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<div style=" margin: 0px"> U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series <br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px"> http://us2ts.org/2019/<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px"> https://easychair.org/cfp/us2ts2019<br>
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Semantic Web is an inherently multi-disciplinary field. With an ever-growing dependence on the Web and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse, natural science researchers, geoscience, biology, library science,
health care, the humanities, just to name a few, have also taken an increasing interest in the Semantic Web. The U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) series provide a forum to ease the division between computer science, natural science, and academia/government/industry. </span></font></div>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">We solicit anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web to propose a session for US2TS 2019. A session is any scientifically relevant activity that can fit into a 90 minutes slot (you can also propose a session that takes more than
one slot).<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">Examples of sessions are:<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. a panel discussion<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. a series of presentations on a topic<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. a tutorial<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. etc.<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">As the main goal of the Symposium is to foster synergies and collaborations from different fields, we strongly recommend that:<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">1. At least 2-3 people, preferably from different institutions, propose the session.<span style=" margin: 0px"> </span><br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">2. All the session leaders are asked to confirm and commit to participate at the time of submission.<span style=" margin: 0px"> </span><br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">3. If your proposal already names speakers or panelists, you must state whether their participation is already confirmed.<span style=" margin: 0px"> </span><br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">We encourage session proposals about cross-discipline topics which are of concern for participants from existing sub-communities<span style=" margin: 0px"> </span><br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">Submission Guidelines<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">Please prepare a (max) 2 page submission indicating:<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Name of the session<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Topic: please indicate which cross-discipline topics the session will tackle. Here you can also specify if there is any particular vertical of interest (e.g. legal, life science, medical, publisher/scholarly data, cultural heritage,
library, museum, oil/gas, engineering, airplane, e-commerce, etc)<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Type of session: Panel | Presentations | Break-out discussion | Tutorial | Other (please specify)<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Short description of the session<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. The 2/3 person team (names & affiliations) that will lead the session<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Speakers(when applicable). It is strictly required to specify the speakers if you are proposing a panel, in which case they must be already confirmed.<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Expected participation (give a prediction of who would be interested in attending your session)<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Submit your proposal on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts.<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">After the Symposium we will invite all session chairs to co-edit a summary of the event, which will be formally published.<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Deadline for submissions: October 31st 2018<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Notifications: November 16th 2018<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Confirmed outline of the sessions: December 10th 2018<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Final program for the sessions: January 14th 2019<br>
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<div style=" margin: 0px">. Symposium dates: March 11-13, 2019<br>
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to<span> </span><b>contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com</b></span></font></div>
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