- From: Thomas Bandholtz <tbandholtz@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:29:20 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- CC: Rudolf Legat <rudolf.legat@umweltbundesamt.at>
Hi all, the European Environmental Information community is currently discovering Semantic Web technologies and, more specific, LOD. Environmental data consists of billions of measurement records which may be published in a LOD style and be linked to the environmental terminology. This would be a huge use case to satisfy legal reporting obligations of the EU member states. One of the milestones in this development will be the eEnvironment Terminology Workshop of the European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU "TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT", March 25-27 2009, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.e-envi2009.org/?workshops "Environmental terminology and its semantics constitute a major building block of SEIS and SISE as important instruments for discovery, understanding, and integration of any kind of accessible information. They have already taken a long way starting with early subject heading systems of the libraries, moving on to multilingual thesauri such as GEMET, some of them evolving towards more expressive ontologies. This workshop will present several domain-specific and interdisciplinary examples and discuss common design issues such as terminology structure models, cross-referencing, symmetric vs. asymmetric multilingualism, identity and reference, publishing terminology in the Web, and linking environmental data to such published terminology." What's "SEIS" and "SISE"? The European Commission has recently decided on building a "Shared Environmental Information System"(SEIS) http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/index.htm accompanied by a European research strategy "Towards a Single Information Space for the Environment in Europe" (SISE) http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/sustainable-growth/workshops_en.html with a high awareness of explicit semantics. This was again one of the topics of the EnviroInfo conference in September. http://www.enviroinfo2008.org/detail_wednesday.php Those who are interested in contributing in these activities should submit an abstract at http://www.e-envi2009.org/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php before the deadline Oct 31. Kind regards Thomas Bandholtz innoQ.com www.semantic-network.de
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