_WIP - NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION_ The Academic Event Ontology (AEON) is used to represent information regarding academic events. The ontology supports the identification, development, management, evaluation, and impact assessment of events, components of events and event series, as well as identification and reuse of works presented or developed at events. The ontology is independent of knowledge, creative domain, or topics related to events. AEON is focused on events and assumes the representation of many entities associated with events such as attendees, locations, academic works, datetimes, and processes are defined in compatible ontologies.
AEON is being developed as a part of the ConfIDent project (https://projects.tib.eu/confident).
maps to
A relation obtaining between an 'academic event type specification' and an 'academic event', in which the former is used to descibe the sociocultural format of the latter. A set of possible common academic event type specification is provided in AEON as named individuals.
specifies academic event format of
A relation obtaining between an 'academic event' and an 'academic event format specification' that specifies the sociocultrural format of the 'academic event'.
has academic event format
has DID
A relation obtaining between an entity and a distributed identifier document (DID) that is used to denote the verifiable, decentralized digital identity of an entity.
has distributed identifier
A relation obtaining between an 'academic event' and an academic field descriptor that is used to describe the scientific subject of the planned process according to some controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
has academic field descriptor
A relation obtaining between a obi:'planned process' and an 'event topic descriptor' that is used to descibe the theme of the planned process.
has event topic decriptor
A relation obtaining between a obi:'planned process' and an 'event fee specification'.
has event fee specification
'has contributor' is a relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds a contributor role which is being realized by the planned process. A contribution to a planned process takes place when someone works on the planning or realization of a planned process.
has contributor
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds an attendee role which is being realized by the planned process.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P710", "label": "participantLabel"}}
has attendee
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a moderator role which is being realized by the planned process.
has moderator
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds an organizer role which is being realized by the planned process.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P664", "label": "organizerLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_organizer", "label": "Has_organizer"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "sponsor"}}}
has organizer
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a reviewer role which is being realized by the planned process.
has reviewer
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a presenter role which is being realized by the planned process.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P823", "label": "speaker"}}
has presenter
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person or organization that holds a sponsor role which is being realized by the planned process.
has sponsor
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a committee member role which is being realized by the planned process.
has committee member
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a contact person role which is being realized by the planned process.
has contact person
A relation between a planned process and a person that holds a keynote speaker role which is being realized by the planned process.
has keynote speaker
A relation obtaining between a planned process and a person that holds a committee chair role which is being realized by the planned process.
has committee chair
see inverse relation 'has deadline
Given the fact that deadlines are specified in various planned processes this term should probably be regarded as a placeholder which ought to be defined in a broader ontology, maybe something like IAO?
specifies deadline of
a relation between a planned process and a deadline specification
has deadline
A relation obtaining between a digital iao:information content entity and its corresponding ISO 26324 conform digital object identifier.
has DOI
A relation obtaining between an entity and the 'GND identifier' used by the German national library to denote this entity.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P227", "label": "GND_ID"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#gndIdentifier", "label": "GND-Identifier"}}
has GND identifier
A relation obtaining between a person or organization and the 'international standard name identifier' used to denote the person or organization in the ISNI database.
has ISNI
A relation obtaining between a person and the 'ORCID' used to denote the person in the ORCID database.
has ORCID
A relation obtaining between a person and the 'ROR identifier' used to denote the entity in the ROR database.
has ROR
A relation obtaining between an entity and the Wikidata identifier used to denote this entity in the Wikidata database.
has Wikidata QID
{"wikidata": {"uri": null, "label": "itemID"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Wikidataid", "label": "Wikidataid"}}
has QID
A relation obtaining between an academic event series and an academic event. It is used to express that the academic event series has a specific academic event as its part.
academic event series of
collocated event of
see also inverse property: A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event. A joint event is an event that shares some of the planning and organizing logistics with another academic event, but is otherwise independent from it.
joint event of
A relation obtaining between an academic event and an academic event series. It is used to express that the academic event is part of a specific event series.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P179", "label": "part_of_the_seriesLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Event_in_series", "label": "Event_in_series"}}
part of academic event series
see also inverse property: A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event or event series. An umbrelle event/series is a superordinate event/series that combines several smaller academic events/series at the same time.
umbrella event of
A relation obtaining between a bfo:occurent and the country in which it occurs.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P17", "label": "countryLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_country", "label": "Has_location_country"}}
occurs in country
A relation obtaining between a bfo:occurent and the city in which it occurs.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P276", "label": "locationLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_city", "label": "Has_location_city"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Place of conference or event"}}
occurs in city
A relation obtaining between a bfo:occurent and the province in which it occurs.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P131", "label": "located_in_the_administrative_territorial_entityLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Has_location_state", "label": "Has_location_state"}}
occurs in province
A relation obtaining between a bfo:occurent and the event venue in which it occurs.
occurs in event venue
see also inverse property: A relation obtaining between an 'academic field descriptor' and a obi:'planned process', in which the former is used to descibe the scientific subject of the latter according to some controlled vocabulary or thesaurus.
describes academic field
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds an attendee role that is being realized by the planned process the moment the person is actually a member of the audience of said planned process.
attends at planned process
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a committee chair role that is being realized by the planned process.
is committee chair in
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a committee member role that is being realized by the planned process.
is committee member in
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds the role of being the designated contact person and that role is being realized by the planned process.
is contact person of
A relation obtaining between a person or organization and a planned process, in which the person or organization holds a contributor role that is being realized by the planned process.
contributes to planned process
A relation obtaining between an 'academic event' or 'academic event series' and the WikiCFP identifier used to denote this 'academic event' or 'academic event series' in the wikiCFP database.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5127", "label": "WikiCFP_conference_series_ID"}}
has WikiCFP identifier
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event. A collocated event is an event that takes place at the same location and time as another academic event.
has collocated event
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event. A joint event is an event that shares some of the planning and organizing logistics with another academic event, but is otherwise independent from it.
has joint event
A relation obtaining between an academic event and another academic event or event series. An umbrelle event is a superordinate event that combines several smaller academic events at the same time. To say p 'has umbrella event' d =def. there exists an academic event d that is a superordinate event of p and that there must be other academic events that have the same relation.
has umbrella event
A relation between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a keynote speaker role that is being realized by the planned process.
holds keynote speech at
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a moderator role that is being realized by the planned process.
moderates at
A relation obtaining between a person or organization and a planned process, in which the person or organization holds an organizer role that is being realized by the planned process.
organizes
A relation between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a reviewer role that is being realized by the planned process.
reviews at
A relation obtaining between a person and a planned process, in which the person holds a presenter role that is being realized by the planned process.
presents at
A relation obtaining between an 'event fee specification' and a obi:'planned process'.
specifies event fee of
A relation obtaining between a person or organization and a planned process, in which the person or organization holds a sponsor role that is being realized by the planned process.
sponsors
see also inverse property: A relation obtaining between an 'event topic descriptor' and a obi:'planned process', in which the former is used to descibe the theme of the latter.
describes event topic
A data property which is intended to be used for the literal representation of a deadline specification in the xsd:dateTimeStamp format
deadline datetime value
A shortend representation of a planned process name that has been formed from the initial components of a planned process name representation, usually using individual initial letters.
planned process acronym
CORE ranking
acceptance rate
accepted papers
accepted short papers
This data property associates an email adress with a contributor.
It needs to be discussed, if we need this information to be modeled more finegrained using e.g. iao:'email address' (see alsohttps://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/130). For now it seems sufficient to have a data property.
email address value
This data property associates a telephone number with a contributor
It needs to be discussed, if we need this information to be modeled more finegrained using e.g. iao:'email address' (see also https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/130). For now it seems sufficient to have a data property.
phone number value
coordinates
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2047", "label": "duration"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#dateOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Date of conference or event"}}
duration
A data property to provide the planned end date of an academic event in the xsd:dateTimeStamp format.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P582", "label": "end_time"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:End_date", "label": "End_date"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "end"}}}
planned end date
The event frequency is the literal value of the number of month until the next event in a certain takes place.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2257", "label": "event_interval_inmonths"}}
event frequency
The ordinal number of an academic event, if it is a part of an event series.
{"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "number"}}}
event number
maps_to: DataCite:dateType --- allowed value mapping ConfIDent → DataCite scheduled → valid postponed → updated cancled → withdrawn
event status
event type other
The year in which an event takes place.
event year
The literal, numerical (decimal) value of an event fee that is specified in an event fee specification.
event fee value
The literal string value of an event fee currency that is specified in an event fee specification.
This data property should have a value from the controlled list defined by the ISO_4217 standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).
event fee currency
This data property should be used to provide the language that is officially spoken at an event . The allowed string should preferrably be encoded in the ISO 639-1 standard (e.g. German would be "de").
It needs to be discussed, if a data property is sufficient for our use case, or if it might be better to model the officially spoken language of an academic event as a generically dependent continuant that participates in this planned process as sugessted by the developers of the language ontology (https://github.com/vivo-ontologies/language-ontology/wiki/Usage).
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2936", "label": "language_usedLabel"}}
event language
location
logo
meeting URL
metric
{"openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Attendees", "label": "Attendees"}}
number of attendess
number of tracks
A data property to provide the previously planned end date of an academic event in the xsd:dateTimeStamp format, when the planned end date has been rescheduled.
previously planned end date
A data property to provide the previously planned start date of an academic event in the xsd:dateTimeStamp format, when the planned start date has been rescheduled.
previously planned start date
proceeding cite count
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856", "label": "official_website"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Homepage", "label": "Homepage"}}
process website
series cite count
sponsor type
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580", "label": "start_time"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Property:Start_date", "label": "Start_date"},"crossref": {"api_proceedings_endpoint_uri": "https://api.crossref.org/types/proceedings/works?select=event", "json_api_key": {"event": "start"}}}
planned start date
state
submitted papers
summary
summary licence
venue
venue website
root node
The 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2020) is an academic event.
An academic event is a planned process that refers to a gathering of researchers (not necessarily academics), in which these researches have the chance to present and discuss their work and possible future collaborations according to a certain sociocultural format.
At the moment a general differentiation between some academic events, such as conference, colloquium, forum and symposium, is not as clear as it should be from an ontologist perspektive, as the use of these terms varies significantly throughout different sociocultural contexts. However, as ConfIDent tries to shed light on the culture of academic events, understanding them simply as synonyms would be too broad at the moment. Hence they are defined here rather adhoc with the reference to a specific academic event type specification that specifies its sociocultural format. These specific plan specifications are provided in AEON as named individuals for the purpose of automatically classifying academic events within the application of the ConfIDent project. It is the intention of the ConfIDent project to collect and analyse a large body of empirical data on academic events and series, especially with regard to the inherent academic event plan specifications, so that an evidence based diffirentiation might be possible. This means that the subclasses of academic event in question are prone to be edited in the future.
TODO: * It needs to be discussed, if we need the "process boundary" class to describe the start and end of an academic event or event series. * It needs to be discussed, if we need the "temporal region" and "spatiotemporal region" classes to describe the duration and manifestation in spacetime of an academic event or event series.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1656682", "label": "eventLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Category:Event", "label": "Event"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#ConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Conference or Event"}}
academic event
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) series
An academic event series is a planned process that is the set of all recurring academic events of a destinct identity. This destinct identity is usually demarked by a shared name that only differs with regard to some ordnial symbol, such as 1st or the year of the academic event.
{"wikidata": {"uri": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15900647", "label": "conference_seriesLabel"}, "openresearch": {"uri": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Category:Event_series", "label": "Event_series"}, "gnd": {"uri": "https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#SeriesOfConferenceOrEvent", "label": "Series of conference or event"}}
An internal identifier is an iao:identifier that is only meant to be used inside the reference system, such as an application, in which it is declared.
The alternative term "ConfIDent ID" is used here, as the ontology is being developed by the ConfIDent project (https://projects.tib.eu/en/confident) to be used in its service. Thus the internal identifier is called "ConfIDent ID". You will probably want to change that in your implementation.
internal identifier
event type
An academic event format specification is a plan specification that classifies a planned gathering of people in an academic context according to some sociocultural format, which provides implicit and explicit details on how this gathing is to be carried out by its participants in terms of achieving certain objectives, fulfiling certain conditions and performing certain actions.
It needs to be discussed whether this class should be expanded to also describe the format of an 'academic event series', e.g. conference series. At the moment it is assumed that an 'academic event series', understood as a obi:'planned process', has no destinct format itself. Since this process is defined as the set of all recurring academic events of a destinct identity, the event series type would also only be the set of the academic event types of the academic events in this series.
academic event format specification
The contributor role inheres in a person or organization that participates in a planned process by somehow contributing to it.
aeon contributor role
The organizer role inheres in a person or organization that contributes to a planned process by planning and managing its realization.
organizer role
The 'committee member role' inheres in a person who contributes to a planned process by somehow realizing the function of the committe he is a member of.
event committee member role
The 'committee chair role' inheres in a person who contributes to a planned process by somehow realizing the function of the committee he is a chair of.
event committee chair role
The contact person role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by functioning as the addressee of the planned process who answers general inquiries and redirects more complex inqueries to a more appropriate addressee.
contact person role
The attendee role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by attending it.
attendee role
The moderating role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by facilitating the communication.
moderator role
Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work, such as manuscripts or grants by others working in the same field. The reviewer role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by reviewing something of interest in a planned process.
ToDo: use CRO IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CRO_0000101
manuscript review role
reviewer role
The presenter role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by presenting something of interest at a planned process.
invited speaker role
aeon presenter role
The keynote speaker role inheres in a person that contributes to a planned process by holding a keynote speech at a planned process.
keynote speaker role
The sponsor role inheres in a person or organization that contributes to a planned process by providing the financial or material ressources needed to realize a planned process.
PS 2-9-2020: For me there is still the open question on how to best model the different sponsor types (e.g. gold, silver, bronze...). As the possible sponsor types can have various schemes, it seems best to have named individuals of the aeon:Sponsor class at the moment.
sponsor role
DOI
A digital object identifier (DOI) is an iao:identifier that persitently denotes a digital object acording to the ISO standard 26324.
digital object identifier
A 'GND identifier' is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes an entity in "The Integrated Authority File (GND)" of the German national library.
An 'ISNI' (International Standard Name Identifier) is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes persons and organizations in the ISNI database.
International Standard Name Identifier
An 'ORCID' is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes authors and contributors of scholarly communication in the ORCID database.
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
A 'ROR identifier' is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes an organization in the ROR database.
research organization registry identifier
QID
A 'Wikidata QID identifier' is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes an entity in the Wikidata database.
q number
wikidata q number
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/"^^ xsd:anyURI
Wikidata QID
DEPRECATED city
DEPRECATED country
DEPRECATED province
An event venue is a site where an event takes place.
event venue
DDC 410 Linguistics, OECD 6.02 Languages and literature, ...
An 'academic field desciptor' is a data item that contextualizes a obi:'planned process' by providing a reference to a controlled vocalulary, which codifies the subdevision of knowledge taught and researched at the college or university level.
academic discipline category
academic field descriptor
"AI, knowledge graphs, cloud computing" could be a set of keywords that denote the main topics covered by a specific conference.
"The future of knowlegde graphs in the humanities" could be a 'topic' of an interdisciplinary oriented computer sciences conference.
An 'event topic descriptor' is a data item that describes the central theme of a planned process.
event theme description
The instances of this class can be terms from a controlled vocabulary or thesaurus, phrases or just keywords.
event topic descriptor
The Zoom room in which an online conference is being held is a virtual location, that exists as long as the IT infrastructure on which it runs (is being realized) is not failing or turned off by an agent with the capability to do so.
The service Twitter provides is a virtual location, in which the Twitter users can communicate with each other in a mostly text-based mode.
A virtual location is a realizable entity that provides a digital space for humans and computers to interact with one another in various digital modes (e.g. text, audio, video, tactile). It specifically depends on the IT infrastructure that is used to realize the virtual location in the planned process of running certain code on certain computers.
virtual site
virtual location
An event fee specification is a conditional specification that, as part of a plan specification, specifies the currency and the amount of money that has to be paid by participants of an event depending on their role in that event.
event fee specification
A 'decentralized identifier document' (DID) is an iao:identifier that denotes a verifiable, decentralized digital identity of an entity.
decentralized identifier document
An academic event committee is a body of one or more persons (object aggregate) that is responsible for the realization of a certain task or aspect in an academic event. Academic event committees are usually formed in the planning process of those academic events that need to subdevide and delegate the tasks that need to be carried out for the realization of the academic event..
academic event committee
A deadline specification is a conditional specification that, as part of an action specification, defines until when a specified action has to be carried out.
deadline specification
An abstract deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for abstracts of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of an abstract has to be submitted.
abstract deadline
A camera-ready deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process that is ready for publishing has to be submitted.
camera-ready deadline
A demo deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of a demonstration has to be submitted.
demo deadline
A notification deadline is a deadline specification that specifies until when a participant of a planned process has to inform another participant of that process about something concering the plan of the process.
Given the fact that notification deadlines are specified in various planned processes this term should probably be regarded as a placeholder which ought to be defined in a broader ontology, maybe something like IAO?
notification deadline
A paper deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of a paper has to be submitted.
paper deadline
A poster deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of a poster has to be submitted.
poster deadline
A conditional specification that, as part of an academic event type specification, specifies the date until which contributions that answer the call for papers of an academic event have to be submitted.
Given the fact that submission deadlines are specified in various planned processes this term should probably be regarded as a placeholder which ought to be defined in a broader ontology, maybe something like IAO?
submission deadline
A tutorial deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of a tutorial has to be submitted.
tutorial deadline
A workshop deadline is a submission deadline that, as part of a call for papers of an academic event, specifies the date until which a contribution to a planned process in form of a workshop has to be submitted.
workshop deadline
A call for papers is an action specification in which the organizers of an academic event describe to prospective presenters the broad theme of the event, list the event's topics and formalities such as what kind of paper has to be submitted, to whom, and by what deadline.
CFP
call for papers
A call for abstracts is an action specification in which the organizers of an academic event describe to prospective presenters the broad theme of the event, list the event's topics and formalities such as what kind of abstract has to be submitted, to whom, and by what deadline.
call for abstracts
An identifier that is a proper name identifying a planned process.
TODO: request term from IAO
planned process name
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a colloquium.
colloquium plan specification
An academic event whose sociocultural format is determined in an academic event type specification that classifies the academic event as a colloquium.
A possible definition could be the following, where one can also see how the definition depends on certain planned objectives, conditions and actions: A colloquium is an academic event that usually lasts only a few hours and serves to discuss a specific topic. Colloquia are usually part of the academic exchange in everyday university life with only one speaker, but can also take place on special occasions (anniversaries, start or end of the lecture phase, etc.) and can have more than one speaker.
academic colloquium
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a conference.
conference plan specification
An academic event whose sociocultural format is determined in an academic event type specification that classifies the academic event as a conference.
A possible literature based definition could be the following, where one can also see how the definition depends on certain planned objectives, conditions and actions: A conference is an academic event that lasts up to several days and serves as a forum for presentations on a specific topic or subject area. In addition to subject-specific conferences, there are also interdisciplinary conferences which allow both a broader focus and more specific questions on a particular (academic) problem. Conferences often have a highly formalized structure of parallel, clearly defined sessions with several short presentations and plenary sessions with invited (keynote) speakers who are considered multipliers in their (research) field. Ideally, the selection of the speakers and their contributions is subject to a review process.
academic conference
Casserly, P. (2019). Symposium vs. conference, what’s the difference? A symposium versus a conference. What’s the actual difference? And how does it affect organising or submitting to one? Ex Ordo. https://www.exordo.com/blog/symposium-vs-conference/
Hansen, Thomas Trøst; Pedersen, David Budtz; Foley, Carmel (PRE-PRINT). Academic Event: an empirically-grounded typology and their academic impact. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/152599519X15506259856598.
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a forum.
forum plan specification
An academic event whose sociocultural format is determined in an academic event type specification that classifies the academic event as a forum.
A forum is an academic event that usually is public and involves audience discussion.
academic forum
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a hackathon.
hackathon plan specification
An academic event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, domain experts, and others collaborate intensively in a design sprint-like manner on software projects.
Briscoe, G., & Mulligan, C. (2014). Digital innovation: the hackathon phenomenon (Creativeworks London). https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/11418
academic hackathon
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a seminar.
seminar plan specification
An academic event that has the function to instruct a small group or small groups, often for recurring meetings, on some particular subject, in which everyone present is usually encouraged to participate.
academic seminar
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a session.
session plan specification
An academic event that is a clearly defined part of a larger academic event, such as an academic conference or track, in which a small number of presenters (usually 2-5) focus on a specific topic. A session is usually formally accompanied by a session chair, who assumes the function of a moderator.
academic event session
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a symposium.
symposium plan specification
An academic event whose sociocultural format is determined in an academic event type specification that classifies the academic event as a symposium.
A possible literature based definition could be the following: A symposium is a specific type of conference with a narrower thematic focus, with fewer participants and of shorter duration. The degree of structuring lies between a classic conference and a workshop, allows more discussion than the larger conference, but is usually more formalized than the workshop.
academic symposium
Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (CIKD). (2019). Difference between scientific events. NCM Conferences blog. https://ncmconferences.com/difference-between-scientific-events/
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a keynote speech.
keynote plan specification
A keynote speech is a special talk that has the function to set the underlying tone and summarize the core message or most important revelation off the academic at which it is given.
keynote
keynote lecture
academic keynote speech
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a track.
track plan specification
An academic event that, as a part of a larger academic event, has the function to group even smaller parts of the academic event, like sessions and talks, according to a shared theme or topic. It usually has dedicated chairs and program committees.
stream
academic event track
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a tutorial.
tutorial plan specification
An academic event that has the function to educate the audience on a certain topic. A tutorial is often realized as an academic event talk or academic event session.
academic tutorial
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a workshop.
workshop plan specification
A smaller academic event that serves to exchange information on a specific topic or problem. It usually last one or two days and offers space for discussion and the development of content and solutions. Group work is often part of the event concept.
Alston, J. M. (2019). What's the difference between a conference, a seminar, a workshop and a symposium? Conference Monkey Insights. https://conferencemonkey.org/insight/whats-the-difference-between-a-conference-a-seminar-a-workshop-and-a-symposium-1075915
academic workshop
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a congress.
congress plan specification
Academic event whose sociocultural format is determined in an academic event type specification that classifies the academic event as a congress. It usually is a larger type of conference with regard to the number of participants and organizers.
A possible literature based definition could be the following: A congress is a conference that is characterised by a larger number of participants (often several hundred) and is oftentimes organised jointly by large, established (e.g. specialised societies) and/or several institutions. Congresses have a broader thematic focus than simple conferences, take place in certain cycles, but can still target an exclusive group of participants (e.g. representatives of a single discipline).
academic congress
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a talk.
talk plan specification
presentation
An academic event that is a unit of a larger academic event, such as an academic event session, at which a specific topic is being presented in a rather short way often as a part of a larger academic event such as a session, conference or workshop.
speech
academic event talk
An academic event format specification that classifies an academic event as a poster session.
poster session plan specification
A poster session is a session at which poster papers are presented.
academic poster session
An attendance fee specification is an event fee specification that, as part of a plan specification, defines the currency and amount of money a person has to pay to attend an event.
attendance fee specification
Philip Strömert is an attendee of PIDapalooza 2021.
An attendee is a contributer that holds an attendee role which is being realized in a planned process.
The general assumption is that the attendee role is being realized the moment someone shows up to an event which she is expected to participate in as part of an audience. Someone who plans to attend some academic event but never shows up during this event, would not be considered an attendee of the event. Defining 'attendee' is not trivial, as the expectations of what an attendee must do, can differ from community to community and from event type to event type. For some an attendee must have been accredited by some official organizer and might only get a certificate of attendence at the end of it, when a certain amount of participation (e.g. visited sessions, completed workshops) has been achieved. For others it might suffice to simple be present.
We need this concept of an attendee in order to be able to properly quantify the participation in a planned process. For this we would also need to have an action specification that is the conretizaion of the attendee role.
A person who participates actively or passively in an event.
attendee
A committee chair is a committee member that holds a committee chair role which is being realized in a planned process.
A committee chair is a committe member that is expected to speak on behalf of and to be responsible for the committee. The person who is in charge of a committee with primary responsibility for carrying out the committee's duties.
event committee chair
A committee member is an organizer that holds a committee member role which is being realized in a planned process.
event committee member
A contact person is an organizer that holds a contact person role which is being realized in a planned process.
A contact peron is defined by its role to be the person who answers general questions about a planned process and who forwards any further inquiries to the appropriate recipiant.
contact person
All organizers and participants of the academic event called PIDapalooza 2020 are contributors of that particular event..
TODO: There needs to be an ICE branch in AEON covering the action and objective specifications which the various contributors have to concretize when realizing their roles. The concretization of these specification calsses needs to be axiomized here and in the various contributor roles.
A contributor is a person or organization that holds a contributor role which is being realized in a planned process.
An academic conference is being realized by the contributions of different kinds of people and organizations. The organizers plan the program and manage the needed logistics. The sponsors provide the resources and funds needed for the realization. The speakers contribute by presenting their academic work. The reviewers make sure the submitted work is worth to be presented. The moderators make sure that the mode of communication is caried out as planned by the organizer. The attendees contribute by being there as the audience, providing feedback and by making up the pool of possible future collaborators.
This class and its children should be defined in an ontology that covers the domain of contributorship in the sciences. The contributor ontology (CRO - http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cro.owl) seems to be the best place. However at the moment CRO only covers "the diverse roles performed in the work leading to a published research output in the sciences." An academic event or event series should ot be understood as a published research output, as they are procceses (occurents) and not ICEs.
A person or organization can only be considered a contributor of some planned process, if and only if the act of contributing has been fulfilled. The contributor role is being realized, when the task (objective specification) attached to this role has been achieved somehow. It can thus be possible for a person or organization to hold multiple roles either in the same or in different planned processes.
contributor
The finance committee is an academic event committee that has the task of monitoring and managing the budget of an academic event.
event finance committee
The general or steering committee is an academic event committee that is responsible for the entire conceptual design of an academic event. This entails decisions on the content focus, budget, size, choice of venue and time, selection of other responsible persons, etc.
steering committee
general committee
A 'keynote speaker' is a presenter that holds a keynote speaker role which is being realized in a planned process.
An invited person - often a multiplier in his or her (research) field - responsible for delivering a keynote speech.
keynote speaker
The local committee is an academic event committee that is in charge of planning, organizing and carrying out an academic event on site. This entails being in charge of managing the venue, registration, supply, accommodations etc.
local committee
A moderator is a contributer that holds a moderating role which is being realized in a planned process.
A person responsible for facilitating a session at an academic event.
moderator
DataCite is an organizer of PIDapalooza 2020.
Organizers of academic events or event series are often organizations that form special taks forces, or event committees, in order to plan and manage all aspects related to the realization of the event or event series.
An organizer is a contributer that holds an organizing role which is being realized in a planned process.
A person or organization that is responsible for the planning and realization of a planned process.
organizer
The programme committee is an academic event committee that is responsible for planning what body of work is to be presented at an academic event. This entails making a call to the scientifiy community to submit their work, to review these submissions and to invite presenters that will fit to the academic event according to its planned scope.
program committee
The publication committee is an academic event committee that is responsible for the publication of the proceedings of an academic event.
publication committee
The publicity committee is an academic event committee that is responsible for the external communication of an academic event. This entails the promotion, (social) media relations, web presence, further releases, etc.
publicity committee
The reviewer of a conference who reviews the submitted papers.
A reviewer is a contributer that holds a reviewer role which is being realized in a planned process.
reviewer
A presenter is a person who's role it is to present some body of work to an audience.
Philip Strömert is a presenter at PIDapalooza 2021.
A presenter is a contributer that holds a presenter role which is being realized in a planned process.
speaker
presenter
An organization or person that promises to fund an academic event is a sponsor of that event the moment the promised funds have been recieved by the organizers of the event.
A sponsor is a contributer that holds a sponsor role which is being realized in a planned process.
Philip Strömert 2-9-2020: For me there is still the open question on how to best model the different sponsor types (e.g. gold, silver, bronze...), as there are various schemes. At the moment any sponsor type other than gold, silver or bronze can be further specified by using the data property "sponsor_type". We could also reuse the "event type a SKOS:concept" pattern here. But it seems best to have a clear definition of each sponsor type, in order to be able to subclass them here and add the corresponding roles and properties.
sponsor
A sponsor fee specification is an event fee specification that, as part of a plan specification, defines the currency and amount of money a sponsor has to pay to sponsor an event.
sponsor fee specification
The sponsorship committee ia an academic event committee that is responsible for aquireing and managing the sponsorships of an academic event.
sponsorship committee
The technical committee ia an academic event committee that is responsible for the technical needs associated with the realization of an academic event.
technical committee
A 'wikiCFP identifier' is a iao:'centrally registered identifier' that denotes an 'academic event' or 'academic event series' in the wikiCFP database.
wikiCFP ID
wikiCFP identifier
VIVO Conference 2020
11th Annual International VIVO Conference 2020