ...
Mind the gap!: Transcending the tunnel view on ontology engineering
The key objective of communal knowledge sharing at the scale of the World Wide Web is the ability to collaborate and integrate within and between communities. Ontologies, being formal, computer-based specifications of shared conceptualisations of the ...
A pragmatic structure for research articles
Our goal is to develop a new format for scientific research articles, which will facilitate their use in a computer-assisted environment. By explicitly marking up rhetorical and knowledge elements in the text, an attempt is made to optimally represent ...
Information seeking in a "socio-semantic web" application
Information Seeking gives users a wider range of access methods when retrieving business items (e.g. projects, products, skills, people, deliverables …) using (intra-) Web applications. The Information Seeking approach we propose is based on the concept ...