Dear colleagues,
Just as a reminder, the deadline for submitting your contribution to the
3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv,
https://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/s4biodiv2021
<https://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/s4biodiv2021>) is in one month from now.
The workshop will be co-located with the 12th ICBO 2021. This is a great
opportunity to reach out to the community and make new connections.
We would be very pleased if you or members of your team would submit a
paper and/or attend the workshop.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, and to
spread the word to your colleagues.
Kind regards,
The organisation committee.
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3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BioDiv 2021)
https://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/s4biodiv2021/
<https://fusion.cs.uni-jena.de/s4biodiv2021/>
In conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Biomedical
Ontologies (ICBO 2021)
https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/ <https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/>
Bolzano, Italy, September 15 - 18, 2021
The workshop is being planned as a hybrid event, with face to face
meetings held in Bolzano and a virtual participation option.
Workshop Description
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Biodiversity deals with heterogeneous data and concepts generated from a
large number of disciplines in order to build a coherent picture of the
extent of life on earth. The presence of such a myriad of data resources
makes integrative biodiversity research increasingly important,as well
as challenging given the variety of ways in which data and information
are produced and made available. The Semantic Web approach enhances data
discoverability, sharing, interoperability and integration through a
formalized conceptual environment providing common formats, standards
and terminological resources.
This workshop aims to bring together computer scientists and biologists,
working on Semantic Web approaches for biodiversity, ecology and related
areas such as plant sciences, agronomy, agro-ecology or citizen science
related to biodiversity. The goal is to exchange experiences, build a
state of the art of realizations and challenges, and reuse and adapt
solutions that have been proposed in other domains. The workshop focuses
on presenting challenging issues and solutions for the design of high
quality biodiversity information systems leveraging Semantic Web techniques.
Important Dates
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Abstracts deadline: 25 June 2021
Paper deadline:2 July 2021
Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2021
Camera ready: 13 August 2021
Workshops date:16 September 2021
Workshop Topics
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The workshop comprises, but is not strictly limited to, the following
topics:
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Applications of Semantic Web technologies for biodiversity
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Semantic representation of biodiversity data
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Ontology (or semantic resource) development for biodiversity
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Semantic annotation of biodiversity data
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Semantic approaches for the discovery of biodiversity data
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Semantic support for scientific workflows
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Data provenance and reproducibility
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Data lifecycle management
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Knowledge extraction and text mining
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Ontology learning
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Standards for biodiversity Data
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Linked Open biodiversity Data
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Semantic data integration
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FAIR biodiversity data with semantics
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Interoperability of biodiversity and earth observation data
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Enhancement of machine learning approaches with Semantic Web
technologies
Application domains:
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Biodiversity
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Agronomy, agro-ecology, agro-biodiversity
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Plant sciences
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Citizen Science related to biodiversity and related fields
Paper Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pagesfor regular papers,
6 pagesfor early career and position papers, and 3 pagesfor posters and
demos.
All papers must be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the
CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/>.
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The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available
here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>
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There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk>
Papers must be submitted through the easychair system at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=s4biodiv2021
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=s4biodiv2021>
All submitted papers will be subject to blind (but not double-blind)
peer-review process. Papers accepted at ICBO workshops will be published
in a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings IAOA series.
Workshop Chairs
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Alsayed Algergawy (Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller
Universität Jena, Germany)
Naouel Karam (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
(FOKUS), Berlin, Germany)
Friederike Klan (Institute of Data Science, German Aerospace Center,
Jena, Germany)
Franck Michel (University Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, Sophia-Antipolis,
France)
Ilaria Rosati (Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems - National
Research Council, Rome, Italy)
Programme Committee
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Clement Jonquet (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France)
Birgitta Koenig-Ries (FSU Jena, Germany)
Isabelle Mougenot (ESPACE-DEV, University of Montpellier, France)
Mark Schildhauer (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis,
USA)
Nicola Fiore (LifeWatch ERIC, Italy)
Anne Toulet (CIRAD Montpellier, France)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Faiez Gargouri (Sfax University, Tunisia)
Catherine Roussey (IRSTEA Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Felicitas Löffler (FSU Jena, Germany)
Caterina Bergami (ISMAR, National Research Council, Bologna, Italy)
Claire Nédellec (MaIAGE, INRA Jouy-en-Josas, France)
Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France)
Alessandro Oggioni (IREA, National Research Council, Milan, Italy)
Olivier Corby (Wimmics, Univ. Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Catherine Faron (Wimmics,Univ. Côte d'Azur, Inria, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Salima Benbernou (Université Paris 5, France)
Pierre Larmande (DIADE, IRD, France)
Barbara Magagna (Environmental Agency, Austria)
Claus Weiland (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre,
Germany)
Dilvan Moreira ( Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo)
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Franck MICHEL, CNRS research engineer
Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria
I3S laboratory (UMR 7271)