Here is the official Aim and Scope for the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), reflecting its focus as an IGI Global publication:

Aim

The primary mission of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) is to cultivate the Semantic Web vision within the information systems research community. It serves as an open forum and a highly effective knowledge-transfer channel where academics, researchers, and industry practitioners can discuss, analyze, synthesize, and simplify the promising technologies of the Semantic Web.

The journal aims to bridge the gap between computer science disciplines and the practical implementation of information systems. By establishing value-adding development channels across three distinctive areas—academia, industry, and government—IJSWIS focuses on delivering the main implications and advancements that the Semantic Web brings to modern organizations and the broader knowledge society.

Scope and Coverage

The journal’s area of interest is a superset of the topics typically covered in major technical forums, such as the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and the World Wide Web Conference (Semantic Web track). It specifically focuses on the integration of semantics into information systems.

Key topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge Representation: Ontologies, folksonomies, and associated knowledge representation issues.

• Development Methodologies: Metadata-driven (bottom-up) versus ontology-driven (top-down) Semantic Web development.

• Data Management & Querying: Semantic Web data management, Linked Open Data (LOD), semantic integration, interoperability, and semantic search/query processing (e.g., SPARQL, RDF, OWL).

• System & Business Innovation: New Semantic Web-enabled business models, information systems, and practical tools for citizens, learners, organizations, and enterprises.

• Widespread Applications: Semantic Web applications across the Web, enterprises, desktops, personal and mobile devices (IoT/IoMT), e-science, and e-government.

• Human-Computer Interaction: Semantics in user interfaces, including visualization, mashups, and semantic multimedia.

• Social & Collaborative Web: The Social Semantic Web, the “people Web,” and semantic-based recommendation systems.

• Distributed Systems: Semantics in business processes, distributed computing, and Semantic Web services.

• Ethics, Security & Performance: Associated issues of provenance, trust, privacy, access control, security, quality, scalability, and computational performance in semantic environments.