[socop-forum] Information on the upcoming "Earth Science Ontology Dialog

[Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,   


You are cordially invited to participate at the upcoming "Earth
Science Ontology Dialog" mini-series of virtual panel sessions, which
is kicking off next Thursday, 23-Aug-2012.    (03)

The mini-series (dubbed: "EarthScienceOntolog") is designed to explore
the current status and application of multi-level ontologies towards
developing a semantically enabled cyberinfrastructure for the Earth
Science Community. In addition, one key mission of the mini-series is
to bring together members of both communities (Earth Science and
Ontology/Semantics) into a meaningful dialog. We anticipate that the
sharing of requirements and use cases, geo-science problems and
issues, ontological engineering architectures and approaches, and
prospective tools, will enable collaborative understanding of the
challenges and potential value in the application of ontology and
semantics in Earth Science.    (04)

This mini-series of virtual events are co-organized/supported by
members of the EarthCube community, Ontolog community, SOCoP community
and the IAOA community.    (05)


****************** Headlines ***********************    (06)


Please join us next Thursday (Aug-23) at the kick-off event of this mini-series    (07)

*Thu 23 Aug 2012* - "Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic
Technology for the Earth Science Community" - Co-chairs: Professor
Krishna Sinha (Virginia Tech) & Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog; MITRE) - see
details on the session page at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2012_08_23 ...
*RSVP now*!    (08)

Five virtual panel sessions have been scheduled for the mini-series -
see details under:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog#nid3CWE    (09)

Each of these events will be 2-hour virtual panel sessions starting
at: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 6:30pm CEST / 16:30 UTC ... please
register now and mark your calendars.    (010)

*Register your attendance* by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line
or register yourself directly to the wiki session page (if you are
already a part of the Ontolog community). Please include your
affiliation and specify the date of the session(s) when you are
writing in to register and specify date of the session you plan to
attend.    (011)


********************* Details ************************    (012)

EarthScienceOntolog: Panel Session-01 - Thu 2012-08-23    (013)

Mini-Series Theme: An Earth Science Ontology Dialog    (014)

Session Topic: Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic Technology
for the Earth Science Community    (015)

Session Co-chairs: Dr. LeoObrst (Ontolog; MITRE) and Professor
KrishnaSinha (Virginia Tech)    (016)

Panelists / Briefings:    (017)

* Professor KrishnaSinha (Virginia Tech) - "How can semantics change
data practises of the EarthCube geoscience community?"
* Professor KrzysztofJanowicz (UC Santa Barbara) - "The value
proposition of semantic technologies and ontologies for the earth
sciences"
* Dr. DaliaVaranka (USGS) - "Rethinking the Meaning of Data for
Integrated Science Problem Solving"
* Professor PascalHitzler (Wright State U) - "On the uptake of
Semantic Web Technologies"
* Mr. MikeDean (Ryatheon-BBN) - "Semantic Web for Earth Sciences"    (018)

This, and the rest of the mini-series sessions, like all Ontolog
virtual events, are open and free of charge. Anyone who is interested,
or (better still) who may have something to contribute, is welcome.
Please refer to event details on the session pages, to which the
hyperlink is given above, where you will find session agenda,
conference call dial-in, slides and other pertinent information. Feel
free to pass this invitation along to colleagues who may also find
these sessions to be of interest.    (019)

*RSVP* by emailing Peter Yim at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline (or add
yourself directly to the session page if you are already an Ontolog or
Ontology Summit community member) so that we can prepare enough
resources to support everyone. [Please state clearly the date of the
session you are registering for in your email.]    (020)

These sessions will be recorded and made available in a publicly
accessible archive. Therefore, before participating, please make sure
you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).    (021)




For and on behalf of    (023)

the Session-1 Co-chairs,
  Krishna Sinha & Leo Obrst    (024)

and the EarthScienceOntolog mini-series Organizing Committee,
  Dalia Varanka
  Gary Berg-Cross
  Krishna Sinha
  Krzysztof Janowicz
  Leo Obrst
  Mark Schildhauer
  Mike Dean
  Naicong Li
  Nancy Wiegand
  Pascal Hitzler
  Peter Yim    (025)

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EarthScienceOntolog


--

Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.  

gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx     

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross

NSF INTEROP Project  

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SOCoP Executive Secretary

Knowledge Strategies    

Potomac, MD

240-426-0770

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