Programme (TBC) |
| Day 1 - Wednesday 7th June |
| 09:00 |
Welcome and Introduction to the workshop - Jessie Kennedy/Malcolm Atkinson |
| 09:30 |
Seminar on RDF and Oracle's RDF triple store - Jayant Sharma and Xavier Lopez, Oracle. |
| 10:30 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 11:00 |
Seminar continued |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Presentations (to date with provisional titles) on Evaluation/Experiences of RDF triple stores: |
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- Dave De Roure, Southhampton University
- Oscar Corcho, Manchester University - "OntoGrid and S-OGSA: Semantic Grid requirements for triple stores"
- Steven Perry/Rob Gales, University of Kansas - 'DiGir 2 RDF store'
- Isao Kojima, AIST 'Building Triple Stores'
- Asunción Gómez Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - 'WS-DAIOnt: a
framework for specifying ontology access services'
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| 15:30 |
Tea and Coffee |
| 16:00 |
Discussion session: 'Scalability of RDF' |
| 17:30 |
Close |
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| Day 2 - Thursday 8th June |
| Morning Session |
| Experience of Building/Using Ontologies |
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Dawn Field, CEH - 'Genomics Standards Consortium Ontology - requirements and experiences' |
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TBA, Univ. of Edinburgh - Ontologies in NeuroGrid |
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Trevor Paterson/Andy Law, Roslin Institute - 'Ontologies in ComparaGrid' |
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Albert Burger, MRC, - 'Experience with anatomy ontologies' |
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Mathew Stiff - CEH Director of Environmental Informatics 'Experience of developing
ontological resources for the cultural research community' |
| Discussion on recurrent scenarios of building and using ontologies. |
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What are the pros and cons? |
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What are the barriers? |
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What's the way forward? |
| Afternoon Session |
| Semantic Mediation |
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Susie Stephens, Oracle - 'Semantic Web for Life Sciences' |
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Shawn Bowers, University of California, Davis - 'Semantic Mediation' |
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Bryan Lawrence, CEH, 'Distributed Data, Distributed Governance
and Distributed Vocab: How the NERC DataGrid is helping data providers deliver shared services' |
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Dave Thau, University of California, Davis - TBA |
| Discussion on architectures for semantic mediation of data |
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| Day 3 - Friday 9th June |
| Morning Session |
| Meta-Data, LSIDs, Ontologies for Schema/Data Integration |
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Daniele Turi, Univ. of Manchester - LSIDs in Taverna |
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Donald Hobern, GBIF - 'LSIDs and RDF in GBIF' |
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Roger Moore - CEH Head of Hydrology Modelling and Forecasting Group 'HarmoniRiB - a
database design for uncertain multi-disciplinary data required for the Water Framework Directive' |
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Richard Wadsworth - CEH Ecological Systems Modelling Group 'Using Metadata to Link
Uncertainty and Data Quality Assessments' |
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Richard Ostler - CEH Biological Records Centre Web and database developer 'Metadata culture
on the UK National Biodiversity Network Gateway' |
| Discussion session on the way forward for semantic integration |
| Afternoon Session |
| Breakout groups on topics arising from the workshop |
| Plenary feedback and discussion |
| All Day |
| Breakout Group: DAIS RDF F2F meeting |
