Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!: Go East Young Man

Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!: Go East Young Man

Sunday, January 21, 2007

The 6th International Semantic Web Conference

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##### Call for Workshop Proposals #####
The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)
combined with the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2007)
November 11-15, 2007 BEXCO (Busan Exhibition and Convention Center), Busan, KOREA
http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org
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ISWC WORKSHOPS
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The ISWC 2007 Program Committee invites proposals for the WorkshopProgram of ISWC 2007, the Sixth International Semantic Web Conference,to be held November 11-15, 2007, in Busan, Korea. Workshops will be heldon 11-12 November.

GOALS
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The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal setting forworkshop participants to discuss technical issues, to exchange research ideas, and to develop a community in the quickly emerging field of theSemantic Web.

We are looking for workshops that encourage discussions on social andbusiness requirements and how semantic web technologies can be made easier to deploy and operationalize in real world scenarios. Theseworkshops are expected to complement those that focus on fundamentalresearch issues and multi-disciplinary topics. Workshop proposals shouldaddress current issues related to the Semantic Web that will benefitfrom small-group information exchange and discussion. Workshops areintended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. Wewelcome workshops with creative structures and organizations thatattract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.

We expect to have a wide range of workshops, including those that
- focus on a specific domain of activity, e.g., finance, telecom, lifescience, digital government, etc.
- investigate social and collaborative issues and best practices withrespect to constructing and publishing Semantic Web knowledge structures,
- focus on fundamental research issues,
- discuss multi-disciplinary topics that bring together researchers fromdifferent disciplines,
- support the interaction of research and industry for the deploymentand operationalization of Semantic Web applications.

SCHEDULE
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March 12, 2007: Workshop proposals due
April 12, 2007: Notification of proposal acceptance
May 1, 2007: URL for the workshop web page due
October 11, 2007: Electronic version of working notes for the workshop due
November 11-12, 2007: Workshop days
November 13-15, 2007: ISWC 2007 Technical Program.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
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Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length and shouldcontain the following information:

- The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifyingthe goals and the technical issues that it will focus on.
- A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at thistime.
- A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest,the workshop audience.
- A brief description of the proposed workshop format, discussing themix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, andgeneral discussion.
- An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for ahalf-day or full-day meeting.
- A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3years, or to be held in 2007.
- The names and contact information (web page, email address) of theproposed organizing committee and short description of their relevantexperience.

We strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably fromdifferent institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshoptopic.

Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC 2007 workshop registration fee, aswell as the conference registration fee.

The ISWC2007 Workshop Co-chairs are Geert-Jan Houben (Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium) and Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK).

Please send your proposals by March 12, 2007 and any inquiries by emailto iswc2007-workshops@few.vu.nl. Workshop proposals may be submitted inany format; Word, text or PDF.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge

at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)


Banff, Canada
May 8, 2007

http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ckc2007
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Paper submission deadline: 2 February 2007
Demo submission deadline: 12 February 2007

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Have you ever tried developing a schema or ontology, or creating other
structured knowledge? Have you tried doing this task collaboratively with
your colleagues? How about with many of your colleagues as well as people
you've never met? Or anyone else in the world? http://www.rainbowseeker.com
Have you found the tools that
support these tasks? Do you have a list of requirements for such tools or
has your group developed tools to support collaborative acquisition of
structured knowledge in general and ontologies and schemas in particular?

We are soliciting contributions to the workshop on Social and Collaborative
Construction of Structured Knowledge. The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly
fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to easily create, share,
tag, and connect content and knowledge. Although the general topic of
integrating Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web has been and will be the focus of
high profile conference panels, we are still far from understanding how the
two topics relate to each other. In this workshop, we would like to explore
how the power of creating web content in a social environment can be used to
acquire, formalize and structure knowledge. The workshop will address the
topic of web-based collaborative construction of structured knowledge in
general, and ontology development in particular. So far, most of the tools
for ontology development and knowledge acquisition are stand-alone tools, or
tools designed to support work of small well-coordinated teams. This
workshop will investigate how best to use the "wisdom of the crowd" to
reduce time and cost of constructing and maintaining knowledge structures in
any language and level of complexity. We will discuss tools that support
various steps of the life cycle in the "open" collaborative development of
ontologies, from collective "brainstorming" to evaluation, maintenance and
extension of existing ontologies.

We solicit three types of contributions:

1. Research papers analyzing the process of collaborative knowledge
acquisition, requirements for tool support, and case studies of
collaborative ontology-development projects. The topics relevant to this
discussion include issues related to collaborative construction of
structured knowledge and ontologies:
* collaborative creation and editing of structured knowledge
* requirements for collaborative tools
* user-specific views of ontologies
* extracting structure and ontologies from tags and annotations
* evaluation of collaborative tools
* collaborative evaluation of ontologies
* user interfaces for collaborative tools for creating structured
knowledge
* trust in collaborative construction of knowledge
* case studies of collaborative ontology-development project.

2. Demos and working prototypes of systems that support social
collaborative construction of structured knowledge. The systems should fall
under the general description above. Furthermore, participants in the demo
session must commit to supporting the evaluation (see the next item). This
support will include working with the workshop organizers to develop a set
of tasks for the evaluation, instrumenting their tools to log basic usage
and contribution information. Please contact workshop co-chairs for more
information.

3. Evaluation of system demos submitted to the workshop. We expect that
all workshop participants (and, in particular paper and demo authors) to
participate in a formative evaluation of the http://mp2kmag.com
demos submitted to the
workshop. The developers of the demo systems will make their systems
available to the workshop participants. The workshop organizers, together
with the demo developers, will create a list of tasks to use for the demo
evaluation and other details. The evaluation will run for 2 or 3 weeks
before the workshop and a good part of the workshop will be devoted to the
discussion of the evaluation, and a prize will be handed out to the most
informative review.

Accepted papers and demo descriptions will http://www.mapforums.com appear in the workshop
proceedings and will be included in the WWW2007 conference CD.



IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper submission: 2 February 2007
Notification of paper acceptance: 9 March 2007
Camera-ready papers: 26 March 2007
Demo submission: 12 February 2007
Notification of demo acceptance: 9 March 2007
Camera-ready demo description: 26 March 2007
Evaluation: 30 April 2007
Workshop: 8 May 2007


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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Research papers: up to 10 pages. Deadline is 2 February 2007.

Demos: descriptions of up to 4 pages, in the WWW2007 format; PDF submissions
only. Deadline is 12 February 2007. http://softwarewire.blogspot.com
If you are planning to submit a demo,
then please email the workshop chairs as soon as possible and let them know
of your demo.

All submissions need to be in PDF, and follows the WWW2007 format.
Submissions are to be made via the workshops submission web site:
http://www2007.org/submission-workshops.php.



Organizing committee

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Natasha Noy (co-chair) Stanford University

Harith Alani (co-chair) University of Southampton

Gerd Stumme University of Kassel

Peter Mika Free University, Amsterdam

York Sure University of Karlsruhe

Denny Vrandecic University of Karlsruhe

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

REAL SOFTWARE

VIRTUAL PRINTER FOR YOUR REAL SOFTWARE

Two Pilots Development Service offers a http://news.mapvisitors.com developer a customized Virtual Printer Driver to be included in his/her own software product.

In the time of fast information technology evolution, people more and more often deal with the virtual papers. So if you are an actual developer, your software is certainly due to work on-the-fly with various virtual documents.
Equip your software product with Custom Virtual Printers and you will be able to:
- generate an output in the form of standard raster or http://www.mp2kmag.com/rss/articles.php vector formats from your program or from any other software application meant to produce printing forms;
- modify a virtually-printed document before sending it for actual printing;
- import documents from other applications. Imported documents can be converted to your format with the use of EMF images provided by the printer.

Virtual printer supports the custom paper sizes, various resolutions, and multilanguage interface.

You will get a printer with desired name, installation and uninstallation modules, and integration instructions with the samples.

The fee that you pay when you purchase a http://www.mapforums.com printer is your only expense. You can distribute them with your applications without any additional fees. Two Pilots Development Service will make all additional customization to make sure that the printer fully conforms to your requirements.

A source code is also available for purchasing. Its license allows the code modifications. Please see the Virtual Printer Drivers Custom Development Service home page for more details:
http://www.colorpilot.com/emfprinterpilot.html

Friday, November 24, 2006

Just wanted to point out a few new blogs that I set up recently.

http://news.mapvisitors.com - This is for news and information about the http://www.mapvisitors.com service for creating a map of your web site visitors.

http://www.rainbowseeker.com/journal - This recounts my parents trip around the Great Loop!

http://www.mapforums.com - While not technically a blog, this is a vBulletin forum for MapPoint and Virtual Earth discussion.

http://blog.new-eastside.com - This web site discusses news and information about the New Eastside neighborhood in Chicago, IL.

Sunday, September 24, 2006

S&T 2007

It appears Streets & Trips 2007 will be released soon. Before Christmas! AutoRoute 2007 is expected to follow a week later.

More information can be found on here -- Street & Trips.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

WIKI-BASED KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

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# WIKI-BASED KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING ####
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## http://wibke2006.semwiki.org ##
### August 21-23, 2006, #
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IMPORTANT DATES

* Poster/Demo submission deadline: 10th August 2006

* Workshop date: 23th August 2006

* Second Int. Symposium on Wikis 21-23th August 2006
(www.wikisym.org)
** TALKS FROM: Ward Cunningham,
Doug Engelbart, Angela Beesley,
and many more!

* The ACM Hypertext Conference 23-25th August 2006
(http://www.ht06.org/)

* Camera ready due: 4th September 2006
(yes, after the workshop)


TOPCIS OF INTEREST
* Methods employing the Wiki Way in knowledge engineering,
* Concepts and strategies for integrating domain experts
and end users into the knowledge engineering process,
* Methods for automatic, Wiki-based knowledge elicitation
from collaborative environments,
* Methods for supporting the creation of structured and
(partially) formalised personal knowledge bases
* Policies, Lancaster authentication and trust within agile collaborative
knowledge engineering scenarios,
* Strategies and methods joining Web 2.0, Wiki and Semantic
Web technologies for knowledge management purposes
* Semantic Wiki tools supporting semantic collaboration
* Semantic Wiki tools supporting personal knowledge management
* Wiki-driven applications enabling massively distributed
knowledge elicitation,
* Requirements and use-cases for Web-scaled collaborative
knowledge engineering in relation to Wiki technologies
* Applications of Semantic Wikis, e.g. in Bio-Medicine,
Business, Software-Engineering
* Experience reports, best practices and guidelines in the
aforementioned areas

WORKSHOP FORMAT
* 1) Introduction to Semantic Wikis by organisers
* 2) Poster/Demo session
* 3) Moderated, focused discussion
** Interoperability
** The Future
** ... further topics
* Workshop proceedings will appear at CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
ISSN 1613-0073

TOPICS TO DISCUSS
* If you have a particular topic you would like to discuss in the
third session, please contact the workshop chairs.

Kind regards,

Max Völkel,
Elena Paslaru,
Sebastian Schaffert,
Sören Auer

wibke2006@semwiki.org