JOWO 2019 Episode V: The Styrian Autumn of Ontology

The Joint Ontology Workshops will take place at the Medical University of Graz, September 23-25, 2019. This fifth edition will include 12 workshops and 4 tutorials.

In addition to workshops, JOWO will be hosting keynotes and joint panel sessions, as well as meetings of IAOA Special Interest Groups and Technical Committees.

Website:

https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2019/

Important Dates:

– January 15, 2019 (passed): Workshop proposal submission deadline – you can find the expired call for workshops here
– January 31, 2019 (passed): Workshop acceptance notification
– February 25, 2019 (passed): 1st call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers
– May 15, 2019: Suggested latest paper submission deadline
– September 23-25, 2019: JOWO 2019 in Graz

For workshop-specific detailed timelines, see the workshop pages.

Organization team:

JOWO 2019 Chairs:
Adrien Barton, CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France & University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland

JOWO 2019 Local Organization:
Catalina Martínez Costa, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Jose Antonio Miñarro Giménez, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria

JOWO Steering Committee:
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory of Applied Ontology (LOA), Trento, Italy
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig, Germany
Fabian Neuhaus, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany

For further inquiries please contact jowo2019@gmail.com.

FIRST IAOA ASSEMBLY FOR 2019

Dear IAOA members,

our Statutes [1] require the Association’s Financial Statement to be formally approved every year by a (virtual) assembly.

This is a formal invitation to participate in the first 2019 virtual assembly, whose main purpose is to discuss and approve the 2018 Financial Statement.

The Financial Statement [2] is available from the Assembly page [3], together with the Auditors’ report.

Then the discussion on it (and possibly other issues concerning the Association) took place until April 05, 2019.

Finalized details on the assembly and voting procedure have been published on April 09, 2019 on the Assembly page [3].

The voting period is April 10-15, 2019. The ballot is now open, please cast your vote!

Everyone with an active IAOA membership is eligible to vote. Detailed voting instructions are available from the Assembly page [3] and have been distributed anew on April 10 just before ballot opening.

The Assembly may approve the Financial Statement by simple majority; there is no quorum. The outcome of the voting is planned to be announced to the members’ mailing list by April 18, 2019.

Laure Vieu

President, IAOA

 

[1] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/iaoa-ch-statute-2016-06-23-en_v12.pdf

[2] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/iaoa-ch-financial-report-2018.pdf

[3] http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2019_04

MARCH 2019 NEWSLETTER

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the March newsletter on events that cover research in ontology (conferences, workshops, etc.) or are associated with IAOA (e.g., meetings of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Committees). These newsletters shall inform you about upcoming events and their corresponding deadlines. They may also include short reports of interesting past events, for example, by IAOA members who attended them. The planned frequency of the newsletters ranges from monthly to bi-monthly. This service complements the calendars of events [1] and deadlines [2], which we run for gathering event information. Please notice that such calendars are now easily accessible from the right sidebar of the landing page of the IAOA website [3] and from the Events page [4].

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this service, please let us know by writing to the Association [5] or publicly to the membership [6].

Should you be aware of events that you wish to be added to the calendar, you may write to [7].

Sincerely,
IAOA Executive Council

[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events”
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=iaoa.member%40googlemail.com

[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=os3b7er3ad4ela965ggjoa7u80%40group.calendar.google.com

[3] https://iaoa.org/

[4] https://iaoa.org/index.php/events/

[5] info@iaoa.org

[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

[7] calendars@iaoa.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Special event in honour of Nicola Guarino
April 5, Trento, Italy

* 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
May 20-22, Leipzig, Germany

Website: http://2019.ldk-conf.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 2nd Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing (WINKS-2@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks-2/index.html

* 1st International Workshop on Ontologies for Digital Humanities and their Social Analysis (WODHSA@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/WODHSA/

* 2nd International Workshop on Bad Or Good Ontology (BOG@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: http://bog.inf.unibz.it/

* 10th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry (FOMI@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/fomi2019/home.html

* Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2019-ODLS

* SHAPES 5.0 – THE SHAPE OF THINGS (SHAPES 5.0@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/SHAPES5/

* Ontology of Social, Legal and Economic Entities (SoLEE@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: https://solee-2019.github.io/

* 4th International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE@JOWO 2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 15 (papers submission)

Website: https://womocoe19.fbk.eu/

* Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Open Science and Innovation (DAO-SI @JOWO-2019)
September 23-25, Graz, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 1 (papers submission)

Website: https://daosi.inf.unibz.it/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Social Ontology 2019 (ENSO VI)
August 22-24, Tampere, Finland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, March 16 (abstract submission)

Website: https://isosonline.org/SO2019/

* 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2019)
June 17-21, Charlotte, NC, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, March 18 (doctoral consortium submission)
*** Friday, May 17 (Art/demo submission)

* ESWC 2019
June 2-6, Portoroz, Slovenia

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, March 20 (challenge deadline)
*** Monday, April 22 (project networking session deadline)

* Open Data and Ontologies for Cultural Heritage (ODOCH’19)
June 3, Rome, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, March 23 (paper registration)
*** Saturday, March 30 (paper submission)

Website: http://odoch19.uniroma1.it/odoch19/

* Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances 2019 (IC@PFIA)
July 1-5, Toulouse (France)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, April 1 (paper submission)

Website: https://www.irit.fr/pfia2019/ic/

* 10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2019)
July 29- August 2, Buffalo, NY, USA

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, April 1 (full paper and early career paper submission)
*** Wednesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icbo2019/home

* SEMANTiCS 2019
September 9-12, Karlsruhe, Germany

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, April 23 (research and innovation track abstract submission)
*** Tuesday, April 30 (research and innovation track paper submission)
*** Monday, May 20 (Vocabulary and innovation award submission)
*** Monday, May 27 (Industry and case track submission)

Website: https://2019.semantics.cc/

* Ontological and Foundational Perspectives in Business Process Modelling Workshop (onBPM 2019)
September 2, Wien, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 24 (paper submission)

Website: https://onbpm2019.fbk.eu/home

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Ontology Summit 2019
March 20, 12:00 EST, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
“Financial Explanations Session 2”
default dates: every Wednesday, 12.00 EST

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2019
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2019_03_20

* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.213, March 18, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Mondays, 14:30 UTC

EC Webpage:

Executive Council

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n. 37, April 3, 14:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Wednesday of each month, 14:30 UTC

Mailing list archive:
https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-education/

EduTC Webpage:

Education Standing Committee

EduTC Wiki: http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.65, April 1, 14:00 EST
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 14:00 EST

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_64

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