US2TS Call for Sessions Proposal

Semantic Web is an inherently multi-disciplinary field. With an ever-growing dependence on the Web and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse, natural science researchers, geoscience, biology, library science, health care, the humanities, just to name a few, have also taken an increasing interest in the Semantic Web. 

The U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) series provide a forum to ease the division between computer science, natural science, and academia/government/industry. 

We solicit anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web to propose a session for US2TS 2019. A session is any scientifically relevant activity that can fit into a 90 minutes slot (you can also propose a session that takes more than one slot).
Examples of sessions are:

• a panel discussion
• a series of presentations on a topic
• breakout-style discussions on a proposed topic
• a tutorial
• etc.

As the main goal of the Symposium is to foster synergies and collaborations from different fields, we strongly recommend that:

• At least 2-3 people, preferably from different institutions, propose the session. 
• All the session leaders are asked to confirm and commit to participate at the time of submission. 
• If your proposal already names speakers or panelists, you must state whether their participation is already confirmed. 
• We encourage session proposals about cross-discipline topics which are of concern for participants from existing sub-communities 
   

Submission Guidelines

Please prepare a (max) 2 page submission indicating:

1. Name of the session
2. Topic: please indicate which cross-discipline topics the session will tackle. Here you can also specify if there is any particular vertical of interest (e.g. legal, life science, medical, publisher/scholarly data, cultural heritage, library, museum, oil/gas, engineering, airplane, e-commerce, etc)
3. Type of session: Panel | Presentations | Break-out discussion | Tutorial | Other (please specify)
4. Short description of the session
5. The 2/3 person team (names & affiliations) that will lead the session
6. Speakers(when applicable). It is strictly required to specify the speakers if you are proposing a panel, in which case they must be already confirmed.
7. Expected participation (give a prediction of who would be interested in attending your session)

Submit your proposal on easychair.

Symposium outcome

After the Symposium we will invite all session chairs to co-edit a summary of the event, which will be formally published.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: October 31st  2018
Notifications: November 16th 2018
Confirmed outline of the sessions: December 10th 2018
Final program for the sessions: January 14th 2019
Symposium dates: March 11-13, 2019

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com