[CfP] SWIB18 - 10th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference, Bonn, 26-28 November

[Adrian Pohl]

Call for Proposals: SWIB18 - 10th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference
26.11. - 28.11.2018, Bonn, Germany

Submission Deadline: 13 May 2018

SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference,
being held for the 10th time, focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in
libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an
event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from
over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics
of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking
data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios.
These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research
projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD
activities in other areas.

As usual, SWIB18 will be organized by the ZBW - German National
Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and
the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz). The
conference language is English.

Would you like to share your experiences working on an interesting
service, research topic or project – not just what you did, but also
how you did it? Would you like to offer a hands-on pre-conference
tutorial or workshop on the afternoon of November 26?

We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics:

Projects & Applications

* integration of LOD into productive library applications
* authorities & knowledge organization systems (thesauri,
classifications, ontologies)
* re-use of LOD (from libraries, Wikidata and other sources)
* presenting & visualizing LOD
* end-user environments for interaction with LOD (e.g. editing or
annotation)
* crowdsourcing/gamification approaches involving LOD sources
* linked research & open science

Technology (focus on Open Source software)

* semantically enhanced data publication
* machine learning for automatic indexing & named entity recognition
* data transformation/integration/cleansing/enhancement/mapping/interlinking
* RDF validation
* data flow management
* read/write linked data
* linked data & library systems

Standards & Best Practices

* open web standards relevant for libraries
* application profiles & provenance information
* providing updates & syncing data sources
* preservation & sustainability
* open data licensing

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for presentations
or workshops by *13 May 2018*. Please submit an abstract of 1000-1500
characters using our conference system at
https://www.conftool.net/swib18. If you intend to present a specific
software solution please include links to the source code repository
and make sure it is openly licensed (https://opensource.org/licenses).

Proposals will be reviewed by the SWIB programme committee:

* Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
* Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
* Christina Harlow (Cornell University Library, USA)
* Jana Hentschke (German National Library)
* Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden)
* Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute)
* Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany - Chair)
* Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair)
* Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
* MJ Suhonos (Ryerson University, Canada)
* Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
* Jakob Voß (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)

We also have space left for satellite events in the morning of
November 26. Contact us if you want to seize the opportunity to get
together in the context of SWIB18.

Website: http://swib.org/swib18
Hashtag: #swib18
Twitter: @swibcon

Take a look at previous SWIB conferences at http://swib.org/swib18/history.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions:

Adrian Pohl
hbz
Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de

or

Joachim Neubert
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu