Semantic Interoperability for e-Research
in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities
The Great Hall
Imperial College London
30 March, 2006, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
The Imperial College Internet Centre, CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, DELOS and AHRC e-Science Support Centre, invite you to attend a workshop focusing on the problems of semantic interoperability for e-Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities which is intended to examine research challenges and strategies in the areas of knowledge management, information search, retrieval and integration, semantic interoperability and knowledge extraction, with the goal of breaking down the artificial barriers between these disciplines and forging a common research agenda for working across these traditionally separate domains. The central aim of this workshop is to bring together a group of international researchers from the arts, humanities and sciences to clarify the extent to which recent advances in semantic web and e-Science technologies can offer generic solutions to a wide range of application areas, to examine and challenge preconceptions about the creation and implementation of non-domain specific ontologies, to evaluate ontology driven semantic interoperability as a strategy for developing knowledge technologies across multiple heterogeneous collections, and to access new methods of research that naturally follow from the use of these new technologies. Presentations will be offered in the areas of Biodiversity, Chemistry, Environmental Informatics, Knowledge Organisation Systems, Mapping Technologies, Cultural Heritage in Museums, Libraries and Archives. The workshop will close with a common discussion.
Presentations and a summary of the discussion will be published on the Web. There is no fee for attending this workshop, but pre-registration is required: please notify Dolores Iorizzo, Imperial College Internet Centre, if you plan to attend (d.iorizzo@imperial.ac.uk).
9:30 – 9:35 Welcome and Introduction
9:35 – 10:00 “Data Webs: Web 2.0 Alternative to Databases”
David Shotton, Image Bioinformatics Research Group
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
10:00 – 10:30 “Ontologies for Sharing, Ontologies for Use”
Chris Catton, Image Bioinformatics Research Group
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
10:30 – 11:00 “The Complexity of Knowledge in Biodiversity”
Andrew Jones, Computer Science, Cardiff University
Malcolm Scoble, Natural History Museum, London
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 – 12:00 “CIDOC CRM Knowledge Mapping in Biodiversity”
Karl-Heinz Lampe, Head of Biodiversity Informatics, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
12:00 – 12:30 “Semantic Interoperability in Environmental Informatics’’
Matthew Stiff, Director, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
12:30 – 1:00 “Mapping Domain Thesauri to the CIDOC CRM for Semantic
Interoperability of Data Archives’’
Doug Tudhope, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 2:30 “Semantic Interoperability in Chemistry”
Henry Rzepa, Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London
2:30 – 3:00 “Waking from a Dogmatic Slumber: A Different View of
Knowledge Management for Digital Libraries”
Martin Doerr, Centre for Cultural Informatics, Foundation for
Research and Technology, Crete (FORTH)
3:00 – 3:30 “Harmonising not Harming: Toward an Object-Oriented
Formulation of the FRBR-CRM Ontology”
Patrick Le Boeuf, Bibliotec Nationale, Paris
3:30 – 4:00 COFFEE
4:00 – 4:30 “Semantic Integration and Interoperability in European Digital
Cultural Heritage Collections”
Matthew Addis, IT Innovations, Southampton
4:30 – 5:00 “CRM Core: Multimedia Interoperability for Cultural Heritage?”
Patrick Sinclair, Dept of Computing (Intelligence, Agents and Multi-
media Group), University of Southampton
5:00 – 5:45 Plenary Session and Discussion
5:50 – 6:00 Closing Remarks
Martin Doerr, Dolores Iorizzo and Lorna Hughes
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