- From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@pioneerca.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:05:25 -0700
- To: <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Cc: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
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My purposes: 1. create my own KBs 2. interact with KBs on internet 3. make mKR/mKE freely available for anyone else to do the same If people like you start using mKR/mKE, it will encourage cooperation and sharing in the R&D community. There will be no proprietary, commercial interests to get in the way. mKR/mKE is not just a proposal. It works today. John Sowa, Pat Hayes, Chris Menzel, et al, have "objected" to using mKR because of (1) no formal semantics theory (2) no advantage over other Controlled English languages I readily admit (1). I don't agree with (2). I contend that mKR's use of context and hierarchies genus-differentia definitions actions - commands - n-ary relations UNIX-shell-like variables and control structures make mKR more attractive and very practical. Dick McCullough http://mkrmke.org ----- Original Message ----- From: paola.dimaio@gmail.com To: Richard H. McCullough Cc: [ontolog-forum] ; Semantic Web Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] [STI-community] FINAL CALL: charting the futureof semantics - STI 3rd Roadmapping Workshop Dick, thanks I have been looking at the Mkr but I dont understand it, probably for different reasons from Pat H However I am intersted In looking for common grounds, we may have to separate our own individual purposes (I mean, we all have a purpose right?) Mkr is your own work, what can we do collectively that would help us create a more cooperative research and development environment? cheers PDM On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Richard H. McCullough <rhm@pioneerca.com> wrote: I haven't been following your emails too closely, but I think we have a common interest in facilitating inter-operability on the Semantic Web. The mKR language is a general purpose KR language, with the capability of interfacing to any knowledge base on the web. The mKE program which implements it is free, open source, available for Windows, Linux, Mac. mKR/mKE is my own "labor of love", developed over the past 13 years, with no funding. I would be happy to work with you, and provide any desired info. re: mKR/mKE. Dick McCullough http://mkrmke.org ----- Original Message ----- From: paola.dimaio@gmail.com To: [ontolog-forum] ; Semantic Web Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] [STI-community] FINAL CALL: charting the futureof semantics - STI 3rd Roadmapping Workshop I am not sure whether I ll have the time to write another paper before thursday,but If someone is intersted to co-author i would be happy to chip in a few paragraphs I think the future semantic web should be open, and this openness should start by making semantic web research more distributed, accessible, transparent, co-manged, and semantic web research access funds should be distributed and administrated via open access mechanisms. was this announcement circulated here before? did I miss it? how can people pitch in to make a contribution/interact with inivted keynote speaks? anyone interested in putting together some real time paragraphs, I ll be up for it all night if necessary ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lejla Ibralic Halilovic <lejla.ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM Subject: [STI-community] FINAL CALL: charting the future of semantics - STI 3rd Roadmapping Workshop To: lejla@sti2.org *sorry for cross-posting* ___________________________ BE A PART OF CHARTING THE FUTURE OF SEMANTICS ___________________________ >>>Submission deadline: 9th of April, 2009<<< ___________________________ 3rd STI Roadmapping Workshop "Charting the next generation of semantic technology" Monday, June 1st 2009 co-located with ESWC 2009 Aldemar Knossos Village, Heraklion, Crete, Greece ___________________________ *DESCRIPTION* In the last 15 years the World Wide Web has radically changed how our society communicates, connects, does business, shares information and performs tasks. It can be expected that another paradigm shift will be seen over the next 15 years, in which many terms are already part of the vision: cloud, utility, services, mobile, ubiquitous, virtual worlds etc. In the semantic technologies community there is the expectation that semantics are on the cusp of maturity and wider uptake, and a large body of research work demonstrates their relevance to all of the aforementioned areas. How will the semantic landscape look like in 15 years from now? What path will be taken to get there? This workshop solicits submissions from visionaries in the semantic research community as well as early adopter industry, addressing the question of what role semantic technologies will play in the next developments of the Web. Our aim is to bring together experts to chart together the requirements on research and necessary steps in education and technology transfer that exist to ensure semantics will achieve their full potential for society and industry over the next 15 years. In the workshop, visions can be shared and discussed, and actions identified which will result in, after the workshop, an expert roadmap for semantic technologies. This roadmap is expected to form a significant input to future efforts around semantic technology. *BACKGROUND* This workshop is an action of the Roadmapping Service of STI International. The Roadmapping Service exists to initiate and coordinate the specification of research roadmaps for the future research and development of semantic technologies. The aim is to provide an integrated plan for future research and development activities, which then serves as the basis for coordinating cross-project activities as well as for standardization work ensuring sustainability and global impact. The results of the previous workshop event, looking at semantics through to 2019, can be found here: http://roadmap.sti2.org/wiki *PROGRAM OUTLINE* This year we expect an one day workshop consisting of: ******************* An invited talk from Prof. Dr. Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK ******************* ''Six Impossible Things'' In this talk I will try to look into the future of SemanticTechnologies in 15 years time. I will start by looking at how the past generations have looked at the possible present and discuss where they were right and they were wrong. Then I will present my vision for the next 5, 10 and 15 years of semantic technologies, discussing scenarios and requirements. ******************* Curriculum Vitae Fabio is Full Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies at the University of Sheffield where He coordinates the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) Group. His research field concerns methodologies and technologies for the Intelligent and Semantic Web, with focus on Knowledge Management applications. He is Director of the integrated project IST X-Media, and principal investigator in the EU IPs WeKnowIt and SmartProducts. He isprincipal investigator in the project IPAS-XWB funded by Rolls-Royce plc. He is also principal investigator in the ERC-funded project Archaeotools about analysing 1m documents from the grey literature. In the past he was director of the EU project Dot.Kom (http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/dot.kom/) and co-investigator in the EPSRC IRC AKT project (www.aktors.org) He has considerable engagement with industry and user communities with projects funded by Rolls Royce, Kodak Eastman, Lycos, and the Environment Agency. He is part of the editorial board of the International Journal on ''Web Semantics'' and of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies. He is director of research of K-Now, a spin-off company of the University of Sheffield focusing on supporting dynamic distributed communities in large organizations. He holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia and a doctorship from the University of Torino, Italy ******************* *FORMAT* We expect an one day workshop consisting of: - An invited talk from a semantic technologies visionary - Presentations of submissions, including sufficient time for discussion. Where possible, presentations will be split into sessions grouped around specific Web developments (cloud, services, ubiquity, virtual worlds etc.) - "Stand-up" session for all other submittees/attendees of a short 2-3 slide presentation of an idea or vision. These are not refereed. - Interactive session charting the next 15 years of semantic technology (group activity) Accepted submissions will be published in a workshop proceedings as well as acknowledged in the STI roadmap document and all other publications derived from it. *CALL FOR SUBMISSION* Submissions are welcomed from any member of the research or professional community. They should take the form of a position paper, giving grounded reasons for a particular vision of semantic technology use in our future society and identifying research challenges that must be met, educational needs that must be covered and technology transfer that must take place before this vision can become reality. Position papers should be no more than 5 pages LNCS format and be submitted in PDF format. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop in short presentations with sufficient time for questions. All attendees are invited to give a 2-3 slide ''stand up'' presentation of their ideas. 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