[DL] JOCCH Special Issue: Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage - CfP

[Alessandro Mosca]

Dear colleagues,

I am forwarding the call for papers for a special issue on Semantic Web and
Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage that we are organizing as a follow-up
to the SWODCH workshop that took place on the last September 2021.

Apologies for multiple cross-posting!

All the best
.aLessandro

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CALL FOR PAPERS
JOCCH Special Issue: Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage
https://dl.acm.org/journal/JOCCH/semanticwebch

*AIM AND SCOPE*
This special issue follows the workshop SWODCH - Semantic Web and Ontology
Design for Cultural Heritage - (https://swodch2021.inf.unibz.it/), part of
the BoSK - Bolzano Summer of Knowledge - held virtually on September 20 and
21, 2021.
Starting from the assumption that transdisciplinarity is a key
characteristic of the digital Cultural Heritage research field and that
knowledge representation computational techniques are mature enough to
provide full-fledged virtual environments to Humanities for a new era of
digitally enabled research and teaching, the aim of the 2021 edition of
SWODCH was to create a fruitful dialogue among the communities of ontology
designers, knowledge representation specialists, and Semantic Web scholars
and practitioners focusing on digital Cultural Heritage.
Similarly, the scope of this special issue includes: philosophical and
social analyses of Cultural Heritage data and knowledge, including already
existing community modelling practices, as well as the historical and
social dimensions of data and the explicit representation of these
dimensions in a way that is transparent and accessible to both humans and
machines. We also welcome studies of principled methodologies and
technologies to semantically characterize, integrate, and reason on data
and domain knowledge models. Finally, we invite the submission of
contributions discussing recent experiences in developing and deploying
Semantic Web solutions to expose, link and search Cultural Heritage data in
a harmonised way, and to support the exploitation of already existing
semantic models and datasets.

*TOPICS*
We invite the authors of papers that were presented at SWODCH to submit
extended versions of their workshop papers (This generally means that at
least 25% of the paper is material not previously published). We also
invite any researcher or practitioner in Digital Cultural Heritage to
submit original work related (but not limited) to one or more of the
following topic areas:

Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities:
- Domain ontologies or conceptual models for history, history of arts, book
studies, theatre, literature, editorial practices, archeology, musicology,
cultural and natural heritage (including architectural heritage), among
others.
- Methodological aspects of ontology development for the Digital
Humanities, including the need for modelling the social (contextual)
dimension of both data and ontologies
- Use of ontology design patterns
- Case studies based on and lessons learned from the use of CIDOC-CRM or
FRBR
- Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with respect
to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.)
- Application of formal ontology theories for knowledge representation or
data management in the Digital Humanities
- Philosophical and sociological analysis of both digital models and
modelling practices in the Digital Humanities
- Social studies on the policies towards the standardization of ontologies
in the Digital Humanities

Semantic Web publishing, architectures and SW-based interaction for
Cultural Heritage
- Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction
- Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
- Virtual Cultural Heritage collections
- Peer-to-peer Cultural Heritage architectures
- E-infrastructures for Cultural Heritage
- Interoperability, virtually integrated Cultural Heritage collections
- Ontology-based data access or virtual knowledge graphs
- Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial)
- Search, querying, and visualization of the Cultural Heritage on the
Semantic Web
- Personalized access of Cultural Heritage collections
- Context-aware information presentation
- Navigation and browsing (facets)
- Social aspects in Cultural Heritage access and presentation
- Trust and provenance issues in mixed collection and mixed vocabulary
applications

Semantic Web-based applications for Cultural Heritage with clear lessons
learned:
- Digital Libraries
- Museums (virtual collections, mobile/ web-based museum guides)
- Tourist services
- Ambient Cultural Heritage
- Creative industries

*WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS*
- Antonis Bikakis, University College London, U.K.
- Roberta Ferrario, ISTC-CNR, Italy
- Stéphane Jean, University of Poitiers - ENSMA, France
- Béatrice Markhoff, University François Rabelais de Tours, France
- Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy

*IMPORTANT DATES*
- Manuscript submission deadline: June 1st, 2022
- Manuscript review feedback: June 26, 2021

Please note that all submitted papers will be reviewed as soon as they are
received. Accepted papers are published Online First until the complete
Special Issue is published.

*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*
Please follow the instructions given here:
https://dl.acm.org/journal/jocch/author-guidelines
You may skip the general description of the Topical Scope and the accepted
type of papers, which do not apply to Special Issues, for which there is a
deadline as indicated in the present Call for Papers. Only the formatting
and submission instructions are relevant in this case. When choosing the
type of paper, select: "Special Issue: Semantic Web and Ontology Design for
Cultural Heritage".
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KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data <https://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/>
Smart Data Factory Lab <http://smart.inf.unibz.it>
@NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, Office A1.4.29
Faculty of Computer Science @Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
https://www.inf.unibz.it/~almosca/
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