[dini-ag-kim-lld] CfP: SWIB23 in Berlin - 15th Semantic Web in Libraries conference, 11.-13.9.2023

[Adrian Pohl]

SWIB23 - 15th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference
11 - 13 September (!) 2023, Berlin

Call for Proposals

Submission Deadline: 10 April 2023

SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference, 
being held for the 15th time. After three years of convening online due 
to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are happy to gather in-person once again - 
and for the first time in Berlin.

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

As usual, SWIB23 will be organized by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre 
for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre 
(hbz). The conference language is English.

For this SWIB rendition we will have more interactive formats in order 
to get the most out of participants coming together physically in one 
place. As usual, we will also have presentations and workshops/tutorials.

We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics:

Projects & Applications

     integration of LOD into productive library applications
     re-use of LOD (from libraries, Wikidata and other sources)
     presenting & visualizing LOD
     graphical user interfaces for interaction with LOD (e.g. editing or 
annotation)
     (other) applications in the context of open science

Technology & Tools (focus on Open Source software)

     data 
transformation/integration/cleansing/enhancement/mapping/interlinking/validation
     data flow management, read/write linked data, providing updates & 
syncing data sources
     machine learning applications in/for libraries
     integration of symbolic and subsymbolic approaches

Standards & Best Practices

     implementation of FAIR data principles, interoperability
     open web standards relevant for libraries, data models, usable APIs
     application profiles & provenance information
     working with controlled vocabularies & knowledge organization systems
     preservation, maintenance & sustainability

Culture

     decentralization, federated structures
     consolidating open source projects
     collaboration, crowdsourcing, community building and empowerment
     diversity sensitivity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for presentations or 
workshops by 10 April 2023. Please submit an abstract of 1000-1500 
characters using our conference system https://www.conftool.org/swib23 
(available soon). If you intend to present a specific software solution, 
please include links to the source code repository and make sure it is 
openly licensed.

SWIB programme committee

Proposals will be reviewed by the programme committee:

     Julia Beck (Frankfurt University Library)
     Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
     Nuno Freire (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
     Anna Kasprzik (ZBW, Germany - Chair)
     Huda Khan (Stanford University, USA)
     Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden)
     Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute)
     Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany)
     Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair)
     Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
     Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
     MJ Suhonos (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
     Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
     Katherine Thornton (Yale University Library, USA)
     Jakob Voß (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)

Call for satellite events

If you are interested in using the conference venue for a satellite 
event before or after the conference slot, let us know.

Website: https://swib.org/swib23
Hashtag: #swib23
Mastodon: @swib at openbiblio.social

Take a look at previous SWIB conferences at https://swib.org/swib23/history.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions:

Anna Kasprzik
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834425
E-mail: a.kasprzik(at)zbw.eu

or

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