==== 1st Call for Papers (SW4SG 2019) ==== 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web for Social Good (SW4SG 2019) Date: October 26 or 27, 2019 (to be confirmed) Venue: The University of Auckland, New Zealand (co-located with ISWC 2019) Hashtag: #sw4sg2019 WebPage: https://sw4sg2019.github.io/iswc2019/ Workshop Chairs: - Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa (Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Deborah McGuinness (Tetherless World Constellation and Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) - K Krasnow Waterman (Decentralized Information Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Markus Luczak-Roesch (School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington) # DESCRIPTION The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the plan for transforming our world. This agenda focuses on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals try to realize the human rights of all, to achieve gender equality and quality education, and to combat climate change, among other issues. In order to successfully implement and monitor such an Agenda, it is crucial to have available, accessible, high-quality and reliable data generated by governments, organizations and citizens. Nowadays, datasets coming from different agents are emerging. This data, needed to fully understand how the SDGs are being achieved and could be reached in the future, are inherently complex, often inconsistent, and dynamic. In this context, ontologies and semantic technologies are a good way to ‘understand’ the meaning of data and information holdings. Thus, knowledge acquisition and modelling, ontologies, vocabularies, reasoning, and linking, among other topics related to the Semantic Web are key for supporting the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda. This second edition of the WS "Semantic Web for Social Good" (SW4SG 2019) is a place where discussing and understanding (a) how data and knowledge can be used to achieve the SDGs, as well as (b) best practices, good examples, and the interplay between the Semantic Web and Social Good. We invite submissions in which Ontologies and Semantic Web Technologies are being used or proposed to achieve any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. - Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere - Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture - Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages - Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all - Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls - Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all - Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all - Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all - Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation - Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries - Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns - Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts - Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development - Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss - Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels - Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development # IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Friday, June 21, 2019 Notification to authors: Friday, July 19, 2019 Camera-ready due on: Friday, August 9, 2019 Workshop day: October 26 or 27, 2019 (to be decided) All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time. # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full papers (up to 12 pages) - Short papers (2 to 5 pages) - Posters and demos (up to 2 pages) Submissions must be not anonymized and in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions. Submissions should be made to SW4SG 2019 on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swsg2019). Submissions will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions in all the categories mentioned above will be peer-reviewed by acknowledged researchers familiar with the theme of the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, in order to present the submission there, and to the conference. For further instructions please refer to the ISWC 2019 page (https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/). ## PRIOR PUBLICATION AND MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Every submitted paper must represent original and unpublished work: it must not be under review or accepted elsewhere and there must be a significantly clear element of novelty distinguishing a submitted paper from any other prior publication or current submission. # PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) - John Breslin, NUI Galway - Pier Luigi Buttigieg, HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology - Tudor Groza, Pryzm Health - Lalana Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California - Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California - Edna Ruckhaus, Ontology Engineering Group - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpol