** With apologies for multiple posting **
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Onto4FAIR Workshop at Semantics 2023
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3rd Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR), in conjunction with Semantics 2023, 20 September 2023, Leipzig, Germany
This is a twin workshop proposal at both FOIS 2023 and Semantics 2023 conferences. The primary aim is to bring the gap between the scientific and the practitioner/industry sides, respectively, where we would take the greatest and latest advances in the state of the art to industry and bring back the practitioners' needs and challenges to the scientific community of figure out a solution.
For more details please check the website: https://onto4fair.github.io/2023-semantics.html
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Presentation
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Making the resources produced by researchers fully reusable and understood requires specific efforts. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to address these issues, describing a set of requirements for resource reusability and interoperability. These principles have been gaining increasing attention in a range of different areas and applications. One the one hand, a key aspect is the ability of properly and semantically describing resources, in particular with the help of ontologies. On the other hand, ontologies themselves have to be compliant with the FAIR principles.
The workshop has the following main goals: (i) to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of FAIR principles in research and real-world requirements. (ii) to serve to inform about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. (iii) to investigate how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of ontologies that ideally are themselves FAIR. (iv) to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting FAIR principles.
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Workshop topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- schemes, ontologies and vocabulaires for FAIR data and metadata;
- domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR data;
- making vocabularies and ontologies FAIR;
- alignment of schemes, vocabulaires and ontologies for FAIR;
- data management for FAIR data;
- best practices for implementing the FAIR principles;
- FAIRification process and use cases;
- metrics for FAIRness assessment;
- provenance in FAIR environments;
- FAIR principles and open science;
- FAIR principles and linked open data;
- FAIR in industry, scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.).
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Important dates
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- Workshop paper submission deadline: July 21, 2023 (extended)
- Author notification: August 07, 2023
- Camera-ready version: August 28, 2023
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Submissions
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- Full research papers: 12 pages (including references)
- Short papers: 6 pages (including references)
Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of IOS Press template.
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Workshop Chairs
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- Cassia Trojahn, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
- Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
- Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Clement Jonquet, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France
Best regards
Cassia Trojahn
===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases and demos =====
Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/
Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription
(free registration for students)
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13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023)
September 18-20, 2023 (Online)
Definition and scope
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The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web.
FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.
Program
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Monday September, 18th
EDT (UTC -4) CEST (UTC +2)
08:15-08:30 14:15-14:30 FOIS online Welcome Zoom
08:30-10:30 14:30-16:30 Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: Laure Vieu) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 Ontology showcases and demos gather.town
Tuesday September, 19th
08:30-09:00 14:30-15:00 Invited talks special session (TBC) Zoom
09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 2: Methodological issues (Chair: TBA) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 ESAO panel Zoom
Wednesday September, 20th
09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 3: Domain ontologies (Chair: TBA) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 IAOA General Assembly Zoom
12:00-12:15 18:00-18:15 Closing Zoom
Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/
Registration fees
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Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR
Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR
Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed country): free
More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/
Conference Organization
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General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France
Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA
Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands
Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany
Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland
Organization: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/
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Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez
Computational Logic Group
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Dresden
GERMANY