Dear all
Exploration, analysis, and preservation of the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the world are essential for our understanding of humanity's past and shaping our future. In recent years, there has been increased interest in the creation and application of Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and other Semantic Web Technologies within Cultural Heritage (CH) and Digital Humanities (DH). However, to date, the distinct areas of expertise, methodologies and traditions across the fields have led to a noticeable gap between tech solutions and humanities’ needs.

The aim of the International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH) is to bridge this division and encourage closer collaboration and networking across diverse fields. To accomplish this goal, we invite all members of Semantic Web, CH and DH communities actively involved in the development of systematic approaches and advanced technologies for handling heterogeneous, diverse and challenging humanities data. This includes, but is not limited to, constructing and utilizing of knowledge graphs for the humanities, extracting and representing knowledge from historical texts, data linking across disciplines, enriching semantics of historical records and biographies, analyzing social networks, ontology adoption, extension and evaluation for specific domains. In addition, it includes the exploitation of recent technologies, e.g. LLM(s), in the context of semantic technologies, to tackle the diverse challenges associated with working with data in the humanities domain. We welcome presentations that not only focus on technological endeavours but also explore the analysis of CH and DH data landscape through the perspective of philosophical, historical, social, and other research questions. Apart from research, resource and work-in-progress papers, we encourage the audience to submit panel proposals. By this, authors will be provided with a platform to share and discuss their challenges and/or showcase research findings by gaining immediate feedback from diverse perspectives encompassing computer science, humanities, and cultural heritage.

Workshop topics:

•  Fundamental Concepts and Questions in Digital Humanities (DH) Research
•  Vocabulary, Schema, Ontology Development and Design Methodologies in DH
•  Application of Formal Ontologies (UFO, BFO, etc.) in DH
•  Practical Use of Standard Ontologies (CIDOC-CRM, FRBR) in DH: Case Studies, Challenges and Lessons Learnt
•  Harmonization of established standards like TEI, MEI, LIDO and Ontologies
•  Philosophical and Sociological Analysis of DH Models and Modeling Practices
•  Social Studies on Ontology Standardization Policies in DH
•  Temporal Knowledge Graphs in Context of DH
•  Semantic Web Applications for DH
• Software Architectures, Structural Frameworks and Infrastructures for DH KGs
•  Interoperability and Linking in DH
•  Application of FAIR Principles and KG-based Data Curation Strategies in DH
•  (Automated) Construction of Knowledge Graphs for DH
•  Searching, Querying, and Visualization of DH Knowledge Graphs
•  Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Knowledge Extraction in DH Research
•  Workflows and Tools for Knowledge Extraction in DH, e.g. Crowdsourcing
•  Access Management, Trust and Provenance in the DH context
•  Evaluation of DH Ontologies and KGs: Methods, Metrics and Criteria
•  Retrieval Augmented Generation techniques applied to DH KG
•  Agentic AI applied to cultural heritage knowledge graphs

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full Papers (10-15 pages including references)
• Short Papers (5-9 pages including references)
• Panel Proposals (2-3 pages, including references)

Full papers are expected to showcase innovative and substantive research at the intersection of Digital Humanities and the Semantic Web, presenting results and evaluations. Short papers may share intermediate results, ongoing research, positions and ideas within these fields. We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Both full and short papers will undergo review based on the following criteria:

• Relevance to the workshop
• Grounding in the literature and related work
• Originality and soundness
• Potential influence and significance
• Reproducibility and availability of resources
• Design and execution of evaluation (for full papers)

Panel proposals should include a motivation of a highly relevant while controversial topic with suggestions for panellists and description of their expertise towards the topic. Panel proposals will be peer-reviewed, based on:

• Relevance to the workshop
• Grounding in the literature
• Potential significance and impact
• Clear presentation of controversial topics

After the workshop, the authors of panel proposals will be given two additional pages to extend their abstracts with insights of the panel discussion for publication in the proceedings.

Deadline: March 3rd 2026
All submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings. All papers and proposals have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to semdh2026@easychair.org.

Best,

Bruno