NetworkMeeting4

Network Meeting 4: Ontology-building Tools

The fourth network meeting, hosted by the University of Manchester, will focus on ontology building tools.

• Please register for the event at http://www.nibhi.org.uk/eventRegistration/default.aspx by clicking on the ‘Respond to Survey’ link.

Tools to be demonstrated include:

• Protege 4

• OBOEdit

• Cobra

• OntoLancs

• SWOOP

Contents:

1. Meeting Details
   1. Dates/Time
   2. Meeting Location
   3. Accommodation
   4. Costs
2. Programme of speakers and presentations
3. Organisers

1. Meeting Details

1.1. Dates/Time

April 24/25 2008

1.2. Meeting Location

Manchester Conference Centre,
Weston Building,
Sackville Street,
Manchester,
M1 3BB,

Telephone: (0161) 955 8000
Directions: http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/manchesterconferencecentre/location/
There is ample parking at the centre.

1.3. Accommodation

Accommodation is at the Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Hall, which is adjacent to the conference centre. For those people arriving on Wednesday 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 University of Manchester .

2. Programme of speakers and presentations

DAY 1

10.00 Welcome and Introduction; Aims of meeting (15 minutes) (Robert Stevens)

10.15 Owl API (Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester)

10.55 Protege 4 (Nick Drummond, University of Manchester)

11.35 Morning Coffee

11.50 OBOEdit (David Sutherland, University of Cambridge)

12.30 Swoop (Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester)

13.15 Lunch

14.15 OntoLancs (Ricardo Gacitua, Lancaster University)

14.55 Issues in evaluating ontology tools (Dave Randall, Wes Sharrocks, University of Manchester)

15.35 Afternoon Tea

15.50 Structured exercise session

17.00 FINISH

DAY 2

09.30 Explanation (Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester)

10.10 OWLSight (Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester)

10.45 Morning Coffee

11.00 Publishing Relational Database Data as OWL (Tony Burdett, EBI)

11.35 OWLdoc (Nick Drummond, University of Manchester)

11.55 PussyCat (Robert Davey, John Innes Institute)

12.35 A SKOS Editor plugin for Protege (Simon Jupp, University of Manchester)

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Modularising OWL ontologies (Thomas Schneider, University of Manchester)

14.30 Structured Discussion (part II)

15.00 FINISH

3. Organisers

Robert Stevens ( robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk) and George Moulton ( georgina.moulton@manchester.ac.uk)