<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Call For Papers for the Geospatial Ontologies Workshop 2023: “Where Next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies”.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">To be held in conjunction with FOIS 2023 (Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference 2023, Sherbrooke, Canada, 17-20 July 2023).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Topics of interest (not exhaustive)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Anything related to the design, analysis, or use of ontologies, knowledge graphs, and other semantic representations of geographic space, or other built or physical spaces, including but not limited to:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="square" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Uses </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; color: windowtext;" class="">with</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class=""> geospatial data such as for integration, alignment, publi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; color: windowtext;" class="">cation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">, retrieval, query</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; color: windowtext;" class="">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class=""> or reasoning<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Methodological aspects around </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; color: windowtext;" class="">geospatial ontology</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class=""> construction, population, alignment, or verification<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Applications in various domains<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Description of use cases that use or would benefit from new or improved geospatial semantics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Challenges to be addressed by the next generation of semantic geospatial representations<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Dates<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><ul type="square" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">19 May 2023 - Abstract and paper submission deadline.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">15 June 2023 - Notification of acceptance.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">30 June 2023 - Camera-ready version (for papers).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">19 or 20 July 2023 - Workshop day (in-person only).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Submission Requirements<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">We invite the submission of statements of interests as well as original research results and proposed research directions related to the focus areas of the workshop, in one of the three categories given below:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="square" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Full papers (up to 14 pages, including references) with mature work and established results, including research reports and surveys<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Short/position papers (4-6 pages, including references) presenting proposed research directions, new open issues, ideas and challenges, positions and opinions on the status of the field<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px;" class="">Abstracts (up to 500 words) with a position statement, a statement of interest, a use case or application or a challenge, a project, a tool, a research group, a paper/poster/demo presented at the main conference, related to the topics of the workshop<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Full and short papers must be formatted using the one-column CEUR-ART style (instructions <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fceur-ws.org%2FVol-XXX%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cboyan.brodaric%40NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca%7C16cbf3e89abb48668c6108db2aecb46b%7C05c95b3390ca49d5b644288b930b912b%7C0%7C0%7C638150971202498921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=D3Vu5aGPmrAtnpeUw2AEe8mq0EOq2Lrh2IHZhnn5Wxs%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" class="">here</span></a>) and submitted non-anonymously in PDF via EasyChair at this <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dfois2023&data=05%7C01%7Cboyan.brodaric%40NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca%7C16cbf3e89abb48668c6108db2aecb46b%7C05c95b3390ca49d5b644288b930b912b%7C0%7C0%7C638150971202498921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u3DBfDxGhZLhWHAlAY44s%2BP7SVodJZeZujZdm6xZqnA%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" class="">link:</span></a> in the ``Geospatial Ontologies" track.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""><br class="">The template for CEURART can be downloaded from <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip</a> or authors may start from this Overleaf page:<a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overleaf.com%2Fread%2Fgwhxnqcghhdt&data=05%7C01%7Cboyan.brodaric%40NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca%7C16cbf3e89abb48668c6108db2aecb46b%7C05c95b3390ca49d5b644288b930b912b%7C0%7C0%7C638150971202498921%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=g2UdhZKIxQDXVnlDDTKcZOtnvb2vMBZG1bFDpaeZ%2FyM%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.9pt; vertical-align: bottom;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Proceedings<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><ul type="square" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 29.333335876464844px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Accepted full and short papers will be published in the proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023). Accepted abstracts will only be distributed on the website and to workshop participants. For accepted full and short papers, participation and presentation by one of the authors is required.</span></li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>