CALL FOR WORKSHOP POSITION PAPERS
A Semantic Grid for Social Science
June 28th 2006 - Manchester, UK
A workshop held as part of the Second International Conference on
e-Social Science (see: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/)
This workshop will focus on the many challenges faced by the social
science community to realise the vision of the Semantic Grid to support
their research agenda. These include (but are not restricted to):
* tools to facilitate knowledge capture and creation of ontologies;
* specific domain ontologies and their application (e.g. for social
simulation);
* mechanisms for capturing provenance/information quality data;
* usability issues;
* ontologies for describing esocial science services;
* ontology alignment/mapping;
* social science workflow issues;
* ontology support for scientific collaboration ;
* ontologies and tools for mapping scientific discourse.
Programme/Format
The workshop will comprise a series of longer invited presentations,
together with shorter position papers on aspects of the Semantic Grid
for social science. Position papers can reflect experience with Semantic
Web or other metadata technologies in the social sciences; be
descriptions of ongoing research in esocial science/cyberinfrastructure
for the social sciences; present challenges to the Computer Science
community; reflect on case studies/lessons learnt .
Position papers (max. one A4 page in length) should be sent to the
workshop organisers by email to the following addresses:
pedwards(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk
and
apreece(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of position papers: Friday, May 26 at 5pm.
Dear,
Followed by the discussion of GGF16 DAIS RDF BOF and the GGF17 DAIS-WG
session, we now start the DAIS -WG activity for RDF/Ontology
specification.
Current our scope is to set the WS-DAI specification which supports,
A) RDF(S) Ontology Interface
B) SPARQL Query Interface
Detailed info and slides will be on the ggf site and initial plan
which is made by OntoGrid project and AIST is,
http://www.dbgrid.org/ggf17b.pdf
Please join this activity on DAIS-WG ML if you have the interest in this topic.
Also, we will have a first F2F meeting in June as a part of the
Uk-e-Science center RDF/Ontology seminar/workshop at Edinburgh.
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/683/
As shown in the program, a breakout session for DAIS RDF F2F will be
on Friday. Please come and join the workshop.
Sincerely,
Isao Kojima
Leader
Data Grid Team
Grid Technology Research Center
AIST Japan.
