News and Announcements

Article about SemantyFish at Eurofish magazine

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article on SemantyFish in Eurofish Magazine, Issue 6 2025 (November-December). The article, titled Connecting fish data for open and sustainable science presents the main objectives, methodological innovations, and expected impact of SemantyFish. It highlights how the project is transforming FIshBase into an interoperable knowledge graph, enaabling richer biodiversity research, advanced data integration, and stronger support for open science and sustainability.

Eurofish magazine is a widely read international publication covering developments in fisheries, aquaculture, processing, and emerging technologies across the sector. The inclusion of SemantyFish in this issue marks an important milestone in communicating the project's vision and progress to a broad global audience. You can read the article at https://eurofish.dk/magazine-issues/em-6-2025/ (pages 48-49)

Two Scientific Publications that acknowledge the support of SemantyFish project

We are pleased to announce the publication of two new scientific papers that acknowledge the support of SemantyFish project. The first one entitled Interactive Association Map Creation from Documents using Association Rule Mining, was presented in the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) on September 23-26, 2025, in Tampere, Finland. The second one is entitled Construction, Access and Application of a Knowledge Base for Sustainable Aquafood Communication, and was presented in the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG 2025), on October 15-17, 2025, in Heraklion. Greece. Find links to the publications below:

SemantyFish API (alpha version) released

The very first draft (alpha version) of the SemantyFish API has been official released. It provides access to the wealth of information already included in the SemantyFish Knowledge Base. You can find more details and experiment with the API found here

Nicolas Baily (Q-Quatics) @ FORTH for a 3-day working meeting

Nicolas Baily visited FORTH for a fruitful 3-day working meeting for SemantyFish. In three days, the SemantyFish team worked together towards resolving issues and designing the next steps of the SemantyFish Knowledge Base and services.

SemantyFish participates OSCARS GA meeting

SemantyFish partipates the OSCARS GA meeting in Rome (March 3-4, 2025), where all funded projects were present. A flash talk about the project objectives, challenges and expected outcomes was delivered. The slides of the flash talk presentation can be found here

SemantyFish available from OSCARS website

SemantyFish description is now available from OSCARS website. OSCARS announced their funded projects (under the 1st Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services). SemantyFish is listed under ENVRI-Environmental Science cluster. More details at https://oscars-project.eu/projects/semantyfish-advancing-visibility-interoperability-and-exploitability-fishbase

SemantyFish officially launched

SemantyFish aims to enhance the visibility, interoperability, and exploitability of FishBase by transforming it into a semantic web knowledge base. By leveraging semantic web technologies, the project will enable seamless data exchange, complex queries, and integration with global research infrastructures, advancing its role in open science and interdisciplinary research. SemantyFish is an open science project funded under the OSCARS 1st Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services. Starting in October 2024, the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and Quantitative Aquatics Inc. (Q-quatics) have joined forces for the next 24 months to implement SemantyFish. The official Press Release can be found here.