GlossaLAB Workshop 2025
The Gatherings
Mapping the information understanding Improving Information quality beyond overloads, obscurities, deceits and exclusions
June 12 | Syros (Greece) & online
Oct 21-23 | Cartagena de Indias (CO) & online
November 3-7 | Munich (Germany) & online
In the so-called “information era”, in which digital technologies are providing us extraordinary capabilities but a brand-new breadth of issues, scattered in fragmented challenges, we don't feel able to tame them just using these new capacities, though we are confident they should be a significant part of the coping with. The problem is indeed double-faced: on the one hand, we have to understand better what information is in its multiple aspects and contexts of application; on the other hand, we need to face the enormous flow of information, overcoming the information overloads, obscurities, deceits and exclusions, and improving its quality in benefit of the resolution of problems at different levels, from individuals to organisations of different size and reach.
Schedules and Venues
The glossaLAB Workshop will be carried out in three different locations and times:
– Syros (Greece) & online, June 12
– Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) & online, October 21-24
– Munich (Germany) & online, November 3-7
At the same time, glossaLAB Workshop will be held 'on-line', allowing for interactive participation. Registration is required to receive access information.
Call for research papers
The glossaLAB Workshop invites researchers from all branches of knowledge to present and discuss interdisciplinary approaches aimed at putting information and its technologies at the service of building and integrating knowledge and tackling complex problems.
The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Accessible Information
- Clear Information
- Clear Language
- Information Management
- Information Technologies and Sustainability
- Sustainable Information Management
- Inclusive Language
- Information Qualification
- Interdisciplinary Science
- Interdisciplinary Methodologies
- Knowledge Integration
- Knowledge Organisation
- Knowledge Qualification
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Systems Management
- Transdisciplinary Science
- Interdisciplinary Education
Publication venue: Springer - Communications in Computer and Information Science series (CCIS), which is indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, SCImago, Scopus (submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings). Submission of papers through Easychair (deadline: June 20th).
Invitation to elucidate concepts at glossaLAB
Since it is our purpose the mapping of the information understanding, and this is woven in the concepts understood from different perspectives, we need to know the meaning of the concepts that participants in the workshop are using when we deal with the matters at stake. In disciplinary settings, the background knowledge (supported by concepts more or less understood by all parts) is relatively transparent. However, in interdisciplinary settings this is often a source of obscurity that prevents us to draw light to the understanding of others. These clarifications fuels our mapping of understanding.
The elucidation activity will be specially supervised during the workshop events, but will remain open for further editing. Go to the elucidation activity
Supported by
The workshop has been organised under support of the projects “CLINFO-CM: Clear and inclusive information for digital transformation", PHS-2024/PH-HUM-313, CLINFO-CM”, and "glossaLAB.dixit: Development of a federated system of indexed publications oriented to the transdisciplinary clarification of knowledge and its qualification assisted by hybrid artificial intelligence".. (INCYT ref.91870000.0000.390371).
