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{{Event
|Title=1st International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science
|Start date=21/10/2017
|End date=25/10/2017
|Series=SemSci
|City=Vienna
|Country=Austria
|Field=Semantic Web
|Type=workshop
|Homepage=https://w3id.org/semsci/
}}

Dear all,

This is a reminder for submitting your papers to the SemSci workshop at ISWC 2017.
The deadline is in less than a month!

1st International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science
in conjunction with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017
http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/

Workshop website: https://w3id.org/semsci/

===Important Dates===

Paper submission deadline: July 21, 2017
Acceptance Notification: August 24, 2017
Camera-ready versions: September 1, 2017

===Call for Papers===

In the past few years, a push for open reproducible research 
has led to a proliferation of community efforts for publishing 
raw research objects like datasets, software, methodologies, etc. 
These efforts underpin research outcomes much more explicitly accessible. 
However, the actual time and effort required to achieve this new form 
of scientific communication remains a key barrier to reproducibility. 
Furthermore, scientific experiments are becoming increasingly complex, 
and ensuring that research outcomes become understandable, interpretable, 
reusable and reproducible is still a challenge.

The goal of this workshop is to incentivise practical solutions and 
fundamental thinking to bridge the gap between existing scientific 
communication methods and the vision of an reproducible and accountable 
open science. Semantic Web technologies provide a promising means for 
achieving this goal, enabling more transparent and well-defined descriptions 
for all scientific objects required for this new form of science and communication. 
We are particularly interested in four kinds of contributions:

1) Novel approaches that analyze how publications link to their described 
	methods and research outputs
2) Novel approaches that use the research outputs of a scientific 
	publication to facilitate its understanding and reuse (e.g., generating 
	explanations of results, interactive visualizations, linking to datasets 
	and methods, etc.)
3) Novel approaches that help comparing and relating software, datasets 
	and methods used in different publications
4) Novel approaches to apply Semantic Web and Linked Data techniques to 
	scientific workflows. 

===Research Topics===

 Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:

*Tools, methods and use cases for helping linking existing papers 
	to their research products: data, software, methods and execution traces.
*New methods for helping linking scientific papers to other papers 
	(e.g., papers that use similar approaches, similar methods, 
	common software, common data, etc.)
*New methods for helping visualizing and presenting scientific 
	information to scientists (e.g., provenance-based visualizations, 
		summaries, presenting results at different levels of granularity, etc.)
*New approaches for retrieving the method steps expressed in a paper.
*New methods for generating automated explanations of scientific results.
*New approaches for comparing methods, protocols and methodologies expressed in papers.
*New methods to highlight the differences between execution runs of a 
	scientific experiment (based on their configuration, performance, results, etc.)
*Tools and methods for discovering data and software used in similar 
	publications or to address similar problems.
*Vocabularies and ontologies that help relate and describe software, data, 
	methods and provenance used in a scientific publication.
*Vocabularies and ontologies that help capturing and presenting experiment 
	information to scientists.
*Automatic annotation of scientific research
*Provenance, quality, privacy and trust of scientific information
*Novel visualizations of scientific data
*Novel approaches to apply Linked Data and Semantic Web techniques to scientific workflows

===Submission Guidelines===

Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semsci2017). The papers should be written in English, following the Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in PDF on or before July 21, 2017. 
However, SemSci2017 explicitly welcomes alternative and enhanced submission formats, 
such as communicative online materials. Authors who are preparing such a submission 
should contact the workshop organizers in advance to make sure we can accommodate for them in the submission and review process. All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.

The following types of contributions are welcome.

*Full research papers (8 pages)
*Position papers (4-6 pages)
*Short research papers (4-6 pages)
*System/tool papers (4-6 pages)
*Posters (2 pages)

Papers presenting a tool will be reviewed based on potential impact of the tool for 
Open Semantic Science, usability, and documentation. 
Accepted papers will be published at the CEUR workshop series. 

===Workshop Chairs===

Daniel Garijo, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Tobias Kuhn, VU University Amsterdam
Jun Zhao, Oxford University
Willem Robert van Hage, Netherlands eScience center
Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University School of Science in Finland
End date	October 25, 2017 +
Event in series	SemSci +
Event type	workshop +
Has coordinates	48° 12' 30", 16° 22' 21"Latitude: 48.208352777778 Longitude: 16.372505555556 +
Has location city	Vienna +
Has location country	Category:Austria +
Homepage	https://w3id.org/semsci/ +
IsA	Event +
Start date	October 21, 2017 +
Title	1st International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science +