<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="6">Call for Ontology <span class="gmail-il">Showcase</span></font></b><br><font size="4">The 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (<span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span>),</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span class="gmail-il">13</span>-<span class="gmail-il">16</span> <span class="gmail-il">September</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span></font><br><br><a href="https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it</a><br><br><b>The Ontology <span class="gmail-il">Showcase</span> Chairs invite submissions to be delivered as part of <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span>.</b><br><br>The <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> conference is a leading event in ontology engineering. <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> aims
to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and
communication, inclusive of many domains engaging with applied formal
ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database
design, knowledge engineering and management, software
engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence,
robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics
and scientific research in general, geographic information
science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well
as the Semantic Web.<br><br><span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: <a href="http://iaoa.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://iaoa.org/</a> ), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.<br><br><span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span> is planned as a hybrid event: there will be a physical meeting in <span class="gmail-il">Bozen</span>-<span class="gmail-il">Bolzano</span>, <span class="gmail-il">Italy</span>, with a remote participation option. Accordingly, demonstrations may be delivered either virtually or in a hybrid fashion.<br><br><font size="4">Ontology <span class="gmail-il">Showcase</span> Scope</font><br><br>As
the Applied Ontology community, we have reached the point where
an impressive variety of ontologies have been developed across a wide
range of domains. For the most part, however, there has been a lack of
coordination among these efforts and even a lack of awareness about the
work that is being done by groups within the community. How can we best
support ontology repositories so that curated ontologies are findable
and accessible? What are the barriers to sharability and reusability
that still exist?<br><br>The Ontology <span class="gmail-il">Showcase</span> at <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span>
will be the venue that facilitates the sharing and reuse of ontologies,
with the goal of achieving the vision of seamless semantic
interoperability of curated ontologies within their applications.<br><br>Submissions should follow the scope and evaluation criteria for the main <span class="gmail-il">track</span> for <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span>,<br>giving an overview of the ontology and its application. In particular, submissions should address the following questions:<br><ul><li> What is the domain of the ontology?</li><li> How is the ontology being used? e.g. search, question answering, semantic integration</li><li> What datasets are used in these applications?</li><li> What other ontologies are reused?</li><li> Are there other ontologies within the same domain?</li><li> What are the competency questions used for the design and evaluation of the ontology?</li></ul>The axiomatization of the ontology should be available on the Web.<br>Submission length: 6 pages (maximum).<br><br>Papers
should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with
the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style, which can be found at <br><a href="https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/</a><br><br>The Easychair submission page can be found at <br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2021" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2021</a> </div><div>(select the <span class="gmail-il">track</span>: <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> Ontology <span class="gmail-il">Showcase</span>)<br><br><font size="4">Important Dates:</font><br><br>3 July <span class="gmail-il">2021</span> - Submission deadline.<br>9 August <span class="gmail-il">2021</span> - Notification of acceptance.<br>23 August <span class="gmail-il">2021</span> - Camera-ready version.<br><span class="gmail-il">13</span> - <span class="gmail-il">16</span> <span class="gmail-il">September</span> <span class="gmail-il">2021</span> - <span class="gmail-il">FOIS</span> Conference</div></div>