Web 2.0 and Grids Workshop at OGF19 ----------------------------------- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA January 29, 2007 http://www.semanticgrid.org/OGF/ogf19/ This one day workshop, looking at the impact of Web 2.0 technologies and thinking on Grid and e-Science, is being held on Monday January 29 at OGF19 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, which runs from January 29 - February 2, 2007. The workshop features a series of invited talks starting with an introduction to the technologies and philosophy of Web 2.0 and including an update on Semantic Grid activities, with an emphasis on social networking and collaboration in the context of Grid and e-Science. The keynote speaker is Carole Goble, who will be presenting myExperiment, a personalised environment which enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose experiments. myExperiment is a very exciting initiative which owes far more to social networking websites such as MySpace and YouTube than to the traditional portals of Grid computing - it has recently been featured by New Scientist. One of the workshop sessions is dedicated to position papers and a panel. We welcome short papers (2-4 pages) describing both current and proposed activities under the general theme of Web 2.0, e-Science and Grids, to be presented as short presentations or demonstrations. Papers will be published as part of the OGF document arising from the workshop. If you plan to submit a position paper, please send your title and abstract as soon as possible (and no later than December 20) to Jade Lodwidge (jl3@ecs.soton.ac.uk) - you will receive prompt feedback. The papers, in Word or PDF, must be submitted before January 22 so that we can finalise the programme and make the papers available to workshop attendees in advance. Please see the workshop web page http://www.semanticgrid.org/OGF/ogf19/ for the latest information. We look forward to seeing you in North Carolina. David De Roure Workshop Chair