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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).





Proposals will be reviewed by the SWIB programme committee:


	Julia Beck (Frankfurt University Library)
	Uldis Bojars (National Library of Latvia)
	Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation, Netherlands)
	Huda Khan, (Cornell University Library, USA)
	Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden)
	Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute)
	Joachim Neubert (ZBW, Germany - Chair)
	Adrian Pohl (hbz, Germany - Chair)
	Dorothea Salo (UW-Madison, USA)
	Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
	MJ Suhonos (Ryerson University, Canada)
	Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)
	Katherine Thornton (Yale University Library, USA) 
	Jakob Voß (GBV Common Library Network, Germany)


 


 

	
If you are interested in using the online conference infrastructure for a satellite
event before or after the conference slot, let us know.







Website: http://swib.org/swib20

  Hashtag: #swib20 

  Twitter: @swibcon 

Take a look at previous SWIB conferences.


Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions:

	
	Adrian Pohl 

  hbz 

  Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235 

  E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de 

	
	or 


Joachim Neubert 

  ZBW 

  Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462 

  E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu 

	









  

SWIB Organizing Team

  E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de

  
 




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NEWS


	
	
		
									
SLIDES AND VIDEOS

			Slides and videos are now online. You find them linked from the programme page.

	07.12.2020
  

		
							
740 REGISTRATIONS

			740 registrations from 57 countries - 447 participants joined the SWIB conference chat in Mattermost.

	07.12.2020
  

		
		
								
INVITATION TO THE PRESS

			Twelfth SWIB conference – Semantic Web in Libraries – completely on the Web, open for a wide audience.

	05.11.2020
  

		

	
		
				
SWIB20 23-27 November 2020 

			SWIB for the first time presented entirely on the web.

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