<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font color="#18191a">(Apologies for potential cross-posting)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><font size="6">The Joint Ontology Workshops - JOWO 2022</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><font size="4">Episode 8: The Svear Sommar of Ontology</font></span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial"><font size="4">  </font><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial"><font size="4">August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (On-site)</font></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><a href="https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022</span></a><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><b>-- Final Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals --</b></span></p><br><font size="4">Submission as soon as possible but no later than: February 15, 2022<br>Notification: March 1, 2022<br></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">The organisation team invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be submitted to the eighth edition</span> <span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">of the Joint Ontology Workshop (JOWO 2022)</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">. The event will take place at J</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">önköping </span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">University in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022.</span></p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2022 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organisers, but whose venue matters are managed by the organisation of the umbrella event. Organisers for each workshop are responsible to advertise the workshop, finding a program committee, and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Each workshop will be treated as an independent track at JOWO and will be provided with a submission track on JOWO's Easychair, a room at a shared venue with joint breaks, shared keynote speakers, and social programs. Attendees are free to partake in all workshops at JOWO and all accepted papers are to be published in the joint proceedings (</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">open access CEUR proceedings in the IAOA series: </span><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(127,0,2);font-weight:400">http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html</span></a><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">).</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"> </span></p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">Proposals for workshops of interest are those that provide a forum for the discussion of theory,</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">practice, development and/or application of topics </span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or closely related areas. The strength of JOWO is the variety of different topics within the same domain. Therefore, JOWO workshops typically address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research and information science: ranging from Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Knowledge Representation and Logic, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid AI, Conceptual Modelling and Semantic Web. In general, any particular domain in which ontologies may be put to use is welcome. As a workshop collective, JOWO is especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats.</span></p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">Previous JOWO editions were held as independent events in 2019 in Graz (Austria), in 2017 in Bolzano (Italy), and in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape Town (South Africa), with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). </span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">During the pandemic times 2022-21, JOWO were held as components in BOSK 2021 and 2022 in Bolzano (Italy).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">This year's venue is Jönköping University. The university offers modern facilities in a mid-sized town in the south of Sweden. Beautifully located between shimmering lakes and lush forests, Jönköping is a popular tourist destination for nature lovers, sports enthusiasts and those interested in nordic culture. JOWO will be organised as an on-site event, but individual workshops may choose to invite part of their workshop presenters in an online form.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><br></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>-- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:400"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">Workshop proposals should be sent to:<br></span><a style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration-line:underline">steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400"> as soon as possible and no later than February 15, 2022. </span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400"><br></span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:400">We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial">Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial"><b> no more than 2 pages</b></span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial"> in length, and must contain the following information:</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">title of the workshop/tutorial;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">names of the workshop/tutorial organisers;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organisation;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">description of the workshop/tutorial topic;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests);</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates). We recommend taking the proposed "important dates" below into account.</span></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><b>-- EVALUATION --</b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2022 using the following criteria:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">Quality of the proposal;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">Likelihood of success of the workshop;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)">Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.</span></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><b>-- IMPORTANT DATES --</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">February 15, 2022 – Workshop proposal submission deadline</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">March 1, 2022 – Latest date for notification of workshop acceptance</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">March 16, 2022 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by individual workshop organisers</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">August 15-19, 2022 – JOWO conference dates</span></li></ul><p></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><b>-- FURTHER INQUIRIES --</b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">In case of further questions please contact: </span><a style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400;text-decoration-line:underline">steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com<br><br></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><b><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial">-</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial">- ORGANISATION --</span></b></p></div><br><div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26)"><i><b>Chairs and local organisation:<br></b></i>Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,25,26);font-weight:400">Karl Hammar</span><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">, Jönköping University, Sweden</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><font color="#18191a" face="Arial">Tan He</font><span style="color:rgb(24,25,26);font-family:Arial">, Jönköping University, Sweden</span></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><font color="#18191a" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font color="#18191a" face="Arial"><b><i>Proceedings chair:</i></b></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Tiago Sales Prince, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify"><font color="#18191a" face="Arial"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font color="#18191a" face="Arial"><b><i>Web chair:</i></b> </font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38">Selja Seppälä, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>