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        <article-title>Preface to the Doctoral Consortium, ISWC 2024</article-title>
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          <string-name>Antoine Zimmermann Mines Saint- E´tienne</string-name>
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          <institution>Kerry Taylor Australian National University</institution>
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          <institution>Axel Polleres</institution>
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          <addr-line>Wirtschaftsuniversiat ̈t Wien</addr-line>
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          <country country="AT">Austria</country>
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          <institution>Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland</institution>
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          <country country="AU">Australia</country>
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          <label>3</label>
          <institution>Giuseppe Piror`</institution>
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          <addr-line>Universiat` della Calabria</addr-line>
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          <country country="IT">Italy</country>
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          <label>4</label>
          <institution>Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics</institution>
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          <country country="JP">Japan</country>
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          <institution>Katja Hose</institution>
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          <addr-line>Technische Universiat ̈t Wien</addr-line>
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          <country country="AT">Austria</country>
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          <institution>Maribel Acosta, Technische Universiat ̈t Mu ̈nchen</institution>
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          <country country="DE">Germany</country>
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          <institution>Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, IBM Research</institution>
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          <country country="US">USA</country>
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          <institution>Sabrina Kirrane</institution>
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          <addr-line>Wirtschaftsuniversiat ̈t Wien</addr-line>
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          <country country="AT">Austria</country>
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        <p>The ISWC 2024 Doctoral Consortium was co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference that took place in Baltimore, Maryland, USA from the 11th to the 15th of November, 2024. The doctoral consortium aims at providing a forum for doctoral students to present their work, interact with other students, get feedback from senior researchers including personalised recommendations from their assigned mentor, and finally adjust their research objectives and plans accordingly. To reach this target, we gathered a programme committee of 24 researchers, who evaluated 16 submissions, among which 12 were accepted for presentation. The programme included presentations from the PhD students, a keynote address, a mentoring lunch and a social dinner. The keynote speaker was Kavitha Srinivas, from IBM Research, who delivered a provocative talk entitled Lessons I unlearnt. The mentoring lunch and the social dinner gave the students the opportunity to interact with senior researchers. In particular, each student was assigned an individual mentor, who advised the mentee, gave written feedback on the submitted document, attended the talk and ofered additional feedback. Students were asked to submit a revised version of their research project, which is what these proceedings consist of.</p>
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      <p>Mentors
• Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
• Kerry Taylor, Australian National University, Australia
Programme committee members
• Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT CNRS, France
• Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China
• Claudia D’Amato, University of Bari, Italy
• Catherine Faron, Universiet´ Cˆote d’Azur, France
• Pouya Ghiasnezhad Omran, Australian National University, Australia
• Rafael Goncalves, Harvard University, USA
• Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT, France
• Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU</p>
      <p>Wien, Austria
• Ora Lassila, Amazon Web Services, USA
• Maxime Lefranc¸ois, Mines Saint- E´tienne, France
• Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
• Deshendran Moodley, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Catia Pesquita, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciˆencias, Universidade de Lisboa,</p>
      <p>Portugal
• Anne Mindika Premachandra, Australian National University, Australia
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
• Sergio Joes´ Rodıgr´ uez Men´dez, School of Computing / College of
Engineering ‘&amp; Computer Science. The Australian National University,
Australia
• Ana Roxin, University of Burgundy, LIB EA7534, France
• Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Australia
• Kewen Wang, Grifith University, Australia</p>
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