Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2017 Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn of Ontology, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017.

JOWO 2017--Episode III: The Tyrolean Autumn, was the third edition of the 'Joint Ontology Workshops', which comprised a confederation of ten ontology workshops. It was hosted by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and held be- tween September 21-23, 2017 in Bolzano, Italy.1 JOWO's mission is to provide a platform for the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of Information Systems, Ar- tificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, both in theory and applications. The 2017 edition of JOWO collocated workshops that cover a broad spectrum of contemporary applied ontology research, including its philosophical and method- ological foundations (FOUST II, DEW), the application of ontologies in par- ticular domains (ODLS, FOMI), the role of ontology in related research areas like cognition (ISD3, EPINON), context (CREOL), data and knowledge (DAO, WINKS), shape and patterns (SHAPES 4.0).