SEMANTiCS is the annual meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits, and encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT architects, software engineers, and researchers from organizations ranging from research facilities and NPOs through public administrations to the largest and/or most innovative companies in the world. Conference participants learn from top researchers and industry experts about emerging trends and topics in the wide area of semantic computing. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities in interlinking areas such as Artificial Intelligence, knowledge discovery and management, bigdata analytics, e-commerce, enterprise search, technical documentation, document management, business intelligence, and enterprise vocabulary management.
tions, latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies and their use in various domains, as well as applications, use cases, or pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. This also concerns new datasets made publicly available. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for the presenters' future work while also allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers.
This year, the SEMANTiCS conference especially welcomed submissions on the following cutting-edge topics:
The workshops and tutorials track allow any organization or project to promote any of the 2024 SEMANTiCS research topics and gain increased visibility. 2024 workshops and tutorials are incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda, and they provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community.
This year SEMANTiCS accepted five workshops and three tutorials as part of the conference program. We briefly describe them below:
• The International Workshop on Semantic Materials Science: Harnessing the Power of Semantic Web (SeMats) provided an overview of existing approaches, identify relevant works, and bring together Materials Science and Semantic Web stakeholders for collaboration and innovation. • The Third International Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP4KGC) discussed contributions on methods and approaches of knowledge and data extraction from text, as well as theoretical and practical aspects of using semantic deep NLP for KG creation and the use of such KG for Graph Neural Network (GNN) tasks. • The Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs unified workshop combined approaches using LLMs and KGs, focusing on real-life, practical use-cases under development in industry (both commercial and governmental organizations). • The NeXt-Generation Data Governance workshop aimed to support the development of solutions to manage data, policies and provenance in a trustful and interoperable manner and to aid in the management and reporting of legal documentation falling from the EU's GDPR for data protection and the DGA, Data Act, AI Act and EHDS to create legally-aligned, AI-powered data ecosystems.
• The First International Workshop on Scaling Knowledge Graphs for Industry aimed at fostering discussion on making knowledge graph systems work at industrial scale.
As for tutorials, SEMANTiCS 2024 included the following:
• The Ultimate Guide to Semantic Reasoning: How to enrich your data for practical applications including use with RAG & LLMs provided an overview on the best practices of rule writing and how to use them to supercharge applications. The tutorial uses the OWL W3C standard for ontological reasoning, and the widely used Datalog for more advanced functionality such as aggregation, negation, and filtering. • Modeling product ontologies for industrial KG applications discussed existing approaches to product ontology modeling from various perspectives such as iiRDS, Asset Administration Shell, custom ontologies and/or eClass. • The Semantics in Data Spaces: Semantic Treehouse as Vocabulary Hub tutorial described practical insights into shaping semantics within data spaces, with TNO's Semantic Treehouse as vocabulary hub as an important means.
The joint Proceedings of Posters, Demos, Workshops, and Tutorials of SEMANTiCS 2024 include overview of the "NeXt-Generation Data Governance" (NXDG) workshop and the full proceedings of the "First International Workshop on Scaling Knowledge Graphs for Industry". Other accepted workshops will make their proceedings available online independently.
We would like to thank all authors who submitted papers, organized workshops and tutorials, and, of course, the program committee members who provided careful, thorough reviews in a quick turnaround time. We would also like to thank our local organizer, Sanne Paulusma, as well as all those helping hands that are too many to name, for supporting this year's conference and turning it into a success. We hope that these proceedings will provide you with new inspiration for your research and opportunities for partnerships with other research groups, academic and industrial participants.
• Amar Tauqeer -Wageningen University