WIDM'12: The 12th International Workshop on Web

We give an overview of WIDM 2012, held in conjunction with CIKM 2012 in Maui, Hawaii. WIDM 2012 is the twelfth in a series of international workshops on Web Information and Data Management held in conjunction with CIKM since 1998. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners to present and discuss leading research into how web data and information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to provide useful knowledge to end users for advanced database and web applications