About us

Sci-K 2026 is an international workshop held in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2026. The workshop focuses on the representation, discovery, and assessment of scientific knowledge, addressing challenges in scholarly communication, scientific knowledge graphs, and AI-driven research support.

Important Dates

Fri, Jul 24, 2026

Paper submission deadline

Fri, Aug 21, 2026

Notification of acceptance

Sun, Sep 13, 2026

Camera-ready due

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Data models for the description of scholarly data

Provenance information of scientific data

Integration and interoperability models

NLP and AI approaches for scientific knowledge

Knowledge graphs and ontologies

LLM-based approaches for knowledge graph engineering

Metadata standards and open research information

Semantic publishing

Methods for extracting metadata, entities and relationships

Annotation and enhancement of scientific data

Exploration, retrieval, and visualisation of scholarly data

Hybrid human-AI workflows for discovery

Interdisciplinary discovery and cross-domain exploration

Novel methods, indicators, and metrics for research quality and impact

Scientific knowledge graphs and citation networks for research assessment

Responsible research evaluation

Evaluation of discovery systems and AI-driven tools

Call for Papers Description

The workshop calls for full research papers, short research papers, and vision/position papers covering the three main themes: Representation (data models, SKGs, ontologies), Discoverability (AI/NLP methods, metadata extraction, discovery tools), and Assessment (research metrics, responsible research evaluation, quality assessment of scholarly data).

Committee

Organisation

Allard Oelen

TIB Hannover, DE

Anna Jacyszyn

FIZ Karlsruhe, DE

Andrea Mannocci

CNR-ISTI, IT

Francesco Osborne

The Open University, UK

Georg Rehm

DFKI, DE

Angelo Salatino