[CogSci] First Call for Papers - International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2020)

[Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo]

International Workshop on  Semantic Web and Ontology Design for  
Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2020)
@ Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2020), September 21-22, Bolzano, Italy
https://swodch2020.inf.unibz.it/


*WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM*
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 modelers and  
users aware of the modeling choices laying behind models and  
applications, as well as studying the background theories of such  
modeling 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.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Submission deadline: May 15, 2020
Review notification: June 26, 2020
Camera ready: July 17, 2020
Workshop: September 21-22 (two days)


*LIST OF TOPICS*
We seek original and high quality submissions related (but not  
limited) to one or more of the following topic areas:

- Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities

      Domain ontologies or conceptual models for history, history of arts,
      book studies, theatre, literature, editorial practices, archeology,
      musicology, cultural and natural heritage (including architectural
      heritage), among others.

      Methodological aspects of ontology development for the Digital
      Humanities, including the need of modeling the social (contextual)
      dimension of both data and ontologies.

      Use of ontology design patterns.

      Case studies based on and lessons learned from the use of CIDOC-CRM or
      FRBR Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with
      respect to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.)

      Application of formal ontology theories for knowledge representation or
      data management in the Digital Humanities

      Philosophical and sociological analysis of both digital models and
      modeling practices in the Digital Humanities

      Social studies on the policies towards the standardization of ontologies
      in the Digital Humanities


- Semantic Web publishing, architectures and SW-based interaction for
   Cultural Heritage

      Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction

      Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment

      Virtual Cultural Heritage collections

      Peer-to-peer Cultural Heritage architectures

      E-infrastructures for Cultural Heritage

      Interoperability, virtually integrated Cultural Heritage collections

      Ontology-based data access or virtual knowledge graphs

      Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial)

      Search, querying, and visualization of the Cultural Heritage on the
      Semantic Web

      Personalized access of Cultural Heritage collections

      Context-aware information presentation

      Navigation and browsing (facets)

      Social aspects in Cultural Heritage access and presentation

      Trust and provenance issues in mixed collection and mixed vocabulary
      applications


- Semantic Web based applications for Cultural Heritage with clear lessons
   learned:

      Digital Libraries

      Museums (virtual collections, mobile/ web-based museum guides)

      Tourist services

      Ambient Cultural Heritage

      Creative industries


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*
- Trond Aalberg, IDI, NTNU, Norway
- Alessandro Adamou, National University of Ireland, Ireland
- Valentina Bartalesi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Arianna Betti, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of
   Amsterdam, Netherland
- Carmen Brando, EHESS-CRH, Paris, France
- Benjamin Cogrel, ONTOPIC SrL, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Enrico Daga, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Øyvind Eide, University of Cologne, Germany
- Richard Freedman, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, United States
- Peter Haase, Metaphacts, Walldorf, Germany
- Leif Isaksen, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Ludger Jansen, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
- Efstratios Kontopoulos, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Cvetana Krstev, Library and Information Science Department, University of
   Belgrade, Serbia
- Nikolaos Lagos, Naver-Labs Europe, Grenoble, France
- Carlo Meghini, CNR/ISTI, Pisa, Italy
- Albert Meroño Peñuela, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherland
- Dmitry Muromtsev, ITMO University, Russia
- Yannick Naudet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
- Cheikh Niang, AUF, Paris, France
- Antonella Poggi, Università La Sapienza, Italy
- Giuseppe Primiero, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Cedric Pruski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
- Fernando Roda, National Scientific and Technical Research Council,
   Argentina
- Xavier Rodier, CITERES-LAT, CNRS and University of Tours, France
   Guillem Rull, SIRIS Academic SL, Spain
- Viola Schiaffonati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Daria Spampinato, ISTC-CNR, Catania, Italy
- Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
- Maria Theodoridou, FORTH ICS, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Perrine Thuringer, University of Tours, France
- Douglas Tudhop, University of South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom
- Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Genoveva Vargas-Solar, CNRS and University of Grenoble, France
- Dusko Vitas, Computer Science Department, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Andreas Vlachidis, University College London, United Kingdom


*WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS*
- 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
- Carlo Meghini, CNR-ISTI of Pisa, Italy
- Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy
- Antonella Poggi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced  
Studies, France


*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
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.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF, using this link:  
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swodch2020.


*PUBLICATION*
Accepted papers will be published in a CEUR-WS volume.
The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited to prepare  
extended versions of their papers after the workshop to be published  
in a journal special issue.


-- 
Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo
Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica
Università di Catania
Viale A.Doria, 6 - 95125 Catania Italy
Tel: +39 095 7383076
E-mail:   nicolosi at dmi.unict.it
Homepage: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~nicolosi/