ESWC 2022 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies.
We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies.
We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types:
- Introduction to new semantic technologies, methods, techniques, tools and trends (e.g. Knowledge Graphs, semantic data integration, reasoning, question answering, ontology-based data access, ontology design principles, provenance and trust, etc.).
- Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life sciences, e-government, e-commerce, Industry 4.0, cultural heritage, education, mobile, music, emergency management, etc.).
- Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information Retrieval, databases, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc.
- Post mortems in the Semantic Web, best practices, and things learned from past experiences and projects. What did you want to achieve and what Semantic Technologies couldn’t do? What were their limitations and how did you work them around?
While tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, the organizers should incorporate hands-on exercises to engage the audience. The organizers are invited to include real-world examples of the topics handled, illustrating the relevance to the Semantic Web community. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community.
Tutorials can be half-day or full-day. We suggest having up to two presenters for half-day and up to four presenters for full-day tutorials, preferably from different institutions, contributing different perspectives to the tutorial topic.
We privilege diversity in the organizing team as well as the presence of young researchers and PhD students.
Important Dates
Tutorials proposals due: November 24th, 2021
Notification of acceptance: December 8th, 2021
Tutorials website due: December 15th, 2021
Tutorials material due (online): April 11th, 2022
Tutorials days: May 29th or 30th, 2022
All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
Terms and Conditions
All organizers (presenters) of accepted tutorials are expected to:
- have an active role in the tutorial
- register for and participate in ESWC 2022
- prepare and maintain a Website that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information
- publish their program schedule as RDF (the conference has a Semantic Technologies Coordinator who will be your contact in this matter)
- submit the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation, question answering, and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, e.g., Jupyter Notebooks.) to the Tutorial Chairs and making it available on the tutorial Website.
- Write a 5 page report about the summary, summary of discussions, links to online materials, etc. This report will be published in the Proceedings of Satellite Events.
The ESWC 2022 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees. In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial Chairs reserve the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust their scope, in case a minimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline.
Submission Details
Tutorial proposals have to be submitted via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2022
Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, no longer than four pages, which contains the following information:
- Title and abstract, 200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2022 Website.
- Tutorial description containing
- the objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2022;
- scope and level of detail for the topics to be covered;
- learning objectives;
- practical sessions;
- References.
- how you will make the tutorial memorable.
- Target audience and strategy for attracting participants.
- Tutorial length – the tutorial can be full or half-day.
- other venues at which the tutorial or parts thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining if/how the proposed tutorial differs from these other editions. Links to slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal.
- Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) documenting their seniority (we recommend to have at least one junior researcher), expertise, as well as previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation).
Next to this, the tutorial organizers should also provide a video teaser of about 1 minute that can be put on the ESWC 2022 website. It will serve to attract participants to the tutorial. As an example, the organizers can take a look at the ESWC 2021 Introduction video on the website https://2021.eswc-conferences.org/.
All proposals will be reviewed and discussed by the Tutorial Chairs as well as a committee of senior Semantic Web representatives.
