Fw: 2nd UK Ont Network Meeting

[Pan, Dr Jeff Z.]

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Apologies for cross-posting

Registration is now open for the 2nd UK Ontology Network Meeting, which will be held at the University of Edinburgh on April 11th 2013. This is a £20 registration fee to cover catering.

A provisional programme are now available on the event website: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ukont-13/2013_workshop_program.html, and is given below. Registration can also be done through the website.

The theme of this meeting is to understand how ontology development and application are being used to address problems in the UK. Amongst other areas of interest, there will be a particular focus on creating and using open data. The program and audience is intentionally very diverse; the aim is to cover areas from many disciplines. We are particularly interested in bringing together those creating and developing the technology with those using the technology in industry, government and public organisations.

There will be 18 short talks from leading academics, and practitioners from major organisations and government, as well as a demo session and a networking session.

We hope to see many of you in Edinburgh in April. Please forward this email to any individuals and mailing lists you think it might be of interest to.

Many thanks,
Fiona


9:30-9:40 Welcome
9:40-11:00 Session 1: short talks

John Callahan ONR Global

Predicting Convergent Ontologies for Real-time, Adaptive Information Integration

Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh

The interaction of representation and reasoning

Phil Barker Heriot-Watt University

schema.org, an ontology for discovery on the web

Gill Hamilton National Library of Scotland

tbc

Enrico Motta Open University

tbc

Chris Mellish University of Aberdeen

WhatIf: Ontology authoring through natural dialogue?

Peter Winstanley Scottish Government

tbc

Peter Murray-Rust Open Knowledge Foundation

Ontologies in physical science

Jeff Pan University of Aberdeen

tbc
11:00-11:40 Coffee
11:40-13:00 Session 2: short talks

Edoardo Pignotti University of Aberdeen

An Ontological Framework to Support Provenance in a Virtual Research Environment

Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

tbc

Tom Grahame BBC

tbc

Ewan Klein University of Edinburgh

tbc

Janice Watson NHS Scotland

tbc

Robert Barr Open Data User Group; University of Liverpool

Is an address still an address if you don't know what you're addressing and why? Towards ontologies for addressable geographical objects

Richard Gunn EPSRC

Towards an Intelligent Information Infrastructure (TI3)

Elena Simperl University of Southampton

tbc
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Demo Session - details to follow
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Birds of a feather networking
16:30 Close


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