First CfP - DaMaLOS 2022 - 3rd Workshop on Research Objects Metadata and Management for Linked Open Science
LJ.Garcia
DaMaLOS-2022 workshop (co-located with ISWC) will explore what is required for Research Data Management to effectively instantiate Linked Open Science, i.e., Open Science + Linked Open Data (LOD) principles, including effective support for LOD, automation by, e.g., machine/deep learning approaches, and innovations to include supporting data elements such as the software used to produce/consume it together with tutorials showcasing their usage. Furthermore, data management should be complemented by other research objects management plans, e.g. software and workflows, in order to get an integrated layer supporting all the edges of Linked Open Science. In this workshop we will keep a focus on data management but we will also have opportunities to discuss how other research objects play an important role.
More information on our website: https://zbmed.github.io/damalos
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference/workshop. Proceedings of the workshop will be publicly available under CC-by 4.0 license. Accepted papers will be later invited to submit an extended version to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS). This year there is also a direct journal submission option to the JBioMedSem DaMaLOS permanent collection.
Topics
Research management
Importance of Research Data Management (RDM) for LOD
Importance of other Research Objects Management (ROM) and their alignment with RDM and LOD
Special features/metadata required in RDM/ROM plans for LOD
RDM/ROM plans elements/data that can be automated, particularly using/consuming LOD
Links between RDM and ROM plans and how those could be automated
Extensions to current RDM plans to better support Linked Open Science, e.g., emergence of ROM
FAIRness and FAIRification
Integration/alignment between FAIR and RDM/ROM plans and tools
FAIRification processes, either by design or post-research-object creation
FAIR tooling
Open Science and Scientometrics
Benefits of Linked Open Science, i.e., Open Science + Linked Open Data principles, over Open Science
How RDM/ROM plans and LOD can be used to improve collection and storage of (usually volatile) data produced at, e.g., conferences
Integration of software, data, and any other research outcome into science-related metrics
Virtual Research Environments
Managing FAIR digital objects in federated, open data spaces/infrastructures/ecosystems
Gluing together metadata + publications + data + software, (e.g., via management plans, FAIRification efforts or open aggregating spaces/ecosystems)
Workshop submissions
We welcome full research (introducing novel research contributions, max 10 pages), short research (presenting early results or work in progress, max 6 pages), position (introducing an idea and discussion around it, max 6 pages) and research objects (description of datasets, software, workflows, max 10 pages)
Types of submissions
Full research papers (up to 10 pages): Presenting novel scientific research
Research objects (up to 10 pages): Describing datasets, software, workflows, training materials
Short research papers (up to 6 pages): Presenting research results at early stages or ongoing work
Position papers (up to 6 pages): Introducing positions, ideas, opinions and discussions around them
Demos (up to 6 pages): Presenting tools (software, workflows and so) from a practical perspective
Guidelines
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference/workshop. All submissions must be in English. Proceedings of the workshop will be publicly available under CC-by 4.0 license; by submitting you agree to the use of this license for accepted papers. We welcome full research (introducing novel research contributions, max 10 pages), short research (presenting early results or work in progress, max 6 pages), position (introducing an idea and discussion around it, max 6 pages) and research objects (description of datasets, software, workflows, max 10 pages) papers formatted according to LNCS templates
Submissions will be evaluated by members of the Program Committee.
Submission system. All workshop submissions should be done via EasyChair DaMaLOS-2022 workshop
Journal submissions to the permanent collection at JBioMedSem
The Journal of Biomedical Semantics hosts a DaMaLOS permanent collection. This year we will welcome direct submissions to the journal collection for those researchers with a topic mature enough for peer-reviewed publication. If you opt for this option, please visit the submission guideline provided by the journal. Make sure you select the DaMaLOS collection when submitting. We aim at offering up to 20% discount on the journal submission fee for the first 5 submissions.
JBioMedSem offers a preprint server for submission to the journal while the peer-reviewed process is ongoing.
For those submitting to the journal track, we would also expect them to join, participate and present their works at the workshop.
Committees
Organizing committee
Leyla Jael Castro, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences
Dr. Jens Dierkes, Cologne Competence Center for Research Data Management (C3RDM), University of Cologne
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, University of Cologne
Programme Committee
Erick Antezana (Bayer)
Alessia Bardi (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, OpenAire)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
(TBC) Constanze Curdt (Helmholz Metadata Collaboration)
Robert Downs (The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN))
Daniel Garijo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Olga Ximena Giraldo (ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences)
(TBC) Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
Robert Hoehdorf (Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST)
Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois)
Peter Kiraly (GWDG Göttingen)
José Labra (Universidad de Oviedo)
Carlos Martínez (eScience Center)
Natalie Meyers (Hesburgh Libraries)
Andra Waagmeester (Micelio)
Mingfang Wu (Australian Research Data Commons)
Venue
The workshop will be co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) to be held as a hybrid event this year. More information on the ISWC webpage https://iswc2022.semanticweb.org/ DaMaLOs 2022 will be held fully virtual.
Contact
For contact details please visit our website
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LJC
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
We are pleased to announce the Call for Contributions to the coming edition of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences Conference - SWAT4HCLS 2027. SWAT4HCLS 2027 will be hosted by the Swiss Bioinformatics Institute in Basel, from 01. to 04.Feb.2027. https://swat4hcls.org/
Please contact us if you have any questions at “swat4hcls AT gmail dot com”.
Kind regards,
on behalf of the SWAT4HCLS Organizing Committee
Call for Papers SWAT4HCLS 2027
We warmly invite you to submit your recent work to the 2027 edition of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences conference (SWAT4HCLS 2027) which will be held in Basel, Switzerland from the 01. to 04.Feb.2027. More information at http://swat4hcls.org/.
SWAT4HCLS will publish work in the form of papers, posters, and demonstrations on original research, data, semantic models, and application experiences. As a guide, please consider the topics of interest.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Using semantic and web technologies for Health Care and Life Sciences
Examples and recent advances from bioimaging, agriculture, food science, biodiversity, molecular biology, translational and personalised medicine, drug development, specific diseases (rare, undiagnosed, infectious, oncology).
Examples of querying, validation, visualisation, federated analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, knowledge graphs, using FAIR data, use of personal health data, clinical intelligence from electronic health records.
Graph-based applications of LLM RAG in HCLS
SPARQL query and data model editing support tools with LLMs
Demonstrations of repurposing tools, including previously published Semantic Web tools.
Demonstration of trans-disciplinary collaboration and citizen science.
Semantic web methods and tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Explainable AI, neural symbolic reasoning, knowledge-driven machine learning and data mining, Large Language Models, NLP and text mining.
Interoperability of knowledge representation (e.g. GBIF, OMOP, FHIR, GA4GH, OBO foundry, mapping standards), ontologies, rules.
Data stewardship, provenance, trust and reproducibility, sustainability, adoption (including failures!), data publishing.
FAIR-based federated architecture, semantic workflow technologies, person-centric and privacy preserving infrastructure.
Types of Submission
The following types of submissions for SWAT4HCLS 2027 are invited:
Long papers (between 10 and 12 pages plus references):
Research papers – Original research on a topic of interest to the SWAT4HCLS audience.
In-use papers – Data and/or application/tool descriptions addressing a topic of interest to the SWAT4HCLS audience.
Short papers (up to 5 pages plus references):
Position papers, application notes, discovery notes, use-cases of Semantic Web applications and tools.
Posters and Demonstrations (up to 2 pages plus references):
Ongoing work, exciting preliminary results, updates to “in-use” data and applications/tools.
Working demonstrations of new, revived or updated tools (even if previously published).
Any long or short paper rejected which is within the scope of the conference will be immediately considered as a poster/demo submission.
Tutorials (up to 5 pages):
Tutorial proposals must include title, acronym (if applicable), abstract, responsible tutors and/or facilitators (including affiliation), audience and required skills, links to previous versions of this tutorial (if applicable), maximum number of participants, preferred duration (tutorials will run for half a day, 3-4 hours, including coffee break).
Please be aware that at least one facilitator must attend on-site.
Important Dates (AOE Timezone):
Submissions
Call for contributions announced: 16.June.2026
Submission system open: 07.July.2026 (link will be announced soon, as in previous years we will use Oxford Abstracts)
Abstract submission (optional but very appreciated): 07.Sep.2026
Tutorial submission: 07.Sep.2026
Paper, poster, demo submission: 14.Sep.2026
Notifications
Tutorial acceptance notification: 05.Oct.2026
Paper, poster, demo acceptance notification: 23.Nov.2026
Camera-ready
Paper, poster, demo camera-ready version: 14.Dec.2026
Conference
01. to 04.Feb.2027: Tutorial day, conference and hackathon
For some common questions, please keep an eye at our FAQ page
Instructions for Authors
Accepted submissions will be part of the proceedings of the CEUR conference proceedings and will be publicly available under CC-by 4.0 license.
All submissions must be in English and submitted as a PDF using the one-column variant of CEURART style.
Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee.
Poster and demo submissions will be published in PUBLISSO FRL under CC-by and will get its own DOI
Proceedings publication will be announced soon
All accepted contributions will be invited to submit an extended version to the SWAT4HCLS 2027 special issue/collection in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics