Information Artifact Ontologies
A Full-Day Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014
Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014
Summary
This workshop to be held in conjunction with the FOIS 2014 conference. It is designed to provide a forum for discussing both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), short progress reports (1-page), and longer papers (up to 6 pages).
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 are sometimes used in ways that do not depend on their aboutness (as when a newspaper is used to light a fire). In most cases, however, we care about what information artifacts are about because we exploit this aboutness in achieving our ends.
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.
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:
Definition and Scope
The goal of this workshop is to advance coordination of work on information artifact ontologies 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. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains
- 3. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.
The workshop will consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 1 and 2., and short progress reports under heading 3. All papers will be refereed. Tutorial sessions, which will be offered in parallel, will be devoted to addressing controversial issu
Interested participants can submit:
- A one-page proposal for a tutorial session.
- A longer paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues (under 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).
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
Authors can submit short (1-page) and long papers (5 pages min, 6 pages max). All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted submissions 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 here. Submissions 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.
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
