Bringing academia and industry closer through software
While academia and industry are active in the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph domains, there is often a disconnect between these two worlds. In this workshop, we invite developers of both worlds to present and discuss their software.
Furthermore, by bringing people from academia and industry physically together, this workshop will provide a discussion ground for identifying open problems that are relevant to both sides.
Besides putting a spotlight on Semantic Web software, the workshop aims to pinpoint opportunities for future research and implementations.
In this workshop, we invite talks about the software you created, live demonstrations of your software, and discussion on specific topics.
Topics
The core theme of this workshop concerns development efforts related to the Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data. An orthogonal goal is to connect academia and industry through these collective development efforts.
Possible contributions include the following:
- implementations of the semantic web standards (including RDF-star and RDF/SPARQL 1.2)
- Web applications
- Web APIs
- browser extensions
- libraries (client-side or server-side)
- visualizations
- user interfaces
- end-user tools
- development tools
- data or ontology processors
- application development (query engines, processors, reasoners, …)
- …
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Important dates
- Submission deadline
- 14 June 2025
- Notification
- 4 July 2025
- Workshop
- 3 September 2025
Contribution types
This workshop will invite three types of contributions:
- Software talk: Participants can submit a short paper (5-6 pages, or ~2,000 words) they can present and (optionally) demonstrate at the workshop. We encourage hands-on presentations, such as live-coding.
- Software demo: Participants can submit a link to a software repository (that has a README) they can demonstrate at the workshop.
- Discussion topic: Participants can submit an abstract (short paragraph) to propose an interactive discussion topic.
While we allow PDF submissions for short papers, alternative formats are also encouraged, including self-hosted HTML pages. All accepted submissions will be included or linked to from our website. For authors that would like their submission to be included in the published PDF proceedings, a PDF meeting the CEUR requirements must be provided during submission or after acceptance.
Review Policy
All contributions (talks, demos, topics) will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Talks and demos will be reviewed based on relevance, impact, reusability, technical quality, and availability. Tools can be unfinished and not well-established yet. Discussion topics will be reviewed on relevance and potential for discussion. To foster continued discussions after the review round with program committee members, we will follow a fully open review policy through OpenReview.
Program
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:40 | 👋 Welcome and introduction |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Talk: Miravi - a Linked Data Viewer Els de Vleeschauwer, Martin Vanbrabant, Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Talk: Jelly: a fast and convenient RDF serialization format Piotr Sowiński, Karolina Bogacka, Anastasiya Danilenka, Nikita Kozlov |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Talk: Towards tackling SPARQL heterogeneity through modular parsing Jitse De Smet, Ruben Taelman |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Talk: TermIt: Managing Domain Terminologies Martin Ledvinka, Miroslav Blaško, Michal Med |
| 🍽️ Break | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | ⭐️ Keynote: Hannah Bast - TBA |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Demo: LinkedDataHub: A Low-Code Application Platform for RDF Knowledge Graphs Martynas Jusevicius |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Demo: Towards a scalable Architecture for Legal-Ontologies integrated into Digital Twins of Administrative Law Florian Schnitzhofer, Christoph Schütz |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Demo: Interactive dashboard for ontology catalogs Jakub Skříšovský, Avetis Mkrtchian, Petr Křemen |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Demo: Build local-first, secure and decentralized apps with NextGraph and Linked Data Niko Bonnieure |
| 14:10 - 14:20 | Demo: Rewriting Wiz graph search component from scratch, for SPARQL Ran Zucker |
Organization
Chairs
- Ruben Taelman, IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Jindřich Mynarz, MSD Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
- Jerven Bolleman, Swiss-Prot Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
Program Commitee
- Pieter Colpaert, IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, Spain
- Thi Hoang Thi PHAM, Université de Nantes, France
- Olaf Hartig, Linköping University, Sweden
- Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Helsing, Germany
- Hala Skaf-Molli, Université de Nantes, France
- Brice Nédelec, Université de Nantes, France
- Jackson Morgan, SetMeld, United States of America
- Fabien L. Gandon, INRIA, France
- Bryan-Elliott Tam, IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Thomas Bergwinkl, TopQuadrant, United States of America
- Laurens Rietveld, Triply, Netherlands
- Jonni Hanski, IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Karel Klíma, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic