Stefano, thank you very much for helping out with the local
organization of the summer school. This is great! From my perspective
July 16-20 is fine. Unfortunately, I personally might not be able to
leave the US because of immigration issues. (01)
All, Antony and I have exchanged ideas over the weekend. One of the
things we need to do asap is to nail down the content of the summer
school. Antony and I came up with an outline of a schedule. Following
the results of the Ontology Summit on Education, we assumed that even
a summer school for novices should involve a lot of hands on
experience. So, we (roughly) split each day into a morning session
where new content is presented and an afternoon session where the
knowledge is applied. Since one result of the Summit was that many
people feel they lack the formal logic background to understand the
semantics of KR languages, so we dedicated two session on the
introduction KR languages. We further suggest that the students spend
days 3-4 mainly in teams with the task of developing some small
ontology on some topic to determined by the teachers. (02)
________________________________________ (03)
Outline:
July 16th: Morning: (a) What is an ontology? (b) introduction to KR
language(s) I (e.g., FOL)
Afternoon: students practice the use of the KR language(s) by
formalizing toy examples
July 17th: Morning: Lecture: (a) KR languages II (e.g., OWL) (b)
How to go about building an ontology?
Afternoon: exercises that involve the building of toy ontologies
July 18th: Morning: Background information and general directions that
the students need to create their ontology.
If more than one KB language was introduced, then students need to
decide which language they want to use.
Afternoon: Students develop their own ontology (in groups).
July 19th: Morning: Group discussion: problems encountered during
development / lessons learned / teachers might need to provide extra
information
Afternoon: Students continue to develop their own ontology
July 20th: Morning: Students present their results. Conclusions.
Afternoon: Travel.
________________________________________ (04)
What do you think? Note that Antony and I did not try to go into
details, because we think that the people who are actually going to
make the summer school happen will have to change it anyhow to meet
their needs. (05)
Which brings me to the other point. As you all know, Werner did a
great job at organizing the summer school this year. (Thank you again,
Werner!) Since organizing such an event is a lot of work, he
understandably does not want to be actively involved this year.
Unfortunately, neither Antony nor I will have the necessary time to
take on the leadership. So the question is whether either of you would
be willing to do so, or know somebody who would be interested. (06)
Best
Fabian (07)
On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Stefano Borgo wrote: (08)
> Dear all,
>
> in Trento we have gathered information about the organization of the
> IAOA summer school with a target of about 50 students.
> We did not find particular problems and identified the period July
> 16-20 as most suitable.
>
> Here are some options to reach Graz by train traveling on Fri 20 /
> Sat 21
>
> Trento-Graz (about 10 hrs)
> Fr, 20.07.12 dep 18:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 07:00
> Sa, 21.07.12 dep 08:05 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 18:33
> Sa, 21.07.12 dep 11:52 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 21:45
> Sa, 21.07.12 dep 12:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 22:23
>
> Pls, let us know if the period is ok and if we should proceed with
> the organization.
>
> Cheers
> -Stefano
>
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