SWIB24 – 16TH SEMANTIC WEB IN LIBRARIES CONFERENCE

25–27 November 2024, online

Call for Proposals

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 26th, 2024

The SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference,
being held for the 16th time. SWIB24 will happen online to ensure inclusion
of as many participants as possible while minimizing the ecological
footprint of the conference.

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 all 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, SWIB24 will be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library
Service Centre (hbz) <https://www.hbz-nrw.de/>  and ZBW
<https://www.zbw.eu/en> – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. The
conference language is English.

We are accepting proposals for two formats:

*	Presentations (20 minutes plus 5 Q&A)
*	Practical workshops or tutorials (maximum 4h, including breaks),
introductory tutorials are very welcome

The presentations will be held in the time from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC. Note
that we will support three different time slots for workshops to accommodate
workshop facilitators and participants from different time zones (East
Asia/Australia, Europe/Africa, Americas).

We appreciate proposals on the following or related topics:


Projects & Applications


*	integration of LOD into productive library applications
*	re-use of LOD (from libraries, Wikidata and other sources)
*	presenting & visualizing LOD
*	graphical user interfaces for interaction with LOD (e.g. editing or
annotation)
*	(other) applications in the context of open science


Technology & Tools (focus on Open Source software)


*	data
transformation/integration/cleansing/enhancement/mapping/interlinking/valida
tion
*	data flow management, read/write linked data, providing updates &
syncing data sources
*	machine learning applications in/for libraries
*	integration of symbolic and subsymbolic approaches


Standards & Best Practices


*	implementation of FAIR data principles, interoperability
*	open web standards relevant for libraries, data models, usable APIs
*	application profiles & provenance information
*	working with controlled vocabularies & knowledge organization
systems
*	preservation, maintenance & sustainability


Culture


*	decentralization, federated structures
*	consolidating open source projects
*	collaboration, crowdsourcing, community building and empowerment
*	diversity sensitivity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility

We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for presentations or
workshops by 26 May 2024. Please submit an abstract of 1000–1500 characters
using our conference system https://www.conftool.org/swib24. 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> .


SWIB programme committee


Proposals will be reviewed by the programme committee:

*	Julia Beck (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
*	Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
*	Nuno Freire (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
*	Anna Kasprzik (ZBW, Germany – Chair)
*	Huda Khan (Stanford University, USA)
*	Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden)
*	Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute)
*	Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany – Chair)
*	Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
*	Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
*	MJ Suhonos (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
*	Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
*	Katherine Thornton (Yale University Library, USA)
*	Jakob Voß (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)

Website: https://swib.org/swib24 
Hashtag: #swib24
Mastodon: @[log in to unmask] <https://openbiblio.social/@swib>  

Take a look at previous SWIB conferences at
https://swib.org/swib24/history.html.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions:

Adrian Pohl
hbz
Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de

or

Anna Kasprzik
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834425
E-mail: a.kasprzik(at)zbw-online.eu

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