[iaoa-general] CFP: SWODCH 2020 - September 21-22, 2020, Bolzano-Bozen (Italy)

[Roberta Ferrario]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural 
Heritage (SWODCH 2020)
@ Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2020), September 21-22, Bolzano, Italy
https://swodch2020.inf.unibz.it/


*WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM*
SWODCH 2020 is the association of the 2nd edition of WODHSA 
(http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/WODHSA/index.php/cfp/) and the 4th edition 
of SW4CH (https://sw4ch2018.ensma.fr/). It is also in continuation with 
the 1st edition of ODOCH (http://odoch19.uniroma1.it/odoch19/odoch19) 
and the special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on “Semantic Web for 
Cultural Heritage” 
(www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-web-cultural-heritage).

The purpose of WODHSA is to gather original research work about both 
application and foundational  issues emerging from  the design  of 
conceptual models, ontologies, and Semantic Web technologies for the 
Digital Humanities (DH). In fact, a plethora of heterogeneous and 
multi-format data currently available in the Digital Humanities domain 
asks for principled methodologies and technologies to semantically 
characterize, integrate, and reason on data and data models for 
analysis, visualization, retrieval, and other purposes. We are also 
interested in studies about  the philosophical and social analysis  of 
DH data and knowledge representation  models. For instance, ontologies 
for the DH often require to take into account the historical and social 
dimensions of data. The research question is how to explicitly represent 
these dimensions in a way that is transparent and accessible to both 
humans and machines.  We believe that making both modelers and users 
aware of the modeling choices laying behind models and applications, as 
well as studying the background theories of such modeling choices,  
enhance the transparency and reliability of computational resources, 
and  therefore help users in better understanding and trusting them.

The aim of SW4CH is to bring together stakeholders from various 
scientific fields, Computer Scientists, Data Scientists and Digital 
Humanists, involved in the development or deployment of Semantic Web 
solutions for Cultural Heritage. Cultural Heritage data is typically 
made available in diverse languages and formats. Knowledge 
representation can play an important role in making such resources 
mutually interoperable, so that it can be presented, linked and searched 
in a harmonised way. Early solutions were based on the 
syntactic/structural level of data, without leveraging the rich semantic 
structures underlying the content. Nowadays, institutions bring their 
data to the Semantic Web level, so the tasks of integrating, sharing, 
analysing and visualising data are  to be conceived in this new and very 
rich framework.

The overall goal of SWODCH 2020 is to provide a scientific forum where 
scholars and stakeholders  will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, 
experiences, and analyses, while presenting realisations and outcomes of 
relevant projects and discussing the related challenges.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
- Submission deadline: May 15, 2020
- Review notification: June 26, 2020
- Camera ready: July 17, 2020
- Workshop: September 21-22 (two days)


*LIST OF TOPICS*
We seek original and high quality submissions related (but not limited) 
to one or more of the following topic areas:

Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities
- Domain ontologies or conceptual models for history, history of arts, 
book studies, theatre, literature, editorial practices, archeology, 
musicology, cultural and natural - heritage (including architectural 
heritage), among others.
- Methodological aspects of ontology development for the Digital 
Humanities, including the need of modeling the social (contextual) 
dimension of both data and ontologies
- Use of ontology design patterns
- Case studies based on and lessons learned from the use of CIDOC-CRM or 
FRBR
- Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with 
respect to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.)
- Application of formal ontology theories for knowledge representation 
or data management in the Digital Humanities
- Philosophical and sociological analysis of both digital models and 
modeling practices in the Digital Humanities
- Social studies on the policies towards the standardization of 
ontologies in the Digital Humanities

Semantic Web publishing, architectures and SW-based interaction for 
Cultural Heritage
- Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Virtual Cultural Heritage collections
- Peer-to-peer Cultural Heritage architectures
- E-infrastructures for Cultural Heritage
- Interoperability, virtually integrated Cultural Heritage collections
- Ontology-based data access or virtual knowledge graphs
- Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial)
- Search, querying, and visualization of the Cultural Heritage on the 
Semantic Web
- Personalized access of Cultural Heritage collections
- Context-aware information presentation
- Navigation and browsing (facets)
- Social aspects in Cultural Heritage access and presentation
- Trust and provenance issues in mixed collection and mixed vocabulary 
applications

Semantic Web based applications for Cultural Heritage with clear lessons 
learned:
- Digital Libraries
- Museums (virtual collections, mobile/ web-based museum guides)
- Tourist services
- Ambient Cultural Heritage
- Creative industries


*WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS*
- Antonis Bikakis, University College London, U.K.
- Roberta Ferrario, ISTC-CNR, Italy
- Stéphane Jean, University of Poitiers - ENSMA, France
- Béatrice Markhoff, University François Rabelais de Tours, France
- Carlo Meghini, CNR-ISTI of Pisa, Italy
- Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy
- Antonella Poggi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced 
Studies, France


*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
We will accept two different types of contributions:
- Research articles for presenting original unpublished work, neither 
submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue.
- Extended abstracts for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions 
of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects.

All the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the 
LNCS format and must comply with the LNCS formatting guidelines 
available at http://www.springer.com/series/7899. Submitted *research 
articles* must not be shorter than 10 pages and must not exceed 12 
pages, including bibliography, while the submitted *extended abstracts* 
must not be shorter than 5 pages and not exceed 6 pages, including 
bibliography.

Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific 
merit, originality and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be 
reviewed by three Program Committee members.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF, using this link: 
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swodch2020.


*PUBLICATION*
Accepted papers will be published in a CEUR-WS volume.
The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited to prepare 
extended versions of their papers after the workshop to be published in 
a journal special issue.