Visual interfaces to the social and the semantic web (VISSW 2009)

Recent developments in the Social and Semantic Web fields have resulted in large amounts of data created, published and consumed by users of the Web. The ability to easily integrate such vast amounts of data raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. The IUI2009 workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields to discuss the latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. This paper outlines the context of the workshop and provides an overview of the research to be presented at the event.