The CDIF4EOSC, CDIF, CODATA and wider data stewardship communities are invited to participate in the public online session of the OntoPortal Workshop 2026, which will take place on 23 September 2026 from 14:00 to 17:00 CEST.
The event is organised as part of the 5th OntoPortal Alliance Workshop, hosted by the Observatoire de Paris and coordinated by the OntoPortal-Astro team. It will bring together members of the OntoPortal Alliance, semantic technology experts, research infrastructures and data management practitioners to discuss recent developments and future directions in semantic interoperability.
About the OntoPortal Alliance
The OntoPortal Alliance is an international consortium of research and infrastructure organisations that collaboratively develop and maintain the open-source OntoPortal software. The Alliance supports a growing ecosystem of semantic artefact catalogues and ontology repositories, including initiatives such as BioPortal, AgroPortal, EarthPortal, EcoPortal, BiodivPortal and OntoPortal-Astro.
These platforms play an important role in facilitating the discovery, management and reuse of ontologies, vocabularies, terminologies and other semantic artefacts that support FAIR and interoperable research data.
Public Session Programme
The online public session will provide an overview of the OntoPortal ecosystem and its applications across research domains.
The draft programme includes:
- Introduction to OntoPortal and community Q&A (40 min)
- Panel discussion
- OntoPortal and research infrastructures
- OntoPortal and data spaces
- OntoPortal and artificial intelligence
- OntoPortal and you
- Hands-on tutorial session
The event is open to anyone interested in semantic interoperability, ontology repositories, FAIR semantic artefacts and research data integration.
Relevance for CDIF4EOSC
The topics addressed during the workshop are highly relevant to the objectives of CDIF4EOSC, which aims to advance cross-domain interoperability within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Semantic artefacts, ontologies and metadata frameworks are essential building blocks for enabling machine-actionable interoperability across disciplines, infrastructures and data spaces. Within CDIF4EOSC, partners are exploring how these resources can support the development of more interoperable, reusable and FAIR research data ecosystems.
In particular, INRAE, a partner in the CDIF4EOSC project and a key contributor to AgroPortal, brings extensive expertise in semantic technologies, metadata management and interoperability frameworks. These activities contribute to broader efforts aimed at improving data integration and supporting collaboration across scientific domains.
The workshop therefore represents an opportunity for researchers, data stewards, infrastructure providers and interoperability experts to exchange knowledge, discover current developments and engage with a growing international community working on semantic solutions for open science.
Registration
Participation in the public session is free of charge, but registration is required.
After registration, participants will automatically receive the Zoom connection details by email.
For further information about the workshop or participation opportunities, interested individuals may contact:
Clément Jonquet (INRAE / University of Montpellier)
clement.jonquet@inrae.fr
We encourage members of the CDIF4EOSC community and stakeholders interested in semantic interoperability, FAIR data and EOSC-related developments to take part in this event.