From e.j.top at uu.nl Thu Mar 13 12:46:29 2025 From: e.j.top at uu.nl (Top, E.J. (Eric)) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:46:29 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] [CfP] Reminder FOIS 2025 conference: Strict deadlines approaching for main track submission. Message-ID: --------------------------------------- We would like to kindly remind you that the deadlines for the FOIS conference main track are fast approaching, with the deadline for abstracts on the 23rd of March and the deadline for full papers on the 30th of March. It should be emphasized that these deadlines are strict, so make sure to submit before these dates. In previous years, the main track has provided a platform for excellent work, and we look forward to viewing your submissions this year and for you to join us during the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2025, to be held in Catania from the 8th to the 12th of September. For more information, we recommend visiting the FOIS website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/ Best regards, C?sar Bernab? and Eric Top (FOIS 2025 Publicity Chairs) --------------------------------------- Please consider the following important dates: FOIS 2025: Mandatory abstract submission: 23 March 2025 (strict) Paper submission: 30 March 2025 (strict) Rebuttal period: 9-14 May 2025 Notifications: 19 May 2025 Camera-ready papers: 30 June 2025 Virtual conference: 4-5 September 2025 Onsite conference: 8-12 September 2025 JOWO 2025: Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025 Workshop acceptance notification: 7 February 2025 Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity: 28 February 2025 Workshop paper submission deadline: 1 June 2025 Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025 Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025 Workshop days: between 8-9 September 2025 For more information about, e.g., submission types, the venue, conference program, or organizing committee, please visit https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/. ----------------------------------------- About the conference: The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2025 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr Mon Mar 17 17:41:23 2025 From: Cassia.Trojahn at irit.fr (Cassia TROJAHN) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:41:23 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?15th_ESAO_webinar=3A_Jerome_Euzenat_on_?= =?utf-8?q?Ontology_evolution=2C_March_20th_2025_15=3A00_UTC_=282nd_CfP=29?= Message-ID: <2a2c0f-67d85080-e5-713a6780@34399031> Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The 15h ESAO webinar will be held on Thursday March 20th, 2025 at 16:00 CET. --------------------------- When and how to connect Thursday March 20th, 2025 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST (see more local times [2]) Duration: 60 minutes Video conference (via Zoom) https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1 --------------------------- Program 15:00 - 16:00 UTC / 16:00 - 17:00 CET / 17:00 - 18:00 SAST / 12:00 - 13:00 UTC-3 J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Ontology evolution Abstract: Unless considering ontologies as transcendental and perfect, they need to evolve. This may be because the world they represent evolves or the purpose they fulfill requires it. In general, what triggers evolution is the inadequacy of an ontology. Restoring it may be carried out by human designers or automatic means, but it is worthwhile that they follow rules. In this short presentation, we will discuss two techniques that may help evolving ontologies: belief revision and artificial cultural evolution. How they are different and how they are alike. Best regards Cassia Trojahn, Frank Loebe, Laure Vieu On behalf of the IAOA Education Committee [1]https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [2]https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250320T1500 From robyferrix at gmail.com Tue Mar 11 14:17:05 2025 From: robyferrix at gmail.com (Roberta Ferrario) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:17:05 -0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage, SWODCH 2025 Message-ID: <8128FE01-3209-4AE8-B3A2-4B945102DA16@loa.istc.cnr.it> 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage, SWODCH 2025 September 8 or 9, 2025, Catania, Italy https://www.dmi.unict.it/swodch2025 *WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS* SWODCH 2025 is the fifth edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage. The purpose of the workshop is two-fold: First, it aims to gather foundational research work on the design of conceptual models, knowledge graphs, ontologies, and Semantic Web (SW) technologies for Cultural Heritage (CH) and the Digital Humanities (DH). A plethora of heterogeneous and multi-format data currently available in these domains asks for principled methodologies and technologies to semantically characterise, integrate, and reason with data, and to support their retrieval, management, analysis and visualisation. We also welcome philosophical and sociological analyses of data, knowledge representation models and modelling practices in CH and DH, possibly taking into account the social or historical dimensions of data. Second, SWODCH aims to bring together stakeholders from various fields of Computer Science and the Humanities, involved in the development and deployment of concrete SW solutions for CH, efficiently building, managing, exploring, visualising or mining CH knowledge graphs. More than 20 years after the beginning of this century, any SW solution should be designed according to the FAIR principles and the workshop supports the creation of datasets and applications that respect and are compliant with these principles. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: September 1, 2025 - Workshop Date: between September 8-9, 2025 *LOCATION* SWODCH 2025 will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO) 2025, in Catania, Italy. *LIST OF TOPICS* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities - Domain ontologies or conceptual models for different fields of Humanities - Methodological aspects of ontology development for the DH - Application of formal ontology theories in the DH - Case studies and lessons learnt from the use of standard ontologies (e.g. CIDOC-CRM) - Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with respect to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.) - Philosophical and sociological analysis of digital models and modelling practices in DH - Social studies on the policies towards the standardisation of ontologies in DH ? Semantic Web Technologies and Applications for Cultural Heritage - SW technologies for CH content creation, annotation and extraction - SW architectures and infrastructures for CH - Interoperability of CH collections - Applying the FAIR data principles to CH data - CH knowledge graphs - Searching, querying and visualising CH data on the SW - Ontology-based access to CH data - Publishing CH data on the Web - Navigating through and browsing CH data on the Web - SW solutions for trust and provenance issues in CH - SW applications for digital libraries, museums, tourism, the creative industries, etc. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* We will accept two different types of contributions: - Full papers for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to nor accepted for presentation at any other venue. Submitted *full papers* should be between 10 and 12 pages, including references. - Short papers for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. Submitted *short papers* should be between 6 and 8 pages, including references. All contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the 1-column CEUR-ART style format. The style files for this format are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page is also available for LaTeX users: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through this link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=swodch25. Papers will be reviewed on the basis of their scientific merit, originality and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt inclusive language in their papers and presentations (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code on conduct (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html). *PUBLICATION* Accepted papers will be published in a CEUR-WS volume. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to submit extended versions to a journal special issue. We regularly organise special issues on the topics of the workshop in related journals such as the Semantic Web Journal and the International Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 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You?re welcome to join our FAIR-IMPACT Implementation Workshop this Thursday on this topic: https://fair-impact.eu/events/fair-impact-events/advancing-fair-semantic-artefact-discovery-and-search-ontoportal-0? Advancing FAIR Semantic Artefact Discovery and Search: OntoPortal Federation Joint Release fair-impact.eu We look forward to see you! Best regards, Clement Jonquet on behalf of AgroPortal, EcoPortal, EarthPortal and BiodivPortal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Clement JONQUET ? PhD in Informatics Senior Researcher ? INRAE (MISTEA) Associate Researcher ? University of Montpellier (LIRMM) #scientistwhocaresaboutmetadata ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Ontology Showcase at FOIS gives authors the opportunity to present their ongoing work to receive early feedback from the community as well as published work promoting collaboration among ongoing and mature projects. This initiative encourages sharing and reuse of curated high-quality ontologies. Submission deadline: 25 May 2025 Demonstrations The demonstration track complements FOIS 2025 full-length paper main tracks by offering an interactive platform for authors to present and discuss their work. We invite demonstrations of tools and methods developed using ontologies, as well as those to create, maintain, integrate, publish, evaluate, and implement ontologies. We also invite demonstrations of novel ontology (anti)patterns and of challenges arising in the ontology engineering life cycle. The goal is to raise the visibility and foster understanding of the dynamic, integrative, and use-oriented aspects of applied ontology, its tools, and its uses. 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