Call for Papers - Information Artifact Ontology

*Apologies for cross-posting*

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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FULL-DAY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION ARTIFACT ONTOLOGIES
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 22, 2014

Organized as part of the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in
Information Systems (FOIS2014) http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html

Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books,
entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities
which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being about
something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information
artifacts also 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. The goal of this workshop is to advance work on
resources of this sort, with a view towards coordination and convergence.

Interested participants can submit:
* A full paper (5-6 pages) that addresses foundational issues
* A one-page progress report discussing existing initiatives
* A one-page proposal for a tutorial session

Deadline for submissions:                     May 22, 2014
Deadline for notification of acceptance:  June   15, 2014
Deadline for camera-ready copy:           August 15, 2014

Organizing Committee:
* Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)
* Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
* Laura Slaughter (Oslo)
* Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)

Further details available at:
http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Information_Artifact_Ontologies