5th edition of

SWODCH 2025

8-9 September 2025

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage

Call for papers

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) one or more of the following topic areas:

Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities (DH):

  • Domain ontologies or conceptual models for different fields of Humanities.
  • Methodological aspects of ontology development for the DH.
  • Application of formal ontology theories in the DH.
  • Case studies and lessons learnt from the use of standard ontologies (e.g. CIDOC-CRM).
  • Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with respect to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.).
  • Philosophical and sociological analysis of digital models and modelling practices in DH.
  • Social studies on the policies towards the standardisation of ontologies in DH.

Semantic Web (SW) technologies for Cultural Heritage (CH) content creation, annotation, extraction:

  • SW architectures and infrastructures for CH.
  • Interoperability of CH collections.
  • Applying the FAIR data principles to CH data.
  • CH knowledge graphs.
  • Searching, querying and visualising CH data on the SW.
  • Ontology-based access to CH data.
  • Publishing CH data on the Web.
  • Navigating through and browsing CH data on the Web.
  • SW solutions for trust and provenance issues in CH.
  • SW applications for digital libraries, museums, tourism, the creative industries, etc.

Submissions

We will accept two different types of contributions:

  • Full papers for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to nor accepted for presentation at any other venue. Submitted full papers should be between 10 and 12 pages, including references.
  • Short papers for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. Submitted short papers should be between 6 and 8 pages, including references.

All contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the 1-column CEUR-ART style format. The style files for this format are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page is also available for LaTeX users: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format according to the following instructions:


1 – [FOIS 2025 portal] https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/
2 – [FOIS Submission instructions] https://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=3141349985321792318
3 – LOG IN TO EasyChair
4 – Here you should see an option for AUTHOR: click on that
5 – Click on “NEW SUBMISSION”
6 – [Choose the right ‘track’] TRACK: WS: Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage

Papers will be reviewed on the basis of their scientific merit, originality and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members.

Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt inclusive language in their papers and presentations (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code on conduct (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html).