FAIR principles and ontologies for the Semantic Web:
                  the meeting point
                               Marı́a Poveda
                      Universidad Politécnica de Madrid


Abstract
On the one hand, we are nowadays witnessing a wide adoption of ontologies
for many different purposes and in many different contexts, like industry and
research, and in domains ranging from digital humanities, biology, chemistry or
medicine. On the other hand, since its inception in 2016, the FAIR (Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles have gained an increasing
importance in the context of research data management. As part of research
outputs, ontologies should be treated as other research artefacts, such as data,
software, methods, etc.; following the same principles used to make them find-
able, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) to others. However, not
much attention has been paid so far on how to publish ontologies following
the FAIR principles. This talk will focus on the technical and social needs for
publishing FAIR ontologies on the web building on the available initiatives and
systems to analyze the gaps and open challenges.


Short bio
Dr. Marı́a Poveda-Villalón is an assistant professor at the Artificial Intelli-
gence Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and is also part of
the Ontology Engineering Group research lab. Her research activities focus on
Ontological Engineering, Ontology Evaluation, Knowledge Representation and
the Semantic Web. Previously she finished her studies in Computer Science
(2009) by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and then she moved to study
the Artificial Intelligence Research Master finished in 2010 in the same univer-
sity. She has worked in the context of Spanish research projects as well as in
European projects such as ETSI STF for SAREF extensions, BIMERR (H2020-
820621), VICINITY (H2020-688467), READY4SmartCities (FP7-608711), and
NeOn (FP6-027595). She has contributed to the organization of the “Linked
Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop” since 2015 edition, the “13th
OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop and 5th OWL reasoner evaluation
workshop” in 2016, the “Linked Energy Data Vocamp” in 2015 and the “Catch-
ing up with ontological engineering: To git-commit and beyond” tutorial at
EKAW2018. Finally, she is part of the W3C Web of Things Working Group.