SWODCH 2020: Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage Bolzano, Italy, September 21-22, 2020 |
Conference website | https://swodch2020.inf.unibz.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swodch2020 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2020 |
The International Joint Workshop on “Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage” (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 modellers and users aware of the modelling choices laying behind models and applications, as well as studying the background theories of such modelling 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.
Submission Guidelines
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.
List of Topics
- Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities
- Semantic Web Technologies for Cultural Heritage
- Semantic Web Applications for Cultural Heritage
Committees
Organizing committee
- 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
- Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy
- Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, France
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to swodch2020@unibz.it