IAOA first 2021 Virtual Assembly Announcement

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 2021 virtual assembly [2], whose main purpose is to discuss and approve the 2020 Financial Statement [3].
The report from the Auditors on the Financial Statement [4] and the proposed budget for 2021 [5] are also available.

The discussion on the Financial Statement (and possibly other issues concerning the Association) can take place from now and until April 12, 2021 through sending a message to  [6] on the IAOA member mailing list [7].
Finalized details integrating the discussion outcome will be published by April 15, 2021.

The voting period will be April 20-April 30, 2021 — save these dates!

Everyone with an active IAOA membership is eligible to vote. Detailed voting instructions will be available from the Assembly page [2] and shall be distributed anew at ballot opening.
The Assembly may approve the Financial Statement by simple majority; there is no quorum.
The outcome of the voting will be announced to the members’ mailing list by May 05, 2021.

Laure Vieu
President, IAOA

[1] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/iaoa-ch-statute-2016-06-23-en_v12.pdf
[2] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2021_04
[3] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/annual-report-iaoa-ch-20210326.pdf
[4] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IAOA_audit_approval-2021-03-21-signed.pdf
[5] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IAOA-CH-2021-Budget_V3_1.pdf
[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de
[7] https://listserv.ovgu.de/mailman/listinfo/iaoa-member/

MARCH 2021 – NEWSLETTER

Dear IAOA members,

Herewith you receive the February 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 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 ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021)
September 13-16, 2021, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy — hybrid event —

Website: https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/

 

* The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021
September 2021, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy — hybrid events —

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

 

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APPROACHING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* Workshop on Domain Ontologies for Research Data Management in
Industry Commons of Materials and Manufacturing (DORIC-MM 2021)
Co-locate with 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021)

Website: https://ontocommons.eu/doric-mm-2021/

Dates:
** March 15, 2021: online kick-off meeting
** June 7, 2021: workshop [virtual event]

 

* 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’21)
March 28 – April 1, 2021, Lucca, Italy

Website: https://www.ecir2021.eu/

* 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’21)
Co-located with the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’21)
April 1, 2021, Lucca, Italy

Website: http://text2story21.inesctec.pt

 

* 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (KnOD)
Co-located with TheWebConf (WWW) 2021
April 19, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Website: https://knod2021.wordpress.com/

 

* 30th The Web Conference 2021 (formerly known as WWW)
April 19-23, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Website: https://www2021.thewebconf.org/

 

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021)
September 13-16, 2021

Website: https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/

Deadline for submission:
*** April, 22, 2021

 

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 3rd Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2021)
September 1, 2021 (Workshop/Tutorials day); September, 2-3, 2021 (Main Conference)
Zaragoza, Spain

Website: http://2021.ldk-conf.org/

Submission Deadline (extended):
*** March 21, 2021

 

* 4th International Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management (AIDM 2021)
Co-located with SIGMOD/PODS 2021,
June 25, 2021, Xi’an, China (Virtual event)

Website: http://www.aidm-conf.org/

Deadline for submission:
*** March 22, 2021

 

* 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS)
September, 6-9, 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Website: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/

Deadline for submission:
*** March 22, 2021 (Abstract)
*** March 29, 2021 (Full paper)

 

* 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021)
November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam

Website: https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de

Deadlines:

*** Regular and Special Sessions:
March 24, 2021 (Abstract)
March 31, 2021 (Full paper)

*** Recent Published Research Track:
June 27, 2021 (Full paper)

 

* 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2021)
October 20-21, 2021, St. John’s, NL, Canada

Website: https://www.er2021.org/

Deadlines:
*** March 31, 2021 (Paper abstract)
*** April 7, 2021 (Full paper)
*** June 16, 2021 (Workshop papers)
*** June 16, 2021 (Tutorial/Panel proposals)

 

* ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021)
September, 27-30, 2021 – online

Website: https://2021.jcdl.org/

Deadlines for submission:
*** April 1, 2021 (EXTENDED; Full paper and short paper submissions)
*** April 15, 2021 (Poster and demo submissions)
*** April 15, 2021 (Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions)
*** June 28, 2021 (Doctoral consortium submissions)

 

* ICDT 2022 – 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY
March 29 – April 1, 2022, Edinburgh, UK

Website: https://www.databasetheory.org/node/120

Deadlines for submission:

*** FIRST SUBMISSION CYCLE:
April 3, 2021 (Abstract submission deadline)
April 10, 2021 (Paper submission deadline)
June 1, 2021 (Notification)

*** SECOND SUBMISSION CYCLE:
September 6, 2021 (Abstract submission deadline)
September 13, 2021 (Paper submission deadline)
November 28, 2021 (Notification)

 

* 26th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2021)
September 20-23, 2021, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://iccs-conference.org

Deadline for submission:
*** April 9, 2021 (Abstract)
*** April 16, 2021 (Full paper)

 

* 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021)
October 24-28, 2021 — Virtual —

Website: https://iswc2021.semanticweb.org

Deadlines for submission:
*** April 12, 2021 (Abstract)
*** April 19, 2021 (Full paper)

 

* 12th International Conference on Biomedical and Biological Ontologies (ICBO)
September 15-18, 2021, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy — Hybrid event —

Website: https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/

Deadlines for submission:
*** April, 21, 2021 (Direct to Journal Submissions)
*** May, 5, 2021 (Main Research Submissions)
*** May, 26, 2021 (Early Career Submissions)
*** June, 6, 2021 (Posters and Flash Presentations Abstract Submissions)

 

* 31st International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases EJC 2021
September 6-10, 2021, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany [hybrid event]

Website: https://ejc2021.entavis.com/

Deadline for submission:
*** April 30, 2021 (Paper submission)

 

* 23rd IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (IEEE CBI 2021)
September 01–03, 2021, Bolzano (Virtual), Italy

Website: https://cbi2021.events.unibz.it/

Deadline for submission:

*** April 30, 2021 (Abstract submission)
*** May 7, 2021 (Paper submission)

 

* Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA)
co-located with FOIS 2021, September 16-17, 2021

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2021.html

Deadline for submission:
*** May, 16, 2021

 

* International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2021)
Co-located with Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021 (BOSK II),
September 20-21, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://swodch2021.inf.unibz.it/

Deadline for submission:
*** May 15, 202

 

* 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery,
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
October 25- 27, 2021, Valletta, Malta

Website: http://www.ic3k.org

Deadline for submission:
*** May 18, 2021 12:00AM

 

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* African Journal of Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (ARIMA)
SPECIAL ISSUE: “Data Intelligibility, Business Intelligence, and Semantic Web”

Website: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2021Feb/0055.html

Deadline for submission:
*** August 31, 2021

 

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.260, March 23, 2021, 10:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET

default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, time as above

EC Webpage:

https://iaoa.org/index.php/about/organization/executive-council/

 

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2021: ONTOLOGY GENERATION AND HARMONIZATION

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The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives

* Webpage: https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2021

* Video Conference URL: https://bit.ly/3i1uPRl

* Agenda for February – April 2021 (see website for more information)

2021 03 17 B Advantages of Formal Definitions
2021 03 24 General John Sowa
2021 03 31 Synthesis Synthesis
2021 04 07 C Neuro-Symbolic Learning Ontologies
2021 04 14 D Sustainability of Ontologies
2021 04 21 A The Ontological Landscape
2021 04 28 B Definitions

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