ODAK 2022: Symposium on Open Data and Knowledge for a Post-Pandemic Era University of Brighton Brighton, UK, June 30-July 1, 2022 |
Conference website | https://universityofbrighton.github.io/odak/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odak2022 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 18, 2022 |
Submission deadline | March 25, 2022 |
This international symposium, supported by the University of Brighton, aims to bridge the gap between researchers, service providers and end users creating, aggregating and providing access to open data and knowledge to address the global challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such challenges would entail standard and consolidated process requiring reflection and reworking to be adapted to new settings. For example, whilst two years ago data providers were encouraged to publish data openly, due to the pandemic digitization has become mandatory in order to easily share and disseminate information with end-users. These challenges are related to health, societal inclusion, economic loss as well as the lack of access to education and learning opportunities. In this environment, organisations across the world require secure, interoperable and intelligent software systems to support digitisation, linking, aggregating, analysing, visualising and providing access to data and knowledge by using technologies such as semantic web, artificial intelligence, data analytics, immersive visualisation, as well as human-computer interaction.
The symposium will allow participants to learn about the latest research, case studies, and best practises across various disciplines and sectors such as Health, Finance, Public Sector, Education, Media and Culture. Cross-cutting issues will also be explored including interoperability, business models, security and privacy, as well as ethics, and legal aspects of open data.
For the research community and practitioners, the symposium will provide an excellent scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and look ahead to potential directions for the development/deployment of software systems for sustainable development in a post-pandemic era. For end users, the event will provide a unique opportunity to feed into technical developments as well as to identify new techniques and ideas which can be transferred into practice.
We seek different types of contributions:
Research Articles
- Full Papers: innovative research, in any of the topics below (maximum 8 pages), with explicit reporting of evidence of results.
- Case Studies: update of ongoing projects, in any of the topics below (maximum 5 pages), including national or international multidisciplinary projects.
- Posters: visual communication on topics of interest to be displayed at the event in an open area, together with an associated report (maximum 2 pages) describing the topic, with explicitly stated key points, a textual description introducing the poster and the described project and a textual explanation of graphical diagrams or images reported in the poster.
Both academia and industry contributions are welcome. Contributions should follow the template from the Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series.
Reviewers will take into consideration:
- Clarity of presentation
- Relevance and completeness of the literature
- Novelty of the proposal
- Evidence-based contributions
We encourage the publication of datasets and source code in public repositories, such as GitHub or Zenodo, as a core aspect of the proposed symposium. If data or the source code cannot be shared with the community, authors should explicitly state the reason for this limitation.
These contributions are solicited (but not limited to) in the following topics:
- Secure and privacy of open data and knowledge
- Interoperability and semantic web
- Large scale digitisation of analogue data, both 2D and 3D.
- FAIR technologies, including standards and ontologies
- Data quality including quality of data content and data format
- Data analytics, including artificial intelligence, of aggregated large-scale datasets
- Visualisation (inc. immersive environments) of large-scale datasets
- Human-computer interaction with open data and knowledge
- Business aspects and sustainability of open data
- Applications of open data and knowledge in Health, Public Sector, Education and Cultural Heritage
These contributions will be published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series.
Panel Sessions
We welcome expressions of interest to organise or contribute a talk to panel sessions exploring cross-cutting areas of interest, including but not limited to the following:
- Towards the interoperability, including challenges, technologies and future directions
- Security and privacy, including software system engineering considerations, as well as IPR and legal aspects
- Quality validation, including priorities such as quantity vs quality.
- Business models for tackling open data, including success stories, insights and best practises
- Ethics of open sharing, including licensing and other considerations.
- Any other cross-cutting topic
If you are interested in contributing to these panels, please send a short abstract (max 500 words) with the topic contribution and speakers. We plan to produce a summary of these panel sessions to accompany a publication for wider dissemination of these topics.
Important Dates
Abstract Deadline: Mar 18, 2022
Submission Deadline: Mar 25, 2022
Notification Due: Apr 15, 2022
Final Version Due: Apr 25, 2022
Event dates: 30 June - 1 July