Reminder - IIC Seminar on Wed. - Carole Goble

> Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
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> Seminar Series
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> Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 4:00pm
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> 60 Oxford Street, Room 330
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> Professor Carole Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
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> Seminar Title: Sense and Sensibility: Adding meaning to metadata  
> for manageable middleware
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> Abstract
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> It is a truth universally acknowledged that a grid application in  
> possession of good middleware, must be in want of meaningful metadata.
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> We have seen a variety of projects and programmes of activity that  
> have promoted systematic approaches to describing, linking and  
> sharing metadata, particularly through the use of community-wide  
> terminologies or ontologies. Life Sciences have led the way. The  
> founding of the USA’s National Centre for BioMedical Ontology  
> (http://www.bioontology.org <http://www.bioontology.org/>) is an  
> example. The Semantic Web has given distributed information  
> management a technical impetus, and once again the Life Sciences  
> are pioneers. Meanwhile, the Semantic Grid initiative attempts to  
> marry the two technical efforts of Grid Middleware and Web-wide  
> Information Management to generally support better metadata (and  
> data) management for Science applications and the infrastructure  
> that underpins them. Again, early examples such as myGrid are found  
> in the Life Sciences. Recent work on a Semantic Open Grid Service  
> Architecture (S-OGSA) lays the foundation for a systematic yet  
> lightweight approach to deploying semantics into new and legacy  
> Grid middleware.
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> In this talk I will share my experiences of applying Semantic Web  
> and ontology based approaches to represent and classify metadata  
> and discuss the Semantic Grid using the S-OGSA as an illustration.  
> I’ll also take the opportunity to voice some concerns and raise  
> some challenges that we have to overcome, not many of which are  
> technical.
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