# COVID-19 and ISWC 2020 As previously announced, the ISWC Organizing Committee, together with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA), has decided that ISWC 2020 will be a ** virtual conference **. Our primary concern is the health and wellbeing of our community members and the challenging circumstances that might be directly affecting them. # EXTENDED DEADLINES Following this earlier announcement, the ISWC organising commitee has, after careful deliberation, decided to extend the deadline for the Research, Resource and In-Use tracks. The updated schedule is as follows: Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15 Deadline for submission of full papers: May 22 Author Rebuttals: July 13 - 16 Paper notifications: August 3 Please see [1] for general information and [2] for the full updated schedule. [1] https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org [2] https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org/dates/