Re: Announcement: Second F2F W3C-HCLS Meeting in Amsterdam

Sadly, this will be a very difficult time for a number of people in  
the health and semantic web communities.

There is a meeting about European involvement in SNOMED over the  
30/9-2/10 and the European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition is in  
Prague 1/10-4/10.

Alan

On 13 Aug 2006, at 13:54, Eric Neumann wrote:

>
> The Second F2F Meeting for Healthcare and Life Sciences will take  
> place Oct 3-4, 2006 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All HCLS  
> Interest Group Participants are invited to attend (i.e., W3C  
> members + Invited Experts signed up for HCLS, see http://www.w3.org/ 
> 2004/01/pp-impl/38539/join).
>
> F2F Objectives
> The main objectives of this meeting are for the active Task Forces  
> to have effective face to face engagement on their key issues (to  
> be defined by each Task Force and placed on the agenda). Reports of  
> their activities will be created from each Task Force at the  
> conclusion of the F2F meeting.
>
>
> Logistics
>
> Date: October 3-4, 2006
> 	Start Time: (Tues, Wed) 9:30  am
> 	End Time: Closing reception 5:30pm Wed
>
> Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
>
> Meeting Venue: University of Amsterdam "Science Park",  http:// 
> www.english.uva.nl/locations/map_watergraafsmeer.cfm
>
> Accommodations: Eden Rembrandt Square Hotel (a 40 room block for  
> Oct 2,3, and 4 is available, deadline Sept 1), EU 140 per night  
> (incl. breakfast)
> - Please register on the WBS site when it is up (a notification  
> will be sent);  please contact Marjolein de Rooij  
> <mrooij@science.uva.nl> for further questions regarding reservations
> - The hotel is centrally located in Eden Rembrandt Square, and a  
> tram can be taken to the Science Park.
> 	http://www.edenhotelgroup.com/default_uk.php? 
> PgStrPageID=182&PgStrID=445&PgStrLev1ID=1&PgStrLev2ID=2&PgStrLev3ID=7& 
> PgStrLev4ID=445
>
> Registration:
> A W3C WBS site for HCLS F2F and Hotel registrations will be made  
> available shortly and announced on this mailing list.
>
>
>
> Looking forwards to seeing you In Amsterdam!
>
> Tonya Hongsermeier, Eric Neumann, co-chairs
> W3C Semantic Web Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group
>
>

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Alan Rector
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