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http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 (01)
*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the fourth event of
Ontolog mini-series on "Database and Ontology." Mr. Martin
O'Connor, a Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics will be
our invited speaker on Thursday, 08-Feb-2007. Mr. O'Connor will
be giving a talk entitled: "Efficiently Querying Relational
Databases using OWL and SWRL". (03)
We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this virtual event. (04)
*Conference call-in details*: (05)
Date: Thursday, 08-February-2007
Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
Session Duration: 1.5~2.0 Hours Dial-in Number:
o from a telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
o from a phone (Europe): 0870-738-0763 (UK)
or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
o callers from other countries please dial into either one of
the US or European numbers
o Conference ID: "5823120#"
o Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
Shared-screen support will be available (06)
Session Chair : *Dr. Matthew West* (Shell International
Petroleum Co.) (07)
Invited Speaker: *Mr. Martin O'Connor* (Stanford Medical Informatics) (08)
Topic: *Efficiently Querying Relational Databases*
*using OWL and SWRL* (09)
*Abstract*: (by Martin O'Connor) (010)
For the foreseeable future most data will continue to be stored
in relational databases. To work with these data in OWL-based
applications, tools and techniques that bridge the two models are
required. Mapping all relational data to instances in an OWL
knowledge base is often not practical, and is inappropriate in
query-driven systems. To address this problem we have developed
tools that allow the direct querying of relational data from OWL
applications. We use OWL's rule language SWRL to express these
queries. A number of optimizations are employed to ensure that
this process is efficient and scales to large data sets. (011)
*About the Speaker*: (012)
Before joining Stanford Medical Informatics, *Mr. Martin
O'Connor* worked for several years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. At Stanford he was involved in
the development of the EON system, a component-based architecture
for developing decision support systems for guideline based care.
Mr. O'Connor also developed the Chronus temporal query system,
which has been used in a number of projects to perform temporal
queries on biomedical data. Martin also coordinated the
development of the BioSTORM, a research system to develop and
evaluate intelligent systems for epedimic detection and
characerization. In parallel with the BioSTORM efforts he is
investigating the use of rules and query languages on the
Semantic Web. Mr. O'Connor is currently developing the SWRLTab,
an open source Protege-OWL-based development environment for the
Semantic Web rule language (SWRL). (013)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 (014)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call.
The session is expected to start with a 1 Hour presentation
followed by a Q&A and discussion between the participants and the
speaker. The entire session will be recorded and made available
as open content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR policy (see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32). (015)
As usual, this Ontolog event is open to all. I look forward to
having you at this session. Please pass the announcement along to
those who might be interested to join us too. (016)
*RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline so that
we can prepare enough resources to support everyone. (Kindly
include your affiliation and job title if you aren't already a
member of the Ontolog community.) (017)
Regards. =ppy (018)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
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