Programme for Data Webs Workshop, June 28th

Forwarding this workshop announcement on behalf of David Shotton 
(Oxford):

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> Data Webs:  new visions for research data on the web
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>  Wednesday 28th June, 10:00 – 18:00

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> Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7
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> A Research Information Network Workshop
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> ¦      Handling the scientific data deluge . . .
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> ¦      Making research data more freely available . . .
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> ¦      Interoperating between heterogeneous Web databases . . .
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> ¦      Exploiting the potential of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 . . .
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> This workshop will seek to address these issues, with the help of a 
> panel of distinguished speakers from both sides of the Atlantic.  The 
> event will be provide an opportunity to examine and discuss the the 
> changing nature of scholarly publication and the use of lightweight 
> semantic web and ‘Web 2.0’ approaches to improve access to and 
> interoperability between scientific research data. 
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> In particular, the workshop will develop the concept of data webs, a 
> new concept in digital information storage and integration that 
> involves lightweight harvesting of metadata describing distributed 
> data into a central searchable registry.  It will show that data webs 
> are often a more appropriate means for the publication and integration 
> of research data than the use of centralized databases. 
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> Although the programme has a focus in the biomedical sciences, the 
> event should appeal across all disciplines to researchers with an 
> interest in improving the way they publish and share their data. The 
> workshop will aim to show that the methods discussed have the 
> potential to provide significant benefits, including scalability, and 
> will explore the key issues for establishing them across the research 
> spectrum. 
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> Everyone is welcome, but places are limited and will be allocated on a 
> first come, first serve basis.
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> Confirmed speakers include:
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> Nicholas Gibbins
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> School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, 
> UK; Joint winner of the first Semantic Web Challenge
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> David Karger
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> Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts 
> Institute of Technology, USA; developer of the Haystack and Piggy Bank 
> Semantic Web browsers
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> Andy Seaborne
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> Semantic Web Research Group, Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bristol, 
> UK; co-developer of the SPARQL query language for RDF and relational 
> databases
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> Ben Lund
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> Web Publishing Division, Nature Publishing Group, London,  UK; 
> co-developer of the Connotea social bookmarking system for scientific 
> literature, built on del.icio.us
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> Peter Mika
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> Business Informatics Group, Faculty of Science, Free University of 
> Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL; Winner of the "Best Paper Award" at the 4th 
> International Semantic Web Conference, and developer of new theories 
> to link social networks with ontologies
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> Philip Bourne
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> Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, San 
> Diego, USA; Co-director, Protein Data Bank and Editor-in-Chief of PLoS 
> Computational Biology, who questions the distinction between a 
> scientific journal and a database
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> Anita de Waard
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> Advanced Technology Group, Elsevier, Amsterdam and Centre for Content 
> and Knowledge Engineering, University of Utrecht, NL; chair of the 
> Reed Elsevier data standards group, and developer of semantic 
> structures for scientific papers
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> Eric Neumann
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> Teranode Corporation, Seattle, USA; an expert in Semantic Web 
> applications and knowledge-based methods of working applied to the 
> pharmaceutical industry
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> David Shotton
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> Image Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Zoology, University 
> of Oxford, UK; co-developer of the BioImage Database and of 
> BioImageWeb, a data web for the integration of published biological 
> image data

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> Cost (including buffet lunch): £60 (students £25).
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> To register, go to http://iceconferences.com/acatalog/Data_Webs.html
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> www.rin.ac.uk
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>  This workshop is endorsed by
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> the London e-Science Centre                    www.lesc.ic.ac.uk
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> and the Oxford e-Research Centre          www.oesc.ox.ac.uk
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> ==========
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> Data Webs: new visions for integrating research data on the Web
> Wednesday 28th June, 10:00 – 18:00
>
> Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7
> A workshop on accessing and integrating research data
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> sponsored by the Research Information Network (www.rin.ac.uk)
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> DRAFT programme  
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> 09:30-10:00       Coffee and registration
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> Introductions
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> 10:00               Michael Jubb (RIN) Welcome and introduction to RIN 
> and the Workshop
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> 10:05               David Shotton (University of Oxford)  Introduction 
> to data webs
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> Navigating and querying the Semantic Web             
> 10:15               Nicholas Gibbins (School of Electronics and 
> Computer Science, University of Southampton)   Semantic Web agents: 
> hope or hype?
> 10:45               Andy Seaborne   (Semantic Web Research Group, 
> Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bristol)    SPARQL - publishing and 
> accessing RDF on the web
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> 11:15 – 11:45   Coffee
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> Semantic web browsers and the integration of biological data        
> 11:45               David Karger     (Computer Science and Artificial 
> Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA)   Semantic Web browsers
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> 12:15               Eric Neumann    (Teranode Corporation, Seattle)
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>                                                     Semantic Web 
> dashboards for drug R&D
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> 12:45 – 13:45   Lunch
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> The future of scientific publications              
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> 13:45               Philip Bourne      (Department of Pharmacology, 
> University of California San Diego)
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>                                                     The difference 
> between a paper and a database
> 14:15               Anita de Waard  (Elsevier Advanced Technology 
> Group, Amsterdam, and Centre for Content and Knowledge Engineering, 
> University of Utrecht)
>                           Semantic structures for scientific papers
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> Web 2.0:  Social bookmarking, tagging and evolving ontologies     
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> 14:45               Ben Lund            (New Technology Team, Nature 
> Publishing Group, London)
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>                                                     Connotea: social 
> bookmarking of scientific papers
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> 15:15               Peter Mika         (Business Informatics, Faculty 
> of Science, Free Univ. Amsterdam)
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>                                                     Networks in 
> science and the emergence of semantics
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> 15:45-16:15     Tea
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> Data Webs                                  
> 16:15               David Shotton    (Image Bioinformatics Research 
> Group, University of Oxford)
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>                                                     BioImageWeb – 
> integrating biological image data
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> 16:45               Panel discussion  (All speakers; Chair: Michael 
> Jubb)
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> 17:20               Michael Jubb     (Research Information Network, 
> London)
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>                                                     Concluding 
> remarks:  The future of data webs
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> 17:30               Workshop ends
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>

>

Eric Neumann, PhD
co-chair, W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences,
and Senior Director Product Strategy
Teranode Corporation
83 South King Street, Suite 800
Seattle, WA 98104
+1 (781)856-9132
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