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# IRSW 2008
Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web

### Proceedings of the 1st IRSW2008 International Workshop on
Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web
Tenerife, Spain, June 2, 2008.

Edited by

### Paolo Bouquet *
Harry Halpin **
Heiko Stoermer *
Giovanni Tummarello ***

* University of Trento, Italy
** University of Edinburgh, UK
*** DERI Galway, Ireland

## Table of Contents

1. Entity Coreference Resolution Services in Sindice.com: Identification on the Current Web of Data
   Giovanni Tummarello and Renaud Delbru
2. Handling Instance Coreferencing in the KnoFuss Architecture
   Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta and Anne de Roeck
3. Managing URI Synonymity to Enable Consistent Reference on the Semantic Web
   Afraz Jaffri, Hugh Glaser and Ian Millard
4. Ontology-based Disambiguation of Spatiotemporal Locations
   Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson, Reetta Sinkkil, Robin Lindroos, Väätäinen and Eero Hyvönen
5. Why URI Declarations? A Comparison of Architectural Approaches
   David Booth
6. Automatic Identity Recognition in The Semantic Web
   Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso and Stefano Montanelli
7. Entity Lifecycle Management for OKKAM
   Junaid Ahsenali Chaudhry, Themis Palpanas, Periklis Andritsos and Antonio Maña.
8. The Principle of Self-Description: Identity Through Linking
   Harry Halpin
9. What's the Intention Behind Your Query? A few Observations From a Large Developer Community
   Alexander Löser, Wojciech M. Barczynski and Falk Brauer
10. Entity Identifiers for Lineage Preservation
    Julien Gaugaz and Gianluca Demartini

## How to cite

A single paper should be cited using its online URL, for example

       Julien Gaugaz and Gianluca Demartini. Entity Identifiers for Lineage Preservation.
       In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008),
       Tenerife, Spain, June 2nd, 2008, CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
       ISSN 1613-0073, online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-422/irsw2008-submission-7.pdf.

The whole proceedings volume should be cited as follows:

       Bouquet, B., Stoermer, H., Tummarello, G. and Halpin, H. (ed.)
       Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008),
       Tenerife, Spain, June 2nd, 2008, CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
       ISSN 1613-0073, online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-422.

02-Dec-2008: submitted by Heiko Stoermer
02-Dec-2008: published on CEUR-WS.org