In an increasingly complex and heterogeneous environment, significant effort is required to efficiently work with data and other digital objects. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to tackle these problems, describing a minimal set of requirements for data stewardship towards higher data reusability [1]. The FAIR principles have been gaining significant attention in different areas of the society, crossing international borders and knowledge and application domains. A number of initiatives such as GO-FAIR, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the permanent Committee on Data of the International Council for Science (CODATA) are focusing on different aspects of FAIR.

In order to improve findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of different types of digital objects at scale, the FAIR principles focus on machine actionability. Therefore, a critical aspect to achieve this machine actionability is semantics. Proper semantic descriptions should be available to make "intelligible" for computational agents the elements of a FAIR data ecosystem such as data policies, data management plans, identifier mechanisms, standards, FAIRification processes, FAIRness assessment criteria and methods, data repositories and supporting tools.

The goal of the workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and Metadata Management for FAIR Data is to discuss challenges, solutions and impact of, for one side, the use of conceptual modeling and metadata and data management to support the improvement of FAIRness in digital objects and, for the other side, the adoption of the FAIR principles to guide improvements in conceptual modeling.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 10. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

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Submission deadlines:

Submission deadline full papers: 27 July 2020  --> 11 August 2020

Author notification: 17 August 2020 --> 21 August 2020

Camera-ready version: 7 September 2020

Camera-ready proceedings: 11 September 2020 (hard-deadline)

List of Topics

• Semantic descriptions of FAIR digital objects

• Cross-domain interoperability

• Different aspects of conceptualizations for research outputs

• Best practices on modeling FAIR data

• Assessment of FAIR principles pactices and implementations

• Data and services integration in FAIR environments

• FAIR data management and stewardship

• Novel applications of the FAIR principles

• Metamodeling

• Metrics modeling for FAIRness assessment

• Provenance modeling in FAIR environments

• IoT and FAIR

• Architectures for FAIR repositories and networks

• Challenges in FAIR data management and modeling

• Modeling and managements challenges in FAIR e-Science infrastructures

• FAIR data analytics

• Workflows and process modeling for FAIR environments

• Data and metadata foundation, vocabulary and terminology

• Modeling issues at different interoperability levels, e.g., legal, application, social

• Use of the FAIR principles in conceptual modeling challenges

Committees

Program Committee

• Luiz Olavo Bonino (GO-FAIR, University of Twente, LUMC, the Netherlands)

• Barbara Magagna (Environment Agency Austria, University of Twente, the Netherlands)

• João Moreira (University of Twente, Netherlands)

• Robert Pergl (Czech Technical University/Centre for Conceptual Modelling - ELIXIR, Czech Republic)

• Peter Mutschke (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

• Yann Le Franc (eScience Factory, France)

• Tobias Kuhn (VU Amsterdam / UCDS, Netherlands)

• Giancarlo Guizzardi (Free U. Bolzano, Italy)

• João Paulo Almeida  (UFES, Brazil)

• Maria Luiza Machado Campos  (UFRJ, Brazil)

• Tiago Prince Sales (Free U. Bolzano, Italy)

Organizing committee

• Dr. Luiz Olavo Bonino (GO-FAIR, University of Twente, LUMC, the Netherlands)

• Barbara Magagna (Environment Agency Austria, University of Twente, the Netherlands)

• Dr. João Moreira (University of Twente, Netherlands)

• Dr. Maria Luiza Machada Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), GO FAIR Brazil)

• Peter Mutschke (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany)

• Dr. Robert Pergl (Czech Technical University/Centre for Conceptual Modelling - ELIXIR, Czech Republic)

Publication

CMOMM4FAIR proceedings will be published in the LNCS series by Springer.

Venue

The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to  b.magagna@utwente.nl.