  WOD-2012 aims at facilitating new trends and ideas from a broad range of
topics concerned within the widely-spread Open Data movement, from the
viewpoint of computer science research.
  While being most commonly known from the recent Linked Open Data movement,
the concept of publishing data explicitly as Open Data has meanwhile developed
many variants and facets that go beyond publishing large and highly structured
RDF/S repositories. Open Data comprises text and semi-structured data, but also
open multi-modal contents, including music, images, and videos. With the
increasing amount of data that is published by governments (see, e.g.,
data.gov, data.gov.uk or data.gouv.fr), by international organizations
(data.worldbank.org or data.undp.org) and by scientific communities (tdar.org,
cds.u-strasbg.fr, GenBank, IRIS or KNB) explicitly under an Open Data policy,
new challenges arise not only due to the scale at which this data becomes
available.
  A number of community-based conferences accommodate tracks or workshops which
are dedicated to Open Data. However, WOD aims to be a premier venue to gather
researchers and practitioners who are contributing to and interested in the
emerging field of managing Open Data from a computer science perspective.
Hence, it is a unique opportunity to find in a single place up-to-date
scientific works on Web-scale Open Data issues that have so far only partially
been addressed by different research communities such as Databases, Data Mining
and Knowledge Management, Distributed Systems, Data Privacy, and Data
Visualization.
