Selected topics at WWW2007

As i am a volunteer here at the World Wide Web conference i also get to see some presentations. The conference is just starting up and there are quite a few (read: too many) interesting talks, papers, and panels coming up. I will jot down my highlights here, as i might not make it to all of them. If you are here you can also subscribe to my partially overlapping WWW2007 schedule (ICAL). Also, if you are not here, most papers are available as PDFs.

• Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge (Workshop)
• Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization (Workshop)
• Tim Berners-Lee: The Two Magics of Web Science (Plenary talk)
• Communication in Developing Regions (Paper track)
• Semantic Digital Libraries (Tutorial)
• The Future of the Web Page (W3C Track)
• Prabhakar Raghavan: Web N.0: What sciences will it take? (Plenary talk)
• Open Data – Building a Semantic Web in Which Our Data Can Participate (Panel)
• Model Driven Semantic Web Engineering (Tutorial)
• The Role of Multimedia Metadata Standards in a (Semantic) Web 3.0 (Panel)
• Bill Buxton: Design for the World Narrow Web (Plenary talk)
• Linked Data (Developer track)
• Dick Hardt: An Identity Story (Plenary talk)
• Web Data (Developer track)
• The Two Cultures: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web (Paper)