The Semantic Web has risen from the fusion of many research areas; knowledge representation and the generation/management of onotologies, the axiomatisation of ontological artifacts and the resulting reasoning mechanisms that can be harnessed to infer new knowledge, inference and the creation of new knowledge through learning and data mining, and of services and autonomous agents both to provide and support the emerging and evolving knowledge. Such knowledge also plays a significant role in the reasoning and manipulation of data in such domains as Multimedia and Geometric Modeling, and can support the formation of communities that share, manage and manipulate community knowledge.

In 2004, six large projects commenced across Europe, each funded under European Commissions FP6 First call of the IST Priority under the strategic objective Semantic-based knowledge systems. The objective of this call was to develop semantic-based and context-aware systems to acquire, organise, process, share and use the knowledge embedded in multimedia content. Given that one of the central ideas of the Semnatic Web is that of sharing and reusing knowledge within an open framework, these six projects Knoweldge Web, AIM@SHAPE, REWERSE, MUSCLE, AgentLink III and KnoweldgeBoard 2.0 were encouraged to come together and collaborate by sharing knowledge and an awareness of each others research and technology, to facilitate an understanding and synergy of completentary technologies.

The objectives of the Workshop Framework 6 Collaboration for the Future Semantic Web will be to provide such a forum where researchers within the European Semantic Web community who are working on synergistic technologies under these projects to come together and share their experiences with other members of these partner Networks. The aims are to explore, for example, how agent technology, using emerging reasoning techniques, can support and manage Semantic Web knowledge; how semantic, geometric models can be represented and used within multimedia contexts, how the cretation and refinement of knowledge can be used to support collaboration between on-line communities.

By providing a forum where researchers from each of these projects can meet and share their experiences, a greater awareness can be achieved of the different issues that arise in creating, managing, inferring, and exploiting knowledge on the semantic web.

The cfp and submission details will be announced shortly