Registration for the OntoPortal Workshop 2026 public session

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the online public session of the OntoPortal Workshop 2026, which will take place online on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, from 14:00 to 17:00 CEST.

The OntoPortal Alliance<https://ontoportal.org/> is a consortium of research and infrastructure teams dedicated to promoting semantic and ontology services—in science and more—based on the open, collaboratively developed OntoPortal open source software<https://github.com/ontoportal>. Teams in the Alliance develop and maintain several openly accessible semantic resource repositories. This includes BioPortal<https://bioportal.bioontology.org/>, AgroPortal<http://agroportal.lirmm.fr/>, EcoPortal<http://ecoportal.lifewatchitaly.eu/>, MatPortal<https://matportal.org/> and more…


This public session is organized in conjunction with the OntoPortal Workshop 2026, taking place in Paris that week (organized by the OntoPortal-Astro<https://ontoportal-astro.eu/> team). The annual OntoPortal workshop's main goal is to consolidate the OntoPortal Alliance organization and shared agenda. External parties that are interested in re-using and/or participating to the development of OntoPortal, or more generally interested in the management of ontologies and other types of semantic artefacts (terminologies, vocabularies, thesauri, etc.) are welcome to reach out to us for more information.

More info on these workshops here: https://ontoportal.org/about/


This public session is open to anyone interested in ontology repositories, semantic interoperability, FAIR semantic artefacts. More information about the workshop and the session will be available here:
https://ontoportal.org/happenings/news/2026/06/23/ontoportal-workshop-2026-announced/


Draft programme

  *   Introduction to OntoPortal and open Q&A (40 min)

  *   Panel discussion (40 min)

     *   How to use OntoPortal?

     *   OntoPortal and research infrastructures

     *   OntoPortal and data spaces

     *   OntoPortal and AI

     *   OntoPortal and you

  *   Break (10min)

  *   Hands-on tutorial (1h30)

Whether you are already using an OntoPortal or are simply interested in semantic technologies, this session will provide an opportunity to discover the ecosystem, hear from community members, and discuss future directions.

Registration is free but required.

Register here:
https://zfrmz.eu/bAXGoKYQgWZwTw27fEPr


After registration, participants will automatically receive the Zoom connection details by email.

We hope you will be able to join us and look forward to welcoming you online on September 23.

Best regards,

The OntoPortal Workshop 2026 Organising Team

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Dr. Clement JONQUET  –  PhD in Informatics
Senior Researcher  – INRAE (MISTEA)
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