*apologies for cross posting* *CFP: Schemas, Graphs, Ontologies: Baking Semantics into Data-Driven Media Technologies* *4S 2019 New Orleans: Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations* *Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting New Orleans September 4-7, 2019 * Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a restful break. We’re organizing a call for papers on semantic media technologies for the upcoming 4S conference. If you’re working on topics like the semantic web, knowledge graphs, applied ontologies, metadata, taxonomies, and categorization, we’d love to have you with us. The open call description is below, with a list of potential topics and submission link. 130. Schemas, Graphs, Ontologies: Baking Semantics into Data-Driven Media Technologies Amelia Acker, The University of Texas at Austin Andrew Iliadis, Temple University Since Google declared, in a 2012 blog post, that they would begin focusing on “things, not strings” there has been increasing talk in the media about the value of semantically enhancing data for reuse and sharing. As vast amounts of unstructured data grow thanks to the resources of media technology companies and governments, there is a push to structure those data to produce semantic interoperability and thus improve understanding. Various information infrastructures like metadata schemas, knowledge graphs, and applied ontologies are experiencing a resurgence as the limitations of statistical algorithms and relational databases become clearer and researchers argue for training data that must be made understandable and structured in such a way as to provide value. Yet, along with increasing our ability to make sense of heterogeneous data through semanticization, there are identifiable problems related to data interoperability that may negatively impact people, practices, and places. This panel will explore the idea of schemas, graphs, and ontologies through their use by media technology companies and scientific researchers by asking if these methods are appropriate for modeling all kinds of knowledge, how such modeling affects access and control, what risks of misrepresentation and error exit, and what potential there is of transforming or appropriating knowledge. This panel seeks empirically grounded papers or novel theoretical approaches to understanding how semantically constraining technologies are operationalized in practices across domains, including scientific, governmental, and business contexts. Papers that focus on single case studies, introduce new methods, or propose ethical and policy frameworks are encouraged. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): histories of semantic media, social and critical perspectives on semantic technologies, semantic web, open data, linked data, knowledge graphs, schemas, metadata, applied ontology, taxonomies, graph databases, DBpedia, Wikidata, Web Ontology Language, Schema.org, microformats, Resource Description Framework, Freebase, GoodRelations, PoolParty, Ontotext, Friend of a Friend, Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering, Dublin Core, Basic Formal Ontology, GoodRelations, Shapes Constraint Language, Google Knowledge Graph, Facebook Open Graph, Neo4j, Microsoft Satori, World Wide Web Consortium, virtual assistants, Siri Active Ontology, eBay Product Knowledge Graph, Alexa Meaning Representation Language, etc. Submissions (250 words, due by Feb 1st) can be submitted here (select “Papers for Open Panels” #130): https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19/ -- Andrew Iliadis, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Media Studies and Production Lew Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University