Network Meeting 1: Informal meets Formal Ontology Building
The first network meeting, hosted by the University of Manchester, will cover issues in informal and formal ontology building. Areas to be covered include:
Use of concept maps in knowledge elicitation
Observations on a community wide ontology building process
Experiences on building ontology with biologists
The sociology of work
Building ontology from text
Contents:
1. Meeting Details
1.1. Dates/Time
October 30 and 31 2006
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DAY 1 |
10.00 - 17.00 |
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DAY 2 |
09.00 - 16.00 |
1.2. Meeting Location
Chancellor's Hotel and Conference Centre,
Chancellors Way
Moseley Road
Manchester
M14 6NN
Telephone: (0161) 907 7414
Directions: ![[WWW]](/wiki/rightsidebar/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/chancellorshotelconferencecentre/location/
There is ample parking at the centre.
1.3. Accommodation
Accommodation is at the Chancellor's Hotel and Conference Centre (details above). For those people arriving on Sunday evening, dinner and bar snacks are available.
1.4. Costs
The Ontogenesis Network will cover the costs of both workshop days, one nights accommodation and reasonable travel for Ontogenesis Network Members and speakers.
In line with previous practice we ask that non-members make a contribution of £39 per day includes coffees/teas/lunches and room hire per day and for those staying for dinner £20.00. For those requiring accommodation the cost is Sunday evening £42.55 + VAT, Monday- Friday £55.30 + VAT.
All costs not covered by the network should be covered with a cheque made payable to Chancellor's Hotel and Conference Centre .
2. Programme of speakers and presentations
We are in the Cavendish Meeting Room
DAY 1
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.15 Robert Stevens Introduction
10.30 Dave Randall Studies of Work: is Ontology Building Cooperative Work? ppt
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Phil Lord The Sociology of Ontologies in Neuroscience ppt
12.15 Andy Gibson Getting the gist out of the biologist ppt
13.00 LUNCH
14.30 Daniel Schober Towards the formalization of representation units: term collection, naming convention and metadata annotation ppt
15.15 Christopher Brewster Abraxas: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge
16.15 Coffee/Open Discussion (Group notes from open discussion * Mindmap of group discussion)
17.00 Finish
19.00 Dinner
DAY 2
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.15 Susanne Sansone Knowledge elicitation: going low-tech ppt
10.00 Karim Nasher Concept Maps ppt
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Alistair Miles Gardens of Meaning - the development and evolution of vocabularies for indexing and retrieval ppt
12.00 Uli Sattler How Pedantic do you need to be to talk to a Pedant?
12.45 LUNCH
14.00 Protégé Demo (Manchester Team) Protege beta version download
3. Blog
During the workshop there will be a BLOG for you to record your thoughts!
The blog can be found at http://www.ontogenesisnetwork.blogspot.com/
George will have registered you to the blog and details will be sent via email to you BEFORE the meeting.
This will enable you to create a username for posting blogs and comments.
4. Organisers
Robert Stevens (![[MAILTO]](/wiki/rightsidebar/img/moin-email.png){kind=small}
robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk) and George Moulton ( georgina.moulton@manchester.ac.uk)
5. Attendees
David Shotton
Robert Stevens
Georgina Moulton
Graham Klyne
Kev O'Neill
Louisa Casey-Hayleford
Sean Bechoffer
Yuwei Lin NCeSS
Ian Pettiman
Kearon McNicol
Alexander Voss
Steve Harris
Andy Gibson
Matthew Horridge
Susanna Sansone
Daniel Schober
Alan Rector
Christopher Brewster
Phil Lord
Dave Randell
Nick Drummond
Karim Nasher
Alistair Mills
Uli Sattler
Katy Wolstencroft
Simon Jupp
Mikel Egaña Aranguren
Norman Morrison
Dawn Field
Max Wilson
6. Meeting Report
-- GeorginaMoulton 2006-10-18 16:27:51