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Published: 05 May 2026

About Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement (MOVE)

 

MOVE (Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement) is a research movement focused on evaluating how structured representations—ontologies, frameworks, modeling formalisms, and semantic scaffolds—create value, enable action, and shape outcomes across scientific, technical, organizational, and societal domains.

Unlike traditional ontology venues that assume a relatively stable notion of “ontology,” MOVE adopts a plural and pragmatic understanding of structured knowledge artifacts. Contributions to MOVE span formal ontologies, conceptual and enterprise models, enterprise architecture frameworks, evaluative frameworks, and emerging semantic architectures used in areas such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, governance, and socio-technical systems.

MOVE’s distinctiveness lies not only in proposing new representational formalisms but in examining how different forms of structuring meaning, knowledge, and intent perform under real-world constraints, risk, and uncertainty. This perspective enables MOVE to connect established ontology and systems research with emerging challenges, including, but not limited to, adaptive systems, collective intelligence, and evolving forms of artificial and hybrid intelligence.

Through this lens, MOVE functions as a bridge between ontology engineering, systems modeling, and broader questions of value, agency, and impact, positioning it across disciplinary boundaries while maintaining methodological rigor.

Beyond its technical contributions, MOVE plays an active role in supporting an inclusive and globally connected research community. The workshop series is designed to foster a heterogeneous environment, bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, methodological traditions, career stages, and geographic regions. MOVE places particular emphasis on supporting research in progress, offering timely and constructive feedback and mentoring that enable ideas to mature across iterations. By encouraging cross-venue dialogue and welcoming diverse forms of structured knowledge—ranging from formal ontologies to frameworks and emerging semantic approaches—MOVE provides a shared space where work that might otherwise remain fragmented can be meaningfully connected.

MOVE partners and collaborates with universities and research organizations across the world. For example, the inaugural MOVE2020 workshop was collocated with the Computer-Aided Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference. The MOVE2024 workshop was organized in collaboration with The Technical University of Sidney, Australia. MOVE2026 will be collocated at the Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. In this way, MOVE supports its research-impact objectives by promoting inclusive scholarly participation, responsible dissemination practices, and sustained research development across diverse global communities.