-- Apologies if you receive multiple copies -- ============================================== The University of Manchester (OntoGrid partner - http://www.ontogrid.eu/) and the Information Management Group (http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/) together with Bio-Health Informatics invite you to participate in a two-day tutorial on Ontologies and Semantic Grid. The goal of this tutorial is to provide the attendees with both the theoretical foundations and hands-on experience of ontology design and Semantic Grid middleware use. In particular, attendees will: - Learn the basic principles of RDFS and OWL based ontologies; - Gain hands-on experience with ontology development using the Protégé-OWL tools; - Learn the basic principles of the Semantic Grid and understand what Semantic Grid architectures, such as S-OGSA, propose; - Gain hands-on experience with Grid-compliant ontology access and metadata management components, such as WS-DAIOnt-RDF(S) and the Semantic Binding Service; - Learn how to use these components to build applications. The first day of the tutorial will provide a brief introduction to ontology principles and languages, through to the use of ontology modelling tools. The second day of the tutorial will guide you through the basic principles of the Semantic Grid, and will then focus on the use of semantic provisioning services in Grid middleware. The tutorial will be held on the 15th and 16th of February 2007, in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. There will be a registration fee of 30 pounds to cover administrative and catering costs. Due to the hands-on nature of the tutorial, places will be limited to 30 participants, who will be selected from all those who register, so we recommend you to register as soon as possible here (http://www.co-ode.org/events/tutorials/ontogrid02-2006/) and specify clearly the reasons why you want to attend the tutorial. Registration finishes on the 7th of January 2007 and participants will be notified about their acceptance on the 12th of January 2007. This tutorial is sponsored by the OntoGrid (http://www.ontogrid.eu/) and CO-ODE (http://www.co-ode.org/) projects. ------------------------------------------- Dr. Oscar Corcho School of Computer Science University of Manchester Kilburn Building, Room 1.17 Oxford Road Manchester (United Kingdom) M13 9PL Tel. +44 161 275 6821 (office) +44 7929 570 775 (mobile) Fax. +44 161 275 6204 http://homepages.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~ocorcho/index.html --------------------------------------------