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WODHSA: Ontologies for Digital Humanities & their Social Analysis

23-25 Sep 2019
Graz, Austria

1st International Workshop on Ontologies for Digital Humanities and
their Social Analysis (WODHSA)

WODHSA 2019 Webpage: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/WODHSA/

Part of The Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) Episode V: The Styrian
Autumn of Ontology.

The Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) is a venue of workshops that,
together, 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.

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


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DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF WODHSA 2019
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The purpose of the workshop is twofold: on the one hand, to gather
original research work about both application and theoretical issues
emerging in the elaboration of conceptual models, ontologies, and
Semantic Web technologies for the Digital Humanities (DH) and, on the
other hand, to collect studies on the philosophical and social impact
of such models.

Concerning the former aim, a plethora of heterogeneous and
multi-format data ? including 3D models, photos, audio records, and
documents on paper ? is currently available in the Digital Humanities
domain. Such huge amount of information, retrieved from different
sources and contexts, disseminated in different and often isolated
places, asks for principled methodologies and technologies to
semantically characterize and possibly integrate data and data models
for analysis, visualization, retrieval, and other purposes. Moreover,
dedicated automated reasoning tools allow one to prove the consistency
of conceptual models and to extract implicit information present in
data to gain a deeper knowledge of the application domain at stake.
Hence, research efforts towards the application or use of reasoning
engines is of vital relevance.

With respect to the second aim, the workshop welcomes contributions
that look at ontologies and conceptual models for the DH from a
broader philosophical or sociological perspective and contextualize
them within the debate on digital technologies or models in philosophy
or science and technology studies (STS). The contributions are
expected to analyze ontologies and conceptual models for the Digital
Humanities, i.e., to shed some light on the (social, economic,
political, etc.) interests that drive the development and adoption of
computer models in the DH and the impact on the involved stakeholders
and society at large.

The complementary character of these two kinds of contributions should
allow both modelers and users to be more aware of the modeling choices
behind models and applications and of the theories that constitute the
background of such choices. This would enhance transparency and
reliability of the adopted models and thus understanding and trust on
the side of stakeholders and users.


Examples of research questions which would be interesting to discuss
at the workshop:

- What are the current challenges concerning the management of
knowledge or data for the Digital Humanities?

- What is the state of art about the use of ontologies and Semantic
Web technologies in the Digital Humanities?

- How do we model, characterize, and possibly integrate knowledge and
data for the Digital Humanities?

- What are the core concepts and relations that ontologies for the
Digital Humanities need to cover? Are these concepts well
conceptualized and represented in the ontologies currently available?

- Can foundational ontologies or theories of formal ontology (e.g.,
mereology, theories of events, objects, qualities, etc.) support
knowledge representation or data management tasks for the Digital
Humanities?

- How do we deal with the temporal dimension of Digital Humanities
data sets, e.g., with the representation of historic events and past
objects?

- How do we deal with uncertain or fuzzy information in DH domains
(e.g, uncertain discovery place of an archaeological find, fuzzy
execution date of an artwork, etc.)?

- Is there the need for coordinated national or international efforts
towards the integration of ontologies or data models for the DH?

- Which is the impact of the use of digital technologies for scholars
in the humanities, and for  users and stakeholders?

- Which is the impact of modeling choices on the DH domains at stake
and on their users and stakeholders?


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- The use of ontologies, conceptual models, or knowledge graphs for
modeling, accessing, integrating, or reasoning over knowledge and data
for e-culture portals, museums, archives, and libraries, among others.
Research domains of interest include history, history of arts,
theatre, literature, archeology, musicology, natural and cultural
heritage (including architectural heritage), among others.

- The use of standard conceptual models for the DH such as CIDOC-CRM
or FRBR. The workshop welcomes the analysis, comparison, or
integration of such standard models with respect to foundational
ontologies such as BFO, DOLCE, or -UFO among others, as well as formal
ontology theories.

- The use of ontology design patterns to support the development of
ontologies for the DH.

- The use of reasoning inference mechanisms to guarantee data
consistency with respect to knowledge models or to reveal hidden
information stored in the data.

- Research and application challenges arising from the digitalization
of DH data and their management through ontology-based information
systems or applications.

- The development of ontology-based information systems for the DH. We
particularly welcome research or application papers exploiting the
reasoning capabilities of Semantic Web ontologies, or using ontologies
in tandem with relational databases (OBDA approaches).

- Sociological analysis, modeling practices, and/or impact of the use
of computer-based technologies (e.g., virtual reality for museums) in
the DH.

- Philosophical analysis of models and modeling practices in the DH.

- Social studies on the policies towards the standardization of
ontologies in the DH.



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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline: April 30, 2019
- Review notification: June 15, 2019
- Camera ready: July 15, 2019
- Workshop: September 23-25 (one day)


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ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS
======================

We welcome two types of submissions:

- Research articles (not exceeding 12 pages, including the
bibliography) for presenting original unpublished work, neither
submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue.

- Extended abstracts (not exceeding 6 pages, including the
bibliography) for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of
doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. However,
please notice that, as a requisite for having the abstract published
in the CEUR proceedings, this cannot be shorter than 5 pages in the
IOS Press formatting template.



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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
======================

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS
Press formatting guidelines (downloadable here:
https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/).

Papers should be uploaded via Easy Chair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2019


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PUBLICATION
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Articles and abstracts will be published by CEUR workshop proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org/index.html). For previous editions of JOWO
proceedings, see https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
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Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy;
Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy;
Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Le Studium, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced
Studies, France.



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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alessandro Adamou (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)
Enrico Daga (The Open University)
yvind Eide (University of Cologne)
Adam Fedyniuk (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)
Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter)
Ludger Jansen (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Albert Meroo Peuela (University of Amsterdam)
Alessandro Mosca (SIRIS Lab Research)
Silvio Peroni (University of Bologna)
Antonella Poggi (Universit La Sapienza, Roma)
Giuseppe Primiero (Universit degli Studi di Milano)
Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone (Politecnico di Bari)
Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano)
Perrine Thuringer (University of Tours)
Jouni Tuominen (University of Helsinki)
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