Being SCOR’s flagship colloquium, SCAO serves as a venue in Switzerland for all people who are interested in applied ontology. Applied ontology is an interdisciplinary field which studies the theory and practice of ontologies and which lies at the intersection of philosophy, information science, logic, linguistics, artificial intelligence and many other domains of inquiry. The colloquium provides an opportunity to present original work on ontology research and applications for those who have been working in the domain of applied ontology, from inside and outside Switzerland and from both academia and industry.
Topics of interests to SCAO includes, but are not limited to:
- Foundational topics
- Philosophical, logical or mathematical foundations of ontology
- Basic ontological categories and relations (philosophical, logical, mathematical or ontological analyses thereof)
- Foundational ontologies
- Methodological and applicational topics
- Methods and tools that are relevant to the development, evaluation and (re)use of ontologies
- Methods and tools that help the design, comparison, alignment and modularization of ontologies
- The use of ontologies in specific contexts
- Domain-specific topics
- Ontologies for specific domains of interest
- Ontologies of domain-specific kinds of entities
- Use cases (actual or potential) of ontologies
History of SCAO
- The First Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026). Neuchâtel, February 5-6, 2026. View the webpage.