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Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-04-09T13:06:56Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Timeline */

'''Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

==Summary==
This workshop, held in conjunction with the [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014] conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).

==Background==
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being ''about'' something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]
::[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]
::[http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/State_Health_Databases#Story State Health Databases]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:

:1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies

:2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)

:3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains

:4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.

The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.

==Workshop Schedule==

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
* 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
* 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
* 4-5pm Short paper presentations

==Rules for submissions==
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.

All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here]. They should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the [http://ceur-ws.org/ CEUR-WS] workshop series.

==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee ==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014 midnight GMT

The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014.
Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

==Sponsors==

[http://ppgci.eci.ufmg.br/en Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais]

[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]

[http://ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)]

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-04-09T13:06:05Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Timeline */

'''Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

==Summary==
This workshop, held in conjunction with the [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014] conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).

==Background==
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being ''about'' something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]
::[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]
::[http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/State_Health_Databases#Story State Health Databases]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:

:1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies

:2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)

:3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains

:4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.

The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.

==Workshop Schedule==

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
* 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
* 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
* 4-5pm Short paper presentations

==Rules for submissions==
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.

All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here]. They should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the [http://ceur-ws.org/ CEUR-WS] workshop series.

==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee ==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014 11:59 p.m. GMT

The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014.
Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

==Sponsors==

[http://ppgci.eci.ufmg.br/en Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais]

[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]

[http://ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)]

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-04-09T12:22:59Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Timeline */

'''Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

==Summary==
This workshop, held in conjunction with the [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014] conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).

==Background==
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being ''about'' something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]
::[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]
::[http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/State_Health_Databases#Story State Health Databases]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:

:1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies

:2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)

:3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains

:4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.

The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.

==Workshop Schedule==

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
* 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
* 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
* 4-5pm Short paper presentations

==Rules for submissions==
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.

All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here]. They should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the [http://ceur-ws.org/ CEUR-WS] workshop series.

==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee ==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014.
Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

==Sponsors==

[http://ppgci.eci.ufmg.br/en Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais]

[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]

[http://ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)]

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-04-09T12:22:35Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Timeline */

'''Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

==Summary==
This workshop, held in conjunction with the [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014] conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).

==Background==
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being ''about'' something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]
::[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]
::[http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/State_Health_Databases#Story State Health Databases]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:

:1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies

:2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)

:3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains

:4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.

The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.

==Workshop Schedule==

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
* 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
* 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
* 4-5pm Short paper presentations

==Rules for submissions==
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.

All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here]. They should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the [http://ceur-ws.org/ CEUR-WS] workshop series.

==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee ==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014
The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014.
Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

==Sponsors==

[http://ppgci.eci.ufmg.br/en Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais]

[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]

[http://ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)]

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-04-09T12:21:15Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Timeline */

'''Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

==Summary==
This workshop, held in conjunction with the [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014] conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).

==Background==
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being ''about'' something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]
::[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]
::[http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/State_Health_Databases#Story State Health Databases]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:

:1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies

:2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)

:3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains

:4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.

The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.

==Workshop Schedule==

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
* 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
* 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
* 4-5pm Short paper presentations

==Rules for submissions==
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.

All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here]. They should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the [http://ceur-ws.org/ CEUR-WS] workshop series.

==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee ==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014
The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014]
Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

==Sponsors==

[http://ppgci.eci.ufmg.br/en Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais]

[http://www.bioontology.org/ National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)]

[http://ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)]

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-08T22:01:25Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Scientific Committee (draft) */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/ Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will consist of a mixture of short progress reports under heading 3, together with longer papers under headings 1 and 2. All papers will be refereed. In addition, there will be parallel tutorial sessions. At least one of these tutorial sessions will be devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work in the scope of IAO, which is a resource totally dedicated to information artifacts.

Interested participants can submit:
* A full-paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues (heading 1) or convergence between resources (heading 2).
* A short one-page progress report that discusses sharing of existing resources or further development (heading 3).
* A one-page proposal for a tutorial session.

We will have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, for publication in the CEUR-WS series.

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
* 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T15:07:02Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Background */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/ Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)]

:[http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aero Adverse Event Reporting Ontology (AERO)]

:[http://kt.ijs.si/panovp/OntoDM/ Ontology of Data Mining (OntoDM)]

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will consist of a mixture of short progress reports under heading 3, together with longer papers under headings 1 and 2. All papers will be refereed. In addition, there will be parallel tutorial sessions. At least one of these tutorial sessions will be devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work in the scope of IAO, which is a resource totally dedicated to information artifacts.

Interested participants can submit:
* A full-paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues (heading 1) or convergence between resources (heading 2).
* A short one-page progress report that discusses sharing of existing resources or further development (heading 3).
* A one-page proposal for a tutorial session.

We will have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, for publication in the CEUR-WS series.

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
* 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T15:01:50Z

Laura.slaughter:

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014

Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will consist of a mixture of short progress reports under heading 3, together with longer papers under headings 1 and 2. All papers will be refereed. In addition, there will be parallel tutorial sessions. At least one of these tutorial sessions will be devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work in the scope of IAO, which is a resource totally dedicated to information artifacts.

Interested participants can submit:
* A full-paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues (heading 1) or convergence between resources (heading 2).
* A short one-page progress report that discusses sharing of existing resources or further development (heading 3).
* A one-page proposal for a tutorial session.

We will have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, for publication in the CEUR-WS series.

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
* 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T15:00:13Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Definition and Scope */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will consist of a mixture of short progress reports under heading 3, together with longer papers under headings 1 and 2. All papers will be refereed. In addition, there will be parallel tutorial sessions. At least one of these tutorial sessions will be devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work in the scope of IAO, which is a resource totally dedicated to information artifacts.

Interested participants can submit:
* A full-paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues (heading 1) or convergence between resources (heading 2).
* A short one-page progress report that discusses sharing of existing resources or further development (heading 3).
* A one-page proposal for a tutorial session.

We will have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, for publication in the CEUR-WS series.

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
* 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:52:36Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
* 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:51:56Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

:1. 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
:2. 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
:3. 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:51:28Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

:1 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel. These are tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;
:2 11.30-1pm Short progress reports. Presentation of the (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;
:3 2-5pm Longer papers. Presentation of the long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:50:25Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

:1 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

:2 11.30-1pm Short progress reports
short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

:3 2-5pm Longer papers
long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:49:25Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
**tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports
**short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

* 2-5pm Longer papers
**long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:48:53Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:

* 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

* 11.30-1pm Short progress reports
short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

* 2-5pm Longer papers
long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:48:20Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:
[ol]
[li] 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

[li] 11.30-1pm Short progress reports
short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

[li] 2-5pm Longer papers
long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.
[/ol]

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:44:57Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Workshop Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:
[ol]
[item] 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

[item] 11.30-1pm Short progress reports
short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

[item] 2-5pm Longer papers
long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.
[/ol]

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:43:27Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Draft Schedule */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Workshop Schedule==

Schedule:
9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO) parallel
tutorial sessions approaching ontology resources, especially IAO;

11.30-1pm Short progress reports
short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development;

2-5pm Longer papers
long (5-6 page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources with IAO.

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:40:40Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Rules for submissions */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Draft Schedule==

The workshop will be organized as follows:

9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO)

11.30-12.30pm Research papers

1.30-3.00pm Research papers

3.30-4:30pm Research papers

4:30-5:30pm Short progress reports

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 LNCS] formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:39:19Z

Laura.slaughter: /* Rules for submissions */

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Draft Schedule==

The workshop will be organized as follows:

9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO)

11.30-12.30pm Research papers

1.30-3.00pm Research papers

3.30-4:30pm Research papers

4:30-5:30pm Short progress reports

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the LNCS formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS

Information Artifact Ontologies

2014-02-05T14:38:38Z

Laura.slaughter:

'''A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems [http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html FOIS 2014]'''

Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014

==Summary==
The IAO workshop, to be held in conjunction with the FOIS2014 conference, will be a forum for sharing foundational issues as well as the more practical aspects of developing ontologies for representing information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers up to six pages that address either ontological treatment of information artifacts or the development of resources to represent information artifacts in various domains.

==Background==
Information artifacts are artifacts – such as photographs, newspaper articles, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips – which are used in ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts exist in the real world and are used in various ways. In some cases information artifacts are are used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, though, we care about what information artifacts are about, because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of metadata pertaining to entities of these sorts in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. In addition to their topic (content, aboutness) information artifacts have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.

A range of resources for the description of such metadata have been developed in the Semantic Web, library science and other communities, including:

:[https://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/ Annotation Ontology]

:[http://dublincore.org/ Dublin Core]

:[http://edamontology.org EDAM]

:[http://www.essepuntato.it/lode/http://purl.org/spar/fabio FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FaBiO)]

:[http://neurocommons.org/page/Information_Artifact_Ontology Information Artifact Ontology (IAO)] - [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/IAO Ontologies using IAO]

:[http://loinc.org/discussion-documents/document-ontology/loinc-document-ontology-axis-values/subject-matter-domain LOINC Document Ontology]

:[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/main/ Systems Biology Ontology (SBO)]: Ontologies using SBO: KiSAO, Teddy.

==Definition and Scope==

The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of these efforts along the following axes:
:1. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
:2. addressing the relations, and if possible advancing convergence, between IAO, the family of IAO extension ontologies, and other resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains.
:3. sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development (including plans for coordination)

The workshop will begin with short tutorial sessions (we anticipate parallel tutorials on different ontology resources). The main part of the meeting will consist of submitted papers under headings 1. and 2., and will conclude with submitted and invited short progress reports under heading 3.

In addition, there will be working session devoted to addressing controversial issues and helping to consolidate plans for future work. Interested participants are invited to submit a one-page description of the issue they plan to address to facilitate progress during the working sessions. We will take steps to ensure that we have at least 6 peer-reviewed papers of a minimum of 5 pages each, in order to allow publication in the CEUR-WS series.

:1. parallel tutorial sessions on IAO and other ontology resources
:2. long (5-page) papers discussing foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities, especially with a view to advancing convergence or alignment of existing resources
:3. short (1-page) progress reports designed to support sharing of information on existing resources and on plans for further development

==Draft Schedule==

The workshop will be organized as follows:

9.30-11am Tutorial sessions (including at least one tutorial on IAO)

11.30-12.30pm Research papers

1.30-3.00pm Research papers

3.30-4:30pm Research papers

4:30-5:30pm Short progress reports

==Rules for submissions==
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be reviewed by expert reader referees prior to publication. Accepted submission will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings.

Submissions may not have been published previously, nor under review elsewhere. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the LNCS formatting guidelines.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorial sessions are also welcome. These should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.

The Easychair submission page can be found :[https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 here].



==Organizing Committee==

Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)

Laura Slaughter (Oslo)

Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

==Scientific Committee (draft)==

Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)

Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)

Janna Hastings (EBI)

Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)

Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)

Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)

==Timeline==

Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014

Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014

Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014

Workshop proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS