ESAO webinar — Pros and cons of DLs for applied ontologists

The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed).

The seventh of its regular webinar sessions will be held on

*Wednesday, May 10, 2023* at 14:00 UTC <https://intranet.irit.fr/SOGo/dav/public/trojahn/Calendar/12B780-643E4B00-789-425EB780.ics>
(regional times: 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST [2])

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Program
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10:00-11:00 EDT / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 / 16:00-17:00 SAST

Title: Pros and cons of DLs for applied ontologists
Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano / Libera Università di Bolzano) and Daniele Porello (University of Genoa / Università di Genova)

Series Description
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The IAOA [3] has created ESAO [1], an educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [4] (for the next ISAO edition during July 10-14, 2023, please see [5]). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

Organization
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [6] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

[2] Session time locally and in further places
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400

[3] IAOA website
http://iaoa.org/

[4] ISAO History page
https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

[5] ISAO 2023 website
https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/

[6] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee
https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/

Connection Details
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Topic: 7th ESAO
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ISAO 2023 – Call for Participation > Fee Schedule

Are you ready for a fiesta in ontology education?! You’re welcome to join


ISAO 2023
on July 10-14
University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
(in person only, no online participation)

ISAO website:   https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/

The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology – its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. In 2023, it features at least Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Oliver Kutz and Barry Smith as facilitators.

As of April 11, 2023, the subsequent news apply.

Fee schedule available

The fees are valid and payable in CAD. (**) To indicate them in EUR/USD, they have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up).

The fee structure distinguishes between

  • 3 attendee categories (on the left):
       studentacademicindustry(/business/society)
  • 2 attendance periods (*) (on the right):
       5 days (Mon-Fri, July 10-14) – last 2 days (Thu-Fri, July 13-14)
  • 2 registration phases (the two columns in the middle):
       early (by Sun, June 11) – late (from Mon, June 12 on)

which yields, with one sub table per currency (named in the upper-left, yellow corners):

Image version of ISAO 2023 fee structureRegistration opens soon, with the early registration deadline set to Sun, June 11.

Letters of invitation

To request a letter of invitation for ISAO 2023, not at least prior to registration, please email us at iaoa.isao2023@gmail.com and include your full postal work address.

Sponsoring

The organizers are grateful so far for
generous support by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) and contributions made by ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig.

Current resources on ISAO 2023

 

Please feel invited to join us in July as well as to support us by spreading the word beforehand in your network!

Thanks and best regards,
Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello

FOIS 2023 workshops and tutorial

List of accepted workshops at FOIS 2023:
(for updates on the workshops/tutorial, visit FOIS2023)

** CAOS VII: Cognition And OntologieS
Organizing Committee:
Guendalina Righetti, Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Stefano De Giorgis

** Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies
Organizing Committee:
Boyan Brodaric, Michael Gruninger, Torsten Hahmann

** 2nd Workshop on FAIR Ontologies and Ontologies for FAIR (Onto4Fair)
Organizing Committee:
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Clement Jonquet, Cassia Trojahn

** The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW)
Organizing Committee:
Damion Dooley, Matthew Lange, Hande Küçük McGinty, Anoosha Sehar

** International Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS)
Organizing Committee:
Bart Gajderowicz, Daniela Rosu, Janna Hastings

** 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)
Organizing Committee:
Davide Audrito, Luigi Di Caro, Francesca Grasso, Roberto Nai, Emilio Sulis

** 2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop (MK)
Organizing Committee:
Loris Bozzato, Torsten Hahmann, Cogan Shimizu, Antoine Zimmermann

** 7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VII)
Organizing
Committee: Fumiaki Toyoshima, Riccardo Baratella, Oliver Kutz, Stefano Borgo

Tutorial

**Objects, Wholes, and Parts by Antony Galton

FOIS 2023 – Call For Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

Submission deadline: January 15, 2023 (**extended**)
Website: https://fois2023.griis.ca/call-for-workshop-and-tutorial-proposals/
Questions to: fois2023@gmail.com

The Workshop and Tutorial Chairs for FOIS 2023 invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 before or after the main conference which will take place July 17-20, 2023 in Sherbrooke, Canada (https://iaoa.org/index.php/2022/11/17/fois-2023-call-for-paper/).

Workshops and tutorials at FOIS 2023 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organizers. They will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other areas. Together, the workshops can address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. They are especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

Previous JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops)/FOIS workshops were held in 2021 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (hybrid); 2020 (virtually); 2019 in Graz, Austria; 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa; 2017 in Bolzano, Italy; 2016 in Annecy, France; and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).
Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.

We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):
●    workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;
●    workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;
●    workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

Submission instructions

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:
●    title of the workshop/tutorial;
●    names of the workshop/tutorial organizers. Please indicate a primary contact person. For organizational purposes, there must be at least two organizers who commit to be physically present during the event taking part in Canada;
●    brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization;
●    description of the workshop/tutorial topic;
●    brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests; if applicable, please relate this to participation in similar prior events);
●    intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);
●    timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed “important dates” below.

Workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent to fois2023@gmail.com by January 15, 2023.

Evaluation criteria

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs using the following criteria:
●    Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;
●    Quality of the proposal;
●    Likelihood of success of the workshop;
●    Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.

Important dates
●    Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2023 (extended)
●    Workshop acceptance notification: January 26, 2023
●    First call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers: February 28, 2023
●    Submission deadline: Around April 24, 2023
●    Notification to authors: Around May 24, 2023
●    Camera-ready versions of all papers received (TBD): Beginning of June, 2023
●    Workshops and tutorials take place on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (July 17-20, 2023): TBD

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Further inquiries
Please direct all further questions to fois2023@gmail.com

FOIS 2023 Call for paper

13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online)


http://fois2023.griis.ca 

For any questions, please email: fois2023@gmail.com

Definition and scope
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. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. 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.

Important dates

• Abstract submission: 31 January 2023
• Paper submission: 12 February January 2023
• Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative)
• Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative)
• Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023
• Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023
• Virtual conference: week of September 18, 2023

The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop.

Location
FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: 

• An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 21, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes).
• This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. 

Submissions
FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:

• Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.
• Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.
• Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.

Please refer to the Submissions Instructions (coming soon)  for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.

Topics of interest
Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:

Foundational Issues

• Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes
• Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
• Vagueness and granularity
• Space, time, and change

Methodological issues

• Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
• Role of reference ontologies
• Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation
• Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality
• Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution
• Ontology compliance with FAIR principles
• Formal comparison among ontologies
• Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies
• Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context
• Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies
• Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies 

Applications

• Technical applications of ontologies, such as
• Semantic Web
• Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)
• Qualitative modeling
• Systems applications of ontologies, such as
• Ontology-driven information systems design
• Ontology-based data access
• Knowledge management
• Information retrieval
• Computational linguistics
• Metadata management
• Domain applications of ontologies, such as
• Ontologies for business modeling
• Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)
• Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.
• Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
• Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.
• Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing

Domain-specific ontologies

• Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)
• Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)
• Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)
• Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
• Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)

Conference Organization

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

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:

Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Early Career Chairs:
Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France
Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Demo & Showcase Chairs:
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
TBA

Publicity Chairs:
Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany
Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland




ONTOBRAS 2022

15th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2022

22 – 25 November 2022 – 100% Online

Free Registrations!

The free registrations for ONTOBRAS 2022 are now open! To subscribe, visit the conference’s page on Eventbrite. The conference’s sessions are limited to 300 simultaneous participants.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ontobras-2022-tickets-443758943947

For all information about ONTOBRAS 2022, please visit: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/15th-seminar-on-ontology-research-in-brazil-ontobras-2022-2/#iaoa

October 2022 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Herewith you receive the October 2022 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

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)

Website: https://iaoa.org/index.php/2022/10/11/educational-series-on-applied-ontology-esao-fourth-webinar/

When: October 18, 2022 at 10:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-14:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CEST/SAST

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40 2022)
March 15-17, 2023, Leuven, Belgium

Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-23/

Submission deadline:
*** October 30, 2022

* 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data (KGBigdata 2022)
@IEEE Big Data 2022
Dec. 17, 2022 (online workshop)

Website: https://cci.drexel.edu/kgbigdata/2022/

Submission deadline:
*** November 1, 2022

* 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’23)
April 4-6, 2023, Pisa, Italy

Website: http://worldcist.org/

Submission deadline:
*** December 6, 2022

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 41st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2022)
October 17-20, 2022, Hyderabad, India (online)

Website: https://er2022web.github.io/ER2022/

* 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022)
October 23-27, 2022, Hangzhou, China (online)

Website: https://iswc2022.semanticweb.org/

* 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG-2022)
in cooperation with ISWC
October 27-29, 2022, Hangzhou, China(online)

Website: https://www.ijckg.org/

* 29th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2022)
November 7-9, 2022 (online)

Website: https://time2022.time-symposium.org/

* 15th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2022)
November 22-25, 2022 (online)

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/15th-seminar-on-ontology-research-in-brazil-ontobras-2022-2/

* 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022)
November 28 – December 2, 2022, Udine, Italy (several events in context of AIxIA 2022)

Website: https://aixia2022.uniud.it/

* 24th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS2022)
November 28 – December 30, 2022 (online)

Website: https://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2022/

* IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG-2022)
November 30 – December 1, 2022, Orlando, Florida, USA

Website: https://ickg2022.zhonghuapu.com/

* IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022)
December 17 – 20, 2022, Osaka, Japan

Website: http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2022/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

EC Webpage:

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

 

JOWO 2022 – Report from Jönköping

On the morning of the 15th of August 2022, Jönköping University opened the doors to for the first time in Sweden host The Joint Ontology Workshops – Episode VIII: The Svear Summer of Ontology. In the five days that followed, scientists and practitioners interested in ontology gathered to share their latest research, discuss fundamental problems and network under the Swedish summer sun. 

 

Taking place as a stand-alone event, JOWO’22 was chosen to be held predominantly on-site to, once again, try to reduce the distance between scientists and research disciplines after the covid-pandemic had made everything feel so far away. However, since “hybrid is the new black”, the event live-streamed the full scientific content to offer remote participants a chance to join the fun from the distance of their choosing. In the end, the combination resulted in just over 50 participants joining on-site and some 70 participants came and went on the virtual platform.

 

During the full event week (15-19th of August), JOWO’22 ran two parallel sessions to provide enough time for the contributing workshops and tutorials to run their individual programs. The scientific program consisted of seven workshops, three tutorials, three shared keynotes and one panel debate, all carefully puzzled into a schedule that, to the best of our ability, ensured that the participants could participate in as many of workshops/tutorials of their choosing.

 

The list of workshops consisted of a few JOWO classics like the sixth editions of CAOS VI: Cognition And OntologieS IV” and ”FOUST VI: Foundational Ontology,” as well as ”IFOW III: The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop” and ”RobOntics III: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics” which celebrated their third editions at JOWO’22. More impressive still, was to see that the impact of the ontology community is growing in different application areas as demonstrated in how several new ontology workshops were present in this year’s edition. Covering ever-relevant topics such as environmental concern, knowledge diversity and social services the newcomings were: Ensusto: Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology Workshop,” “FMKD: First Workshop on Formal Models of Knowledge Diversity” and OSS: Ontologies for Social Services.” 

 

The participants were also offered the chance to further extend their ontology-focused skillset by participating in three tutorials of different scientific characters. First, He Tan held a semantic web tutorial on “Knowledge Graphs.” Then Tiago Prince Sales, Joao Paolo A. Almeida and Giancarlo Guizzardi organised a tutorial on how to “Implement Better Ontologies with gUFO.” Finally, the intersection between ontological modelling and linguistic research was investigated in the tutorial “Generating Text from Ontologies in Multiple Languages” organised by Maria Keet and Zola Mahlaza.

 

The scientific highlights of the event were, however, the presentations of the three shared keynotes. First up was Janna Hastings (University of Zurich/University of St. Gallen) who promoted ontology research in the setting of recent computer technologies in her talk “Ontologies in the age of deep learning.” This was followed by a talk by Peter Gärdenfors (University of Lund) who presented selected parts of his paradigm-shifting research on “Conceptual spaces, event structure and cognitive ontology.” The final keynote speaker, invited as part of the FMKD workshop, was Sebastian Rudolph (Technical University Dresden) who took the opportunity to build on Gärdenfors’ research and presented a more formal theory of knowledge representation in his talk “The Matrix Has You – Toward Compositional Conceptual Spaces.”

 

Another scientific highlight was the panel experiment “A Foustian Struggle” organised as part of the FOUST VI workshop. Here some of the founders of the seven (perhaps) most famous foundational ontologies were positioned against one another in a battle of how best to model particular scenarios. It was a fast-pasted intellectual battle that left both the audience and the participants wanting more. 

 

Yet, scientific excellence is nothing without an opportunity to promote the conducted research and to ground it into meaningful connections. Thus, to take advantage of the on-site conference setting, JOWO’22 consisted of a rich social program that encouraged communication between both newcomers and returning members. During the conference’s cookie-overflowing coffee breaks (in Sweden it is considered rude to offer less than 7 types of cookies) the participants could get to know one another by, for instance, playing “Networking BINGO.” The conference extracurricular activities on the social program consisted of a conference reception with Swedish “skumpa och smörgåstårta,” a BBQ on the beach, a half day along Vättern that included not only a nature hike but a trip to the twelfth-century industry village Röttle and the Swedish candy-capital Gränna. However, the social highlight was without a doubt the conference dinner that set in between the medieval armours at the old country inn Gyllene Uttern provided the participants with the extraordinary panorama of the rainbow-coloured sunset as day turned into night over the second largest lake in Sweden. 

 

The success of the event was the direct result of the hard work of everyone involved. As general chairs, we would like to say a warm thank you to the JOWO’22 organisation, all the workshop and tutorial chairs, the members of the program committees, the contributing authors and presenters, as well as to the audience. We hope that you all learned something new and that you had as much fun as we did!

 

The JOWO’22 chairs,

 Maria M. Hedblom and He Tan

Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)- Approaching soon!

Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1]

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at
10:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST/SAST via a Zoom meeting:

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/93738897633?pwd=R1k4bVdqSHA1ZEpXT2lkcXZyZWNyUT09

No registration needed; please find full connection details at the end of this message.

Program
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* 10:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-14:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CEST/SAST

Torsten Hahmann
School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine

“Where am I? Spatial knowledge in ontologies”

Abstract: Many of the things we describe in ontologies are objects or processes located in physical space. Examples of questions with a location or other spatial component include: Where is the start of the trail? What is the address I need to go to? Where again did I put my keys? How large is the property? Where is the conference happening? Where did you see the whale? To capture such spatial information, ontologies provide a variety of mechanisms that range from vague, qualitative descriptions (e.g. “after the bridge”, “on my desk”, “in the Gulf of Maine”), to more precise locations (“947 Broadway”, “Sherbrooke (QC)”) or even quantitative description (“1km East from here”, “400 sq m”). This talk will take the listener through different ways that are available to describe space and locations that range from concepts provided by top-level ontologies to more specialized spatial and geospatial ontologies for the Semantic Web.

* 10:30-11:00 EDT / 14:30-15:00 UTC / 16:30-17:00 CEST/SAST

Janna Hastings
School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, and the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich

“The role of ontologies in data science in support of discovery research”

Abstract: Data science encompasses a wide range of methods which aim to interpret and extract meaning, and new knowledge, from data. For data-driven discovery research, the quality and suitability of the statistical approaches are usually the focus of efforts to derive new knowledge, while ontologies are assumed to be relevant mainly for purposes of standardisation and exchange of existing knowledge, i.e. subsequent to the discovery process. In this presentation, I will discuss the role of ontologies and other pre-existing formal representations of knowledge in the science of making new discoveries from data, why this role is often overlooked, and how this might change as the science of the future becomes better integrated between humans and machines. I will illustrate with some examples taken from different domains: metabolism and behaviour.

Series Description
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The IAOA [2] has created ESAO [1], a new educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [3] (whose next edition will be held in 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

Organization
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [2] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

[2] IAOA website
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[3] ISAO History page
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Topic: 3rd ESAO session
Time: Sep 20, 2022 04:00 PM Paris

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Educational Series on Applied Ontology – Next session approaching soon!

The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike.

The second of its regular webinar sessions will be held on
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 10:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST/SAST
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**Program**

* 10:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-14:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CEST/SAST

Roberta Ferrario
Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy

Title: “The theory of variable embodiment and the modeling of organisational change”

Abstract: How can organisations survive not only the substitution of members, but also other dramatic changes, like that of the norms regulating their activities, the goals they plan to achieve, or the system of roles that compose them? These are some of the classical questions an ontology of organisations should be able to answer. I will briefly present Kit Fine’s notions of rigid and variable embodiment and propose an integration aimed at addressing the issue of re-identification of organisations through change.

* 10:30-11:00 EDT / 14:30-15:00 UTC / 16:30-17:00 CEST/SAST

Paweł Garbacz
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Title: “Applied ontologies as evolving artifacts. Why and how should you take care of managing ontology development?”

Abstract: If you think of an applied ontology as a dynamic informational artefact that is being developed over time, then you might want to consider a framework which would allow you to track the history of its lifecycle, test the changes it undergoes, and control its quality. These challenges are similar to challenges faced in bog-standard software development. In my presentation, I will show how the well-known software tools, including Continuous Integration platforms, version control systems, testing platforms, and review workflows, may address these challenges.

**Series Description**

The IAOA [2] has created ESAO [1], a new educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [3] (whose next edition will be held in 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

**Organization**
Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [2] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu

**Contact**
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

[2] IAOA website
http://iaoa.org/

[3] ISAO History page
https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

**Connection Details**
Topic: 2nd ESAO session
Time:  Jul 19, 2022 04:00 PM Paris

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