SWODCH 2026 is the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage. The purpose of SWODCH is twofold.
First, it aims to gather original research on foundational issues arising from the design of conceptual models, ontologies, and Semantic Web (SW) technologies for Cultural Heritage (CH) and the Digital Humanities (DH). The heterogeneous and multi-format data available in these domains call for principled methodologies and technologies to semantically characterise, integrate, and reason over data, as well as to support its retrieval, management, analysis, and visualisation. The workshop also welcomes studies addressing the philosophical and social analysis of CH and DH data and knowledge representation models, as ontologies in these domains often need to account for the historical and social dimensions of data.
Second, SWODCH aims to bring together stakeholders – scholars from Computer Science and the Humanities and GLAM professionals, representatives from CH institutions, etc. – who are involved in the development and deployment of concrete SW solutions for Cultural Heritage. This includes solutions for building, managing, exploring, visualising, or mining concrete or virtual knowledge graphs. In this context, SW solutions should be designed in accordance with the FAIR principles and support the creation of CH datasets and applications that adhere to these standards.
“De sphaera mundi”, Johannes de Sacrobosco, 1550