GlossaLAB Workshop 2026

The Gatherings

Grounded in coherence, surfacing clarity Where diverse perspectives meet in understanding, without veils

June 8-12 | Syros (Greece) & online

November 11-13 | Lisbon (Portugal) & online

Post-truth dynamics and various forms of obscurity are undermining the foundations of communication; indeed, given its role in shaping social relations, the very fabric of society is at risk. There is an urgent need to re-anchor communication in truth and to ensure that clarity can flow through our information environments. The critical capacity of citizens—and their ability to cope with the many global challenges our societies face—depends on it.

To this end, we need approaches to assess coherence and clarity, and to integrate them into information practices. The present glossaLAB Workshop is dedicated to these issues. We invite you to join us in discussing, sharing, and testing ideas and approaches in this field.

Schedules, Venues & Registration

The glossaLAB Workshop will be carried out in three different locations and times:

– Syros (Greece) & online, June 8-12

– Lisbon (Portugal) & online, November 11-13 (as a part of the ARTIIS conference)

Whether if you attend face-to-face or online, which is free of charge, you must register for the glossaLAB Workshop. When registering, you will indicate your attendance preferences and, once the process is complete, you will receive access information. Do it as soon as possible, the seats are limited.

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). You can find the publication guidelines here.

Submissions: To submit a new proposal click on the following link and subsequently: (i) Select the option make a new submission; (ii) Select the track glossaLAB 2025...; (iii) Enter the identification data and upload the paper. Submission of papers through Easychair (deadline: June 14)

Invitation to elucidate concepts at glossaLAB

Since it is our purpose the Grounded in coherence, surfacing clarity, 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.

Supported by

The workshop has been organised by the glossaLAB consortium under support of the projects “CLINFO-CM: Clear and inclusive information for digital transformation" (PHS-2024/PH-HUM-313, Comunidad de Madrid), 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, UPSE & glossaLAB consortium).