12th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference finished

This year's SWIB will be different: Due to Covid19-induced restrictions we will experiment with transfering the community encounters and exchange of a physical conference venue into the web. With an online conference free of charge and a schedule that should work for most time zones we open up SWIB for a broader audience.

We have set up an online environment completely based on open source software that does not only allow passive participation, but autonomous exchange between participants.

Taking into account the different time zones of the participants, we carry out the conference during the week of 23-27 November in the time from UTC 14:00 until 16:30.

SWIB focuses on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in applied sciences, industry applications, and LOD activities in other areas.

As usual, SWIB20 will be organized by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz). The conference language is English.

Would you like to share your experiences working on an interesting service, research topic or project – not just what you did, but also how you did it?

For this SWIB rendition we adjusted the formats to the online environment:

Presentations (15 minutes plus 5 q&a)
Practical workshops or tutorials (maximum 120 min)

We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics:

Projects & Applications

integration of LOD into productive library applications
authorities & knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classifications, ontologies)
re-use of LOD (from libraries, Wikidata and other sources)
presenting & visualizing LOD
end-user environments for interaction with LOD (e.g. editing or annotation)
crowdsourcing/gamification approaches involving LOD sources
linked research & open science

Technology (focus on Open Source software)

semantically enhanced data publication
machine learning for automatic indexing & named entity recognition
data transformation/integration/cleansing/enhancement/mapping/interlinking
RDF validation
data flow management
read/write linked data
linked data & library systems

Standards & Best Practices

open web standards relevant for libraries
application profiles & provenance information
usable APIs
providing updates & syncing data sources
preservation & sustainability
open data licensing

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for presentations or workshops by 27 July 2020. Please submit an abstract of 1000-1500 characters using our conference system at https://www.conftool.org/swib20. If you intend to present a specific software solution please include links to the source code repository and make sure it is openly licensed (https://opensource.org/licenses).