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Authors of accepted papers are asked to markup the title-pages and abstracts of their submissions for the Semantic Web. These annotations will be used as input to allow easy processing and searching. Please follow the next five steps to annotate your paper.

Initially the abstract has to exist in HTML, which can be created in an arbitrary HTML-editor. This file doesn't have to include any fancy layout, the text of the abstract and some additional information like title and creation date are sufficient. Please note that the described tool, the OntoMat, uses the integrated Java-Browser and might not show all features other standard browsers do. Problems can also arrise from tables in your HTML-file.

You may use an annotation tool of your choice. You can find a list of possible annotation tools here. OntoMat is one possible choice for annotation which you may use. It can be downloaded here. If you wish to have more general information on it please have a look at the "Semantic Web - Annotation and Authoring" webpage. Detailed instructions for download and installation, and explanations of its use are presented on this page. Please note that it requires JDK 1.4.

You may use an ontology of your choice for the annotation. The ISWC ontology in DAML+OIL is one possible ontology, which has been predefined for the process of annotation. The OntoMat tool allows you to open the ontology directly from the Web.

If you would like to use a different ontology, please provide some further information about it and we will list it here.

Annotate your abstract using your annotation tool according to your ontology.

We will describe here how the annotation can be done using OntoMat:

• Open the ontology into the OntoMat. (File > Open Ontology from URI, Tools > Ontologybrowser > New Window)
• Load the abstract (in HTML) of your accepted paper by entering the URL of its location. (Tools > HTML Browser > Open HTML File)
• Mark the title of your abstract, copy it by pressing the right mouse button and insert it by right clicking onto the InProceedings object (which can be found as a sub-class of publications). Your abstract is automatically created as a new instance of InProceedings.
  
  
• Now create the author by marking the name and doing copy and paste again onto e.g. FullProfessor or Researcher (sub-classes of the Person concept). You can now set up the relation between the your abstract and the authors. Click on the created instance of your abstract. Next mark the relation author. Your name will appear. Click on it an pull it to the relation author.
• The next important relation is the topic relation. Choose among the given topics the ones which describe your paper best. You may also add other topics related to your paper.
  
• Besides the main fields there are additional fields as tool, method, algorithm etc. There are predefined instances, but you will probably have to add some to describe your paper more thoroughly.
• Continue annotating the document with other important information as the institution you work at, the project you work on. Please don't forget to set the relations between the created instances, as well as the values of the attributes for each instance.
  
• Finally save the edited abstract. (Tools > HTML Browser > Write Annotation into Page, Tools > HTML Browser > Save HTML File)

The following documents are examples of annotated title-pages and abstracts for the ISWC:
Towards Semantic Web Mining, OntoEdit.

To upload your annotated document please place it onto a web-accessible server. Please send us the URL of your document via email. If you don't have access to a server, you may also send us the annotated abstract via email and we will place it onto the server.

Thank you for your cooperation and help on making the Semantic Web real.

If you have any further questions, feel free to contact Peter Haase.