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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/st4dm/)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Location</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Semantic Technologies for Data Management (ST4DM) workshop will be co-located with the 2024 edition of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in
Information Systems (FOIS - https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/#14th-international-conference-on-formal-ontology-in-information-systems-fois-2024) hosted by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente (https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/scs/).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ST4DM will officially contribute to the 10th edition of IAOA's Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO - https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/), nicknamed "Episode X: The Tukker
Zomer of Ontology".</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Background</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have become a popular format of data representation, mainly due to their flexible data model which renders them particularly suited to
those tasks where data coming from multiple, possibly heterogeneous, sources has to be integrated in order to be fully exploited. KGs have received both the attention of academia, through foundational efforts stemming from scientific literature such as Knowledge
Representation, Machine Learning, or Databases, and the enterprise world. Enterprise applications, in particular, exploit tools implementing recommendations from the Semantic Web community (such as RDF or OWL), and proprietary formats based on property graphs.
The general data model of</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">KGs allows for representing both extensional knowledge, the data itself, and intensional information made available by domain ontologies. Hence, KGs provide a
way to enrich data coming from legacy sources with semantic information coming from the application domain. This empowers users with automated inference, enriches interpretability of data, and overall</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Goal</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The aim of the present workshop is to provide a dedicated venue for authors working in the context of semantic technologies for KGs where the focus is both on
data and ontologies. Currently, many venues are very focused on the former (e.g., the whole Database community), or the latter (e.g., the Knowledge Representation or Semantic Web communities). However,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">initiatives focusing on leveraging semantic technologies for data management necessitate an integrated perspective that merges data with semantics. This also
calls for bespoke techniques that seamlessly combine the two.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Scope</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This workshop invites the submission of papers focused on applying Semantic Technologies to Data Management.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions may cover foundational research and practical solutions in this field.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Knowledge Graphs (KGs)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Virtual Knowledge Graphs (VKGs)/Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Ontology-Mediated Query Answering (OMQA)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • (V)KGs Refinement, Construction, Enrichment, Integration</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Management and exploitation of provenance in (V)KGs</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Ontologies, metadata vocabularies, and standardization</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Semantic technologies applied to data infrastructures and FAIR data management</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Effective Query Rewriting and Optimization</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Performance and Security in (V)KGs</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Mappings and Ontology Bootstrapping</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Mappings Design, Management, and Specification</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Management of the evolution and preservation of (V)KGs</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Important dates (all dates are Anywhere on Earth - AoE)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Paper submission: 17 April 2024</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Author notification: 15 May 2024</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Camera-ready submission: 30 July 2024</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Workshop Date: July 15-19, 2024 (one day, to be defined)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Submission Guidelines</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please, submit your paper through Easychair by the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024. If you do not have an EasyChair account, you can sign
up at https://easychair.org.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ST4DM reviewing is single-blind, so the names of the authors will be visible to the reviewers and should be indicated on the submitted files. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions within the workshop scope may be of three types:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• *Full research paper*: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages including the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please,
note that the minimum length is 10 pages.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• *Short paper*: Submitted papers must not exceed 9 pages including the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please, note that
the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• *Abstract*: should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. NOTE: The "abstracts" articles won't be indexed by CEUR as papers.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions will be judged solely based on their content.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Both regular papers, short papers and abstracts must be formatted using the new CEURART style, using the following specific template that we prepared: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Accepted submissions will be presented during the workshop.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Outstanding papers will be invited to submit an extension of their contribution to the Journal Frontiers in Computer Science, special issue on Semantic Technologies
for Data Management.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• Workshop chairs</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Davide Lanti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Federico Maria Scafoglieri, University of Rome La Sapienza</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> • Guohui Xiao, University of Bergen</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">••• To get in contact with the workshop chairs, pleas use the following: </span></div>
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