ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike.
Co-located workshops at the ESWC conferences are essential meeting points for discussing on-going work and current results, as well as shaping new ideas and research fields. We particularly invite workshop proposals looking at topics related to Semantic Web from an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focussing on novel aspects of the Semantic Web and Web of Data, and proposals aiming at gathering existing and forming new sub-communities. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on:
- Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs
- Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as Mobility and Smart Cities, Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Earth Science, Digital Humanities, Law, Media, etc.
- Key enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web
- Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected or underrepresented so far
- Techniques and methods from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., artificial intelligence, databases, NLP, big data analytics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc.)
- Making the Semantic Web & Linked Data more accessible to end-users and developers alike
- New emerging topics and areas
General Information and Criteria
Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop’s fit to the conference as detailed below. The review criteria are as follows: The workshops should
- cover topics falling in the general scope of the ESWC conference.
- demonstrate that the workshop will be able to attract participants.
- have a clear focus on a specific technology, problem, or application.
- have a community interested in the workshop’s topic.
- have creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions are welcomed.
Due to the renovated reviewing process of ESWC, we encourage the workshop organizers to adopt an open-review policy and welcome negative results.
Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. Workshops need to clearly describe how they are planning to attract a sufficient number of participants. Workshops that have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled.
Terms and Conditions
All organizers (presenters) of accepted workshops are expected to:
- Have their own (open) reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines, and call for papers), and proceedings production.
- Workshop organizers will be required to
- publish their program schedule as RDF (the conference has a Semantic Technologies Coordinator who will be your contact in this matter). closely cooperate with the Workshop Chairs and the ESWC 2022 Local Chairs to finalize all organizational details.
- 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.
- 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 workshop. As an example, the organizers can take a look at the ESWC 2021 Introduction video https://youtu.be/ePnnuDbvfkY
Important Dates
Workshop proposals due: November 24th, 2021
Notification of acceptance: December 8th, 2021
Workshop website due: December 15th, 2021
Workshop days: May 29th or 30th, 2022
All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
Suggested Timeline for Workshop Papers:
Submission deadline: February 28th, 2022
Notifications: March 28th, 2022
Camera-ready version: April 11th, 2022
Submission Guidelines
Workshop 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 (excluding the list of PC members), which contains the following information:
Information about the workshop
- The title and abstract, 300 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2021 Website.
- A brief discussion of
- why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
- why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants.
- how you will make the workshop memorable.
- how you will organize interaction in case of a virtual event.
- related workshops and conferences, i.e., specifying if this is a continuation of a workshop series or is a new workshop to address an emerging issue. Please provide information about past versions of this workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available).
Organizing and Program Committees
- A list of members of the program committee.
- Names and contact information of the workshop organizers/chair(s) (name, affiliation, email address, homepage, and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair’s expertise for the workshop including past experience in organizing / facilitating workshops).
- Contact person. Preferably provide a single contact person per submission.
The workshop should have more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop. We privilege diversity in the organizing and program committee, and the presence of young researchers and PhD students.
Workshop Format
- draft outline of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events and activities such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking sessions, moonlight dances, breakout sessions, or general discussion slots, and an approximate timeline.
- an indication of the workshop’s duration; whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day event. Please note that a workshop’s duration might need to be adjusted based on the overall number of workshop submissions received.
In particular, we also encourage the submission of workshops that
- do not follow the typical workshop format of a mini-conference, for instance:
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- speed dating
- brainstorms and discussion formats
- Panels, etc.
- are creative in case of a virtual event, using alternative technologies, e.g.,
- VR and AR presence
- https://www.mmhmm.app/ (in case of virtual event), etc.
- accept a broader range of papers, e.g.,
- position papers
- papers with negative results, etc.
- present someone else’s paper
The best papers from each workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2022, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.
