Fwd: Mark Musen on Mar.4 in DKG/SWSA talk series (and further upcoming talks)

FYI

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From: Olaf Hartig <olaf.hartig@liu.se>
Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Subject: Mark Musen on Mar.4 in DKG/SWSA talk series (and further upcoming
talks)
To: semantic-web@w3.org <semantic-web@w3.org>


Dear all,

I am happy to announce the next talk in the online talk series [1] of
the COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) [2], in
collaboration with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) [3].

On March 4 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST, Mark Musen (Stanford University)
will talk about:

  "Semantic Technology in Science: Enhancing Data Stewardship
   in Support of New Discovery"

Abstract:
Much of the Semantic Web research community emerged from the cadre of
investigators who were studying the engineering of knowledge-based
systems in the 1990s.  Development of such systems required intense
interactions between modelers and subject-matter experts to build
symbolic representations of discipline-specific knowledge.  Such
knowledge-engineering activities may be making a comeback, as funders
and regulators require scientists of all kinds to share their
experimental datasets online, in a manner that makes the data findable,
accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).  At the core of data
FAIRness is the idea that the metadata that describe experimental
datasets must adhere to the standards used by the relevant scientific
communities, aiding dataset search and integration.  Typically, those
metadata standards are not well specified, which impedes the ability of
researchers to locate existing datasets and to perform secondary
analysis in the hope of making new discoveries.  This situation is
driving a new kind of knowledge engineering—one to formalize the
preferences of various scientific communities regarding the way their
experiments should be described.  The CEDAR Workbench, a suite of tools
that builds on other semantic technologies that we have developed at
Stanford University, demonstrates how the elicitation and formal
representation of community standards for experimental metadata both
enhances access to and reuse of scientific datasets and, by extension,
can lead to better science.

Speaker:
Dr. Musen is the Stanford Medicine Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Research at Stanford University.  He conducts research related to open
science, intelligent systems, computational ontologies, and biomedical
decision support.  His group developed Protégé, the world's most widely
used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies.
He served as principal investigator of the National Center for
Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for
Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of Health,
leading to the BioPortal ontology repository.  He directs the Center
for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR), founded under the
NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative.  CEDAR develops semantic
technology to ease the authoring and management of experimental
metadata.
Dr. Musen was the recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for
Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics
Association in 2006.  He has been elected to the American College of
Medical Informatics, the International Academy of Health Sciences
Informatics, and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.


The talk will be live streamed at our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@costdkg4356/streams


In addition to Mark's talk, mark your calendars already for the
following upcoming talk in the talk series.

* Peter F. Patel-Schneider
"Does the Knowledge Graphs community care about semantics?"
April 17 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST


Best regards,
Olaf

[1] https://cost-dkg.eu/talks
[2] https://cost-dkg.eu/
[3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/