The First International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. Its Call For Papers asked authors to provide RDF meta-data on their papers in a regular HTML page, which were collected in an annotated abstracts page.

This report summarizes our experience in utilizing this author-provided data for various WebScripter reports. It is not our intention to criticize the mark-up efforts of any author, given that the conference chair and meta-data chair gave wide latitude on how much mark-up was done, given the lack of easy-to-use mark-up validation software, and given the still-in-flux nature of RDF. Rather, it is intended as a practical, from-the-trenches report on using real-world RDF right now.

WebScripter could parse the ontology itself, plus 23 of the 28 pages that contained RDF (1 of the 29 author pages does not contain any RDF). See the detailed report for more information.

We also made some WebScripter reports of the data, such as this simple one of paper titles and author names. You can download WebScripter to make more if you wish -- the report of ISWC's meta-data is now one of the "Example Reports" under the File menu.

Have fun at the conference!